Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World

Phoebe Boswell is an artist whose work is held in collections including the British Museum, LACMA, and RISD.Saidiya Hartman is University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.JanaÍna Oliveira is a film curator and professor at the Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro.Joseph M. Pierce is Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.Cristina Rivera Garza is M.D. Anderson Professor in Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston.Christina Sharpe is the Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University.

• Introduction / Christina Sharpe  1A Manifesto for Speculative Relations / Joseph M. Pierce  7A Manifesto for Curation / JanaÍna Oliveira  39Manifesto of the As Yet Unlived Thing / Phoebe Boswell  63Crow Jane Makes a Modest Proposal / Saidiya Hartman  97Subjunctive: A Manifesto About Language, Territory, and the Yet to Come / Cristina Rivera Garza  117Notes and References  153About the Alchemists  164Acknowledgments  167

“What must be made manifest, confronted, spoken in these catastrophic times includes the rejection of that which is manufactured as consent. . . . These Alchemy Lectures make clear that a lecture is not a spectacle: it is a gathering; it is a communion; we meet, here, to make plans, to see a way-many ways-to go on.” - Christina Sharpe, from the Introduction