Publié en à partir d’une conférence de 2007

Such optimism, black optimism, is bound up with what it is to claim blackness and the appositional, run­away, phonoptic black operations-expressive of an autopoetic organization in which flight and inhabitation modify each other-that have been thrust upon it. The burden of this paradoxically aleatory goal is our historicity, animating the reality of escape in and the possibility of escape from.