ABSTRACT

This article is about a practice of “frank-talking” associated with Steve Biko and the BC movement of the 1970s. It sets out a reading of a short fragment titled “On Death” (found at the end of I Write What I Like) through the lens of the (coincidental) connection between Biko’s Frank-talk and Foucault’s lectures on parrhesia. Through an intentional mispronunciation of the concept of parrhesia, I re-member Biko’s statement “On Death,” and the scene of the interrogation that it describes, as an exemplary instance of Biko’s frank-talk and one which I show can usefully be read as a modern modality of parrhesia. With Biko, the “parrhesiatic” statement disrupts the white supremacist (bio)political order for the ways it comes to be articulated as a practical expression of Biko’s sense of his own equality as a Black subject.

摘要

这篇文章是关于与 Steve Biko 和 1970 年代的 BC 运动相关的“坦诚相待”的做法。它列出了对标题为“死亡”的短片段的阅读（在我写我喜欢的结尾处找到) 通过 Biko 的坦率谈话和福柯关于直言的讲座之间的（巧合）联系的镜头。通过对 parrhesia 概念的故意错误发音，我记得 Biko 的陈述“关于死亡”，以及它描述的审讯场景，作为 Biko 坦率谈话的一个典型例子，我展示的一个例子可以被有效地理解为一种现代的直言形式。对于 Biko，“parrhesiatic”声明扰乱了白人至上主义（生物）政治秩序，因为它被表达为 Biko 作为黑人主体对自己的平等感的实际表达。