Overview
The first annual Alchemy Lecture brings four deep and agile writers from different geographies and disciplines into vibrant conversation on a topic of urgent relevance: humans and borders. Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation captures and expands those conversations in insightful, passionate ways. Architect, artist, and urban theorist Dele Adeyemo (UK/Nigeria) calls attention to the complexity of Black infrastructures, questioning how ""the environments that surround us condition the possibility of our being."" Poet Natalie Diaz (US/Mojave/Akimel O'otham) writes, ""Like story, migration is the sensual movement of knowledge,"" and asks, ""What is the language we need to live right now?"" Philosopher Nadia Yala Kisukidi (France) suggests there is no diasporic life ""without the dynamics of fabulation, where we pass down, from generation to generation, the stories of our ancestors who walked barefoot for many months."" And cultural theorist Rinaldo Walcott (Canada) asks us to consider inheritances beyond white supremacist logics: ""What might it mean to live a life, if we can't risk desiring and working towards utopia?"" As each alchemist considers the legacies of anticolonial struggle, the future of the planet, and the textures of Black and Indigenous life, their essays speak to each other in multiple ways, creating something startling and revelatory: a vision of the world as it is, and as it could be.
Full Product Details
Author: Dele Adeyemo ,
Natalie Diaz ,
Nadia Yala Kisukidi ,
Rinaldo Walcott
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9781478026532
ISBN 10: 1478026537
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 06 February 2024
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""At The Alchemy Lecture, four thinkers of different experiences and métiers come together and hash out what is most important to them. . . . This is definitely a series to keep an eye on.""--Diana Khoi Nguyen ""Los Angeles Review of Books"" (2/1/2024 12:00:00 AM)"
""At The Alchemy Lecture, four thinkers of different experiences and métiers come together and hash out what is most important to them. . . . This is definitely a series to keep an eye on.""--Diana Khoi Nguyen ""Los Angeles Review of Books"" (2/1/2024 12:00:00 AM)
"""At The Alchemy Lecture, four thinkers of different experiences and m�tiers come together and hash out what is most important to them. . . . This is definitely a series to keep an eye on.""--Diana Khoi Nguyen ""Los Angeles Review of Books"" (2/1/2024 12:00:00 AM)"
Author Information
Dele Adeyemo is an architect, creative director, and urban theorist who teaches at London's Royal College of Art. Natalie Diaz is a poet and the author of When My Brother Was an Aztec and Postcolonial Love Poem. Nadia Yala Kisukidi is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis University. Rinaldo Walcott is Professor and Chair of Africana and American Studies at the University of Buffalo. Christina Sharpe is the Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University.
