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Afro- Pessimism O OVERCOME ANTI- “T BLACKNESS, THERE WOULD AFRO- HAVE TO BE WHAT FANON HAD PESSIMISM CALLED A ‘PROGRAM OF COM- PLETE DISORDER,’ AN EXPROPRI- ATION AND AFFIRMATION OF THE VERY VIOLENCE PERPETUATED AGAINST BLACK EXISTENCE AND A FUNDAMENTAL REORIENTATION OF THE SOCIAL COORDINATES OF THE HUMAN RELATION. IT WOULD ENTAIL A WAR AGAINST THE CONCEPT OF HUMANITY AND A WAR THAT SPLITS CIVIL SOCIETY TO ITS CORE, A CIVIL WAR THAT WOULD ELABORATE ITSELF TO THE DEATH. “SLAVERY IS THE THRESHOLD OF THE POLITICAL WORLD, ABOLITION THE INTERMINABLE RADICALIZATION OF EVERY RADICAL MOVEMENT.” FURTHER READING 179 ARTICLES K. Aarons, “No Selves to Abolish: Afropessimism, Anti-Politics and the End of the World” Chico, et al., cosmic hoboes: an afropessimist meditation (no)space <www.cosmichoboes.blogspot.com> Inko Day, “Being or Nothingness: Indigeneity, Antiblackness, and Settler Colonial Critique” Anthony Farley, “Perfecting Slavery” Saidiya Hartman, “Venus in Two Acts” Saidiya Hartman and Frank B. Wilderson, III, “The Position of the Unthought” Kara Keeling, “‘In the Interval’: Frantz Fanon and the ‘Problems’ of Visual Representation” R. L., “Wanderings of the Slave: Black Life and Social Death” Achille Mbembe, “Necropolitics” Fred Moten, “The Case of Blackness” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, Issue 29 (2016), “Black Holes: Afro-Pessimism, blackness and the discourses of Modernity” <www.rhizomes.net/issue29> Jared Sexon, “People-of-Color-Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery” Calvin Warren, “Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope” and “Onticide: Afropessimism, Queer Theory, and Ethics” Frank B. Wilderson, III, “Gramsci’s Black Marx: Wither the Slave in Civil Society?” and “‘We’re trying to destory the world’: Anti-Blackness and Police Violence After Ferguson” FURTHER READING AFRO- These materials cover a spectrum of theories and subjects and are not necessarily all within the framework of Afro-pessimism. They PESSIMISM are, however, all relative to an understanding of anti-Blackness, AN INTRODUCTION whether through history, media, armed struggle, or feminism. BOOKS W. E. B. 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