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02 Feb 2022
glossary (or some words and their definitions)

empirical: based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.
        - two-way glass
        - focus groups
        - interrogation
        - surveillance
        - voyeurism 
        - observation

speech acts: five illocutionary points that speakers can achieve on propositions in an utterance (Searle)

namely: the assertive, commissive, directive, declaratory and expressive illocutionary points

textual accumulation: the gathering of various creative items and narratives

fungibility: exploiting the vulnerability of the captive body as a vessel for the uses, thoughts, and feelings of others (Hartman)

Black fungibility: treating the Black enslaved body as an open sign that can be arranged and rearranged for infinite kinds of use. 

the Black fungible body and its sign can be made liquid, dust, and more. Per Spillers' and Hartman's accounts of the slippages occurring during the transit of exchanges...

“Black labor” tends to subsume multiple and intricate processes into the governing logic of labor.

black life is not a static object of analysis (a black concept, a black body, a black community, a black idea) that is poised to be assessed, but rather a site (or sites) of sustained and/or provisional worldmaking activities that are invested in liberation (McKitterick)

Ambivalence (unresolved contradictions) is an important feature of black Atlantic livingness because it signals the working through and toward liberation. In my thinking here, contradiction and ambivalence open a cascade of signals and prompts, distinct modes of diasporic literacy that give form to black life. (McKitterick)

psycho-affective field;  a field that pushes us to think not only about the proliferation of negative representations and misrepresentations of blackness, but also how we become psychically attached to, and invest in, this already-normally-always system of knowledge that cannot comprehend black humanity. (on Wynter)

“deciphering practice”—a reading practice that takes into account multiple social realities and differential psycho-affective fields while also exposing the intense weight of our governing system of knowledge. (on Wynter)

phantasm 
a figment of the imagination; an illusion or apparition.
"the cart seemed to glide like a terrible phantasm"
  • ARCHAIC
    an illusory likeness of something.
    "every phantasm of a hope was quickly