thinking through & beyond the limit/s of catastrophe w/ Bedour Alagraa

Africa World Now Project · Dec 14, 2022 · 1h 13m

Bedour Alagraa [https://www.bedouralagraa.com/] argues that “the word ‘catastrophe’ as an anchor for understanding our earth’s ecology has yet to account for the manner in which the catastrophic is ongoing, yet still tied to an ‘original’ detonation of sorts. A prompt given to us by Kamau Brathwaite. And so, the “enigma of catastrophe as a word, as a concept, lies in this tension—that is, between a desire to evade the originary Event in favor of the repetition, while also recognizing the Event as it were.” It is in following Brathwaite’s insistence on both the ongoing presence of an original…