Body Work

Abstract

Using an analysis of Ming Smith's photograph Flamingo Fandago (West Berlin) (painted) (1988), this chapter introduces the analytics of shadows and noise by using sensation as a methodology based on situatedness. The chapter explains the politics of thinking between categories of representation and the implications for engaging with experiential knowledge without this work coalescing into the production of autobiography. The chapter dwells on the importance for criticism of grappling with different embodied forms of knowledge, in addition to offering an analysis of racialization as a polytemporal structure of location. It introduces an outline of the author's own situatedness and provides an overview of the book.