Antoine d’ Agata “‘the "Negro" has been inviting whites, as well as civil society's junior partners, to the dance of social death for hundreds of years, but few have wanted to learn the steps.’ – Frank B. Wilder
(...) “‘...the "Negro" has been inviting whites, as well as civil society's junior partners, to the dance of social death for hundreds of years, but few have wanted to learn the steps.’ – Frank B. Wilderson III
In the face of the inequalities generated by laws that no longer represent the common good but manage the abstract and anonymous interests of the elites, in the face of the disintegration of relations, of the contagious inflation of emptiness and of hopelessness; self-destruction becomes an act of resistance. Lonely bodies sniff one another, survival embraces survival. Anonymous flesh, a spectral entity, annihilates meaning. Loss, destructive offerings, limbs seeking each other out in the chaos of convulsive movements. Cannibal flesh, torn, devoured, spasms of a wavering consciousness. Breaking away from form and idea, between the end of a civilization and the debacle of origins. Consenting to oblivion, coming into the void, from resigned hedonism to the jubilant delight of evil.
‘As long as you think you’re white, there’s no hope for you.’ – James Baldwin”
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