“What if we take that “we” as dynamic and provisional, in a constant dance with the “I” that relies on it and shapes it, so that ubuntu does not name a transhistorical practice and philosophy, but the improvisatory ways African relation is created through a range of freedom practices?”
This question is so refreshingly lucid & large, it added air to my lungs. Deeply appreciate you & your heart-mind. 🙌🏾✨
"If you’re a philosopher, please don’t get excited—I’m not doing African philosophy." Awwww... too late, cousin; too late! 😊😩😆
Thank you for challenging the flattened concept/the concept that flattens. I especially appreciated your note on differences alongside the possibility of contribution among the ethnic, pan- national, and diasporic, and the section on silences from ethnic traditions not currently elevated in published philosophy.
I realize that—damn, again—I'd mistaken the published for the complete, and that was incredibly lazy of me. In the wake (Sharpe), I'm still removed from and recovering the ethnic, and nationalisms and diasporan ethics (invented not natural), are what I'm working with most often instead. I want to dig into that.
I’m so often trying to shuttle across blackness as ethnic, ethno-national, national, pan-national, pan-African, and black diasporic. It’s dizzying, and I can only do it very partially. Luckily, others—like you—are also doing that work.
Philosophy frightens me. It’s so earnest! I need space to play.
“What if we take that “we” as dynamic and provisional, in a constant dance with the “I” that relies on it and shapes it, so that ubuntu does not name a transhistorical practice and philosophy, but the improvisatory ways African relation is created through a range of freedom practices?”
This question is so refreshingly lucid & large, it added air to my lungs. Deeply appreciate you & your heart-mind. 🙌🏾✨
"If you’re a philosopher, please don’t get excited—I’m not doing African philosophy." Awwww... too late, cousin; too late! 😊😩😆
Thank you for challenging the flattened concept/the concept that flattens. I especially appreciated your note on differences alongside the possibility of contribution among the ethnic, pan- national, and diasporic, and the section on silences from ethnic traditions not currently elevated in published philosophy.
I realize that—damn, again—I'd mistaken the published for the complete, and that was incredibly lazy of me. In the wake (Sharpe), I'm still removed from and recovering the ethnic, and nationalisms and diasporan ethics (invented not natural), are what I'm working with most often instead. I want to dig into that.
Appreciate you.
I’m so often trying to shuttle across blackness as ethnic, ethno-national, national, pan-national, pan-African, and black diasporic. It’s dizzying, and I can only do it very partially. Luckily, others—like you—are also doing that work.
Philosophy frightens me. It’s so earnest! I need space to play.
Thank you for thinking with me!