Selamawit D Terrefe
Biographic Data
| ID | 915437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Selamawit D Terrefe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Selamawit D |
| FAMILY NAME | Terrefe |
| SIGNATURE | TERREFE S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Poetics of the Black Corpse and the Urbild of Politics
Performance Philosophy is an emerging interdisciplinary field of thought, creative practice and scholarship. The international, peer-reviewed, open access journal publishes articles that interrogate what this field might be and what might be possible within it
The Question at Play
Taking as its starting point that legibility is made perceptible by an implied outside of illegibility, this essay asks if the nature of inquiry-about questions of blackness and sexuality-is that of a deferred knowing or if it is knowable at all. Does the very distinction between legibility and illegibility impart an element of refusal? When is questioning as a will to know not so very different from the interrogative of scientific racism, with i…
Death Rattle, not Dashikis
“Death Rattle, not Dashikis: Nikki Giovanni’s Black Judgement Meets Hannah Arendt” presents a critical interdisciplinary perspective on racial formation and modern political thought. Deploying blackness as a principle that simultaneously animates and interrupts the logic of Western political and philosophical thought, the essay contends that the construction of blackness is central to the discursive violence imposed by Western political theory an…
Black Surfeit, Black Grief
Responses to ‘“Anal” and “Sexual”’
The Pornotrope of Decolonial Feminism
This article argues that María Lugones's articulation of decolonial feminism, as a theory and potential political praxis, both disappears Blackness and subjugates African American women—their scholarship, their language, and the materiality of their Black “flesh”—within the same subordinate position the coloniality of gender decries. Expanding Hortense Spillers's concept of “pornotroping,” this article puts into relief the ideological and rhetori…
Speaking the Hieroglyph
Black women, while equally subject to regimes of violence against Black men, find differing articulations within these schemas. I contend that the mourning we refuse for Black women, cis and trans, rests upon differentially affected responses to anti-black violence, not upon a gender differential in its structure and practice. Analyzing the psychoanalytic work of Hortense Spillers and David Marriott, I argue that a bifurcation between these two t…
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Speaking the Hieroglyph
Black women, while equally subject to regimes of violence against Black men, find differing articulations within these schemas. I contend that the mourning we refuse for Black women, cis and trans, rests upon differentially affected responses to anti-black violence, not upon a gender differential in its structure and practice. Analyzing the psychoanalytic work of Hortense Spillers and David Marriott, I argue that a bifurcation between these two t…
The Pornotrope of Decolonial Feminism
This article argues that María Lugones's articulation of decolonial feminism, as a theory and potential political praxis, both disappears Blackness and subjugates African American women—their scholarship, their language, and the materiality of their Black “flesh”—within the same subordinate position the coloniality of gender decries. Expanding Hortense Spillers's concept of “pornotroping,” this article puts into relief the ideological and rhetori…
Responses to ‘“Anal” and “Sexual”’
Death Rattle, not Dashikis
“Death Rattle, not Dashikis: Nikki Giovanni’s Black Judgement Meets Hannah Arendt” presents a critical interdisciplinary perspective on racial formation and modern political thought. Deploying blackness as a principle that simultaneously animates and interrupts the logic of Western political and philosophical thought, the essay contends that the construction of blackness is central to the discursive violence imposed by Western political theory an…
Black Surfeit, Black Grief
The Poetics of the Black Corpse and the Urbild of Politics
Performance Philosophy is an emerging interdisciplinary field of thought, creative practice and scholarship. The international, peer-reviewed, open access journal publishes articles that interrogate what this field might be and what might be possible within it
The Question at Play
Taking as its starting point that legibility is made perceptible by an implied outside of illegibility, this essay asks if the nature of inquiry-about questions of blackness and sexuality-is that of a deferred knowing or if it is knowable at all. Does the very distinction between legibility and illegibility impart an element of refusal? When is questioning as a will to know not so very different from the interrogative of scientific racism, with i…
Sociology (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy (2 works)