Negative Affirmation :
Kevin L. Fuller
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1. James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket (New York: St. Martin's/Marek, 1985), 317.
2. Force of affect: A multiplication of affects constituting an operational or performative framework for subsequent articulations.
3. Linguistic observation:  By this I am referring to the various methods by which we assess natural, supernatural, and synthetic phenomena. For instance, astronomy, as do so many other disciplines of science, relies heavily on mathematics for descriptive and interpretiveanalysis.
4. John Mack, "Alien Territory," Boston Globe Magazine  (October 11, 1992), 27.
5. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press, 1987), 76.
6. Colson Whitehead, "Picture This, Golly and Sambo's Excellent Adventure," a  review of  Jan Nederveen Pieterse's White on Black: Images of Africa and Blacks in Western Popular Culture, Voice Literary Supplement (October 1992): 25.
7. David Bradley, "Malcolm's Mythmaking," Transition 56 (1992): 26.
8. Whitehead, 25.
9. Lisa Jones, "Rebel without a Pause," a dialogue with bell hooks involving her latest book, Black Looks, Voice Literary Supplement (October 1992): 10.
10. Edward Said, "Notes on Exile," Out There, Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures, ed. Russell Ferguson, Martha Gever, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Cornel West (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990), 357-366.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. bell hooks and Cornel West, Breaking Bread, Insurgent Black Intellectual Life (Boston: South End Press, 1991), 142-143.
14. Deleuze and Guattari, 502-503.
15. Mark Wigley, "Prosthetic Theory: The Disciplining of Architecture," Assemblage 15 (1991): 13.
16. Ibid., 26.
17. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, trans. by Robert Herley (New York: Random House, 1990), 12.
18. Ibid.
19. See the Porch of the Maidens, Erechtheum. Acropolis, Athens. c. 420 B.C.,Tractenberg and Hyman, Architecture, From Prehistory to Post-Modernism/The Western Tradition (New York:  Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1985), 95.
20. Ibid.
21. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (New York:  Vintage Books, 1989), 67, 68.
22. Bill Readings, Introducing Lyotard, Art and Politics (New York:  Routledge, 1991), xxii.
23. Benjamin, Deconstruction and Art/The Art of Deconstruction, p. 56.
24. Brian Boigon and Sanford Kwinter, "Manual for 5 Appliances in the Alphabetical City: A Pedagogical Text," Assemblage 15 (1991).
25. Ibid.

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