"On Decadence: Bling Bling" and "Introduction to Boggs" in e-flux #79

“Let us imagine,” David Marriott begins his essay in this issue, “that ‘black lives matter’ is a scandalous, even decadent claim, characterized, as the definition has it, by excess or luxury.” If this is so, Marriott makes clear, it is an excess we cannot afford to not afford.

On Decadence: Bling Bling by Professor David Marriott and Introduction to Boggs by History of Consciousness Graduate Candidate Patrick King in e-flux #79, February 2017.