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Image Credit: Nicole Peyrafitte, KA Kingston (2019). Courtesy of the artist.
Arts & Culture / Convergence / Health / Politics / Vol. 2 No. 3

from: DIARY NOTES MARCH-MAY 2020

By × on July 1, 2020

[….] A Shelter Is Not Necessarily An Island as title for something cogent right now comes to mind & brings to mind Eric Mottram’s 1971 book                         Shelter Island & The Remaining World             […]

Image Credit: Nicole Peyrafitte, KA Kingston JaunedOeuf (2020). Courtesy of the artist.
Arts & Culture / Convergence / Health / Politics / Vol. 2 No. 3

eye to the eye of the storm
a selection

By × on July 1, 2020

unbearable witness i do not want to write these words_ escorted by flashing red and blue lights the long white truck an enormous hearse passes slowly down the street through the neighborhood no where to run or hide from its path the stare of its headlights a mark on each […]

Image Credit: Felandus Thames, Hottentot Marilyn in Blacklight. (2017), 47.75" x 48" x 4", Acrylic, enamel and glitter on canvas over panel. Courtesy of the artist.
Convergence / Politics / Vol. 2 No. 3

Mystic Speech in the Time of Catastrophe

By × on July 1, 2020

Which modes of speaking, writing, and knowing resound more intimately and powerfully in times of catastrophe? From millenarian prophecy to elegy, one might imagine constructing something of a general typology of modes of speech that resonate around sites of the end. In what follows, I want to briefly dwell with […]

Image Credit: Torkwase Dyson, Plantationocene (Black Water 1919). Acrylic, graphite, string, wood, ink on canvas, (2019). Courtesy of the artist.
Convergence / Politics / Vol. 2 No. 3

Earth Interregnum

By × on July 1, 2020

In the fall of 1926, Antonio Gramsci, the Sardinian journalist and agitator who had risen to lead the Italian Communist Party (PCI), was arrested by Mussolini’s Fascist government and charged on the pretext of violating the recently enacted “Exceptional Laws in Defense of the State.” He was sentenced to five […]

Image Credit: Gopal Donogo, Interior Chaos No. 1. (2015). Courtesy of the artist.
Arts & Culture / Politics / Vol. 2 No. 3

Cow Pastor: Song Lines of Memory

By × on July 1, 2020

In or around 1995, the Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite (1930-2020) bought a property, which included a three bedroom dwelling, in Christ Church, Barbados, in the vicinity of the international airport. Brathwaite referred to this property as Cow Pastor or Cow Pasture. Shortly after purchase, the Barbadian government informed him he […]

Image Credit: Gopal Dagnogo, Nymph without Satyr. (2014). Courtesy of the artist
Arts & Culture / Dispatches / Vol. 2 No. 3

For Little Richard

By × on July 1, 2020

For those who can’t get with or interpret certain codes, in general or specifically, black folk/culture under segregation didn’t always contain or restrain in the manner/matters classified. I would, in fact, argue that the place inside the inside considered outside, was not, in many communities and places, as binary as […]

Image Credit: Nicole Peyrafitte, KA Cardinal (2020). Courtesy of the artist.
Arts & Culture / Vol. 2 No. 3

RED RAT

By × on July 1, 2020

I, the red metal rat practice balance on breaking news & extended edges, apprehend time & trust creative uncertainties. In the man-made present red rat must reclaim her temporalities. In the thriving ruins the mycorrhizal symbioses are forcing stories in disturbance & contamination— are we still longing for salvation? Red […]

Image Credit: Todd Stong, Fire (2), (2018), etching ink on paper, monoprint, 24x18". Courtesy of the artist.
Arts & Culture / Health / Vol. 2 No. 3

Earth Wings

By × on July 1, 2020

I wanted to see you one last time (more)/ before I left and you/ needed to see me with my/ wings open (a nomad’s tent on my back)/ unfurled rising and the sight of them/ hurting you with fear overwhelming on my shoulders constellations of more colors than you had […]

Convergence / Vol. 2 No. 1-2

Convergence 4: The Arts in the 21st Century

By × on August 1, 2019

the A-Line editors are excited to present this double issue of the journal devoted to the arts. The double issue gives us the opportunity to elaborate the aims of the journal in supplementary fashion by aligning aesthetic concerns with political commitment, which in times of crisis are never very far […]

Image Credit: Virgie Ezelle Patton, Three Sisters: Shelly, Jennifer, Julie, (1990s), Oil on Canvas, 44 x 52, Courtesy of the Ezelle-Patton Family Collection
Arts & Culture / Convergence / Politics / Vol. 2 No. 1-2

Arts Now

By × on August 1, 2019

Before we begin, a few things should be said: the A-Line offers itself to public scrutiny as a journal of progressive thought; after publishing four issues of the journal that focus on the enormous political crisis that confronts the United States and its citizens—the veritable inspiration for our creating the […]

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