Tournament: Plano Senior Clark | Round: 1 | Opponent: Garland LY | Judge: Henderson, Dominic
Affect is constitutive: it is the capacity to experience and to be experienced. I am experiencing my laptop, my opponent, just as much as you are experiencing me. There is no way any person or thing can escape affection.
Fluidity determines the subject: because affect and instability ensure that subjects always change, the only intrinsic feature of the subject is that everything remains in flux.
The catalyst for change was the Middle Passage and years of colonialism: the careful creation of false dichotomies between oppressed populations and the oppressor serves those in power by instilling a sense of helplessness.
The myth of the colonizer is predicated upon whiteness being represented as wholly True, pure, and dialectically opposed to everyone that isn't white. Upholding such false dichotomies enables material and invisible violences.
Yancy 1 ~George; "Black Bodies White Gazes"; 2017; Rowman and Littlefield; Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He has been a professor of philosophy at Emory University since fall 2015. He is also a distinguished Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College, one of the college's highest honors.; LCA-BP~ *brackets in og text
To be human not only means to be thrown within a context of facticity but
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if anything, be even greater, truer, better than now."137
Drabinski 2 ~John; "What Is Trauma to the Future?"; Duke U Press; prof of Black studies @Amherst college; LCA-BP~
There is loss of loss, pure annihilation. And so it begins there,
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its own ambivalent salt, its own, in a word, future.
Dispossession from contemporary life is not a reason to adhere to nostalgia nor nihilism, rather, we can use it as a chance to seek another future. In the process of finding and building a future, we creolize our understanding of dispossession, rootedness, and intellectual life.
Drabinksi 3 ~John; Glissant and the Middle Passage: Philosophy, Beginning, and Abyss; prof @ Amherst of Black studies, used to study Levinas, generally very big brain; 2019; LCA-BP~ *brackets added for clarity
Let us turn to a well-known passage from Glissant's Caribbean Dis- course
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to what one retains in loss and the future such rights make possible.
When it appears as though there are no options left, relation necessarily persists. Poiesis looks at the end with glittering eyes and builds a future out of what remains.
Drabinksi 4 ~John; Glissant and the Middle Passage: Philosophy, Beginning, and Abyss; prof @ Amherst of Black studies, used to study Levinas, generally very big brain; 2019; LCA-BP~
The great insight gathered from this crisis lies in Heidegger's account of poiesis as the
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place a claim on this notion for thinking through the process of creolization?
Thus, the alternative is to engage in creolization as a method of resisting the western Man's conception of humanity by creating a worldliness of relationality: where identities converge and crash, melding together in a symphony of distinct tones.
Griffiths 14 ~Michael; "Toward Relation: Negritude, Poststructuralism, and the Specter of Intention in the Work of Edouard Glissant"; prof at the school of arts, english and media @ U of Wollongong; LCA-BP~
Much of Glissant's meditation on this communal aspect of the individual writer's experience is played
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multiple. It is to this elabora- tion that I now turn.