Techno-Prosthetic Romantic Futurism

We are Legion

The subject of subjection proliferates: Olaudah Equiano, Gustavus Vassa, Michael, Jacob, the African, HIMSELF. [1]   To be a slave or to have been one is to know that power multiplies effects. Splinters and torques subjectivities. Makes you many. [2]   What happens to Romanticism when approached from such perspectives? When not abolition but abjection sets the terms for political engagement? Let's listen to Equiano. [3]  

Notes

1. See the facsimile of the original title page to The Interesting Narrative by Olaudah Equiano, ed. Vincent Carretta (New York: Penguin, 1995).

2. See Alondra Nelson, "Future Texts," Social Text 20:2 (2002), 1-15.

3. Easier said than done. Scholarship only has ears for institutionally approved knowledge. See in this regard Vincent Carretta's Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man (Athens, U of Georgia P, 2005).

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