Imagination under Racial Capitalism: the Affective Salience of Racialised and Gendered Tropes of 'Black excellence'

种族化的资本主义塑造了化身和主体性，特别是想象力和抱负。一个核心的困境是，为什么种族资本主义如此顽固，甚至吸引那些受其伤害的人在“黑人卓越”这样的旗帜下成为它的拥护者。关注“优秀黑人”文化隐喻的情感维度，我的目标是回答以下问题：种族资本主义如何塑造想象力？想象力是如何维持和/或抵制种族资本主义的？“西方”社会理论依赖于“深渊思维”，即在可想象和不可想象之间创造一个深渊，后者变得不存在且不值得（Sousa Santos, 2007）。我的目标是找出“疲惫和疲劳的经济”（verg<e:1>, 2021）如何影响想象力，从而影响被认为存在的东西。关注渴望的情感经济（Ahmed, 2004）会改变我们对种族主义和种族化主体性的理解。由于想象力是有争议的，主观的，亲密的和具体化的，我的目标是使用深入的开放式访谈和视觉方法来比较理解来自不同行业的黑人如何想象不同的东西以及他们如何概念化和运用“黑人卓越”的概念

Racialised capitalism shapes embodiment and subjectivity, specifically imagination and aspiration. A central predicament is why racial capitalism is so persistent, even drawing in those it harms to be its advocates under banners like 'Black excellence'. Focussing on the affective dimensions of cultural tropes of 'Black excellence', I aim to answer the following questions: How does racial capitalism shape imaginations? How does imagination sustain and/or resist racial capitalism? 'Western' social theory rests on 'abyssal thinking', the creation of an abyss between what is imaginable and what is not, the latter rendered non-existent and less worthy (Sousa Santos, 2007). I aim to find out how an "economy of exhaustion and fatigue" (Vergès, 2021) affects the imagination and thus affects what is recognised as existent. Looking at affective economies (Ahmed, 2004) of aspiration makes a difference to how we understand racism and racialised subjectivity. Asthe imagination is contested, subjective, intimate and embodied, I aim to use in-depth open-ended interviews as well as visual methodology to comparatively understand how Black people from different walks of life imagine otherwise and how they conceptualise and employ notions of 'Black excellence'