A Collective of Insubordinates

Isaiah Fergussoon

Electric/Marronage 

 What is the generative space that results from the intersection of “marronage” and “electric”? 

 The electric expresses an undercurrent of insurgency, a way of connecting that revitalizes the networks of survival established by the marroons. 

Bound together, “electric marronage” emblazons a language of resistance and refusal to the prescribed ways of life placed upon black/brown bodies; it is inherently charged, its frequencies are explosive, subversive, and fugitive. 

And more, it speaks to a fugitivity that is equally charged, but dormant. 

A quiet insurgency that holds power in its ability to go undetected, to be covert in its insubordination.

Electric marronage is a space for radical imaginaries - our space. A fugitive underground formed by charged webs of knowledge securing and suturing black futures through the nodes and edges of the black digital. 

 This electric marroon is a place of refuge, a space for scholars and activists to abscond from the daily - to convene, contrive and plot ways to:

1.     Steal

2.     Escape 

3.     Feel

4.     Or just…Whatever

 Following the paths created by our ancestors, we are mapping the path to our escape. 

• H-M.A