Phoebe Boswell is an artist whose work is held in collections including the British Museum, LACMA, and RISD. Saidiya Hartman is University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. JanaIna Oliveira is a film curator and professor at the Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro. Joseph M. Pierce is Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Cristina Rivera Garza is M.D. Anderson Professor in Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston. Christina Sharpe is the Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University.
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Introduction / Christina Sharpe 1 A Manifesto for Speculative Relations / Joseph M. Pierce 7 A Manifesto for Curation / JanaIna Oliveira 39 Manifesto of the As Yet Unlived Thing / Phoebe Boswell 63 Crow Jane Makes a Modest Proposal / Saidiya Hartman 97 Subjunctive: A Manifesto About Language, Territory, and the Yet to Come / Cristina Rivera Garza 117 Notes and References 153 About the Alchemists 164 Acknowledgments 167
"What must be made manifest, confronted, spoken in these catastrophic times includes the rejection of that which is manufactured as consent. . . . These Alchemy Lectures make clear that a lecture is not a spectacle: it is a gathering; it is a communion; we meet, here, to make plans, to see a way-many ways-to go on." - Christina Sharpe, from the Introduction