Denigration & Dispossession
Breaking with my dependence on Marxist language and theory by jettisoning the sorry Marxist concept and turn of phrase “primitive accumulation” and, instead, thinking with and through the phrase and concept of “accumulation by denigration and dispossession”.
U.S. Militarism
Everyone struggling against global apartheid and planetary ecocide today knows that the most reprehensible of villains today are U.S. militarists and the global military-industrial-academic complexes that both feed U.S. militarism and feast on it
The Fetishes of Empire
Few recognize and fewer are brave enough to teach others that the maintenance and advancement of imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy has not been driven by profit but by pleasure seeking, toxic masculine pleasure seeking.
Against Global Apartheid & Planetary Ecocide (A.G.A.P.E.)
Struggling for the nurture and care of the beautiful and differentiated languages, cultures, customs, and ways of life of the Earth’s people, which are vital to the health of the planet.
Unpayable Debt & the Assassination of the Third World
Radical Pan-Africanists, whose prescient analyses of U.S. led Empire are too often left out of histories of the Long Twentieth Century, clearly saw the Assassination of the Third World project for what it was, the institution of a global apartheid regime secured and underwritten in perpetuity by the servicing of unpayable debts.
Investigations into the Modern University - “Global Affairs”
The second of a series of dispatches titled “Investigations into the Modern University”, this dispatch identifies three fronts where radicals ought to be confronting the colonial ambitions of the modern university: the Global Student front, the Global Research front, and the Global Service front.
Twin Killers: Global Apartheid & Planetary Ecocide
In which I sit down with friends, Greg Saunier and Sophie Daws, to discuss the background for an upcoming series of dispatches on the Twin Killers, Global Apartheid and Planetary Ecocide.
Practical Projects
The theoretical, contextual, and historical writings that form the bulk of the work that is documented on this site are supplements to (and are supplemented by) various doings and makings; the writings serve as relays between many different practical projects that I am engaged in.
Here you will find brief descriptive introductions to my ongoing practical projects, alongside links to more demonstrative introductions to my projects and the reference texts that relay between them.
White Amerikkkaners
As I conversed and corresponded with my readers, I noticed that many of them were de-contextualizing and de-historicizing my work, willfully ignoring the apocalyptic events that have shaped our world and, in turn, informed my work.
Unsurprisingly, most of the readers who maintained such willful ignorance to context and history happened to be white Americans.
“Toward a Global Idea of Race”
A gloss on Silva’s Toward a Global Idea of Race, leaving aside her disputations with the history of Western philosophy, anthropology, and sociology, and focusing on the problem which inspired me to pick up the book in the first place.
The problem in question, “How do liberal globalists and white supremacists relate to one another?”
“Countering Power” w/ Greg Saunier and Sophie Daws
In which I sit down with friends, Greg Saunier and Sophie Daws, to discuss my dispatch "Countering Power" and explicate the thesis that "all power is power to mediate".
On Violence
Marking the distinction between brutal acts of violence and considerate acts of violence, between the violence enacted by oppressors and oppressive regimes and the violence enacted by freedom fighters and liberation movements.
Investigations into the Modern University: An Introduction
The modern university is not, and has never been, a noble institution. Much to the contrary, it has historically been and remains to this day a racist, sexist, and classist institution devoted to the reproduction of ruling class elites and the reproduction of knowledge as the preserve of ruling class elites.
Anticolonialism, Antiracism, and Ecology
The global ecology movement can only become a force for radical change today by deferring to the victims of modern colonialism and racism, especially the indigenous peoples whose homelands were stolen from them and the black peoples who were stolen from their homelands during the formation of the modern world system.
(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.
Burning Out
I need to admit something — to myself most of all but to my readers as well — and it is this: I am burning out.
It is important that I admit this to myself and to my readers because, if I am to live by what I write, it is imperative that I do not divorce what I produce from the conditions and relations of its production.
TEK & the Technosphere
The fabrication of “unscientific and superstitious primitives” was obviously at the cost of immense expenditures of psychic and intellectual energies in the Euro-Atlantic West. The exercise was obligatory. It was an effort commensurate with the importance that the repression and ruination of Traditional Ecological Knowledges (TEK) possessed for the maintenance and advancement of Western(ized) “human, all too human” social arrangements.
A Note on Bantu Philosophy
Few of my readers, however, are likely to recognize my touchpoints from the African philosophical tradition.
This is my fault: I have oriented my works towards Western readers who have no interest in African philosophy, and I have not thought to cite African philosophers and acknowledge their deep influences on my work.
With this dispatch, I hope to begin to do some reparative work in this regard by talking about the influence of Alexis Kagame on my own theoretical framework.
The Shape of Things to Come
Reading Giovanni Arrighi’s Long Twentieth Century alongside Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism.
Who Goes Anti-Colonial?
It is an interesting and radical parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go anti-colonial and what sort of showdown would trigger them to do so.