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  • 6 - Self-mortification

  • Biko Mandela Gray, Syracuse University, New York, Ryan J. Johnson, Elon University, North Carolina
  • Book:
    Phenomenology of Black Spirit
    Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    10 August 2023
    Print publication:
    30 November 2022, pp 219-260

  • Summary

    Ella Baker threw herself into the community. She never wrote much. All we have are the traces of her found in what she said and who she taught. Perhaps this is why her memory – if she is remembered – is subsumed under King’s monolithic legacy. After all, there is no Ella Baker bust at the Capitol, no holiday in her name. Baker worked in the shadows of mythologised men, in the wings, quietly directing backstage for the star of the political show.

    As the last chapter demonstrated, however, Baker maintained a strong sense of self. She knew who she was and what she could do. She understood her value, her effectiveness, her power. And yet, she also knew that her power was nothing without others. Her power was to empower. Her selfhood was characterised by her capacity to help others fashion themselves. She may have been a charismatic, powerful speaker, and she certainly had the strategic and intellectual gifts to lead a movement. She just chose to lead from within, from the middle (Mitte), which is to say, her selfhood, her self-identity, was situated within, in relation to those she sought to empower.

    Such a self can be easily read as self-negation, as it appears – but only appears – that Baker lost herself in the movement. While it would not be accurate, it is possible to interpret her life and legacy as a perpetual work of self-abnegation in the service of a larger ideal. There may be no widespread recognition of her, but that was not her aim. Freedom was. Black freedom. To the extent that she contributed to that, it would seem that Baker was satisfied. Like Hurston, Baker might have died without the recognition and resources that she deserved, but the truth remains that her work was a work of self-negation – by which we mean that she actively limited herself in favour of the community.

    Limiting oneself (sich einschranken), however, is different to mortifying (sich kasteien) oneself. We might not remember Baker the way we should, but that is not because of her. It is because of us. It is because her work of self-negation succeeded, because she was the agent in the work of limiting herself in the name of something greater. Self-negation, unhappy consciousness learns, is still an act of the subject.

Geophysics and Geosequestration
  • Edited by Thomas L. Davis, Martin Landrø, Malcolm Wilson
  • Published online:
    19 April 2019
    Print publication:
    09 May 2019
  • Geosequestration involves the deep geological storage of carbon dioxide from major industrial sources, providing a potential solution for reducing the rate of increase of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and mitigating climate change. This volume provides an overview of the major geophysical techniques and analysis methods for monitoring the movement and predictability of carbon dioxide plumes underground. Comprising chapters from eminent researchers, the book is illustrated with practical examples and case studies of active projects and government initiatives, and discusses their successes and remaining challenges. A key case study from Norway demonstrates how governments and other stake-holders could estimate storage capacity and design storage projects that meet the requirements of regulatory authorities. Presenting reasons for embracing geosequestration, technical best practice for carbon management, and outlooks for the future, this volume provides a key reference for academic researchers, industry practitioners and graduate students looking to gain insight into subsurface carbon management.

  • EPEIUS IN THE KITCHEN: OR ANCIENT GREEK FOLK TALES VINDICATED

  • Malcolm Davies
  • Journal:
    Greece & Rome / Volume 61 / Issue 1 / April 2014
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    04 March 2014, pp. 91-101
    Print publication:
    April 2014

  • Bertold Brecht's wonderful poem Fragen eines lesenden Arbeiters (Questions from a Reading Workman) begins by posing (or making his ‘reading workman’ pose) a number of awkward questions:

        Wer baute das siebentorige Theben?
        In dem Büchern stehen die Namen von Königen.
        Haben die Könige die Felsbrocken herbeigeschleppt?
        Und das mehrmals zerstörte Babylon –
        Wer baute es so viele Mal auf?
        Who built seven-gated Thebes?
        In books one only finds the names of kings.
        Did the Kings haul the blocks of stone all the way up?
        And Babylon, the much-destroyed city –
        Who was it built it up again so many times?

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