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Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility investigates the relationship of aesthetic productions to modes of collective, social intellectual practice. Engaging black studies, queer theory, sound studies, literary theory, theological studies, continental philosophy and visual studies, Black Pentecostal Breath analyzes the ways otherwise modes of existence are disruptions of marginalization and violence.
Ashon T. Crawley is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at University of California, Riverside.
—Roderick A. Ferguson:A one-of-a-kind intervention into performance, religious, black and cultural studies.
How does one write "otherwise?"... In short, how does one write an academic book that engages in the subversiverepurposing of the academy and the university that author Ashon Crawley, citing Fred Moten and Stephano Harney, attributes to the "critical academic"?... So, how to forge new tools in order not to relinquish the academy to white supremacist neoliberal capitalist heteropatriarchy? In this bold first book, Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possiblity, Crawley doesn’t pontificate on how one might do such re‐forging; he forges ahead and does it. Like a good Blackpentecostal musician or preacher, he improvises his way into a powerful re‐enactment of the study of religion.
—Ann Pellegrini:Blackpentecostal Breath is a work of utter originality anchored by daring synthesis, acrobatic leaps of imagination, and laced throughout with passages of jolting beauty.
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