Black Spring

Kevin Bell

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Epistemology of Hoodies: On the Black and Nonbinary

Marquis Bey

It was 1:14pm central standard time on a Friday. There was a meme on reddit. An image of what looked like knights around a stone table. They held their swords out, guiding them in coalition, not, in this meme, in “brotherhood,” facing the center...

Merciless Divinations: Adrienne Kennedy and the Anti-Theatre of Black Becoming

Kevin Bell

In the urgency of what sounds initially like an auteur’s command, the fictional “Director” of Adrienne Kennedy’s 1973 play-within-a-play, An Evening with Dead Essex , discloses the unnegotiable terms of his own captivity before the...

Black Spring

Kevin Bell

He wanted to leave nothing out. Given the film image’s powers of simultaneous arrest and dispersal, he may have believed it the surest means of preserving while imparting some measure of the densities and speeds generated across the spectrum of...

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Mar 30, 2021 By: Kevin Bell

Volume 5, Cycle 4

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aesthetics

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Excursions into irreconcilable and therefore alluring dimensions of innovative Black writing, filmmaking, and analysis.