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\nSSTad·HTOH·Z·  \nCopyright ◎2018 Daaimah MubashshirImage copyrights 2018 Nell PainterIntroduction copyright ◎2018 Amauta M.Firmino  \nPerformances from this book for non-commercialpersonal or educational purposes are encouraged,provided the Author and Publisher are acknowledged.  \nFor associated rights,permissions inquiries,and other media rights,please contact3Hole Press  \nFor all professional and production rights,please contact the Author.  \nSecond printing,2019ISBN:978-0-9982763-3-5  \nEdited by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff &Tessa LeeDesign by Omnivore  \nPrinted in the USA on recycled paperDistributed by Small Press Distribution  \n3 Hole Press is grateful to Raquel Almazan,Amauta M.Firmino,Desiree Hable,Roman Kané,and Jutta Keenanfor their assistance with translation,as well as to theBrooklyn Arts Council and the New York State Councilon the Arts Literature Program for their support.  \n3Hole PressBrooklyn NY3holepress.org  \nTHE  \n# IMMEASURABLEWANT OF LIGHT\n\nA Play byDaaimah Mubashshir  \nIntroductionby Amauta M.Firmino  \nWhat if we fess up to the fact that most of the universe is madeof dark matter?That everything is suspended in an imperceptibleessential blackness we'll never see.  \nThe Immeasurable Want ofLight meditates on the material entangle-ments of Black bodies through the poetics of darkness and light.In a series of associative episodes,Daaimah Mubashshir's inter-galactic cast of characters call their bodies into question and troublethe idea that visibility is a political end.Are our bodies inescapable?What are the material realities of these bodies?What are wemade of that isn't already stardust held together by dark matter?What if the question of being seen,from a Black or Brown bodyto the universe,is the wrong question?Or at least,phrased as ithas been—Can you see me for what I am?—will always producethe wrong answer.There's power in the silent gravitational attrac-tion of dark matter.It's a downwards pull,to the depths of darkestspace,deepest ocean,an imperceptible force that's too much todeny.Here's a law for lawless space:there's more nothing thananything after all.  \nHow can historically oppressed bodies—those bodies that havehistorically been bought and sold-find their reflections in thestars?I'm reminded of Frantz Fanon's assertion,that \"our only hope.….]is to pose the problem correctly [...]to get man to admit he isnothing,absolutely nothing.\"¹But maybe the stars have a burninghunger for more self.I mean,what is that audacity to burn in thedark,to emit light where there is none?Fred Moten's offering is“Mu,\"to inhabit“nothing itself in its fullness.\"2 There's something  \nalluring about the invisible possibility ofdark matter's vastness.The ImmeasurableWant of Light invites us to imaginethe possibilities of emitting no light,sitting contemplatively in the void:\"Gravitational/And black/And heavy.\"  \n—AmautaM.FirminoNew Haven 2018  \n1 Fanon,Frantz.Trans.Richard Philcox.BlackSkin,White 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