Sentient Flesh
Sentient Flesh In Sentient Flesh R. A. us is human flesh" as a point of departure for an extended meditation on questions of the human, epistemology, and the historical ways in which the black being…
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Sentient Flesh
In Sentient Flesh R. A. us is human flesh" as a point of departure for an extended meditation on questions of the human, epistemology, and the historical ways in which the black being is understood. Judy takes up freedman Tom Windham's 1937 remark "we should have our liberty 'cause . . .
Operating as critiques of Western humanism, these practices and modes of being-in-the-world-which he theorizes as "thinking in disorder," or "poiēsis in black"-foreground the irreducible concomitance of flesh, thinking, and personhood. Drawing on numerous fields, from literary theory and musicology, to political theory and phenomenology, as well as Greek and Arabic philosophy, Judy engages literary texts and performative practices such as music and dance that express knowledge and conceptions of humanity appositional to those grounding modern racialized capitalism. As Judy demonstrates,