Ashon Crawley
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashon Crawley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashon |
| FAMILY NAME | Crawley |
| SIGNATURE | CRAWLEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Otherwise Possibility
Otherwise Possibility Ashon Crawley (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution dancing in one spot (number 8), 2017. Pigment powder, acrylic paint on paper, 30 × 44 in. All images courtesy of the artist. [End Page 18] learning about life and love in the spiritual space of Blackpentecostalism, I was able to sense the world by paying attention to how my flesh felt. We sang songs loudly. We shouted hard. We spoke in tongues. The flesh was the …
On Black Queer Joy and the Digital
When I'm talking about the digital and what the digital makes possible, it becomes another world not unique to itself, not hermetically sealed off from some other modality, but in deep relation. The digital is another world through which we can practice thought with one another. Learning happens in digital space; argumentation happens in digital space; and pushback happens in digital space. Lots and lots of joking happens in digital space and a l…
Susceptibility
This essay argues that political theology does not interrogate the contexts of emergence for the joining of the political to the theological; it takes these concepts to have meaning without accounting for how these categories are created by racialized, gendered, sexed exclusion. What is it to be susceptible, and can such a thing be the antidote to political theology? Why would political theology need an antidote? Arguing that susceptibility is li…
The Lonely Letters
Introduction to the Academy and What Can Be Done
The Lonely Letters
Research Article| October 01 2018 The Lonely Letters Ashon Crawley Ashon Crawley Ashon Crawley, assistant professor of religious studies and African American and African studies at the University of Virginia, is the author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (2016), an investigation of aesthetics and performance as modes of collective, social imaginings otherwise. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GL…
Resonance: Neutrinos and Black Life
Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility
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, Blackpentecostal Breath analyses the ways otherwise modes of existence are disruptions of marginalization and violence. The immediate objects of study …
That There Might Be Black Thought: Nothing Music and the Hammond B-3
Research Article| July 01 2016 That There Might Be Black Thought: Nothing Music and the Hammond B-3 Ashon Crawley Ashon Crawley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2016) 16 (2): 123–150. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.16.2.0123 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ashon Crawley; That There Might Be Black Thought: Nothing Musi…
Can you be BLACK and Work Here: Social Justice Activist Organizing and Black Aurality
How can social justice organizations organize without marginalizing identities and concurrently tend to the blindspots that arise when intersectional identities are not taken into account? Black (here, BLACK) music, with its rudimentary foundation in black sound, gives a framework for organizing without institutionalization, structuring without strictures. The aurality evident in black sound resists: moans, hollers, shrieks, cries, falsettos, mel…
"Let's Get It On!" Performance Theory and Black Pentecostalism
In this paper, performance theory, augmented with both feminist and queer theory critiques and ideas, help analyze the various aspects of Black Pentecostal experience. This paper is primarily concerned with the rhetorics of the Black Church and how these rhetorical strategies can immure congregants to abject embodied experience. I use the Black Pentecostal church tradition as a site that both consolidates and disrupts binary, heteronormative, het…
Coming Out in Christianity: Religion, Identity and Community
Resonance: Neutrinos and Black Life
On Black Queer Joy and the Digital
When I'm talking about the digital and what the digital makes possible, it becomes another world not unique to itself, not hermetically sealed off from some other modality, but in deep relation. The digital is another world through which we can practice thought with one another. Learning happens in digital space; argumentation happens in digital space; and pushback happens in digital space. Lots and lots of joking happens in digital space and a l…
Introduction to the Academy and What Can Be Done
Otherwise Possibility
Otherwise Possibility Ashon Crawley (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution dancing in one spot (number 8), 2017. Pigment powder, acrylic paint on paper, 30 × 44 in. All images courtesy of the artist. [End Page 18] learning about life and love in the spiritual space of Blackpentecostalism, I was able to sense the world by paying attention to how my flesh felt. We sang songs loudly. We shouted hard. We spoke in tongues. The flesh was the …
Susceptibility
This essay argues that political theology does not interrogate the contexts of emergence for the joining of the political to the theological; it takes these concepts to have meaning without accounting for how these categories are created by racialized, gendered, sexed exclusion. What is it to be susceptible, and can such a thing be the antidote to political theology? Why would political theology need an antidote? Arguing that susceptibility is li…
The Lonely Letters
Research Article| October 01 2018 The Lonely Letters Ashon Crawley Ashon Crawley Ashon Crawley, assistant professor of religious studies and African American and African studies at the University of Virginia, is the author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (2016), an investigation of aesthetics and performance as modes of collective, social imaginings otherwise. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GL…
That There Might Be Black Thought: Nothing Music and the Hammond B-3
Research Article| July 01 2016 That There Might Be Black Thought: Nothing Music and the Hammond B-3 Ashon Crawley Ashon Crawley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2016) 16 (2): 123–150. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.16.2.0123 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ashon Crawley; That There Might Be Black Thought: Nothing Musi…
Coming Out in Christianity: Religion, Identity and Community
"Let's Get It On!" Performance Theory and Black Pentecostalism
In this paper, performance theory, augmented with both feminist and queer theory critiques and ideas, help analyze the various aspects of Black Pentecostal experience. This paper is primarily concerned with the rhetorics of the Black Church and how these rhetorical strategies can immure congregants to abject embodied experience. I use the Black Pentecostal church tradition as a site that both consolidates and disrupts binary, heteronormative, het…
Can you be BLACK and Work Here: Social Justice Activist Organizing and Black Aurality
How can social justice organizations organize without marginalizing identities and concurrently tend to the blindspots that arise when intersectional identities are not taken into account? Black (here, BLACK) music, with its rudimentary foundation in black sound, gives a framework for organizing without institutionalization, structuring without strictures. The aurality evident in black sound resists: moans, hollers, shrieks, cries, falsettos, mel…
Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility
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, Blackpentecostal Breath analyses the ways otherwise modes of existence are disruptions of marginalization and violence. The immediate objects of study …
That There Might Be Black Thought: Nothing Music and the Hammond B-3
Research Article| July 01 2016 That There Might Be Black Thought: Nothing Music and the Hammond B-3 Ashon Crawley Ashon Crawley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2016) 16 (2): 123–150. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.16.2.0123 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ashon Crawley; That There Might Be Black Thought: Nothing Musi…
Resonance: Neutrinos and Black Life
Introduction to the Academy and What Can Be Done
The Lonely Letters
Research Article| October 01 2018 The Lonely Letters Ashon Crawley Ashon Crawley Ashon Crawley, assistant professor of religious studies and African American and African studies at the University of Virginia, is the author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (2016), an investigation of aesthetics and performance as modes of collective, social imaginings otherwise. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GL…
The Lonely Letters
Susceptibility
This essay argues that political theology does not interrogate the contexts of emergence for the joining of the political to the theological; it takes these concepts to have meaning without accounting for how these categories are created by racialized, gendered, sexed exclusion. What is it to be susceptible, and can such a thing be the antidote to political theology? Why would political theology need an antidote? Arguing that susceptibility is li…
Otherwise Possibility
Otherwise Possibility Ashon Crawley (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution dancing in one spot (number 8), 2017. Pigment powder, acrylic paint on paper, 30 × 44 in. All images courtesy of the artist. [End Page 18] learning about life and love in the spiritual space of Blackpentecostalism, I was able to sense the world by paying attention to how my flesh felt. We sang songs loudly. We shouted hard. We spoke in tongues. The flesh was the …
On Black Queer Joy and the Digital
When I'm talking about the digital and what the digital makes possible, it becomes another world not unique to itself, not hermetically sealed off from some other modality, but in deep relation. The digital is another world through which we can practice thought with one another. Learning happens in digital space; argumentation happens in digital space; and pushback happens in digital space. Lots and lots of joking happens in digital space and a l…
Sociology (8 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Music History and Culture (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)