for all the ASA girlies (or if you just happen to be in chicago for the end of october)
patrick teed
@patrickteed.bsky.social
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emerging artist/academic - thinking a lot about structures of antagonism, abolition, temporality, and how long i can say i'm ‘emerging’
![An excerpt from the linked article, which reads: "Thinking with Saidiya Hartman’s insight that the 'demands of the slave on the present have everything to do with making good the promise of abolition, [which] entails much more than the end of property in slaves,' I contend that mobilizations of abolition in the main operate through a constitutive disavowal of slavery’s ongoingness (even, and perhaps most especially, as they avow the prison as historically linked to the trans-Atlantic slave trade). More specifically, I argue that a brutal empiricism, constituted in abolitionism’s originary iterations, authorizes contemporary abolitionist politics. I do so by interrogating how the insistence on and focalization of the prison rather than slavery symptomatically reveals political-libidinal investments in the reproduction of antiblackness. In short, I argue that to assert the prison as the object of abolition is to both presume and reify an antiblack historiography..."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6phcm4yufghwwc67rd7ecymq/bafkreihulwkz3c3oerdaswpsfrsnlskj3vtveeszbbroxaydbvi7vfzinq)
