“What can I hope?”: Race, Abyssal Aesthetics, and the Failure of Beauty
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Jessica Ruffin is Assistant Professor of Film and Media in the Literature Section at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research and teaching constellate media theory and historiography, German aesthetic traditions, philosophies of race, and auto-philosophical exploration. Her work has been published in New German Critique, qui parle, and Millennium Film Journal. Her current book project, Becoming Amphibious, or the question of ethics in white supremacist worlding is a work of speculative media philosophy, which seeks figures of ethical receptivity capable of undoing white supremacy and racial capitalism worlding environments.
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