• Close up image of a large blueish buoy, engraved with images of people preparing fish.
Black Lives Matter by Gerry Lauzon (CC BY 2.0)

Waking up from horror: shame and fugitive movements

‘A future politics is given there so powerfully that it’s present as a trace even in certain reactions that, in the very force and determination of reaction, replicate horror’s preconditions…’ Fred Moten1 By foregrounding the experiences of slavery, a black…