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SUMMARY:Collaborative for Racial Justice Public Lecture: Anthony Farley
DESCRIPTION:On April 16, Professor Anthony Farley presents his keynote lecture “From Failing Hands We Throw.”\nThis is a ghost story. But “…that’s getting too far ahead of the story, almost to the end, although the end is in the beginning and lies far ahead” (Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man). In the beginning was the unspeakable.\nThe modern era began with genocide in the Americas, colonialism in India, and “the conversion of Africa into a commercial hunting ground for the gathering of black skins” (Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1). Bodies were marked to have and to have not. White was marked to have. Black was marked to have-not. Laws were spun to tether people to capital as owners, as owners of instruments of continuous dispossession.\nLanguages, philosophies, and eschatologies were destroyed, dropped out of the universe like collapsed stars, and turned into capital, the rule previously-accumulated labor over labor, the rule of white-over-black, the sovereignty of death over life. We cannot say what happened when the world ended, the words were lost, the meanings were lost, lost to the violence, lost to the singularity. The mass of those murders was beyond the beyond, beyond all meaning, beyond enlightenment’s possibility.\nBorn of world-spanning violence that was and remains too much to bear, we are unable to articulate what we are, how we should live this death, what the world is, or how to break faith with the unspeakable. This is a ghost story.\nAnthony Farley is the Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at Albany Law School. A reception will follow.\nThe lecture will be preceded by a poetry reading by Furqan Mohamed.\nLocation: Room 280 N York Lanes,\nYork University, Toronto, ON.\nRegister now. ( https://www.eventbrite.com/e/crj-public-lecture-professor-anthony-farley-tickets-1985062125253 )\n
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LOCATION:280N York Lanes @ 4700 Keele St, North York, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
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