On August 9, 2014, a police officer murdered unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. Brown's murder, and the globally watched uprising it ignited, incited a variety of cultural‐political productions and affects, some of which are collected in this forum as a collage of art, photography, personal essays, poetry, and anthropological analyses. This forum's rationale follows that of Mirror Casket, a work of public art created by local artivists. Mirror Casket memorializes Brown and challenges viewers to see their own part in perpetuating premature Black death—and their obligation to end it. Constructed with broken pieces of mirrored glass, Mirror Casket embodies a fractured region, historically created through Black death and sociogeographic containment, and its polarized responses to the uprising—on the one hand, militarized police and uninhibited anti‐Black racism, and on the other, Black mourning and emerging young leadership, and cross‐racial protests and struggles with fear, anxiety, rage, and despair. Mirror Casket, like the pieces in this forum, also demonstrates the creative persistence and generativity that persists in the afterlife of Brown's death. Inspired by its coproducers, “@Ferguson” aims not to offer conclusions but to explore the aesthetic, affective, and political provocations of what became the template for 21st‐century Black liberation. Moreover, it challenges anthropology's long‐standing attachments to “disciplined” white institutional and cultural traditions. [race, social movement, protest art, decolonizing methods, necropolitics, biopolitics, urban, police brutality, Blackness, Ferguson]

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@弗格森： 

2014年8月9日，一名警察在圣路易斯郊区弗格森（Ferguson）谋杀了未武装的黑人少年迈克尔·布朗（Michael Brown）。布朗的谋杀案及其在全球范围内引发的起义，激起了多种文化政治产物和影响，其中一些是作为艺术，摄影，个人散文，诗歌和人类学分析的拼贴画在本论坛中收集的。该论坛的理论依据是当地工匠创造的公共艺术品Mirror Casket的理论基础。镜子棺材纪念布朗，并向观众发出挑战，要求他们看到自己在永久过早的黑人死亡中所应承担的责任，以及他们有义务结束这场死亡。与镜面玻璃，破碎件构造镜象棺材体现了一个破碎的地区，该地区历史上是由黑人死亡和社会地理控制所造成的，并且它对起义产生了两极化的反应，一方面是军事化的警察和不受抑制的反黑人种族主义，另一方面是黑人的哀悼和新兴的年轻领导层，以及交叉种族抗议和充满恐惧，焦虑，愤怒和绝望的斗争。镜子棺材像本论坛中的文章一样，也展示了布朗死后的创作中持久的创造力和创造力。受其联合制片人的启发，“ @ Ferguson”的目的不是提供结论，而是探索成为21世纪黑人解放模板的美学，情感和政治挑衅。此外，它挑战了人类学对“有纪律的”白人制度和文化传统的长期依恋。[种族，社会运动，抗议艺术，非殖民化方法，necropolitics，生命政治，城市，警察的暴行，黑度，弗格森]