{"product_id":"of-effacement-blackness-and-non-being-hardback-9781503628786","title":"Of Effacement; Blackness and Non-Being (Hardback) 9781503628786","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOf Effacement\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBlackness and Non-Being\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Marriott (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503628786\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 November 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e410 pages, 4 halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.649 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Dazzlingly original, forcefully subtle in its argumentation, \u003ci\u003eOf Effacement\u003c\/i\u003e is undeniably path-breaking. Marriott's reading allows us to see Fanon's 'black being' as a 'disquieting in-plenitude' visible only in the way it curves the spaces of the personal, cultural, and political.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Joan Copjec, Brown University \"Brilliant, relentless, and unblinking in its acknowledgment that 'there is no ontology of black pain,' David Marriott's \u003ci\u003eOf Effacement\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force of critical analysis. Lingering with Fanon's crystallization of wretchedness into 'a new law of expression' that would precipitate a 'politics beyond that of racial community,' Marriott refuses to avert his gaze from the abyss of Fanon's '\u003ci\u003en'est pas\u003c\/i\u003e.' For in the 'nothing that governs the world gone black,' he locates the possibility of invention without '\u003ci\u003earche\u003c\/i\u003e,telos, or predestined end.' The result is this rigorous, transformative, and supremely \u003ci\u003enecessary\u003c\/i\u003e book that dares, like Fanon, to 'make the incomprehensible the vocation of [its] politics' and so to open—in ways at once unbearable and exhilarating to contemplate—new pathways for our own.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Lee Edelman, Tufts University \"With an unflinching lucidity in reading and critique, Marriott develops a demanding and often startling thinking across the fields of ontology, politics, and aesthetics. \u003ci\u003eOf Effacement\u003c\/i\u003e deserves the closest attention of all those working in philosophy and theory today.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Geoffrey Bennington, Emory University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOf Effacement\u003c\/i\u003e, David Marriott endeavors to demolish established opinion about what blackness is and reorient our understanding of what it is not in art, philosophy, autobiography, literary theory, political theory, and psychoanalysis. With the critical rigor and polemical bravura which he displayed in \u003ci\u003eWhither Fanon?\u003c\/i\u003e Marriott here considers the relationships between language, judgement and effacement, and shows how effacement has become the dominant force in anti-blackness. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBoth skeptically and emphatically, Marriott presents a series of radical philosophical engagements with Fanon's \"is not\" (\u003ci\u003en'est pas\u003c\/i\u003e) and its \"black\" political truth. How does one speak—let alone represent—that which is without existence? Is blackness \u003ci\u003en'est pas\u003c\/i\u003e because it has yet to be thought as blackness? And if so, when Fanon writes of blackness, that it is \u003ci\u003en'est pas\u003c\/i\u003e (is not), where should one look to make sense of this \u003ci\u003en'est pas\u003c\/i\u003e? Marriott anchors these questions by addressing the most fundamental perennial questions concerning the nature of freedom, resistance, mastery, life, and liberation, via a series of analyses of such key figures as Huey Newton, Nietzsche, Malcolm X, Edward Said, Georges Bataille, Stuart Hall, and Lacan. He thus develops the basis for a reading of blackness by recasting its effacement as an identity, while insisting on it as a fundamental question for philosophy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e  PART I ONTOLOGY AND LANGUAGE\u003cbr\u003e  One N'est Pas\u003cbr\u003e  Two \u003ci\u003eNigra Philologica\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Three \u003ci\u003eNègre, Figura\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Four Ontology and \u003ci\u003eLalangue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PART II WRITING AND POLITICS\u003cbr\u003e  Five Autobiography as Effacement\u003cbr\u003e  Six Crystallization\u003cbr\u003e  Seven On Revolutionary Suicide\u003cbr\u003e  Eight The Real and the Apparent\u003cbr\u003e  PART III ART AND PHILOSOPHY\u003cbr\u003e  Nine \u003ci\u003eCorpus Exanime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610635202840,"sku":"9781503628786","price":77.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/of-effacement-blackness-and-non-being-hardback-9781503628786","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}