Mikey the Rebelator

Abstract

Mikey the Rebelator is more than and less than one example that goes underneath many undercommon names. He is walking on the gully side, in the middle of the street. He is instituting black social life until violently resisted by the regulation that would name him as deathly individuation. Mikey was stranded in the street and handed further on up the road. He dwells where our unattributable hapticality ranges deranging senses for more than our damn selves.

Notes

1 Blind Willie Johnson, ‘John the Revelator,’ Columbia Records 14530, 1930

2 Anthony Wall, Upon Westminster Bridge, BBC Television, 1982. See www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE3kVwyY2WU accessed 18 May 2015.

3 M. Jacqui Alexander, Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations of Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred, Duke University Press, 2005, 328.

4 See Denise Ferreira da Silva, ‘No-Bodies: Law, Raciality and Violence,’ Griffith Law Review 18, 2009, 214.

5 When we speak of renewed assembly we do so by way of Manolo Callahan, Gustavo Esteva and their comrades at Universidad de la Tierra. For more on their work and on they living they are making in and as “convivial research and insurgent learning” see http://cril.mitotedigital.org/

6 See da Silva, ‘Toward a Black Feminist Poethics: The Quest(ion) of Blackness Toward the End of the World,’ The Black Scholar 44:2, Summer 2014, 81–97.

7 Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage, trans. Patrick Clarke, Rowman & Littlefield, 1998, 58.

8 Nahum Dimitri Chandler, Toward an African Future – Of The Limit of the World, Living Commons Collective, 2013, 81.

9 See Barbara Smith & Beverly Smith, ‘Across the Kitchen Table: A Sister-to-Sister Dialogue,’ in Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa, ed. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, 2nd Edition, Kitchen Table/ Women of Color Press, 1983, 123-40 and Tiziana Terranova, ‘Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy’ in Marc Bousquet & Katherine Wills, ed. The Politics of Information: The Electronic Mediation of Social Change, Alt-X Press, 2003, 99-121.