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Zakiyyah Iman Jackson

Associate Professor of Literature
Literature

Selected Publications


Black Light: On the Origin and Materiality of the Image

Journal Article Topia · March 1, 2023 Aesthesis is a political matter, such that black folk have often sought to challenge a mode of representation that mythologizes blackness as mere absence or lack. There is artmaking that seeks to transfigure both the void blackness is thought to represent ... Full text Cite

Ontologized Plasticity

Chapter · January 1, 2022 Cite

“Theorizing in a Void”: Sublimity, Matter, and Physics in Black Feminist Poetics

Chapter · January 1, 2022 “Theorizing in a void” names the process of imagining possibilities for becoming otherwise from a seeming nothingness filled with generative yet unrealized potential. Black feminist analysis has worked on dual registers with respect to representation(alism ... Full text Cite

Losing Manhood

Journal Article Qui Parle · December 1, 2016 Full text Open Access Cite

Sense of Things

Journal Article Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience · October 10, 2016  An inquiry into onto-epistemology, this essay investigates the reciprocal production of aesthesis and empiricism, both the seemingly scientific and the perceptual knowledge that signifies otherwise under conditions of imperial Western humanism. In ... Full text Open Access Cite