Contents

pp vii-vii

Figures

pp viii-x

Authors and artists

pp xi-xii

Passage from the artists

pp xiii-xiv

Preface

pp xv-xviii

Acknowledgements

pp xix-xx

Introduction Blurred juxtapositions: passages,images, and affects

pp 1-16

1 - Genre, half-lives, and precariousrespirationscapes

pp 17-32

2 - Ruminations on apocalyptic sublimes

pp 33-52

Image Interlude A - Apocalypse

pp 53-53

Apocalypse

pp 54-58

3 - Notes on mimetic violence and apocalypticsublimes

pp 59-81

4 - Aesthetic separation/separationaesthetics

pp 82-100

5 - Subalterns “speak”: migrant bodies and theperformativity of the arts

pp 101-120

Image Interlude B - Black Girl Mask

pp 121-121

Black Girl Mask

pp 122-124

6 - Cinematic encounters and frontiers ofprecarity

pp 125-145

7 - Legal precarities: burying/burrowing fortruth and justice

pp 146-164

Image Interlude C - Cry of the Passersby

pp 165-165

Cry of the Passersby

pp 166-180

8 - Aesthetic justice: figural darkness andjudicial blindness

pp 181-190

09 - Precarious breaks: the movement of Africansporting bodies

pp 191-212

Coda: Aesthetic refrains, tremulous thought,and mushrooming worlds

pp 213-219

Index

pp 220-227