Elliot C Mason
Biographic Data
| ID | 297020 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elliot C Mason |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elliot C |
| FAMILY NAME | Mason |
| SIGNATURE | MASON E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0448-2329 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Temporalities of power, sociality, and struggle in Fred Moten and Judith Butler
Throughout his corpus, Fred Moten insists on a unique temporality: sociality is always primary, both temporally and logically. Power arrives to individuate this primary sociality, dividing it into subjects, but it survives fugitively as a struggle against power. At numerous points in their work, Judith Butler also posits sociality as primary, but with a crucial difference: power’s arrival enacts a totalizing constitutive force onto subjects, eras…
Introduction
In this introduction to the dossier, Elliot C. Mason gives an overview of the rise and fall of the welfare state in Sweden throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the initial protests and mass demands that led to reforms and a general program of state care, to the privatization of health care and the imposition of private capital as the mediator of all relations of care. Despite the sharp neoliberal turn in its politics since th…
Faith in Fugitive Time
Time is of increasing concern in Black studies, with scholars studying the ways in which standardized narratives of time are historically imposed on racialized populations. This essay reads Safiya Sinclair's 2016 poetry collection Cannibal as offering a fugitive temporality that ruptures the stability of the racializing present. In Cannibal, Sinclair's speaker does not attempt to release herself from the racializing condemnation of the past. Rath…
Phillis Wheatley Peters' fugitive poetics of freedom
The enslaved eighteenth-century poet Phillis Wheatley Peters has often been understood as a mimetic mouthpiece for her white enslavers. Here, through close readings of her poetry and letters, I understand her work through the fugitive imaginings of freedom in contemporary Black studies scholarship, finding in her complex poetics textual catachresis and irony that elude the understanding of her audience. Through subtle references to an alternative…
Perry Eleanor. Radical Elegies
Many poetry genealogies written over the last few decades trace the elegy from its Ancient Greek origins to its canonical contemporary practitioners. The poets these studies focus on are remarkably consistent, and indeed, the same other poets -racialized, feminized, trans and disabled -are absent in every history. The exclusion of so many elegies from otherwise capacious genealogies is deeply ironic, given the elegy's function as poetic mourning …
Building Black
Building Black: Towards Antiracist Architecture brings together the forefronts of Black Studies and architectural theory. Only recently, architecture and urban planning have started to confront their constitution of race as a social referent, and their part in the establishment of racist logics. This confrontation usually results in projects that respond to their surroundings, that merge into a changing and multicultural city. Building Black, how…
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Perry Eleanor. Radical Elegies
Many poetry genealogies written over the last few decades trace the elegy from its Ancient Greek origins to its canonical contemporary practitioners. The poets these studies focus on are remarkably consistent, and indeed, the same other poets -racialized, feminized, trans and disabled -are absent in every history. The exclusion of so many elegies from otherwise capacious genealogies is deeply ironic, given the elegy's function as poetic mourning …
Building Black
Building Black: Towards Antiracist Architecture brings together the forefronts of Black Studies and architectural theory. Only recently, architecture and urban planning have started to confront their constitution of race as a social referent, and their part in the establishment of racist logics. This confrontation usually results in projects that respond to their surroundings, that merge into a changing and multicultural city. Building Black, how…
Phillis Wheatley Peters' fugitive poetics of freedom
The enslaved eighteenth-century poet Phillis Wheatley Peters has often been understood as a mimetic mouthpiece for her white enslavers. Here, through close readings of her poetry and letters, I understand her work through the fugitive imaginings of freedom in contemporary Black studies scholarship, finding in her complex poetics textual catachresis and irony that elude the understanding of her audience. Through subtle references to an alternative…
Introduction
In this introduction to the dossier, Elliot C. Mason gives an overview of the rise and fall of the welfare state in Sweden throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the initial protests and mass demands that led to reforms and a general program of state care, to the privatization of health care and the imposition of private capital as the mediator of all relations of care. Despite the sharp neoliberal turn in its politics since th…
Faith in Fugitive Time
Time is of increasing concern in Black studies, with scholars studying the ways in which standardized narratives of time are historically imposed on racialized populations. This essay reads Safiya Sinclair's 2016 poetry collection Cannibal as offering a fugitive temporality that ruptures the stability of the racializing present. In Cannibal, Sinclair's speaker does not attempt to release herself from the racializing condemnation of the past. Rath…
Temporalities of power, sociality, and struggle in Fred Moten and Judith Butler
Throughout his corpus, Fred Moten insists on a unique temporality: sociality is always primary, both temporally and logically. Power arrives to individuate this primary sociality, dividing it into subjects, but it survives fugitively as a struggle against power. At numerous points in their work, Judith Butler also posits sociality as primary, but with a crucial difference: power’s arrival enacts a totalizing constitutive force onto subjects, eras…
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