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Beyond rights as recognition: Black Twitter and posthuman coalitional possibilities
Prose Studies Pub Date : 2016-01-02 , DOI: 10.1080/01440357.2016.1151763
Pritha Prasad

Abstract This essay analyzes the Black Twitter hashtags #IfTheyGunnedMeDown and #AliveWhileBlack to develop a revisionary theory of anti-racist activism that reveals how certain socially mediated protest movements, in insisting on the ability of the Black body and human to “matter,” encourage the recognition of alternative forms of humanity and embodiment to those offered by humanist, economic, and juridical models. I argue that the embedded, distributed modes of collectivity on Twitter can create critical posthuman coalitions and affirmative bonds (Braidotti, Chavez), not only by decentering hegemonic models of human value that often depend on the dehumanization of Black bodies, but also by disidentifying with the hypercapitalist composing practices of digital spaces. Ultimately, I argue that an epistemological framework for recognizing social protest that moves beyond a discourse of rights allows us to witness how activists build alternative rhetorical imaginaries and possibilities, even if they might sometimes draw from both inclusionary and utopian politics to cultivate new forms of recognition and possibilities for coalition.

中文翻译:

超越作为承认的权利:黑色推特和后人类联盟的可能性

摘要 本文分析了黑人推特标签#IfTheyGunnedMeDown 和#AliveWhileBlack,以发展反种族主义激进主义的修正理论,揭示某些以社会为媒介的抗议运动如何坚持黑人身体和人类“重要”的能力,鼓励承认人文主义、经济和司法模式所提供的人性和体现的替代形式。我认为 Twitter 上嵌入的、分布式的集体模式可以创建关键的后人类联盟和肯定的联系(布莱多蒂、查韦斯),这不仅是通过去中心化通常依赖于黑人身体的非人化的人类价值霸权模型,而且还通过对与数字空间的超级资本主义创作实践。最终,
更新日期:2016-01-02
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