Technology of the Self FOUCAULT/SARTRE/AFRPESSIMISM/ANZALDUA/LUGONES/NIETZCHE/HANDWALKING
Imagination <-> authenticity (Foucault)
Aesthetics --> technologies of the self
Nietzsche, Anzaldúa, and Playful “World”-Travel
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1139&context=humanarchitecture
" It means that participants in the Euro-pean feminist and labor movements or the“natives” abroad have subjectivities oftheir own, truths of their own, contestatoryclaims to truth which contradict the singu-larity of the given order."
"By contrast, Lugones and Anzaldúa haveno investment in the singularity of truth orsubjectivity, because they are the by-prod-ucts of its oppression. The multiplicity ofthe self or consciousness that these femi-nists document is not simply, as it is for Ni-etzsche, an epistemological claim abouttruth or a metaphysical dispute regardingwhat exists. It is, rather, a political claimabout material reality. The task of acknowl-edging such multiplicity is thus primarily atask for those invested in the system, thosewho, by the very nature of their commit-ment to a singularity of truth and subjectiv-ity, are blind to"
"World"-Travelling the Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa PapersZooming the Cracks between Worlds
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/755348/pdf
Methodological
Sartre refers the work of creation to a certain relation to oneself - the author to himself - which has the form of authenticity or of inauthenticity.
I would like to say exactly the contrary: we should not have to refer to the creative activity of somebody to the kind of relations he has to himself, but should relate the kind of relation one has to oneself to a creative activity. - Foucault 351 (reader)
-Sartre's version is a self coming holding taking power
-Foucault version is fugitive as it is a self coming to truth through study, speculation (creative acts being acts with the intent of being wrong, unfinishable, processional, itinerent).
Whiteness is immanant of anti-black violence.
Blackness transcends personal/individuated subjectivity to universality through this immanance process.
"we should not have to refer to the creative activity of somebody to the kind of relations he has to himself, BUT should relate the kind of relation one has to oneself to a creative actvity." - Foucault
The Universal Black subject, forced to survive by being on both banks (Anzaldua), is the relation of the author of self to creativity, truth, meaning. Fugitive existence necessarily imagines a universal pre-order existance in order to surive and remain coherent within immanant whiteness.
Evidence: creole culture from Voodoo to Santaria to Dancehall to hiphop and trap.
There is no white culture only appropriation specifically because whiteness is Satre's version of subjectivity - the relationship of the Author(itzed subject) to itself. A will to power. In this structure, creativity is projected, farmed out to Others only for economic purposes. The creative and imagination work is marginalized to activities in the economic realm alone.
Into this mileiu, black sujectivity is left with the surplus of creativity that exceeds the economic instrumentalization, even as it engages with it because it's value is null to the white western subject.