Introduction

Abstract

Abstract This introduction contextualizes the present issue within the question posed by its call for papers: “How does blackness index its own processes?” Following an immanent methodology that seeks formal principles at work within each contribution, it retrieves a variety of archival investments coupled with a shared ethos of critical vulnerability. While approaching blackness as process attempts to think about its ongoingness, it also reaffirms the aesthetic realm as a privileged processing site.