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The Spiral Collective cordially invites you to its 2021 “Spiral Talks”
Lecture:
• Black Time, Technics, and the Haptic •
Elizabeth Reich
Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Friday, June 25, 2021
3:00-4:30pm EDT
Zoom
(Click HERE
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register)
This talk will begin with a consideration of how and why theorizations
of Black time(s) remain necessary to engage the socio-political
realities and paradoxes of Black life in the diaspora; and to
interrogate and reconceptualize accepted epistemologies and ontologies
that delegitimize, constrain, and render distorted or incomprehensible
Black movement, experience, and expression. My articulation of Black
times, and the problematics they engage theoretically as well as in
daily life, will include readings of contemporary Black cultural
production as well as what I will describe as “the haptic,” a form of
knowing, being, and acting by which I argue Black peoples can create
lifeworlds of unrestricted dimensionality. Operating from the premise
that Blackness has already been constructed as a category outside of
“the human,” I will argue for an understanding of Black survival and
resistance praxis as inherently technological, extra-temporal, and
subversive, and focus in particular on how Black embodiment may disrupt,
extend, or resolve seemingly immanent paradoxes. The talk will bring
together diverse theoretical frameworks by Bernard Stiegler, Kodwo
Eshun, Fred Moten, Katherine McKittrick, and Sun Ra, among others. To
demonstrate the importance of reconceptualizing the sphere of the
technical and the urgency of redressing the times, spaces and
possibilities for liberatory Black life, I will be drawing on analyses
of Black media and internet work, including from films by Kathryn
Bigelow, Jordan Peele and Boots Riley; television series by Terence
Nance and Peele and Misha Green; and #BlackLivesMatter.Elizabeth Reich
<https://www.filmandmedia.pitt.edu/people/elizabeth-reich> is Associate
Professor of Film Studies in the Department of English at the University
of Pittsburgh and Affiliate Faculty with the Center for African American
Poetry and Poetics and the Program for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s
Studies. Her research focuses on the intersections of Black Studies,
digital media, Afrofuturism, critical race studies, queer and trans
studies, and social movements in historical, global, and transnational
contexts. She is author of Militant Visions: Black Soldiers,
Internationalism and the Transformation of American Cinema and her
coedited collection, Justice in Time: Critical Afrofuturism and
the Struggle for Black Freedom, is under contract at University of
Minnesota Press. She is also coeditor of three special journal issues,
“New Approaches to Cinematic Identification,” in Film Criticism with
Scott Richmond, “Reliquary for the Digital in Nine Key Terms,” in
ASAP/Journal with Stephen Yeager, and “Black Film Feminisms” in Film
Criticism with Courtney Baker and Ellen Scott. She is working on her
second monograph, “Reparative Ecologies: Time and the Globe,” and recent
essays have appeared in ASAP/Journal, Film Criticism,
Screen, Post45, ASAP/Journal, World Records Journal, and African
American Review. Liz is a contributing editor to ASAP/Journal and serves
on the editorial board of Film Criticism.
Spiral <http://spiralfilmphilosophy.ca/> is a Toronto-based collective
dedicated to exploring intersections of film, media, and philosophy with
a special interest in issues and themes of political resistance and
aesthetic dissonance.
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