Dismantling the Master’s Clock
Release Events with Rasheedah Phillips
A radical new treatise on time, quantum physics, and racial justice from world-renowned artist and advocate Rasheedah Phillips of Black Quantum Futurism.
Why do some processes—like aging, birth, and car crashes—occur in only one direction in time, when by the fundamental symmetry of the universe, we should experience time both forward and backward? Our dominant perception of time owes more to Western history and social order than to a fact of nature, argues writer Rasheedah Phillips, delving into Black and Afrodiasporic conceptions of time, where the past, present, and future interact in more numerous constellations.
Phillips unfolds the history of time and its legacy of racial oppression, from colonial exploration and the plantation system to the establishment of Daylight Savings. Yet Black communities have long subverted space-time through such tools of resistance as Juneteenth, tenant organizing, ritual, and time travel. What could Black liberation look like if the past were as changeable as the future?
Drawing on philosophy, archival research, quantum physics, and Phillips’s own art practice and work on housing policy, Dismantling the Master’s Clock expands the horizons of what can be imagined and, ultimately, achieved.
Details and RSVP/ticketing links for all release events will be added below as they are available.
Dismantling the Master’s Clock Tour:
Thursday, January 30th | 7PM
Los Angeles, CA @ Reparations Club, in conversation with Cauleen Smith. Get your ticket here.
Wednesday, February 5th | 7:40PM
Geneva, Switzerland @ Uncertainty: CERN Art and Science Summit, CERN Science Gateway.
Monday, February 24th | 5PM PST/8PM EST
Virtual Event in conversation with Re’al Christian, hosted by the Vera List Center at the New School. Registration link coming soon.
Monday, March 3rd | 6PM PST
Virtual Event in conversation with Fred Moten, hosted by City Lights Books, San Francisco. Register here.
Monday, March 10th | 7PM
Philadelphia, PA @ Harriett’s Bookshop, in conversation with Celeste Winston. Get your ticket here.
Thursday, March 13th | 7PM
Philadelphia, PA @ Wooden Shoe with Metropolarity: CYBORG MEMOIRS (M. Téllez), Alex Smith, and Ras Mashramani.
Saturday, March 15th | 3PM
Brooklyn, NY @ The Free Black Women’s Library, in conversation with OlaRonke Akinmowo
Tuesday, March 18th | 7PM
New York, NY @ Performance Space NY: Temporal Repair Clinic: A Performance-Reading-Workshop with Rasheedah Phillips and Black Quantum Futurism co-creator Moor Mother. Get your ticket here.
Thursday, March 20th | Baltimore, MD @ Red Emma’s: TWO EVENTS!
3PM—Spatial Futures: A workshop with Rasheedah Phillips on organizing and policy advocacy for reparative spatial justice in land and housing
7PM—Dismantling the Master’s Clock book event, in conversation with Jason Harris
Friday, March 21st | 6:30PM
Washington, DC @ Sankofa Books