[JFKI-News] Invitation – Workshop with Fumi Okiji – Nov 17

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Subject: Invitation – Workshop with Fumi Okiji – Nov 17
From:    "Jochen Schuff" <jochen.schuff@fu-berlin.de>
Date:    Fri, November 10, 2023 15:38
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The research group »Reorganizing Ourselves«, led by Einstein Visiting Fellow Prof. Alva Noë, would like to invite you
to a workshop with

Fumi Okiji <https://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/people/fumi-okiji> (UC Berkeley)

»Black Study as Form«

November 17, 2023 / 10:00–16:00 / GRK 2638, Altensteinstraße 15, 14195 Berlin

To receive a list of readings, please register in advance with jochen.schuff@fu-berlin.de
<mailto:jochen.schuff@fu-berlin.de>



»There’s an internal volition of space with regard to its own deformation and reformation, deconstruction and
reconstruction. This preservation-in-differentiation doesn’t just come from outside; it works, in the end- lessness of
the end, to cut the outside and what the outside is supposed to oppose. This is the topological imperative, where
topology is how we graph us into the scene we set, the camera neither subject nor object but the difference that is
given in seeing and hearing inseparably. Black social life is the continual preparation of a table under conditions of
bending, stretching and crumpling. Ours is a mechanics of distress. This is black topological existence. It’s what it
is to see and hear and feel and touch and smell and taste from within the mass, that celebration of mass that implies
the mass and enacts its differentiation. We are anarchic and un- certain. We hesitate. We don’t want to wait in vain.
The way we be hearing and seeing one another disappear into the way we make a space that is also a way, in and out of
no way, ain’t no thing. This recessive working, this ruminative message and massage, this rubbing down into and out of
depression, this inveterate shaping, is felt in the sound, savored in the sight, of words, too« (Moten, Fred. »Black
Topological Existence,« 2018).

About Fumi Okiji <https://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/people/fumi-okiji>
reorganizingourselves.de <http://reorganizingourselves.de/>

—

Dr. Jochen Schuff
Postdoc
Einstein Research Group »Reorganizing Ourselves«

Freie Universität Berlin
Graduiertenkolleg 2638 »Normativität, Kritik, Wandel«
Altensteinstraße 15
14195 Berlin

www.reorganizingourselves.de

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