ORDINARY NOTES

short bluesky summary ⌘ A compendium of the "vocabularies of living life under these brutal regimes" but also of "acts and accounts of care as shared and distributed risk [...] mass refusals of the unbearable life." Often harrowing, but all the more crucial for it 

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Notes [oldest to newest]

1. Michel-Rolph Trouillot's "Silencing the Past"

2. Beauty as a method

3. Against "black excellence"

4. The regime of visuality

5. Sharpe on "identity"

6. "Regard"

7. The "Dictionary of Untranslatables"

8. Sarah Schulman's "Rat Bohemia"

9. Julietta Singh, "No Archive Will Restore You"

10. Books that produce a [needed] feeling

11. Dionne Brand, "A Map To The Door of No Return"

12. "The Long Winter"

13. The "imaginative report" of poetry

14. Imagination as an "engine of Black life"

15. On naivete

16. Whiteness, police, and property

17. "Refusals of the unbearable life"

18. Life under regime

19. Blackness as "status offense"