Sam Okoth Opondo is Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies and Chair of Political Science at Vassar College N.Y..Michael J. Shapiro is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa.Barbara Benish is a California-born artist and writer, who divides her studio time between the U.S. and Czechia.Enrique Martinez Leal is a visual artist and Associate Professor of Print Media at the Art Department of the University of California in Santa Cruz.

• Introduction Chapter 1 - Genre, Half-lives, and Precarious RespirationscapesChapter 2 - Ruminations on Apocalyptic SublimesImage Interlude A: ApocalypseChapter 3 - Notes on Mimetic Violence and Apocalyptic SublimesChapter 4 - Aesthetic Separation / Separation AestheticsChapter 5 - Subalterns ‘Speak’: Migrant Bodies, and the Performativity of the ArtsImage Interlude B: Black Girl MaskChapter 6 - Cinematic Encounters and Frontiers of PrecarityChapter 7 - Legal Precarities: Burying / Burrowing for Truth and JusticeChapter 8 - Aesthetic Justice: Figural Darkness and Judicial BlindnessImage Interlude C: Cry of the Passersby Chapter 9 - Precarious Breaks: The Movement of African Sporting BodiesCoda: Aesthetic Refrains, Tremulous Thought, and Mushrooming Worlds