I *love* the way Alexander G. Weheliye, in his new book Habeas Viscus, uses Sun Ra in his criticism of Agamben and Foucault: “This dimension evaporates in bare life and biopolitics discourse; in its stead Agamben offers us a defanged legal messianism far removed from the traditions of the oppressed while Foucault fails to consider alternative imaginares. When June Tyson repeatedly intones, ‘It’s after the end of the world. … Don’t you know that yet?’ at the beginning of the Sun Ra Arkestra’s 1974 film Space Is the Place, she directs our attention to the very real likelihood that another world might not only be possible but that this universe already be here in the NOW. The only question that reaims: do we have the tools required to apprehend other worlds such as the one prophesised by June Tyson and Sun Ra, or will we remain infinitely detained by the magical powers of Man’s juridical assemblage as a result of having consumed too much of his treacly Kool-Aid?”
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:09:41 +0000
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