a reference to Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s novel
Exiled in 1955 from the US for her affiliation to the Communist Party
the political economy of fees and fines
Benson complicates the distinction between the flag as image and the flag as object
given the robotic-like means of which it is made
Jayna Brown: Black Utopias, Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds Dazed and Confused a reference to Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’sDuke University Press, 2021, Softcover, 224 pages, 22. 8 15. 2 cm In Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Musical, literary, and mystic practices become utopian enclaves in which Black people engage in modes of creative worldmaking. Brown explores the lives and work of Black women mystics Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, musicians