Rest Notes: On Black Sleep Aesthetics∗

IF 0.4 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY OCTOBER Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI:10.1162/octo_a_00422
Josie Roland Hodson
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Abstract Science has shown that Black people in the United States sleep more poorly than any other racial group. Relatedly, contradictory racial myths that depict Black people as simultaneously indolent and super-industrious persist in contemporary discourse. Confronting a culture that celebrates endurance over rest, this paper attends to works of art that visualize or create conditions for Black sleep, thereby resisting its biopolitical regulation and the lethal expectation of perpetual industry. This essay speculates about how visual representations of Black sleep can constitute quiet gestures that enact fugitivity and provide reparation for racial time—in part through the reclamation of interiority. Although sleep is a decidedly solitary act, this paper highlights artistic projects bound by an ethos of collectivity, arguing that the project of transforming the social and political conditions that reproduce Black sleeplessness cannot be pursued in isolation.
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休息笔记:论黑色睡眠美学*
摘要科学表明,美国黑人的睡眠比任何其他种族群体都差。与此相关的是,将黑人描绘成懒惰和超级勤劳的矛盾种族神话在当代话语中依然存在。面对一种崇尚耐力而非休息的文化,本文关注的是为黑人睡眠形象化或创造条件的艺术作品,从而抵制其生物政治监管和对永久工业的致命期望。这篇文章推测了黑人睡眠的视觉表征是如何构成安静的手势的,这些手势体现了隐蔽性,并为种族时间提供了补偿——部分是通过对内在性的恢复。尽管睡眠显然是一种孤独的行为,但本文强调了受集体精神约束的艺术项目,认为改变再现黑人失眠的社会和政治条件的项目不能孤立地进行。
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期刊介绍: At the forefront of art criticism and theory, October focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, media, photography, performance, sculpture, and literature. Examining relationships between the arts and their critical and social contexts, October addresses a broad range of readers. Original, innovative, provocative, each issue presents the best, most current texts by and about today"s artistic, intellectual, and critical vanguard.
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