InTensions - Issue 5.0 - Fall/Winter 2011 - (De) Fatalizing the Present and Creating Radical Alternatives

InTensions Issue 5.0 Cover Image

Nuchu Alado: Winged Nuchu (Acrílico: Acrylic 2009) [122 X 239 cm Díptico:Diptych] — by Oswaldo Deleon Kantule “Achu”

Note From The Editor

Introduction: (De) Fatalizing the Present
Anna M. Agathangelou, York University (Department of Political Science)
Kyle D. Killian, York University (Faculty of Health)

I. Contemporary Problematiques: Tensions Slavery, Colonization, and Accumulation

The Social Life of Social Death: On Afro-Pessimism and Black Optimism
Jared Sexton, University of California, Irvine (Program in African American Studies)
The Vengeance of Vertigo: Aphasia and Abjection in the Political Trials of Black Insurgents
Frank B. Wilderson III, University of California, Irvine (Program in African American Studies/Drama Department)
Chanting Tahreer and Compassion: People as Poetry
Khadija El Alaoui, Montréal (QC, Canada)
The Wages of Non-Blackness: Contemporary Immigrant Rights and Discourses of Character, Productivity, and Value
Tamara K. Nopper, University of Pennsylvania (Departments of Sociology and Asian American Studies)

II. Intimate Poetics

Poems

Works

III. Erotics of Co-Existance: Paintings/Photography

Call For Papers⁄Art