In popular, colloquial usage, heresy signifies a counterpoint and counterposition to an orthodoxy or a certain tradition or heritage. If the optic fantasy and logo-centrism of ‘civilization’ (read whiteness),is both created and sustained by a heritage of silencing how does the Black Sonic provide a counterpoint to this? On 12th October 2021 Prof Bogues sat down with us to discuss this and how heretical positions can themselves become heritage.
Prof Anthony Bogues, Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory, Professor of Africana Studies, Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice,