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

种族主义资本主义塑造了具体化和主观性，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持久，甚至吸引那些它伤害的人成为它的倡导者，打着像“黑人卓越”这样的旗号。聚焦于“黑人卓越”文化比喻的情感层面，我打算回答以下问题：种族资本主义是如何塑造想象力的？想象力如何支持和/或抵制种族资本主义？“西部”社会理论基于“深渊思维”，即在可想象的和不可想象的之间制造深渊，后者变得不存在，价值降低(Sousa Santos，2007)。我的目标是找出“精疲力竭和疲劳的经济”(韦尔热·S，2021年)如何影响想象力，从而影响被认为是存在的东西。观察渴望的情感经济(Ahmed，2004)会使我们对种族主义和种族主义主观性的理解有所不同。由于想象力是有争议的、主观的、私密的和具体化的，我的目标是使用深入的开放式采访和视觉方法论来比较了解来自不同阶层的黑人是如何想象不同的，以及他们是如何概念化和使用“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'