Time Negatives of Variable Universe: On Sun Ra and Amiri Baraka

Abstract

This essay was originally posted on Sean Bonney’s blog ’Round Midnight: Notes on Baraka, subtitled ‘notes and essays on militant poetry and poetics’, on 26 July 2019. It was delivered as a talk for Cesura/Acceso: Journal for Music and Experimental Politics in 2014, a recording of which can be found at the following link: https://soundcloud.com/cesura-acceso/sean-bonney-time-negatives-of-variable-universe-on-sun-ra-and-amiri-baraka.

Keywords

• Sean Bonney
• Amiri Baraka
• Sun Ra
• Henry Dumas
• Frantz Fanon
• radio