RaveASAP JournalIn the cheekily eponymous, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes (1977; 2020), Barthes identifies the German composer Schumann’s work as \'intercalated,\' a \'pure series of interruptions\' and \'fragments one after the next\' (94) ... José Muñoz’s posthumously published The Sense of Brown is a work best understood in this Barthesian fashion of intercalation ... A frequent term deployed throughout these writings is attunement. Muñoz wants us to pick up on the sensorial nature of brownness, that it can be felt, sensed, and perceived in the here and now ... Brownness is not a one-to-one correlation, a toggling between identifications, not even a practice of dis/identifying with or against. Brownness is not a future dawning concept but one of presentness, what is so affixed in the here and now ... Nearing brownness, whatever it is yet to be, the further elaboration it requires, is what Muñoz leaves behind for us.
Alexander Chee
Rave3am Magazine\"...[a] stunning essay collection ... These words I am writing are in praise. These words I am writing are in review. These words are none of that and more than that. They are a writing with Alexander Chee, a writing with the thoughts and feelings this book invites. A writing with this book which is one that, for me, allows for the expression of the universal through the particular.\
