Dr. Lilly Markaki is a scholar and cultural producer working across critical theory, visual cultural studies, media theory, and Black studies. They are currently lecturer in race and culture in film and media in the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. They also serve as a researcher and program curator for DEMO: Moving Image Experimental Politics and are the founder and editor of Deleuzine: A Zine for Nobodies Without Organs.
Just out with Divided, Henrike Kohpeiß’s Bourgeois Coldness stages an encounter between critical theory and Black studies to offer a diagnosis of an affective condition and social technique that, she argues, structures and sustains the still-colonial present. Bourgeois coldness names … Continue reading “On Henrike Kohpeiß’s Bourgeois Coldness“
Patricia J. Williams’s The Miracle of the Black Leg: Notes on Race, Human Bodies, and the Spirit of the Law (The New Press, 2024) opens with a meditation on bodily and spiritual integrity, the distinction between constitutional and contractual law, … Continue reading “Black Limbs, White Laws: On Patricia J. Williams’s The Miracle of the Black Leg“
