BLACK ANONYM: ON THE DREAM AND CURSE OF BEING WITHOUT A NAME by Rizvana Bradley
Anonymity is not simply a matter of remaining unnamed or unrecognized, but also of the conditions under which one becomes visible or invisible. To coincide with our current issue on “Anonymity,” Rizvana Bradley revisits and reframes an excerpt from her 2023 book “Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form.” Taking Théodore Géricault’s “The Raft of the Medusa” (1819) and its preparatory sketch “Study for the Signaling Black,” also known as “African Signaling” (1819), as a point of departure, Bradley interrogates the constitutive relation between Black anonymity and the racial metaphysics underpinning aesthetic modernity.
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