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“…as if the truly, absolutely black was like a threshold opening onto a still darker night”

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@HermanoMotheo @millibyjune happy birthday! 🥳

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@HermanoMotheo to that extent, what is at issue would be closer (structurally speaking) to what Patrice Douglass describes as the racially sexuating death drive of Human sexuality, or to what Zakiyyah Jackson describes as the insatiable racializing demand placed on the form of the slave

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@HermanoMotheo i’d say that the critique of its own form is pursued for its own sake, as a “telos” that resists any simple criticism of teleology because it is directed toward the end of every end (be it virtue, reason, the good, etc.)

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substituting “find jesus, don’t do drugs” for the more complex message that recovering from addiction is a constant, nonlinear struggle is about as helpful as teaching abstinence instead of offering sex ed and contraceptives

[rhi ☾ 𖦹⭒°｡⋆ @manicswift]

fentanyl does kill. stop taking these pills, stop doing coke. sam levison did a lot of fucked up shit this season but the thing he got right is how fentanyl is taking everyone and everything n he took a major tv show to highlight how bad the problem is getting

[river moon @kissmeriver]

the body not even cold yet

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“the Israel of pop culture”

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white men should be forced to strike “identity politics” from their vocabulary on pain of death

[Tablet Magazine @tabletmag]

The show was never merely about Gen Z’s addiction to drugs, sex, or social media, but about young Americans left emotionally stranded inside a culture that had lost its capacity for meaning, morality and redemption.

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mind you:

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aporias of sovereignty*

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for me, what Axelle Karera helps clarify is that, even and especially conceding the aporias sovereignty, the problem of the human as an anti-black aporetic structure remains.

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or, as Karera might more succinctly put it, it is the structure of inheritance.

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“the human” is, in other words, not simply an idea. it is the structure of a promise that promises to critique its own form, and to thereby go beyond itself in the name of itself.

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we have to become better readers, first and foremost. humanism or anti-humanism is not really the question. the question is, as Axelle Karera observes in her reading of Wynter, one of a (quasi-)transcendental violence that can neither simply be affirmed nor denied.

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Axelle Karera on the transcendental structure of what Sylvia Wynter calls “the human itself”

[PRINCE ANGELUS @PRINCE_ANGELUS_]

Jay: Rap beef might not be good for the culture

Jay months later: F*ck these niggas

🤣🤣🤣

[GEECHEE PRINCESS 🌺 @Sugarpalmnut]

Galveston history so tea too . #Africandown

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she’s so third coast

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“where you from?”
“the islands”
“which island?”
“galveston”

ikdr!

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we need anti-miscegenation laws for cuisine

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this HAS to stop

[the culture | magazine @galactamelanin]

HELLO? I NEED