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Oxford Literary Review, 2024

This editor's note serves as a short preface for a special issue on "Blackness, Philosophy, and C... more This editor's note serves as a short preface for a special issue on "Blackness, Philosophy, and Crisis" with the Oxford Literary Review featuring new work by Jared Sexton, Anthony Farley, Sara-Maria Sorentino, and David Marriott. It briefly meditates on the relationship between critique and thought, judgement and philosophy in respect to the question of blackness and the crisis that it poses for and of theory. The full issue can be found at: https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/olr/46/1

Cultural Critique, 2024

The article explores claims of resistance and ambivalence in discourses of feminisms. By contempl... more The article explores claims of resistance and ambivalence in discourses of feminisms. By contemplating these two terms as they are positioned in different feminist articulations (as well as in black critical theory, psychoanalysis, and literary studies), it argues that Blackness's negativity of the real gives rise to representations of race, gender, sexuality, and the body. Closely examining central works by Judith Butler and Hortense Spillers, the article further ruminates on how the incapacity of Blackness might yield an ungendered reading of these differences. In doing so, it pursues questions such as what might be the implications of such readings concomitant with the effects of trans- and Blackness's (non-)appearance in language and writing. The article visits meditations by Frantz Fanon and recent interventions in Afro-pessimism to consider an aporia that underlines the triangulation of Blackness, sexuality, and ungendering.

Diacritics

“Blackness” and “resistance”: two words that often defy what is commonly understood about their c... more “Blackness” and “resistance”: two words that often defy what is commonly understood about their conditions, meanings, terms, and articulations. Alone or together, these terms raise a host of questions about the value and limits of their representation, practice, and the traditions that subtend them. At the time of collating this special issue in 2020, what many observed as a “racial reckoning” took place in the U.S., in the form of protests against racialized state-sanctioned violence and black death at the hands of law enforce¬ment. However, as the contributors of this special issue attest to in different ways, the precarity of black life has always and continues to pose a complex historico-political and psychical question concomitant to the gratuity of antiblackness—the long-standing his¬tory and disavowal of antiblackness that prefigure the symbolic semblances of civil soci¬ety, the nation state, art and culture, law, and politics, in the United States and globally.

Diacritics

Untranslatability and resistance are terms that have a longstanding place in psychoanalytic theor... more Untranslatability and resistance are terms that have a longstanding place in psychoanalytic theory and philosophies of law. But how might these terms labor differently whence their conditions rest on the founding conditions of antiblackness that position blackness as a type of permanent errancy? Pursuing the question on the untranslatability of blackness, antiblackness, and the resistances therein and thereof, the article adumbrates on the strange and estranged forty-year gap between the anti-lynching legislation’s enactment and its first court hearing (1969) as well as its second court hearing (1999)—cases which have translated the statute’s original legislative intent from anti-lynching to “self-lynching.” As the article considers the untranslatability of blackness in the various registers of “resistance” in law, representation, and the psychic economies of antiblackness, it also reflects on how the transience of such translation casts an impossible “self” via a mode of lynching in the juridical imaginary—a type of foreclosure that precedes and operates beyond the orders of de jure and de facto law.

Political Theology, 2022

The article considers the unhomeliness of blackness by interrogating aspects of the controversial... more The article considers the unhomeliness of blackness by interrogating aspects of the controversial 2019 Dallas Country District Court case in which Judge Tammy Kemp ruled the jury to consider the state's " castle doctrine" and "mistake of fact" in the trial of Dallas police officer, Amber Guyger, who claimed to shoot Botham Jean, an unarmed black man in his own apartment, by mistake. In doing so, the article places together the notion of afterlife as conceptualized separately by Walter Benjamin and Saidiya Hartman to raise the role of testimony as a fundamentally anti-black structural dilemma rooted beyond legal theory and notions of evidence.

Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, 2022

https://manifold.umn.edu/read/ces0701-from-without/section/807dd168-3a17-4d7a-82a7-009f520a4eaf

Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society , 2021

The following article thinks together concepts of the hold and disinheritance through the work an... more The following article thinks together concepts of the hold and disinheritance through the work and anti-lynching activism of Ida B. Wells-Barnett. In doing so, the paper extends what Wells-Barnett already illuminated on the ways in which the State benefitted from the sexual politics of anti-black lynching violence. The article contends Wells-Barnett's work and pedagogical implications continue to be critical and relevant in and to the horizons of Black Studies given the radical nature of not only her rhetorical analysis on lynching, but also in her ability to write and stand in her own dangerous mode of thought against the profundity of anti-black violence.

Haunt Journal of Art, 2019

http://hauntjournal.org/volume-5/

Theory and Event, 2019

This article examines the present-day "self-lynching" and "felony lynching" arrests taking place ... more This article examines the present-day "self-lynching" and "felony lynching" arrests taking place in nonviolent demonstrations in the Movement for Black Lives. It offers an analysis of antiblack policing in slavery's longue durée through two frames. First, it examines the "lynching" arrests through a complex of perversion of the Law that naturalizes operations of antiblack violence. Secondly, it considers the serious implications of the uncanniness to these arrests. In its uncanny return, blackness falls as a remainder animating not only the possible juridico-legal conditions disseminating various police practices; it also signals a political ontology of violence that appears to have no limit. The complex of perversion rehearses an "uncanniness" then as neither peculiar nor unusual in time. Rather, it underscores the inevitable return and the eternal captivity of blackness as familiarly strange, but never estranged from the familiar and larger afterlife of racial slavery and regimes of violence.

Book Reviews by Linette Park

b2o: an online journal, 2021

Oxford Literary Review, 2024

This editor's note serves as a short preface for a special issue on "Blackness, Philosophy, and C... more This editor's note serves as a short preface for a special issue on "Blackness, Philosophy, and Crisis" with the Oxford Literary Review featuring new work by Jared Sexton, Anthony Farley, Sara-Maria Sorentino, and David Marriott. It briefly meditates on the relationship between critique and thought, judgement and philosophy in respect to the question of blackness and the crisis that it poses for and of theory. The full issue can be found at: https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/olr/46/1

Cultural Critique, 2024

The article explores claims of resistance and ambivalence in discourses of feminisms. By contempl... more The article explores claims of resistance and ambivalence in discourses of feminisms. By contemplating these two terms as they are positioned in different feminist articulations (as well as in black critical theory, psychoanalysis, and literary studies), it argues that Blackness's negativity of the real gives rise to representations of race, gender, sexuality, and the body. Closely examining central works by Judith Butler and Hortense Spillers, the article further ruminates on how the incapacity of Blackness might yield an ungendered reading of these differences. In doing so, it pursues questions such as what might be the implications of such readings concomitant with the effects of trans- and Blackness's (non-)appearance in language and writing. The article visits meditations by Frantz Fanon and recent interventions in Afro-pessimism to consider an aporia that underlines the triangulation of Blackness, sexuality, and ungendering.

Diacritics

“Blackness” and “resistance”: two words that often defy what is commonly understood about their c... more “Blackness” and “resistance”: two words that often defy what is commonly understood about their conditions, meanings, terms, and articulations. Alone or together, these terms raise a host of questions about the value and limits of their representation, practice, and the traditions that subtend them. At the time of collating this special issue in 2020, what many observed as a “racial reckoning” took place in the U.S., in the form of protests against racialized state-sanctioned violence and black death at the hands of law enforce¬ment. However, as the contributors of this special issue attest to in different ways, the precarity of black life has always and continues to pose a complex historico-political and psychical question concomitant to the gratuity of antiblackness—the long-standing his¬tory and disavowal of antiblackness that prefigure the symbolic semblances of civil soci¬ety, the nation state, art and culture, law, and politics, in the United States and globally.

Diacritics

Untranslatability and resistance are terms that have a longstanding place in psychoanalytic theor... more Untranslatability and resistance are terms that have a longstanding place in psychoanalytic theory and philosophies of law. But how might these terms labor differently whence their conditions rest on the founding conditions of antiblackness that position blackness as a type of permanent errancy? Pursuing the question on the untranslatability of blackness, antiblackness, and the resistances therein and thereof, the article adumbrates on the strange and estranged forty-year gap between the anti-lynching legislation’s enactment and its first court hearing (1969) as well as its second court hearing (1999)—cases which have translated the statute’s original legislative intent from anti-lynching to “self-lynching.” As the article considers the untranslatability of blackness in the various registers of “resistance” in law, representation, and the psychic economies of antiblackness, it also reflects on how the transience of such translation casts an impossible “self” via a mode of lynching in the juridical imaginary—a type of foreclosure that precedes and operates beyond the orders of de jure and de facto law.

Political Theology, 2022

The article considers the unhomeliness of blackness by interrogating aspects of the controversial... more The article considers the unhomeliness of blackness by interrogating aspects of the controversial 2019 Dallas Country District Court case in which Judge Tammy Kemp ruled the jury to consider the state's " castle doctrine" and "mistake of fact" in the trial of Dallas police officer, Amber Guyger, who claimed to shoot Botham Jean, an unarmed black man in his own apartment, by mistake. In doing so, the article places together the notion of afterlife as conceptualized separately by Walter Benjamin and Saidiya Hartman to raise the role of testimony as a fundamentally anti-black structural dilemma rooted beyond legal theory and notions of evidence.

Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, 2022

https://manifold.umn.edu/read/ces0701-from-without/section/807dd168-3a17-4d7a-82a7-009f520a4eaf

Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society , 2021

The following article thinks together concepts of the hold and disinheritance through the work an... more The following article thinks together concepts of the hold and disinheritance through the work and anti-lynching activism of Ida B. Wells-Barnett. In doing so, the paper extends what Wells-Barnett already illuminated on the ways in which the State benefitted from the sexual politics of anti-black lynching violence. The article contends Wells-Barnett's work and pedagogical implications continue to be critical and relevant in and to the horizons of Black Studies given the radical nature of not only her rhetorical analysis on lynching, but also in her ability to write and stand in her own dangerous mode of thought against the profundity of anti-black violence.

Haunt Journal of Art, 2019

http://hauntjournal.org/volume-5/

Theory and Event, 2019

This article examines the present-day "self-lynching" and "felony lynching" arrests taking place ... more This article examines the present-day "self-lynching" and "felony lynching" arrests taking place in nonviolent demonstrations in the Movement for Black Lives. It offers an analysis of antiblack policing in slavery's longue durée through two frames. First, it examines the "lynching" arrests through a complex of perversion of the Law that naturalizes operations of antiblack violence. Secondly, it considers the serious implications of the uncanniness to these arrests. In its uncanny return, blackness falls as a remainder animating not only the possible juridico-legal conditions disseminating various police practices; it also signals a political ontology of violence that appears to have no limit. The complex of perversion rehearses an "uncanniness" then as neither peculiar nor unusual in time. Rather, it underscores the inevitable return and the eternal captivity of blackness as familiarly strange, but never estranged from the familiar and larger afterlife of racial slavery and regimes of violence.

b2o: an online journal, 2021