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Michelle M. Wright, On Epiphenomenal Temporality: Black German Identities and Quantum Physics in the African Diaspora, lecture, ICI Berlin, 26 February 2018, video recording, mp4, 34:07 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e180226>
Lecture
26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018
On Epiphenomenal Temporality
Black German Identities and Quantum Physics in the African Diaspora
By Michelle M. Wright
This talk will delve deep into the often nuanced ways our assumptions about time in the Humanities impact the epistemological formations of our discipline. Beginning with the girding structure of the linear progress narrative and finishing with what Wright dubs ‘Epiphenomenal spacetime’, her argument will intersect with contemporary and canonical formations of Blackness within and without academe while intersecting with discourses on the temporal shift from Newtonian to theoretical particle physics. Time, as Wright will show, has everything to do with the representation of racial collectives in the Western tradition.
Michelle M. Wright is the Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Professor of English at Emory University. She is the author of Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora (2004) and Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology (2015). Writing through gender studies, queer studies, science studies, time studies, Black European Studies, African American Studies, and African Diaspora Studies, her work focuses on Black identity formation in both creative and academic discourses.
Venue
ICI Berlin(Click for further documentation)
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ICI BerlinVideo in English
Format: mp4Length: 00:34:07
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