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Digital Race Workshop

Sanjay Sharma — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:32:59 +0000

darkmatter has organised a workshop exploring ‘digital race’, taking place on 21 Feb 2013, central London. For further details, see our wiki page.

If you can not attend but are interested in joining a digital race network send a message…

“My measurement of race is rate of vibration”: Afrofuturism and the ‘molecularization’ of race

Beatrice Ferrara — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:00:04 +0000

This article^[1]will suggest a possible take on the notion of ‘post-race’ by looking at the relation between race and new media as it is delineated in the theoretical and aesthetical productions of Afrofuturism – a conceptual area developed at the…

The multiplicity of multiplicities – Post-Black Art and its intricacies

Nana Adusei-Poku — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:50:07 +0000

“Cultural strategies that can make a difference, that’s what I’m interested in – those that can make a difference and can shift the dispositions of power.”^[1]

Blackness was and is en vogue^[2] in the beginning of the…

Open Secrets in ‘Post-Identity’ era Art Criticism/History: Raqib Shaw’s Queer Garden of Earthly Delights

Alpesh Kantilal Patel — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:40:04 +0000

Raqib Shaw was born in Kolkata, India, raised in Kashmir in a Muslim household, and is currently London-based.^[1] His works have fetched high prices at auction; been collected and exhibited by some of the most prestigious institutions—such as Tate Modern,…

Jackie Kay: a poetic imagining of post-racial (be)longing

Katy Massey — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:30:13 +0000

Jackie Kay is a prolific and well-loved writer who, though she has written in many forms, is best-known for her poetry. A mixed-race Scot who lives in the north of England, her work frequently utilises the facts of her own…

Film Reviewers and Framing Race: Recuperating a Post-Racial Whiteness

Matthew W. Hughey — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:20:50 +0000

The media and the cinematic racial order are basic to the understanding of race relations in any society.^[1]

Reel Life Issues

Is film still a big deal? Years after Hollywood’s “Golden Age,” the answer is still yes. In…

Post-racial Rhetorics and the Depoliticization of Blackness

Darnell Moore — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:10:30 +0000

Let me begin this brief commentary with my conclusion: the rhetoric of post-raciality depoliticizes the “black struggle for liberation.” I know that this type of race talk is dangerous and angers the anti-essentialist guard and, to be honest, it calls…

I Love Black Men: a post-White performance

Katalin Halasz — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:00:43 +0000

Katalin Halasz: ILBM | performance | 2011 | 8 Min. (Loop)

Paraphrasing the term ‘post-Black art’, referring to art about the black experience that attempts to dispel the notion that race matters, I coined my performance piece I…

Post-Racial Ironies and Counterfactual Histories: a commentary on hipsters

Asha Best — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:50:47 +0000

The prefix of the phrase post-racial is provocative. Even as it connotes temporality it resists serving a teleological function, instead, suturing a subjunctive futurity with a counterfactual past. If race can be understood as a socially constructed sphere of power…

The Clash of Modernities by Khaldoun Samman

Amina Zarrugh — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:14:10 +0000

Samman traces historically the ways by which the colonial encounter inaugurated and imposed a set of temporal measures of human civility upon Jewish, Turkish, Arab, and Muslim subjects, the reverberations of which remain embedded in the vocabularies of even the most oppositional and revolutionary discourses of contemporary Islamist politics.