Material and Affective (Re)Shapings Within Unspeakable/Uninterrupted Territories of Violence

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Abstract

How might we refuse historically censored/sustained/whitewashed frames and forms of quotidian violence that drag our attention towards registers of inevitability and predictability? This conceptual paper considers assemblages of violence in the context of historical and ongoing reverberations of anti-Black racism in the United States. Specifically, the authors consider various material and affective intersections that produce movements with/around/under/through time, space, and human and more-than human bodies; the liminal texture of conscious knowing and subconscious feeling that is always-already in flux; and the incalculable and perhaps unfulfilled possibilities/futures that await all encounters within the more-than-human world.

Authors

• Bretton A. Varga, California State University - Chico

• Cathryn van Kessel, Texas Christian University