In the format of biweekly reading sessions, the group explores notions of affect in the context of Black Studies. Not only do we attend to conceptual propositions of the specifics of affect and blackness, but we also make styles of writing and reading the objects of our conversations. Thinkers like Fred Moten, Hortense Spillers, Sylvia Wynter or Frank Wilderson III and their younger commentators have formed the groups syllabi. With interdisciplinary backgrounds we discuss how ideas of (dis)possession, affect(ability), sexuality, agency and the human as such are to be understood under the conditions of racial subjection and white supremacy. 

Koordination

Henrike Kohpeiß

Termine

Winter semester 2021/22

21.10.2021:  Affect and Blackness initial session winter semester (4-6 pm) 

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15.10.2020: Fred Moten / Stefano Harney: The University - Last Words

29.10.2020: Edouard Glissant: Poetics of Relation (possibly 2 sessions)

12.11.2020: Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, Andrea Smith: Otherwise Worlds. Two Essays tbd https://www.dukeupress.edu/otherwise-worlds 

26.11.2020: R.A. Judy: Sentient Flesh (to be published in October with Duke UP) https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-1-4780-1102-6_601.pdf

10.12.2020: Afrofuturism: Text tbd + Documentary: The Last Angel of History (available on youtube), movie: Space Is the Place

07.01.2021: Kathryn Yusoff: A Million Black Anthropocenes or None

21.01.2021: Blackness in Germany / Achille Mbembe: Critique of Black Reason,  + Essay from Special Issue Callaloo (Tina Campt) or Vanessa Thompson

04.02.2021: Sylvia Wynter: Manuscript Black Metamorphosis