<p dir="ltr">The poet Aimé Cesaire was born in the French Antilles and wrote a powerful work, "L' éloge de la Negritude". It was before "The Black Atlantic".<br>
He made an excellent analysis about how much the Civilization was born in Africa and how much we the white are guilty. Without slavery not wealth and world domination.<br>
Ana</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">Den 6 apr 2016 21:06 skrev "simon" <<a href="mailto:swht@clear.net.nz">swht@clear.net.nz</a>>:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
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Dear <<empyreans>>,<br>
<br>
this month's topic made me curious because of its overpowering
metaphoricity. Even when race is invoked this is retained. A power
in the slogan Black Lives Matter. (About which, the imagery of power
and its toppling, <a href="http://sfaq.us/2016/04/reclamation-the-art-of-dissent-made-flesh/" target="_blank">here</a>.)<br>
<br>
By chance, I picked up
<font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">François
Laruelle's </font>“Du noir univers: dans les fondations humaines
de la couleur”
and read in Miguel Abreu's translation:<br>
<br>
In the beginning there is Black<br>
<br>
Black is not merely what man sees in man<br>
<br>
The Universe is deaf and blind, we can only love it and assist it.<br>
<br>
Black prior to light is the substance of the Universe.<br>
<br>
Light strikes the Earth with repeated blows, divides the World
infinitely, solicits in vain the invisible Universe.<br>
<br>
Man approaches the World only by way of transcendental darkness,
into which he never entered and from which he will never leave.<br>
<br>
A phenomenal blackness entirely fills the essence of man. Because of
it, the most ancient stars of the paleo-cosmos together with the
most venerable stones of the archeo-earth, appear to man as being
outside the World, and the World itself appears as outside-World.<br>
<br>
...<br>
<br>
Laruelle also writes "Black is entirely interior to itself and to
man." And we have to wonder about women.<br>
<br>
Daniel Colucciello Barber, Alexander Galloway, Nicola Masiandaro,
and Eugene Thacker together wrote a book about Laruelle's aphoristic
essay. The book came from the staging of a four-night colloquium
during which each of the authors, on consecutive nights, addressed
him-self to her-meticism (& <i>Du noir univers</i>). <br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Simon<br>
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