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Dying Black body in repeat mode: the Black ‘horrific’ on a loop / Ibrahim, Yasmin

Ibrahim, Yasmin	Journal Article
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What does it mean to watch a Black man dying in repeat mode? This paper deconstructs the notion of consuming Black death in a loop (or repeat mode) online and its redistribution in the virtual realm centring the Black body in this pornotropic assemblage. The spectacularisation of Black death and its juxtaposition as a banal encounter is examined against the history of slavery and White oppression. The enactment of Blackness as lacking form or ontology redrafts the virtual sphere in enacting a politics of refusal for reconstituting Blackness adduced through its fluidity. The virtual as an unstable and disembodied realm is re-read as a generative graveyard for reclaiming Black consciousness and Black humanism. In countering the ‘Black horrific’ the paper discerns digital platforms’ agentic and sensuous potential as a stage for performative insurgency to resurrect an affective Black body politic through the disembodied formlessness of the virtual sphere.

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Blackness ; Black Death ; Black Consciousness ; Black Humanism ; Afropessimism ; Paraontology of Blackness

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Pandemics and political development : the electoral legacy of the black death in Germany / Gingerich, Daniel W; Vogler, Jan P

Vogler, Jan P	Journal Article
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Do pandemics have lasting consequences for political behavior? The authors address this question by examining the consequences of the deadliest pandemic of the last millennium: the Black Death (1347–1351). They claim that pandemics can influence politics in the long run if the loss of life is high enough to increase the price of labor relative to other factors of production. When this occurs, labor-repressive regimes, such as serfdom, become untenable, which ultimately leads to the development of proto-democratic institutions and associated political cultures that shape modalities of political engagement for generations. The authors test their theory by tracing the consequences of the Black Death in German-speaking Central Europe. They find that areas hit hardest by that pandemic were more likely to adopt inclusive political institutions and equitable land ownership patterns, to exhibit electoral behavior indicating independence from landed elite influence during the transition to mass politics, and to have significantly lower vote shares for Hitler’s National Socialist Party in the Weimar Republic’s fateful 1930 and July 1932 elections.

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Conservatism ; Central Europe ; Black Death ; Aristocracy ; Antidemocratic Parties ; Bubonic Plague

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Plague: a new thriller of the pandemic / Cook, Robin

Cook, Robin	Journal Article
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Publication	2009.
Summary/Abstract	Sometimes fiction can do more to change public opinion than nonfiction. It took Uption Sinclair's 1906 novel, The jungle, to awaken the public to the dangers of sausage and the meat-packing industry in general.

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China ; Urban Society ; Swine Flu ; Plague ; Black Death

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