Of all the facts that cannot be disputed about Juliana Huxtable, perhaps the most salient one is that she refuses categorization.
This complicates things considerably in terms of surface, form and hue, yielding in particular a series of small, truculent, impacted, free-standing works that refuse easy categorization.
The Lionheart EP, due for release on the 30th of October is one of those releases that refuses simple categorization.
Here's a fact: since their formation in 2007, Bristol based label Black Acre have been committed to releasing forward thinking bass music that's happy to flit between worlds, always refusing simple categorization.
Even late films by less willfully iconoclastic filmmakers have a way of defying easy categorization, of refusing to fit within established categories and expectations even as they bear the strong stamp of directorial personality.
Third, ambiguity in art can intentionally (or unintentionally) increase the interest in a work of art by refusing to allow easy categorization and interpretation.
And while the philosophy community has never quite known what to make of Dennett (he defies easy categorization, and refuses to affiliate himself with accepted schools of thought), his computational approach to understanding the brain has made him, as Edge's John Brockman writes, "the philosopher of choice of the AI community".
Despite the inhumane conditions in which they lived, the state boys, through countless small acts of self-assertion, and through the enduring friendships they formed with one another, refused to accept the state's categorization of them as anything less than fully human.
The app everyone loves to complain about, Newsstand, had been stuck on Apple's homescreen forever, refusing to bend to your own ideas about app categorization.
