So this is the plan that we came up with in the huddle, stunned and not so stunned at the storm clouds that have broken, at the deluge that is here: we are putting up alternative facts to the alternative facts that are being deployed in a rightward swerve that has us up against the rails. We are also putting up an alternative common sense to the centrist liberal one that is what ultimately, at the fundamental level, keeps this world from coming undone, preservation being its constitutive mandate. “Let us imagine,” David Marriott begins his essay in this issue, “that ‘black lives matter’ is a scandalous, even decadent claim, characterized, as the definition has it, by excess or luxury.” If this is so, Marriott makes clear, it is an excess we cannot afford to not afford. It is evident that #BlackLivesMatter and the organizations that coalesce the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) represent the most important and promising developments in the theory and practice of abolition. The luxury it is bound to may be communal above all else…

Editorial—“As the world falls apart…”
Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Gean Moreno, Stephen Squibb, and Anton Vidokle

On Decadence: Bling Bling
David Marriott

1 (life) ÷ 0 (blackness) = ∞ − ∞ or ∞ / ∞: On Matter Beyond the Equation of Value
Denise Ferreira da Silva

All Black Everything
Jared Sexton

Material Matters: Black Radical Aesthetics and the Limits of Visibility
Sampada Aranke

Dis/Continuum
Lamin Fofana

Introduction to Boggs
Patrick King

Black Power: A Scientific Concept Whose Time Has Come
James Boggs

Below the Water: Black Lives Matter and Revolutionary Time
Nicholas Mirzoeff

Just Back from Los Angeles: A Portrait of Yvonne Rainer
Adam Pendleton

CONTRIBUTOR: NICHOLAS MIRZOEFF

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