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摘要:本文转向土壤中的微量黑色物质来绘制黑炼金术的临时理论。黑炼金术命名了一种对死亡和死亡物质的情色和伦理取向。通过对(黑人肉体的)物质与(世俗的)物质之间的转喻、形而上和物质属性的梳理,文章主张关注黑人、土壤和死亡(物质)之间的情爱关系。这些关系破坏并拒绝了种族资本主义的循环,这种循环将黑人的身体和土壤都建立为资源枯竭和商品化的场所。文章转向奥比阿(Obeah)的综合知识体系、坟墓泥土的制剂、非洲恶病质(cachexia africana)和吃泥土的历史,以及Kiyan Williams 2019年的表演和装置作品《吃泥土的人》(dirt Eater),问道:“那些共同生活在世界末日的人的做法是什么,因此已经梦想着这个世界的混乱、肮脏的结局?”
Abstract This article turns to the minor Black matter of soil to map a provisional theory of Black alchemy. Black alchemy names an erotic and ethical orientation toward the Dead and dead matter. Sifting the metonymic, metaphysical, and material properties between (Black fleshly) matter and (earthly) matters, the article argues for an attention to the erotic relations among Blackness, soil, and Dead (matter). These relations disrupt and refuse the circuits of racial capitalism that establish both Black bodies and soil as sites of resource depletion and commodification. Turning to the syncretic knowledge system of Obeah and tinctures of grave dirt, cachexia africana and histories of dirt eating, and the 2019 performance and installation Dirt Eater by Kiyan Williams, the article asks, What are the practices of those who have collectively lived the end of the world and therefore are already dreaming the messy, dirty end of this one?