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"Freedom can be granted, but it remains a “legal fiction”. […] Rights cannot be bestowed upon those constructed as Slaves, non-Humans, or property, especially when such a status is the contingent basis of the worldview through which rights are given their coherence."
by Scott Campbell @susurros

“Peace, within an antiblack world, is a fallacy (much like freedom). The metaphysical infrastructure that supports the fiction of the white human is sustained by antiblack violence.”
by Calvin Warren, in Ontological Terror

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#othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #liberation #israelPalestine #raceMaking

"Palestinians despise the courts. We hate the sight of a judge, knowing all too well that they are no different from the interrogator. We loathe the law and all it stands for in our context—a tool for oppression cloaked in legality. Even the lawyers, perhaps universally disliked, evoke our mistrust. But for us, the courts represent more than frustration; they are the place where our oppressive conditions are translated into legal language, where the weight of colonial domination is formalized with a veneer of legitimacy."
by Abdaljawad Omar, in “The ICC warrants: Palestinian skepticism and the glimpse of justice,” 2024, https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/the-icc-warrants-palestinian-skepticism-and-the-glimpse-of-justice/

cited in https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/05/18/afropessimism-and-palestinian-liberation-an-essay/

@palestine 🧶

#othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #Mondoweiss

@audubonballroon #afropessimism

@SANKOFAB @blackvoices @BLKNewsNow #afropessimism

I'm also reading #afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson and I'm seeing how we play roles that are ingrained (#embodied 😉 to Resmaa Menakem) over the centuries of slavery--including the #ritualizedviolence against #black folk and brown folk--including #selfharm and #antiblack violence directed at other #black folk 4/n

i spend a little time with Shaul Magid and J Kameron Carter
https://pdbowman.studio/quareidfaciam/theoretical

#ShaulMagid #JKameronCarter #BrianLozenski #TimWalz #BlackRadicalism #CriticalRaceTheory #afropessimism #judeopessimism #criticalTheory

Is Afropessimism Against Palestinian Liberation? (IMIXWHATILIKE)
https://youtu.be/0DZNBLbneK8?si=eCTpU8xRspErwbfJ

#afropessimism #palestine #frankwilderson

#Racism #Afropessimism #USA: "Afropessimism is not a theory so much as a mood coalescing in the hangover from the Obama years and a paradoxical expression of the yearning of the African American cultural bourgeoisie for black solidarity, be it negative, made more tenuous by upward class mobility or inheritance. It offers a rhetorical radicalization of racial nihilism in the face of shifting yet enduring black oppression that leads straight to political abdication. It is ironic and revealing that Afropessimism would thrive in the academy and seduce college-educated black millennials at the very moment when Black Lives Matter, the most significant movement of black mobilization since the Civil Rights Movement, surged in the streets, challenging the premises of white rule across the gamut of American institutions, starting with the university. Ultimately, Afropessimism flounders because it denies the varieties of blackness and the historicity of racial domination that have been demonstrated time and again—first and foremost by the long string of hard-fought victories of black struggles for dignity in America, Africa and beyond."

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii144/articles/loic-wacquant-afropessimism-s-radical-abdication

I wrote a thing. Bound to piss everyone off. But I still embrace it's relevance.

https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2023/10/31/afro-pessimism-and-palestinian-liberation/

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Blackness #AfroPessimism

Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the #openaccess publication of The Rubble of Culture: Debris of an Extinct Thought by David A. Collings:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-rubble-of-culture/

'Humanity now faces the possibility it will become extinct over the next few decades or so. This raises the prospect of thought’s own #extinction. But what does it mean for thought that it, too, might disappear?

No familiar practice rests on a secure ground; under the prospect of humanity’s extinction, each one is shattered. The cultural legacy becomes a field of rubble.

This book moves through this field to reconsider the emergence of #capitalism and #biopower the science of #climate change, and philosophies of #temporality

In the process it contends with many innovative waves of thought from the past two centuries, from German #idealism to #deconstruction, from #psychoanalysis to #queertheory, from #decolonizing theory to #afropessimism, and from the critique of #ideology to speculative realism.'

RT @[email protected]

"There is a form of anti-Black unconscious that is widely shared by non-Black people and Black people themselves." Norman Ajari in conversation with Ely Wananda, discussing the evolution of #afropessimism

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/eyeamamultitude/status/1527735386595786753

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Now on YouTube: My in-depth convo on #Afropessimism and #BlackMaleStudies with Dr Norman Ajari https://youtu.be/C8pzN942oN8

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AfricansArise/status/1433445628516913153

#Gordon, a #philosopher with subtleties which therefore I'd link to rather claim is #Afropessimism adherent, seems in various lectures to claim that the #pessimism bit is about current makeup - not that change is excluded.

Something which both contradicts and strengthen #Malabou's sense that somehow being a prison master is not an exclusivly #european thing

Malabou, in a lecture about #language and #prison at #egs mentioned #barthes and came out with, in a sense, critique by #Afropessimism saying that - in #malabou's interpretation - some people are so much in prison, they are so much excluded that even if they attempted to claim the meta role of evolving the law - since the law is so alien, it can not be done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrIhjbNanH0 Dr. Lewis Gordon: #Afropessimism, Africana #Philosophy and Theory