(Self-)Possession, (Anti-)Blackness, and Abolition
Inspired by my encounters with the glyphs BLM and ACAB graffitied on the streets of Rome, this dispatch seeks to articulate how it is that chattel-slavery, wage-slavery, mass incarceration in the United States, anti-migrant policies in the Global North, and anti-blackness are intimately related to one another in today’s world.
The Shape of Things to Come
Reading Giovanni Arrighi’s Long Twentieth Century alongside Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism.
At the Confluence of the Black and Indigenous Critiques of Western Civilization
Reading the work of Cedric Robinson, R.A. Judy, David Graeber, and David Wengrow, and framing a request for theoretical and historical resources to inform my project.