Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual by Sarah Jane Cervenak

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By Sarah Jane Cervenak

Combining black feminist thought, philosophy, and function experiences, Sarah Jane Cervenak ruminates at the value of actual and psychological roaming for black freedom. She is very attracted to the ability of wandering or having a pipe dream for these whose mobility has been less than critical constraint, from the slave period to the current. because the Enlightenment, wandering has been thought of risky or even felony whilst linked to humans of colour. Cervenak engages artist-philosophers who specialize in wayward stream and having a pipe dream, or psychological trip, that go beyond state-imposed barriers on actual, geographic circulation. From Sojourner Truth's religious and actual roaming to the rambling protagonist of Gayl Jones's novel Mosquito, Cervenak highlights modes of wandering that subvert Enlightenment-based protocols of rationality, composure, and upstanding comportment. Turning to the artists Pope.L (William Pope.L), Adrian Piper, and Carrie Mae Weems, Cervenak argues that their paintings produces an otherworldly stream, an errant kinesis that exceeds locomotive constraints, resisting the straightening-out techniques of post-Enlightenment, white-supremacist, capitalist, sexist, and heteronormative modernity. Their roaming animates one other terrain, one the place unfastened, black flow isn't really unavoidably hooked up to that which might be obvious, touched, recognized, and materially valued.

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