Cinema of the Black Atlantic – Syllabus
AASD350 - Wednesdays 2-4:30 - fall semester 2023 This course (syllabus: HERE) examines the cinema of the black Atlantic world - in our case, that world between Africa and the Americas. In particular, we will watch and critically engage key filmmakers from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States in order to understand cinema’s relationship to colonialism, liberation struggle, vernacular
New Issue of Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy
Here is my Editor's Note for the new issue of Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy. The issue includes essays: Jacques Lezra on Badiou Norman Swazo on Derrida and the refugee James Dutton on Stiegler Dan Cook on Levinas And a book forum on Geo Maher's new Anticolonial Eruptions, with Maher's response to critics Begüm Adalet, Althea Rani Sircar, Anna Terwiel, Kevin Bruyneel,
On the Fecundity of Small Places
Here is the pre-print of my essay "On the Fecundity of Small Places," due out in a volume Africana Studies: Theoretical Futures, edited by Grant Farred. It's a fantastic volume. I like this essay, which argues against privileging of translatability and transparency, embracing instead the opacity of vernacular culture and its sense of place. Small places are fecund and speak back