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.
The Ruling Class & the Radical Resistance
A radical resistance seeks to abolish the need for a ruling class, not to reform a ruling class.
Profound Silences
Any and every story that enables us to make sense of modern European colonialism and imperialism must feature an increasing number of indescribable horrors.
Running Thoughts on Trauma
The way to get peoples to affirm an ideological or mythical reason for denying care to themselves and others is to (i) traumatize peoples in some way shape or form, (ii) allow their traumas to fester unresolved for an extended duration, and then (iii) play upon their traumas.
For the Witches
The witch hunts were an assault on indigeneity within Europe that complemented European’s assaults on indigeneity without. These twin assaults on indigeneity prepared the way for humanism to prevail by enabling European Man to make the “enlightened” claim that his local peculiarities were universalities that peoples all across the globe must be made to aspire to.
For the Ancestors
The progressive capitalist says it is imperative that we reduce the dead to the eliminated in order to accelerate and innovate, but the fact is this: all liberating social transformations involve taking time to commune with the dead.
A revolution that does not liberate the dead from oppressive forces cannot liberate the living from oppressive forces.
Towards Genuine Intellectual Freedom
If the university appears to be an indispensable haven for the intellect it is only because the world at large has become a hell for the intellect.
Seven Ways to Signify a Circle
As I have come to see it, symbolic signs that are meant to communicate a given idea ought to be supplemented by iconic and gestural signs that further communicate a given idea.
No need to rectify your language.
In a world that is warped and twisted, plain language fails to describe matters; only hyperbolic and elliptical language will do.
Anthropologies Beyond the Human
Why must Western(ized) anthropologists speak of peoples living in “small foraging bands” when the peoples they are referring to can and do live as if they are part of immense and complex societies that involve great multitudes of sentient non-human others?
The Horror and the Splendor
Considering the origins of the (De-/Re-)Constructing Worlds project and the outcomes of its first phase in order to better envision its next phase.
Putting the Pandemic in Context
In the midst of a planetary ecocide, the most outrageously brutal historical tragedy is beginning to replay itself as the most outrageously brutal historical farce.
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.
The Great Derangement
We must all be traumatized if we are able to rationalize a way of life that allows us to disregard the fact that wildlife populations on Earth have plummeted by more than two-thirds in the past half-century and to disregard the fact that half of the languages on Earth are likely to disappear over the course of the next century.
Five Considerations
Evoking passages from Sun Tzu, this dispatch sets out five factors to consider when planing a fugitive undertaking.
The War on Terra
Thus far, I have only been articulating theories and describing my approach to the (de-/re-)construction of our deathly world of suffering.
Beginning with this dispatch, I would like to begin telling my story and narrating my approach to the (de-/re-)construction of our deathly world of suffering.
Six Theses on Science
Science becomes entangled with art and philosophy whenever science is “put to the test” in an experiment.
Three Freedoms
Reading Graeber and Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything in order to frame the question, “What can we do in our time, the present, to (re-)construct a world in which imperialist power formations are historical curiosities and the freedoms to disobey, to migrate, and to (de-/re-)construct worlds are decisive?”
Design Constraints for the Making of Statements
This dispatch sketches out four design constraints for the deconstruction of domineering statements and the (re-)construction of convivial statements.