Philosophy & Rhetoric Jun 2020

On Breath and Blackness: Living and Dying in the Wake of the Virus

Michael J. Kennedy University of South Carolina

Abstract

ABSTRACT The calls for us to find solace in our “together-apart-ness” obfuscate the calamity of Black lives being lost in numbers exponentially higher than white bodies. In the midst of a virus that “does not discriminate,” but is aided in its deadly spread by those systems that do, the concept of “wake work” demands our time and attention.

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Philosophy & Rhetoric
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2020-06-15
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10.5325/philrhet.53.3.0286
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