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Blackpentecostal Breath

The Aesthetics of Possibility

by Ashon T. Crawley

  • Paperback
  • 272 pages
  • Publisher: Fordham University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.7 x 2.3 cm

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Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility investigates the relationship of aesthetic productions to modes of collective, social intellectual practice. Engaging black studies, queer theory, sound studies, literary theory, theological studies, continental philosophy and visual studies, Black Pentecostal Breath analyzes the ways otherwise modes of existence are disruptions of marginalization and violence. The immediate objects of study Blackpentecostal Breath engages are the aesthetic practices - whooping, shouting, noise-making and speaking in tongues - found in Blackpentecostalism, a multiracial, multi-class, multi-national Christian sect that has one strand of its modern genesis in 1906, Los Angeles, California. Black Pentecostal Breath argues that the aesthetic practices of Blackpentecostalism constitute a performative critique of normative theology and philosophy that precede the twentieth-century moment. These performances constitute an atheological-aphilosophical project, produced against the desires and aspirations for the liberal subject of modern theological-philosophical thought. In contradistinction to the desire for subjectivity, Black Pentecostal Breath theorizes the extra-subjective mode of being together that is the condition of emergence for otherwise worlds of possibility. These choreographic, sonic and visual aesthetic practices and sensual experiences are not only important objects of study for those interested in alternative modes of social organization, but they also yield a general hermeneutics, a methodology for reading culture.
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  • Author

    Ashon T. Crawley

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Fordham University Press

  • Published

    October 2016

  • Weight

    432g

  • Page Count

    272

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.7 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780823274550

  • ISBN-10

    0823274551

  • Eden Code

    4492946

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