Reclaiming Black Being and Future: Anesthetic Culture and the 1850 Daguerreotypes
This essay is a brief analysis of the 1850 daguerreotypes of seven enslaved Black individuals through the lens of the work of Brent Dean Robbins in metabletics, objectivist epistemology, and anesthetic culture. It blends themes from Black history hermeneutics, the hermeneutics of human dignity, and ontological liberati...