research post 2025-11-10 + marginalia no. 5
Late research post and more Jenny Sharpe marginalia
More on Black life x Ai, more on afrofuturism (really starting to get into the guts of the matter), more on archives, haunts, and dead things. This newsletter is threaded with plantation residue….but that is how the digital, data, and Ai are made. Jenny Sharpe called it the dust, the debris of the past in our history. But Dawoud Bey is a conjurer with his lens. There’s that too.
Grateful for time with my prima in Orlando and a beautiful event hosted by PROPA on SUGAR.
I wrote this and yes, it still holds even if those eight Dems did fold (and whatever other backroom and front room deals were made). You can’t close this portal. The portal is open. And more and more folks are walking through it. (Told you this is an afrofuturism newsletter).
Read on….
Reads
Laura Helton, Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History (Columbia University Press, 2024).
Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death (Penguin, 2014).
GRISPERIA, “Tribute to Nikki Giovanni” The New River Journal, Spring 2025, accessed November 7, 2025, https://thenewriverjournal.org/tribute-to-nikki-giovanni-by-grisperia/.
“The Germans Settle in Louisiana,” The Great River Road Museum, n.d., accessed November 10, 2025, https://greatriverroadmuseum.org/the-germans.
Samuel Wilson, “The Building Contract for Evergreen Plantation, 1832,” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 31, no. 4 (1990): 399–406.
Richard Follett, The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana’s Cane World, 1820--1860 LSU Press, 2007).
Rachel Shu, Overview of Recent International Demonstrations against AI (AI Protest Actions #1), July 17, 2025, https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/87KxjDiwfrJ3KnjpN/overview-of-recent-international-demonstrations-against-ai.
Chris Turner-Neal, “Buried Histories at Evergreen Plantation,” 64 Parishes, August 29, 2022, https://64parishes.org/buried-histories-at-evergreen-plantation.
We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People, Civil Rights Congress, 1951 https://www.crmvet.org/info/genocide.htm
Open Data Institute, Data Trusts in 2020 (2020), https://theodi.org/news-and-events/blog/data-trusts-in-2020/.
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Travesty Generator (Verse Press, n.d.), accessed June 1, 2025, https://verse.press/playlist/travesty-generator-1975099943243226060.
Sounds
Episode 13: Data as Protest: Data for Black Lives with Yeshi Milner, Radical AI Podcast, n.d., accessed June 1, 2025, https://www.radicalai.org/e13-yeshi-milner.
Projects
Tweego - https://www.motoslave.net/tweego/docs/#getting-started-story-formats
Twee2 - https://dan-q.github.io/twee2/
FixityPro -
https://www.fixitypro.com/
Digital Pedagogy in the Academy, 2020 -
https://digitalpedagogy.hcommons.org/
Keywords for Caribbean Studies - https://thecaribbeandigital.org/keywords/
Andrew Smith’s Anti-Temporal Art -
https://antitemporal.art/
Dawoud Bey. Evergreen (2021) - https://omart.org/exhibitions/dawoud-bey/
“Photo Gallery (U.S. National Park Service),” accessed November 10, 2025, https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery.htm.
Frances B. Johnston Photograph Collection at Louisiana State Museum - https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/lsm-fjc%3Acollection?page=1
Twinery - https://twinery.org/reference/en/getting-started/basic-concepts.html
Time Zone Protocols (Black Quantum Futurism) - https://timezoneprotocols.space/tzp-timemap/
Fixity Pro -
https://www.fixitypro.com/
Community Owned Workflows - https://coptr.digipres.org/index.php/Workflow:Community_Owned_Workflows
Rescarta Foundation - https://www.rescarta.org/index.php/en/
Digital Preservation Resource List - https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/implement-digipres/community-archives-dp-toolkit/community-archives-resource-list
marginalia - Jenny Sharpe’s “Word Holes” in Immaterial Archives
