Catch an Incline

Abstract

Through an amplification of minor sociality—a modality of existence indebted to the concept of Black life and the ways in which Black life always forces a rethinking of sociality—the chapter expands on the less comfortable aspects of conviviality. This chapter adopts a logic of approximation of proximity as it sidles Black sociality and process philosophy. This approximation of proximity recognizes gaps and moves through them, interested in the differential that produces complexity. However, the overlap is hardly seamless. It is the seam, in fact, that textures the encounter. The claim here is that process philosophy, the study of the relational imbrications through which worlds form themselves, echoes with the call for a sociality that is Black in its ethicoaesthetic commitment to worlding and, further, that this call inclines via the force of the impersonal.