An edition of No new theories (2019)

No new theories

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No new theories
Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Jessic ...
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An edition of No new theories (2019)

No new theories

First edition.

"Building on Rasheed's accretive and associative installation work, the project brings together xerox abstractions, poetic text fragments, and found as well as original photography to explore learning and unlearning as a spiritual, socio-political, ecological, and cognitive process. With No New Theories Rasheed freely assembles her own writing, autocorrect algorithms, and Oulipian poems (short texts generated with the help of imposed constraints) alongside visuals drawn from her personal image archive, pop culture, zoological journals, quranic verses, and other sources. The work gathers these threads with an emphasis on the processes of revision and improvisation as she considers the entropic potential of meaning in place of fixed definitions. At the heart of No New Theories is an expansive interview between Rasheed and Jessica Lynne, co-founder of the art criticism journal ARTS.BLACK. The conversation attempts to document their intellectual partnership, constructed through a layering process by which the original exchange is reworked and expanded with annotations, citations, and excerpted texts from writers Samuel R. Delany, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Emily Dickinson, and others. Rasheed and Lynne take on questions of epistemology and pedagogy, the nature of research, knowledge-acquisition, as well as patience and fatigue. Building on the notion of the 'organic archive' - both as a fictional organizing framework and as a score for possible experiences - the two consider various historical, sociological, and cultural facets of Americana, proposing a multi-directional discourse around the wide permutations of Black experience. The book's title - No New Theories - locates Blackness as a multivalent and porous experience that cannot and should not be neatly theorized"--from publisher's website, https://www.printedmatter.org/programs/events/1057.

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English
Pages
257

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2019, Printed Matter, Inc.
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Accompanied by bookmark.

"Interview by Jessica Lynne pp140-160."

Text inside back cover.

"1000 copies"--Inside back cover.

Published in
New York, NY

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Dewey Decimal Class
709.05018
Library of Congress
N7433.4.R3744 N6 2019

The Physical Object

Pagination
257 unnumbered pages
Number of pages
257

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL61200635M
ISBN 10
0894390953
ISBN 13
9780894390951
OCLC/WorldCat
1151913664

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Work ID
OL44833705W

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