Mir’s Reviews > African American Gothic in the Era of Black Lives Matter > Status Update
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...normality itself is a nightmare that requires undoing as it destroys the humanity of both the anti-Black assailant(s)/cultures and the Black protagonist.
— Feb 06, 2025 03:52AM
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Mir
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The true nightmare of BLM Gothic is that in a society in the business of making monsters, (inherited) monstrosity might be inescapable.
— Feb 06, 2025 03:55AM
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Rage in BLM Gothic signifies a wound in the Black body through which monstrosity can infect. Of course, as suggested by the previous section, African Americans are not the originators of the illness but a victim of the infection.
— Feb 06, 2025 03:51AM
Mir
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...one of the primary horrors of BLM Gothic: the seeming inevitability of Black turns to monstrous violence in response to profoundly violent anti-Blackness.
— Feb 04, 2025 07:36AM
Mir
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...white Americans prove more nightmarish and horrifying than a Lovecraftian monster by connecting their institutional dominance and the whiteness of American hegemony to a very base need: insatiable hunger. BLM Gothic argues that the rationale for anti-Black violence is ultimately white craving for Black suffering.
— Jan 31, 2025 04:53AM
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this is the normative practice of necropolitical societies: ‘Habituation to sadism, the implacable will to know nothing, to experience no empathy toward the victims, to be persuaded of the natives’ villainy, to hold them responsible for the atrocities as well as the exactions and massive damages inflicted upon them
— Jan 25, 2025 02:53AM
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Black communities as phobogenic objects. (Fanon again)
The ghetto is not just a dumping ground for the impoverished but a prison for the unruly ‘savages’ outcasted from ‘civilized’ society.
— Jan 23, 2025 03:20AM
The ghetto is not just a dumping ground for the impoverished but a prison for the unruly ‘savages’ outcasted from ‘civilized’ society.
Mir
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...reproducing scenes from recent events and history to produce Real Horror rather than imagined terrors. As Robert C Solomon notes, unlike Art Horror, Real Horror denies us satisfaction and pleasure. Real Horror is that which is truly horrible and ‘renders the subject/victim helpless and violates his or her most rudimentary expectations about the world’.
— Jan 20, 2025 10:14AM
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Gothic’s insistence that we are far from the civilized, enlightened societies that we imagine ourselves to be
— Jan 20, 2025 06:20AM
