Month: July 2018
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In Various Constructs: Remembering Cecil Taylor
“Pianist, composer, poet, philosopher Cecil Taylor turned sound outside in, gathering influences far and wide, reassembling them into the ever-changing grammars that defined his career and inspired others. He defied while producing his critics; he created and alienated an overlapping community of listeners. He was a radical thinker and doer – out and outside sexually,…
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The becoming-black of the world? On Achille Mbembe’s Critique of Black Reason
“We have known for a long time that ‘critique’ – as a guide for judgement – emerged as a rule for telling apart the proper limits of reason from its various forms of error or misconception. Critique, by definition, establishes the limits of reason; it forges the laws, ends and beginnings of thought. Critique legislates…