![]() ![]() Woven together with lyrical, slow-motion images of unnamed black people, of water, and of cosmological images of deep space, these voices reflect on the ontology of blackness and its relationship to life, death, and the concept of the human. Arthur Jafa's essay film Dreams are colder than Death (2013), a meditation on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech, conducted through interviews with African-American intellectuals and artists, examines this tension. ![]() ![]() While “Afro-Pessimist” scholars understand blackness under the rubric of “social death,” the ascendance of the #BlackLivesMatter movement vindicates instead the opposing “Afro-Optimist” position, which affirms the generative capacity of black social life. ![]()
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