THEORIZING IN A VOID: A Reading List

THEORIZING IN A VOID: A READING LIST Week 1: THEORIZING IN A VOID “Theorizing in a Void” by Zakiyyah Jackson + “The Lie At the Center of Everything” by Christina Sharpe Week 2: INTRODUCING SYLVIA WYNTER “Homo_Narrans_and_the_Science_of_the_Word” by Bedour Algara + And What About the Human? by Anthony Bogues + “Before Man: Sylvia Wynter’s […]

Slavery’s Repetition and The Confessions of Karl Marx

“To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”[1] Assata Shakur It has been said that, if the purpose of the Social Sciences are to locate solutions to problems, then the purpose of the Humanities is rightly that of discovering why these problems arrive and continue to persist at all. […]

prose on the (im)possibility of black love // the (im)possibility of black study

) These scars on our bodies are impossible. These scars that we carry can’t be. These scars that we share are impossible. These scars on our body can’t be. “These undecipherable markings on the captive body render a kind of hieroglyphics of the flesh whose severe disjunctures come to be hidden to the cultural […]

THE UNCLEAR WORLD: a summer reading list

Essays by Wynter, Wilderson and many others surrounding Afro-pessimism + radical Black theory that I am trying to read and reread this summer. Hi. I want to read this this summer. My plan was to read some of this with or without others. So don’t feel any pressure to commit to reading or not […]

Hummingbird

Hummingbird Set to the tune of: https://marketsanddwellers.bandcamp.com/album/morning-rabbit-morning-cub

Afro-Depressionism Incomplete

Niggas don’t be feeling they theory, ya feel me? Niggas don’t be feeling what it feels like to feel like the World was built atop of you. Niggas don’t be feeling what it feels like to sit with the tomb of history, to let the dust settle beneath your feet, to feel the weight of […]