{"id":99,"date":"2015-05-04T21:43:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T01:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2015-05-04T21:43:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T01:43:16","slug":"claudia-rankine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Claudia Rankine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read\u00c2\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfpress.org\/books\/citizen\">Citizen: An American Lyric<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>and I was struck by the urgency with which it touched me, made me want to handle it, read it again as if I had never experienced her words. There was so much truth in this book that, for a moment, I didn&#8217;t understand that it was not written just for me.<\/p>\n<p>Not long ago you are in a room where someone asks the philosopher Judith Butler what makes language hurtful. You can feel everyone lean in. Our very being exposes us to the address of another, she answers. We suffer from the condition of being addressable.<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nFor so long I thought the ambition of racist language was to denigrate and erase me as a person, but after considering Butler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s remarks I begin to understand myself as rendered hyper-visible in the face of such language acts. Language that feels hurtful is intended to exploit all the ways that I am present. My alertness, my openness, my desire to engage my colleague\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s poem, my colleague\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s words, actually demands my presence, my looking back at him. So here I am looking back, talking back and, as insane as it is, saying, please.<\/p>\n<p>(Page numbers forthcoming)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read\u00c2\u00a0Citizen: An American Lyric\u00c2\u00a0and I was struck by the urgency with which it touched me, made me want to handle it, read it again as if I had never experienced her words. There was so much truth in this book that, for a moment, I didn&#8217;t understand that it was not written just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16,21,33,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discourse","category-ethics","category-modernity","category-passages","category-public-intellect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}