Main entry:

Phillips, Rasheedah, author.

Title & Author:

Dismantling the master's clock : on race, space, and time / Rasheedah Phillips.

Publication:

Chico, CA ; Edinburgh : AK Press, [2025]
©2025

Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction. Chapter 0 -- CPT symmetry and violations : the entanglement of an acronym -- Bending the arrow of time -- CPT symmetry and violations of Black spacetime -- Time zone protocols -- Race against space-time : centering Black temporalities for liberated housing futures -- Waiting, wading, weighting time -- Project : time capsule -- After echoes : a cosmogram.

Summary:

"Why do some processes--like aging, birth, and car crashes--occur in only one direction in time, when by the fundamental symmetry of the universe, we should experience time both forward and backward? Our dominant perception of time owes more to Western history and social order than to a fact of nature, argues writer Rasheedah Phillips, delving into Black and Afrodiasporic conceptions of time, where the past, present, and future interact in more numerous constellations. Phillips unfolds the history of time and its legacy of racial oppression, from colonial exploration and the plantation system to the establishment of Daylight Savings. Yet Black communities have long subverted space-time through such tools of resistance as Juneteenth, tenant organizing, ritual, and time travel. What could Black liberation look like if the past were as changeable as the future? Drawing on philosophy, archival research, quantum physics, and Phillips's own art practice and work on housing policy, Dismantling the Master's Clock expands the horizons of what can be imagined and, ultimately, achieved"-- Provided by publisher.

Biographical note:

Rasheedah Phillips is a queer housing advocate, lawyer, parent, and interdisciplinary artist working through a Black futurist lens. Phillips is the founder of the AfroFuturist Affair, founding member of the Metropolarity Queer Speculative Fiction Collective, and co-creator of the art duo Black Quantum Futurism.

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ISBN:

1849355622 electronic book
9781849355629 (electronic bk.)
paperback
9781849355612
1849355614

Subject:

Time Social aspects.
Time Philosophy.
Black people Social life and customs.
African Americans Social life and customs.
Temps Aspect social.
Temps Philosophie.
Personnes noires Mœurs et coutumes.
Noirs américains Mœurs et coutumes.
Art & Politics.
ART.
Quantum Theory.
Physics.
SCIENCE.
Feminism & Feminist Theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Time

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