Tumi Mogorosi – The Human under crisis: Notes on a possible moment of Invention

Tumi Mogorosis asks in his lecture: What will become of man when he is no longer autonomous?
When the man-made worldview breaks down - does this perhaps open up the possibility of resolving the age-old violence of humanism, those sins of its imperial, colonial, anthro-capitalocene gesture? Can the vision of post-humanism - the equality of all species, the justice of the living - become a reality? Or must we, through a revolutionary act of thought, create new terms, unthought, unnamed, beyond what "man" has ever been?

Tumi Mogorosi is more than a jazz musician, artist, activist and thinker - he is a voice that thinks and makes audible the liberation of Black people through the lens of Black radical tradition. He transforms sound into resistance, improvisation into memory, jazz into a diasporic memory. Five albums bear his signature, and as a side drummer his rhythm pulsates in leading ensembles in South Africa and around the world. And his book DeAesthetic: Writing with and from the Black Sonic (iwalewabooks, 2021) is no mere work, it is an echo, a pulse, a voice that lets the Black sonic speak for itself.