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The Triple Threat of Black Thought
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- čas přidán 6. 05. 2023
- Join me on a journey into the world of philosophy and artistic movements as we navigate the challenges of our time.
As a curious mind with a passion for music, art, and politics, I delve into the significance of movements like afro-surrealism, afro-pessimism, and afro-futurism. Through thought-provoking discussions, we'll explore the similarities and differences of these movements and what they currently reflect in our culture.
Together, we'll challenge assumptions, ask the deeper questions of life, society, and politics, and forge a path forward using philosophy and artistic movements that push our worldviews. Don't miss out on the conversation - let's begin.
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CoverArt by MidJourney (Prompt: describe these black philosophies (afror-futurism, afro-pessimism, afro-surrealism) embodied as black people)
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I think one of my favorite afropessimist works is Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman. The book is set during The Great Migration and focuses on the experiences of Black people migrating to places like New York. It's a really cool work that explores history in a really intimate manner. Hartman did this by researching heavily into the past lives of the the people she wrote about and then wrote about them while weaving in historical context and the struggles they came up against. It can be a very bleak book but it also expresses a strong sense of vitality and some of the scenes she paints are dazzling and fantastic.
Thanks for the suggestion! I haven’t heard of it or read it yet 🖤✨
imo everything by hartman, spillers, and wilderson are must read
@@deaconlasagna8570 I'm just getting into Spillers
@cherishedcatlover2943 Thanks so much! I had a lot of fun trying to figure out the perfect combination of words for MidJourney to create the images. And I'm a graphic designer also :)
I'll have to check it out. Bailey's Cafe by Gloria Naylor seems very Afro-Pessimistic. Same with Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor. They both have a horror vibe that makes Get Our look tame.
Thank-you for helping to create safe space to learn, grow, decolonize, reclaim, heal, support, appreciate, evolve, and celebrate. I'm learning so much and realizing how much I have in common with other people. Plus, you have a very creative, hilarious, and fun way of presenting your content.
The research...THE RESEARCH! This is how you do it! 💙
Granted, each topic is so expansive and could be spoken about forever; this encapsulates the ideologies eloquently while offering enough sources to learn more so that everyone is equipped to better understand them
Thanks for appreciating and watching! I treated this like an essay 😅
Amazingly detailed work. Thank you so much for using your labor power to educate and agitate toward an expansive worldview through a lens of resistance.
that's such a sweet compliment. thank you so much for watching and appreciating the detail! I am humbled by everyone's responses
We need some solar punk afrofuturist works that imagine a panafrican future that I think can actually be possible. Many people dont think so due to how intertwined politics within the diaspora is with white imperialism but current examples like Niger and Burkina Faso show me that the sleeping giant wakes!
Hey! I love this comment, I’m a writer and for the last decade I’ve been writing my Afro futurism novel. I’ve stopped writing it because my Hispanic professor told me that black people don’t like scifi and that the demand for black scifi was non existent. It feels reassuring that there is a market for black authors.
Please keep writing! I for one would love to read it and I’m sure there are others
Great video! Sorry to Bother You and Atlanta are definitely some of my favorite examples of Afro-Surrealism and I’m glad you mentioned them.
Thanks so much for watching! I wish I could bottle up the moment of me experiencing the horse heads at the first time. What was your favorite part of STBY and Atlanta?
This is fantastic. Beautiful video of wonderful music and video material. Vital knowledge. Thank you so much!
Great video! I am in Tanzania and I have met people in the arts. They have limited themselves and this is a great philosophical inspiration for them.
Incredibly humbling, thanks so much. Sending all my love to Tanzania 🇹🇿
Fantastic overview with great popular culture examples, and I can’t believe this is your first video!! Thanks so much for your work.
Glad you enjoyed it! 💚
We also need more Alternate Counternarratives imo in Black fiction....
Damn girl this for your PhD or something?! Keep doing your thing Lucretia, your potential as a teacher is through the roof 😊 way more than magic over hurrr🎉
I share the sentiment that this video, it’s contents, explanations of often contradictory view points, delivery, and summary was awesome! Insightful, educational, and provides texture to our varying yet unifying African experiences…young and old! Thanks for the work you put in! Ten years was the right amount of time for you to prepare this transformative gift! Love and Respect! ✊🏾🙏🏾
I receive that. Thanks so much, sending you love and peace! Thank you for being here.
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I've noticed the more I create stuff, CZcams recommends me channels of similar philosophy. I love it. And great work.
I've been talking about this subject for a few years without using these terms specifically (or patience for highly effective editing) but you defined it very well. I'm excited to watch more from you 🌻✨️💜
That's so humbling and I am so glad that the algorithm brought us together now!
an emotional watch, the research you did is very impressive, I will be checking out the artists and writers you mentioned, I hope you make more videos when you're able!
Thank you for your time and kindness 🖤🥰
Thanks for making this for the new generations. Nice to have all these leads in one place
We need more Afrosurrealist fantasy imo like imagine a Modernized Fantasy Afro-surrealist story with Afrofuturistic Alternate histories located in Africa...
Great video! Instant sub, i hope this channel blows up
Thanks so much for watching and subscribing it means so much! ❤️🖤💚
Great video I would be interested in your take on the afrofuturism novel series Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman. Brother from Another Planet is a brilliant film that explores Afrosurrealism.
I totally forgot about brother from another planet! I feel like this video may need a part two with more suggestions eventually. I haven’t heard of that novel but thanks for putting me on 🙏🏾
Such a breath of fresh air to see a deep thinker on youtube. Love what youre doing and the detail you go into. The serious synthesizer music slaps and is a perfect contrast to your calm voice. The combo creates an edge. I see the beginnings of something very interesting here. Keep learning, growing, and evolving. Im here to see where this potential goes and pick up some knowledge. Do ever like to discuss ideas with others?
That’s such a nice compliment, thank you! And yes I do! I’m looking forward to potentially streaming on YT and twitch in the future.
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You are welcome! Would love to discuss political thoughts, theories, and ideas. Where is best place for that?
Here !
Was saving this one for a moment I really needed connection with Black cultural thought. You gave us everything and then some to latch on to when feeling adrift in shallow resold stereotypes, avoidant escapist consumerism, and predatory self-improvement schemes. My brain and heart are fully satisfied 💖
Wow that’s such a beautiful comment and I’m so so happy it resonated with you. It means a lot you waited until you needed some blackness. I’m glad this was that opportunity🖤🖤🖤
Tremendous video, thank you!
Thanks so much for watching!
What a resource this video has been, thank you!
Thank you so much for watching!
Good Job! We are so proud of you!
thanks so much
also, with moments that you have music playing, it’s mixed too loudly over your voice, other than the production problems, this video is amazing, very insightful
Thanks for letting me know! I'm still learning - will mix quieter next video :)
the intro already got me
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This is really good! Gonna have to rewatch to catch more of the meaning. Thank you🎉
That means a lot to me, thank you for watching it and giving me some of your time :)
Hella comprehensive and detailed great/8
Thank you 💖🫡
Excellent analysis!! Thank you for this + brooklyn all day 🙌🏾
Thanks so much! Brooklyn is always in the house 💖
This critique was so well done! Thank you for this video, and love your channel!
I appreciate you so much! Thanks for watching
I'm a philosophy student of shit house philosophy. When I started on the fishing boats off the Grand Banks and Greenland as a boy we sang on the deck because it was a harsh job and if someone stopped singing they fell overboard. You call it Dada I call it Neoism , The Society of the Spectacle.. Art is a consumer product not expression. We are consumer products and products to consume that have no meaningful connection to each other outside the transaction. Example does a urbanite artist care that some underage farm hand grew their potatoes for their freedom fries to give them the calories to create their art? Now they had the freedom and time to express said art while the farm hand did not, they spend all their time growing potatoes and not development of talents.. Art is our friend and Art is free let's set Art free...
Incredible. Beyond perfect.
Yasmin thank you so much ❤️🖤💚
Glad I found your page.
thanks so much for being here!
I learned so much!! Thank you!
thank you for holding space 🥹💚
This was so informative. Thank you for making this channel!!
This means so much to read, thanks so much! I appreciate that you appreciate it.
Thank you, this was so helpful
I’m so glad you enjoyed it
Beautiful video
Love ❤
Thanks so much for watching!
Thanks for such a comprehensive look at these topics! KEEP GOING!!!!
🥹🥹🥹thank you, I’m so glad you enjoyed it
Holy crap what an amazing video thank you
Thanks for watching it ❤️🖤💚
Yay your first video! Loved it! Subscribed!!!
Thank you!
I watched the whole video I’m so happy u r chasing ur dreams I know it’s gonna work out as long as u don’t give up it’s only up from here for u ❤❤much love 🫶🏾🫶🏾I’m radically de colonizing my yt cause my tiktok is very much Afro centric but my CZcams is so old from when I was indoctrinated and subscribed to yt beauty standards … I was still a kid tho embarrassing to admit😢
I wasn't always this way either, all you can do is learn and grow! thanks for watching the entire video
This was beautiful
That means a lot to me, thank you darling ❤️🖤💚🙏🏾
You killed it ❤
I appreciate you 🙏🏾💚
Glad I found your channel
I'm glad you're here! thank you for subscribing
Love this video! This topic is one I have been thinking and learning about a lot and a book I am reading relating to exploring these topics and doing analysis of some Black media/art is How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind by La Marr Jurelle Bruce. It is quickly becoming one of my favorite books and really goes into more of the madness theory that has birthed things like afro-futurism, afro -pessimism and other related artistic movements.
thanks for the compliment and the suggestion! I’ll have to read that book 💖
Thanks. Nicely done. tavi.
Thanks for watching
thanks for taking this on. this work is not easy. i never had a language for this feeling prior to reading frank’s “afropessimism”. if you ever start a study group, let me know.
That’s such a solid idea! Thanks for the inspiration and I will keep you posted 🙏🏾
thank you for this break down !
I appreciate you taking time in your day to listen
Commenting for the algorithm!
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😭 a tribe called quest really said “there ain’t no space program for 🥷🏾” and it hasn’t left my brain since lol
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Currently researching for my dissertation and this video really helped with understanding Afro-pessimism. Also just a great video you gained a sub!!!🫶
Thanks so much! I’m honored and humbled that I could help you in your search. Good luck on your dissertation ❤️🖤💚
Excellent work!!!
Thank you so much for spending the time to watch it!
Great content, many thanks; looking forward to see what you make ☮️
Thanks for joining my journey!
Ďamn! Thank you for this video!
Thank you for watching im seriously humbled by it!
why do you have so few subscribers your videos are so amazing wtf anyways thanks for your work
haha, thanks so much! I'm brand new, so I hope that my followers continue to grow.
I thought you said "poorcore", and thought of wealthy folks deciding what is gonna be their idea of aesthetic of poverty, and wearing it like a costume. In the same way as people do with cottagecore.
Well done! Very informative
Thanks for the love
you are so amazing
you are so amazing!
Would love to be able to read along, as it's challenging for me to listen this much.
I'm very sorry this video wasn't accessible - my program crashed and did not export with the captions on. Does the CZcams auto-caption work for you?
I dig the insight. Keep revealing.
Thanks for engaging! I'll be here to reveal 😍
Great video
Thanks so much for watching :)
yo intro fire af. i did just have a friend tell me "im too deep". sub'd off that lol
This is a safe space to be as deep as you wanna be haha :)
Awesome video. What is the title of the Ted talk at 37:49?
thanks so much!
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So afropessimism needs to be put in context of afrosurrealism and afrofuturism...good to know.
Not necessarily! It’s just how I chose to frame it since I was comparing and contrasting them all as art/media genres.
@@lucretia_macevil I see, thank you for clarifying. So afropessimism is an art movement as well as a current of social and political thought.
Very late but mighty video
you’re right on time! Thanks for watching
Hey! Is this video's script available to read online?
I put it on Substack for you!
lucretiamcevil.substack.com/p/the-triple-threat-of-black-thought
Hi Lucretia! The vibes you give off are unreasonably based. The way you will be huge on this platform if you keep creating and refining your content!!! I'm excited for what the future holds for you, and I'm excited to follow along on here. I'd love to hear more on your personal feelings around the topics you cover, if that makes sense. Ultimately you are the star of the show, you are bursting with personality, and you are the draw that will keep people coming back to watch your content!!!!! okay love u pookie byeeeee :3
Thanks for the tip! I've been busy with work but have wanted to make a video and will definitely put something up soon for everyone to enjoy. Thank you for being here :)
thank you for this amazing video! is there any chance you could list and share the resources, articles and art work for us to further investigate?
Wow, that's so nice of you to say, thanks! I have my scripts with all of my links + sources, maybe I should create a substack or Patreon to share? Would that be an interesting thing?
Cant focus / hear you with the background music :(
this was my second video i ever made, apologies for the lack in editing skills. I'm learning as i go. hope the subtitles are helpful.
I love your laugh.
🥰aw thanks
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if you do get voicemeter banana turn up the treble on your mic and your voice will be much crisper
appreciate the tip! ill test it for my next video
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Love the video. Black is beautiful Plz make eye contact with camera. Thank u ❤️❤️
thanks for the compliment! I was reading from the teleprompter, and am learning as a new creative. Will do ❤️
What’s black thought? Who’s black?
it's philosophical more than literal in the context of this video. I hope that helps! let me know if I need to get deeper in any specific topic.
@@lucretia_macevil Ok. I’m speaking in terms of language used to describe the indigenous people of America.
I want people to realize words matter. And the the black/African American description is needs to be discarded when referring to said indigenous.
There are no black people or black thought. Those descriptions do not benefit use us. The invaders continue to change are description. And we use them to our detriment.
Do you get what I’m saying? We are a nation of people. Not a color.
@@Buckiz I think you are reading into the word black too much.
@@lucretia_macevil No you just don’t realize the damage you’re doing referring to yourself as black.
Black is not a nation.
Black is derogatory only to those who assume there’s something wrong with being black.
These aren’t philosophies they are just world views. Very informative video though.
From philosophy department at FSU:
Quite literally, the term "philosophy" means, "love of wisdom." In a broad sense, philosophy is an activity people undertake when they seek to understand fundamental truths about themselves, the world in which they live, and their relationships to the world and to each other.
So yes, they are all philosophies. Philosophy isn’t a past tense, it’s constant. It’s always changing and developing because we as humanity continue to evolve and develop.
@@lucretia_macevil Philosophy deals with metaphysical ontology, uses logic, deals with questions pertaining to the inner working s of the self and cosmos. It’s about knowing the Self.
This afro pessimism is just social studies. Afro pessimism teaches black people nothing about their true nature. This is just social studies.
@@TheLastOutlaw289 please feel empowered to create your own content with opposing viewpoints if you wish!
@@lucretia_macevil the last outlaw does not read. Otherwise through its most current and brilliant philosopher, Frank Wilderson this self appointed critic would know better. Wilderson is Published and accessible. Ignorance is a choice. Carry on. I sure hope you are a person and not AI. Very good start to a survey course tho! Brava!
Ontologies & epistemologies of self are only one part of philosophy and phenomenology, and just bc you can't see ur own self in the philosophies behind art movements & the selves utilizing these artforms, doesn't mean they're not present.
I've been digging through content around these themes for months, and this might be the best vid I've found. Excellent work - love your channel/content. New fan for sure!!
I appreciate the love so much! It's a labor of love for you
love this ❤
I appreciate you sitting through and watching it!