Fred Moten & Saidiya Hartman at Duke University | The Black Outdoors

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The Black Outdoors: Humanities Futures after Property and Possession seeks to interrogate the relation between race, sexuality, and juridical and theological ideas of self-possession, often evidenced by the couplet of land-ownership and self-regulation, a couplet predicated on settler colonialism and historically racist, sexist, homophobic and classist ideas of bodies fit for (self-) governance.
The title of the working group and speaker series points up the ways blackness figures as always outside the state, unsettled, unhomed, and unmoored from sovereignty in its doubled-form of aggressively white discourses on legitimate citizenship on one hand and the public/private divide itself on the other. The project will address questions of the "black outdoors" in relationship to literary, legal, theological, philosophical, and artistic works, especially poetry and visual arts.
Co-convened by J. Kameron Carter (Duke Divinity School/Black Church Studies) and Sarah Jane Cervenak (African American and African Diaspora Studies, UNC-G)

[@carsonfritz]

Fred and Saidiya actually start talking at 16:53

[@yooki198]

I had to pump my fist when she said "State scares me " and calls up anarchist structures as the model.

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the questions are so bad

[@kofiboone]

Thanks for this.

[@resah18]

Thank you.

[@chrispauljordan7631]

so grateful when Saidiya Hartman brought up marronage cause that riff was going on too long

[@taysanchyo]

is there a video of the tiffany king lecture " black ecotones"?

[@ControversialTay]

Waaay too many white folk talking. Grateful to Saidiya and Fred though, and their powerful words.

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WOW