The politics of hope under the circumstances of racial capitalist realism and why Frederick Dougl... more The politics of hope under the circumstances of racial capitalist realism and why Frederick Douglass was a proto-accelerationist.
Xenogenesis, published by Archive Books and Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2021
An essay on Sovereign Sisters (2014), a digital animation by The Otolith Group (Kodwo Eshun + Anj... more An essay on Sovereign Sisters (2014), a digital animation by The Otolith Group (Kodwo Eshun + Anjalika Sagar)
Not Working: Reader, published by Archive Books and Kunstverein München , 2020
Relationships between the topical decline of class, on the one hand, and the increasing rise of t... more Relationships between the topical decline of class, on the one hand, and the increasing rise of the moving image, on the other, in contemporary art; the digital turn of the experience economy, and how it plays into contemporary impressions of labor by obscuring expressions of class; the historical role of the filmic medium in the management of labor; and attempts at toying with how these relationships are upheld in a highly self-centered image of the status quo.
Earlier versions of this essay were published in the accompanying publication to Cosmological Ar... more Earlier versions of this essay were published in the accompanying publication to Cosmological Arrows at Bonniers Konsthall (Art and Theory Publishing, 2019) and presented at The Twilight Symposium: Science Fiction Inside Colonialism, organized by e-flux journal in collaboration with La Colonie, Paris, February 2019. Republished on The Whole Life, an archival platform hosted by Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, May 2022.
The politics of hope under the circumstances of racial capitalist realism and why Frederick Dougl... more The politics of hope under the circumstances of racial capitalist realism and why Frederick Douglass was a proto-accelerationist.
Xenogenesis, published by Archive Books and Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2021
An essay on Sovereign Sisters (2014), a digital animation by The Otolith Group (Kodwo Eshun + Anj... more An essay on Sovereign Sisters (2014), a digital animation by The Otolith Group (Kodwo Eshun + Anjalika Sagar)
Not Working: Reader, published by Archive Books and Kunstverein München , 2020
Relationships between the topical decline of class, on the one hand, and the increasing rise of t... more Relationships between the topical decline of class, on the one hand, and the increasing rise of the moving image, on the other, in contemporary art; the digital turn of the experience economy, and how it plays into contemporary impressions of labor by obscuring expressions of class; the historical role of the filmic medium in the management of labor; and attempts at toying with how these relationships are upheld in a highly self-centered image of the status quo.
Earlier versions of this essay were published in the accompanying publication to Cosmological Ar... more Earlier versions of this essay were published in the accompanying publication to Cosmological Arrows at Bonniers Konsthall (Art and Theory Publishing, 2019) and presented at The Twilight Symposium: Science Fiction Inside Colonialism, organized by e-flux journal in collaboration with La Colonie, Paris, February 2019. Republished on The Whole Life, an archival platform hosted by Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, May 2022.
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