S/T-EP1
all songs produced, arranged, and created by marronage
obsidian order recordings//house of none
Mars: "hope as a 'discipline' in the face of ongoing systemic and institutional abuse (and modest material change) requires the weight of the psychological and/or emotional consequences of our conditions, and the task of nurturing feelings of 'productive' expectation (in the midst of our ongoing suffering) dependent exclusively upon self-discipline. Hope should not be contingent upon me (or those of us on the very margins) being able to (self) regulate/discipline in the face of violence; there is no honor, healing, and spaciousness in that."
C.Warren: "The politics of hope, then, constitutes what Lauren Berlant would call “cruel optimism” for blacks (Berlant 2011). It bundles certain promises about redress, equality, freedom, justice, and progress into a political object that always lies beyond reach. The objective of the Political is to keep blacks in a relation to this political object—in an unending pursuit of it. This pursuit, however, is detrimental because it strengthens the very anti-black system that would pulverize black being. The pursuit of the object certainly has an “irrational” aspect to it, as Farred details, but it is not mere means without expectation; instead, it is a means that undermines the attainment of the impossible object desired. In other words, the pursuit marks a cruel attachment to the means of subjugation and the continued widening of the gap between historical reality and fantastical ideal."
A.J: "a lot of black artists do uplift. but I don't really do uplift. i'm an undertaker. It's really about a certain attraction to the shadows; it's an attraction to where the bodies are buried and an attraction to what things are actually about—trying to be aligned with the super black people. keeping shit real, calling it what it is. black people can lie like anybody else, but classically, we don't like to lie to ourselves."
undertaker music for the maroon encampments = marronage
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Catalog No. MARRONAGESTEP1
