Four Autobiographical Notes
We can only make sense of the most spectacular genocidal and ethnocidal horrors of colonial racial capitalism after we have illuminated the “terror[s] of the mundane and quotidian” from which these spectacular horrors emerge.
Anti-Blackness and the Prevalence of Afropessimism
I have written that the power formation that prevails over our world today is a white-supremacist, capitalist, and patriarchal power formation, citing the work of bell hooks. I would like to qualify my previous writings by marking the difference between white supremacy and anti-blackness.
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.
Blackness and Primitiveness
The black radical tradition is not the tradition of a crisply defined set of peoples that can be said to fall under the designation “Black”. Rather, the black radical tradition is the tradition of a blur of peoples, a fuzzy and indeterminate set, perpetually engaged in the process of troubling the designation “Black” that has been imposed upon them and staying with the trouble. This is to say, in other words, that the black radical tradition is a counter-cultural tradition: it is a tradition dedicated to countering the imposing power formations of dominant cultures.