The Account – A Real-life Survival Praxis A field manual
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Hill, Clareese. 2024. The Account – A Real-life Survival Praxis A field manual. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London [Thesis]
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The Account – A real-life Survival Praxis a Field Manual is a practice-based research project interrogating the performance of identity of citizens of Western societies. The Post-Identity Dimension sits parallel to reality without collapsing into it. The Post-Identity Dimension is entered through the conjuring of Post-Identity Portals. The portals are conjured through a series of three Meditations. The Meditations are activated by performative text or embodied ephemeral provocations called Transmissions. The Meditations are administered by The GUIDE. The GUIDE is a triadic collaboration between The BODY, The GUIDE, and The ELUSIVE RESEARCHER.
The BODY, a marginalized identity, and their lived experiences as auto-ethnographers. The GUIDE draws from critical Black Feminist theory, Black Studies, Caribbean Philosophy, and other counter-mainstream philosophical discourses. The ELUSIVE RESEARCHER disavows the practices of typical Western academic knowledge production by engaging predominantly with Black Scholarship and becoming entangled in her research of Post Identity Dimension. The GUIDE collaborates with Nowcestors, Ancestors, and The BODY to conjure the Meditations.
“Meditation # 1 – Disruption” is where The GUIDE asks questions of the performance of identity by refusing the categorical confines of the body by creating a Disruption of the performance. Meditation # 1 is conjured in collaboration with Nowcestor Sylvia Wynter and her writing on Humanism and the ontological precarity of The BODY's performance as an Afro-Caribbean American Woman.
“Meditation # 2 - Fissure” – is about exploring the In-Between, the unprescribed, the liminal, and relearning through being in close proximity to the water. This Meditation is conjured in collaboration with Ancestor Édouard Glissant and his writing on recognizing difference, the right to opacity, and creolization as an amalgamation of occupying space in our differences.
“Meditation #3 – Rupture” - is a praxis about activating Wake Work Operations as an abstraction of Nowcestor Christina Sharpe's theory of Wake Work. Wake Work in Meditation # 3 unfolds in three moments, Ancestral Worlding, Impossible Breathing, and Pre-Colonial Poetics. Ancestral Worlding explores pre-colonial Caribbean culture during the beginning of colonial endeavors. Impossible Breathing explores what it means to engage in breathing underwater. Poetics is a method for practicing alternative communication with others in recognition of difference and their right to opacity. By activating the Meditations as praxis, the ability to conjure a portal to the Post-Identity Dimension is possible as a place for weary identities to rest.
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Thesis (Doctoral) |
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Speculative narrative, Black Feminism, Black studies, Caribbean philosophy, Meditations, Technology, Feminism, Queer studies |
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31 July 2024 |
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37481 |
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16 Aug 2024 15:03 |
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23 Aug 2024 13:01 |
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