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An Epilogue on Friendship
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This epilogue introduces the idea of fugitive friendship to conclude my thoughts on black ethical life. In a politically charged modernity, friendships have become more tenuous and contentious and this epilogue asks us to rethink incidental and even familial connections from the perspective of the interventions and innovations highlighted in this project. Fugitive friendship reconsiders how we are related when embracing distance, imagination, and the unknowable—unsettling the grounds of all types of relation and opening the possibility of a different type of intimacy.KeywordsBlacknessFriendshipFugitivity
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