and existential anxiety
The World Is Sad is a fragmented story of paranoid and reparative reading
Johnson is represented by Château Shatto in Los Angeles
Digital print on 200gsm uncoated paper
referring to the cultures from which his work emerges – queer
Paul Gilroy: The Black Atlantic Juergen Teller and existential anxietyVerso, 2022, Softcover, 261 pages, 23 15 cm Afrocentrism, Eurocentrism, Caribbean Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism trapped in their respective camps, this bold book sounds like a liberating call. There is, Paul Gilroy tells us, a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all of these at once; a black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality to produce something