David Marriott
Biographic Data
| ID | 460476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Marriott |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Marriott |
| SIGNATURE | MARRIOTT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7277-7244 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Three Forms of Poetic Exaltation
This essay is a study of black poesis in the critical and theoretical project of George Jackson and its attempt to differentiate itself from carcerality (at the level of word, concept, and genre). In the process, Jackson’s radical attempt to undo, disrupt, and displace all forms of fascist authority (even his own) offers an unparalleled challenge to how blackness is oppressed and how it often oppresses itself, in not only law and politics but als…
Without truth
On Solicitude
This essay is a study of the (black) infans in both psychoanalysis and philosophy, most notably, in Sigmund Freud's Entwurf (1895) and Jean-François Lyotard's essay "Emma" in Misère de la philosophie. The essay follows three main lines of argument : 1) Why does the infans seem to convey not merely a principle of error, lie, and deception (proton pseudos) but a deceit that is deeply deemed to be the origin of sexuality's truth? 2) On one notable o…
The Crisis of Truth
This essay explores various meanings of the word crisis ( krisis): in philosophy, law, and psychoanalysis; but also in relation to truth, law, judgement, and thinking. In various axioms—on truth and negation; and on being and reproduction—the essay asks why blackness is often excluded from crisis theory. I then go on to explore the unintended consequences and complications of this exclusion in respective works by Donald Winnicott (on tolerance an…
Corpus Exanime
This essay suggests that to read black art the viewer is obliged to read what is not there. What does this paradoxical statement imply? First, it implies that every black image is a caricature—a refusal—of the blackness of its concept; and to that extent what we see as black is no longer readable or seeable as image (or Dasein). Secondly, taking as my example the singular relation between pain and image in the artwork of Donald Rodney, and in par…
Of Effacement
In Of Effacement , 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 Whither Fanon? Marriott here considers the relationships between language, judgement and effacement, and shows how effacement has become the do…
On Revolutionary Suicide
This essay takes up Huey Newton's notion of revolutionary suicide. Against the objection that black suicide is merely reactive, Newton proposes that revolutionary suicide follows other principles and demonstrations. Revolutionary suicide is resistant but in ways that does not make it always possible to distinguish between resistance and reaction—in fact, Newton argues that black revolutionary suicide should be considered a life-affirmation, and t…
On Crystallization
This essay considers the various meanings of the word “crystallization” in Frantz Fanon's main theses on national culture and his political philosophy more generally. It also further considers the implications of crystallization alongside Fanon's notion of the “nation to come” for an understanding of his approach to art, history, philosophy, and religion. This philosophy of crystallization, of which there has been little or no mention in Fanonian…
Nègre, Figura
This essay considers Edward Said's many engagements with the work of Frantz Fanon and how those readings are woventogether through a politics of style, exile, and diaspora
On Black Men
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748610167); Mutilated, dying or dead, black men play a role in the psychic life of culture. From national dreams to media fantasies, from sensual intimacy to outpourings of murderous violence, there is a persistent imagining of what black men must be, a demand that black men perform a script, become interchangeable with the uncanny, deeply unsettling, projections of culture. This powerful and compelling stud…
The X of Representation
This essay is a study of the notion of representation—its relation to difference, politics, diaspora, otherness, truth, and doxa—within Stuart Hall’s work. The reevaluation of this concept in terms of dialectics and différance, or of blackness and innocence, is shown to be an abiding preoccupation of Hall’s work. In particular, because blackness (or its notion) is never innocent, this essay explores the consequences of a certain undecidability th…
Introduction
This special issue of The Black Scholar depends on the idea that contemporary Black experimental writing begins at the point where (white) notions of the avant-garde become impossible, or at least
Black Critical and Cultural Theory
This year saw texts concerned with mass incarceration, slavery, surveillance, historiography, the politics of freedom and race and modernity. The first three texts under review by Talitha Leflouria, Dennis Childs and Simone Browne on black incarceration and surveillance suggest that the difficulty of imagining and realizing black freedom in modernity is intimately tied to the difficulty of constructing a history in the shadow of New World chattel…
Corpsing; or, The Matter of Black Life
Judging Fanon
Judging Fanon
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
Sexts from the royal infirmary
The body lies in its boredom and shit: desireroots through the interstices, between vacant stares and a wordthat reminds usof the whole echoing loveliness –like attending the wedding of two strange
The Racialized Body
Black Critical and Cultural Theory
This chapter is divided into two sections: 1. Philosophy and Cultural Theory (race and modernity, law, memory and justice); 2. Black Visual Cultural Theory (black contemporary art). Section 1 discusses recent works on W.E.B. Du Bois, racial blackness, Levinas, time, law, postcoloniality, and black social death; Section 2 discusses the history of transatlantic slavery in four contemporary Afro-American artists.
The ocular truth
No Lords A-Leaping
What happens to Fanonism when, instead of resistance or liberation, it becomes a discourse of invention? What happens to Fanon’s critique of colonialism and his imagining of a decolonial future, when that critique and imagining are staked not on the refusal of racial humanity itself (in the sense of an appeal to a “new humanism”...), but in the sense that Fanonism itself, as such, would be a discourse and reading of invention? In this essay I com…
On Racial Etiquette
This essay discusses “My Calling Cards, Series 1#” by artist and philosopher Adrian Piper. It examines the notion of etiquette in her work more generally, and discusses why the question of xenia and xenophobia remains crucial to Piper’s art as well as to her Kantian aesthetics. The second half of the essay is taken up with the discussion of that aesthetics, and seeks to clarify Piper’s reading of race and aesthetics by means of a reading of Edmun…
Waiting to Fall
Waiting to Fall David Marriott (bio) There is no other crime than time itself. —Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 2 1. Gaze and Identity Since the advent, over the course of the twentieth century, of black responses to cinema, the challenge of film to black spectators has tended to focus on the dangers of fantasy. “One of the irreducible dangers to which the moviegoer is exposed,” writes James Baldwin, is “the danger of surrendering to the corroboration of …
Whither Fanon
Inventions of Existence
Inventions of Existence:Sylvia Wynter, Frantz Fanon, Sociogeny, and "the Damned" David Marriott (bio) I. In the Conclusion to Peau noire, masques blancs / Black Skin, White Masks (1952/1967) Fanon makes a certain reference to history, which he contrasts to that of invention and that of self-creation: I am not a prisoner of History [l'Histoire]. I should not seek there for the meaning of my destiny. I should constantly remind myself that the real …
Inventions of Existence
Inventions of Existence:Sylvia Wynter, Frantz Fanon, Sociogeny, and "the Damned" David Marriott (bio) I. In the Conclusion to Peau noire, masques blancs / Black Skin, White Masks (1952/1967) Fanon makes a certain reference to history, which he contrasts to that of invention and that of self-creation: I am not a prisoner of History [l'Histoire]. I should not seek there for the meaning of my destiny. I should constantly remind myself that the real …
Whither Fanon
Judging Fanon
Judging Fanon
On Crystallization
This essay considers the various meanings of the word “crystallization” in Frantz Fanon's main theses on national culture and his political philosophy more generally. It also further considers the implications of crystallization alongside Fanon's notion of the “nation to come” for an understanding of his approach to art, history, philosophy, and religion. This philosophy of crystallization, of which there has been little or no mention in Fanonian…
Corpsing; or, The Matter of Black Life
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
Waiting to Fall
Waiting to Fall David Marriott (bio) There is no other crime than time itself. —Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 2 1. Gaze and Identity Since the advent, over the course of the twentieth century, of black responses to cinema, the challenge of film to black spectators has tended to focus on the dangers of fantasy. “One of the irreducible dangers to which the moviegoer is exposed,” writes James Baldwin, is “the danger of surrendering to the corroboration of …
Nègre, Figura
This essay considers Edward Said's many engagements with the work of Frantz Fanon and how those readings are woventogether through a politics of style, exile, and diaspora
On Black Men
The Love of Neither-Either Racial Integration in Pressure Point
Research Article| December 01 2003 The Love of Neither-Either Racial Integration in Pressure Point David Marriott David Marriott Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 63–90. https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.13.2.63 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation David Marriott; The Love of Neither-Either Racial Integration in Pressure Point. Qui Parle 1 December 2003; 13 (2): …
Spooks/Postmortem TV
This article explores John Edgar Wideman’s reflections on the ways in which US television and news media reflect the political paranoias and traumatic histories of race in America - reflections that emphasize the spectral and symbolic life of race in public and private monitorings of selfhood and difference. Read in the context of contemporary and retrospective responses to 9/11, Wideman’s discussion is used to examine the place of racial profili…
Taboo Subjects. Race, Sex, and Psychoanalysis
On Racial Fetishism
Research Article| December 01 2010 On Racial Fetishism David Marriott David Marriott Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 215–248. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.18.2.215 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David Marriott; On Racial Fetishism. Qui Parle 1 December 2010; 18 (2): 215–248. doi: https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.18.2.215 Down…
Whither Fanon
Inventions of Existence
Inventions of Existence:Sylvia Wynter, Frantz Fanon, Sociogeny, and "the Damned" David Marriott (bio) I. In the Conclusion to Peau noire, masques blancs / Black Skin, White Masks (1952/1967) Fanon makes a certain reference to history, which he contrasts to that of invention and that of self-creation: I am not a prisoner of History [l'Histoire]. I should not seek there for the meaning of my destiny. I should constantly remind myself that the real …
On Racial Etiquette
This essay discusses “My Calling Cards, Series 1#” by artist and philosopher Adrian Piper. It examines the notion of etiquette in her work more generally, and discusses why the question of xenia and xenophobia remains crucial to Piper’s art as well as to her Kantian aesthetics. The second half of the essay is taken up with the discussion of that aesthetics, and seeks to clarify Piper’s reading of race and aesthetics by means of a reading of Edmun…
Waiting to Fall
Waiting to Fall David Marriott (bio) There is no other crime than time itself. —Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 2 1. Gaze and Identity Since the advent, over the course of the twentieth century, of black responses to cinema, the challenge of film to black spectators has tended to focus on the dangers of fantasy. “One of the irreducible dangers to which the moviegoer is exposed,” writes James Baldwin, is “the danger of surrendering to the corroboration of …
No Lords A-Leaping
What happens to Fanonism when, instead of resistance or liberation, it becomes a discourse of invention? What happens to Fanon’s critique of colonialism and his imagining of a decolonial future, when that critique and imagining are staked not on the refusal of racial humanity itself (in the sense of an appeal to a “new humanism”...), but in the sense that Fanonism itself, as such, would be a discourse and reading of invention? In this essay I com…
The Racialized Body
Black Critical and Cultural Theory
This chapter is divided into two sections: 1. Philosophy and Cultural Theory (race and modernity, law, memory and justice); 2. Black Visual Cultural Theory (black contemporary art). Section 1 discusses recent works on W.E.B. Du Bois, racial blackness, Levinas, time, law, postcoloniality, and black social death; Section 2 discusses the history of transatlantic slavery in four contemporary Afro-American artists.
The ocular truth
Black Critical and Cultural Theory
This year saw texts concerned with mass incarceration, slavery, surveillance, historiography, the politics of freedom and race and modernity. The first three texts under review by Talitha Leflouria, Dennis Childs and Simone Browne on black incarceration and surveillance suggest that the difficulty of imagining and realizing black freedom in modernity is intimately tied to the difficulty of constructing a history in the shadow of New World chattel…
Corpsing; or, The Matter of Black Life
Judging Fanon
Judging Fanon
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
Sexts from the royal infirmary
The body lies in its boredom and shit: desireroots through the interstices, between vacant stares and a wordthat reminds usof the whole echoing loveliness –like attending the wedding of two strange
Introduction
This special issue of The Black Scholar depends on the idea that contemporary Black experimental writing begins at the point where (white) notions of the avant-garde become impossible, or at least
The X of Representation
This essay is a study of the notion of representation—its relation to difference, politics, diaspora, otherness, truth, and doxa—within Stuart Hall’s work. The reevaluation of this concept in terms of dialectics and différance, or of blackness and innocence, is shown to be an abiding preoccupation of Hall’s work. In particular, because blackness (or its notion) is never innocent, this essay explores the consequences of a certain undecidability th…
On Black Men
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748610167); Mutilated, dying or dead, black men play a role in the psychic life of culture. From national dreams to media fantasies, from sensual intimacy to outpourings of murderous violence, there is a persistent imagining of what black men must be, a demand that black men perform a script, become interchangeable with the uncanny, deeply unsettling, projections of culture. This powerful and compelling stud…
On Revolutionary Suicide
This essay takes up Huey Newton's notion of revolutionary suicide. Against the objection that black suicide is merely reactive, Newton proposes that revolutionary suicide follows other principles and demonstrations. Revolutionary suicide is resistant but in ways that does not make it always possible to distinguish between resistance and reaction—in fact, Newton argues that black revolutionary suicide should be considered a life-affirmation, and t…
On Crystallization
This essay considers the various meanings of the word “crystallization” in Frantz Fanon's main theses on national culture and his political philosophy more generally. It also further considers the implications of crystallization alongside Fanon's notion of the “nation to come” for an understanding of his approach to art, history, philosophy, and religion. This philosophy of crystallization, of which there has been little or no mention in Fanonian…
Nègre, Figura
This essay considers Edward Said's many engagements with the work of Frantz Fanon and how those readings are woventogether through a politics of style, exile, and diaspora
Corpus Exanime
This essay suggests that to read black art the viewer is obliged to read what is not there. What does this paradoxical statement imply? First, it implies that every black image is a caricature—a refusal—of the blackness of its concept; and to that extent what we see as black is no longer readable or seeable as image (or Dasein). Secondly, taking as my example the singular relation between pain and image in the artwork of Donald Rodney, and in par…
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