Negromancy
A developing Black-Caribbean account of historical relations, mediation, embodiment, power, bearing, witnessing and transformation.
Enter this record ↗The Practice / Three connected inquiries
To know differently,
return differently.
Negromancy asks what remains historically active. Conjuration disciplines the return to the encounter. Prodigal Humanism asks what becomes of responsibility as inherited conceptions of the human and intelligence are examined.
01 / Structure
Three things that should not be confused.
Conjuration
Seven recurring movements: Mystery, Opacity, Conjuration ↶ Sankofa, Witness, Testimony, Re-witness and Atonement.
Enter this record ↗Prodigal Humanism
An unfinished ethical and political project within Negromancy, rather than a competing doctrine or guaranteed result.
Enter this record ↗02 / How it moves
From philosophy to practice.
The method begins with a real encounter—not an analogy that has already decided its conclusion.
A conceptual investigation may begin before a public dispute arises; an encounter in news, history, performance or technology can then challenge the concept. Neither is subordinate to an established doctrine. The same method revisits its claims with evidence, disagreement and observed consequences.
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03 / Sources
The manuscript and its support.
The October 20 theoretical reconstruction remains an interpretive draft. Its twelve published concept groupings link to the seventeen manuscript sections; supporting scholarship has its own field-organized reader. Restricted and backburnered proposals do not become settled concepts by appearing in earlier notes.