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Dictionary of Dark Matters

Released on October 16, 2020 Summer 2020

Type
Publication, Website
Organizers
Zainab Aliyu, American Artist
Program
Cost

$60 + shipping

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Description

A self-published people's dictionary written over the course of ten weeks during the Summer 2020 session of “Dark Matters: On Blackness, Surveillance and the Whiteness of the Screen.” It is an abundance of poetry, prose, creative writing, personal history and illustration filled with terms we have come across during our time together.

The duration of our time together coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing movement for Black Lives (particularly in response to the murder of George Floyd), and the calling out of various academic institutions and places of work (including our own) for their perpetuation of anti-blackness. The class gave us intentional time to tend to ourselves as we contend with this predatory state, to study the material while existing within the systems we are learning to name.

The class and culminating publication takes its namesake from Simone Browne's book Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, a critical text that address the origins of so many recurring dynamics of power that operate through high technology.

Publication designed by Zainab Aliyu (cover in collaboration with American Artist)

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