Free Medicine

Abstract

Thinking along Ariel Brown's 2021 video history | alchemy | evolution, this introduction approaches “suspension” as a concept, hermeneutic, aesthetic practice, and ethics of intellectual praxis by focusing on the way it dovetails with the radical work the prefix ana- performs in Black studies and the way black aesthetic practices often hinge on anaoriginarity and anachronism as they seek to effect anarchitectural interventions in the languages and institution of artmaking.