(Re)Authorizing Black DehumanizationIn her introduction to In the Wake, Christina Sharpe reveals some important premises to her afropessimist approach to the problem of the…Feb 28, 2021Feb 28, 2021
Rethinking Antiracism with Fanon and MarcuseIn Black Skin White Masks, Frantz Fanon provides some essential tools for the analysis of a racialized subjectivity and the relationship…Feb 24, 2021Feb 24, 2021
Capitalist Subsumption of Criticism as the Birth of Reactionary ConsciousnessIn The Conquest of the Unhappy Consciousness, Marcuse provides some important tools for understanding the contradictory condition of…Feb 15, 2021Feb 15, 2021
Form, Content, and Totality: Interrogating Arendt’s FoundationsIn first engaging with Arendt’s articulation of totalitarianism, I was initially struck by her choice of comparison of Nazi Germany and…Feb 8, 20211Feb 8, 20211
Neoliberal Crisis and Capitalist EmancipationFraser’s articulation of social/political aspects of the contemporary neoliberal shift in capitalism seems to be an important intervention…Feb 2, 2021Feb 2, 2021
Neoliberalism, Reaction, and Pandemic: A Brief DebateIn reading Wendy Brown’s In the Ruins of Neoliberalism, I found myself thinking more about contemporary right-wing reaction to, and within…Jan 25, 20211Jan 25, 20211
Necropolitics as Racial AlienationBeyond this course, I am interested problems of race and ideology. As I have encountered contradictions within reformist approaches to…Jan 18, 20211Jan 18, 20211
MetacrisisAs articulated by Dr. Albena Azmanova in the article “Viral Insurgencies: Can Capitalism Survive COVID?” the concept of metacrisis…Jan 11, 20212Jan 11, 20212
