Tag Archives: Souleymane Bachir Diagne

But Their Memory Remains

15th May 2020UncategorizedAimé Césaire, Alain Resnair, Andrea Fraser, Another Gaze Journal, Art Institute of Chicago, Aruna D'Souza, Awa Konaté, Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, Benin Bronzes, British Museum, Candice Hopkins, Carnegie International, Chris Marker, Cleveland Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Decolonize This Place, Emeka Ogboh, Fred Moten, Fred Wilson, Hannah Mason-Macklin, Hans Haacke, Henrik Folkerts, Indrid Schaffner, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jeff Koons, Koyo Kouoh, Leo Asemota, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Like Wind on Rushes, Michel Leiris, Mickalene Thomas, Mounira Al Solh, Museums Art Not Neutral, Nari Ward, négritude, Occupy Collections, Pablo Picasso, Sarah Maldoror, Savoy/Sarr Report, Sharjah Biennial 14, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Whisper into a HoleMinus Plato

A voice comes from somewhere (or within), braying: Well, listen to him! So sanctimonious in his white wokeness and so-called decolonial critique (whatever that is)! We see what you’re doing, writing this out loud for strangers’ ears, but inwardly, under your typing tongue, you murmur, “Oh, let the old guard suffer, so I can profit!”. […]

Our Curriculum of Connections (C& Eos), Part 4: Emotion or Translation

13th December 2018Our Curriculum of ConnectionsBirago Diop, Contemporary And, documenta 14, Ellen Cole Lee, Eos, Jean-Paul Sartre, Kettly Noël, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Our Curriculum of Connections, Souleymane Bachir DiagneMinus Plato

How to counter racism? Sooth with a cool application of philosophical knowledge or inflame with the immediacy of emotional energy? Classicist Ellen Cole Lee’s abstract for her paper at the upcoming Theorizing Africana Receptions workshop (details here) on anger in the ancient Roman philosopher Seneca and the self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet” Audre Lorde […]