...Jon Soske THE DISSIMULATION OF RACE: "AFRO-PESSIMISM" AND THE PROBLEM OF DEVELOPMENT Jon Soske In the early 1980s, an intellectual sea change occurred in the eco- nomic theories describing the former colonial world. Denounced by opponents as a counterrevolution in development...

...Sara-Maria Sorentino Abstract Apparent similarities between Marxism and Afro-pessimism on questions of abstraction, social reproduction, and abolition have curiously not marked the beginning of a conversation. To gauge the dimensions of this halted conversation, this article explores the uses...

... Encounters with Aliens , 140 . 23. Kastrup, Meaning in Absurdity . 24. Lepselter, Resonance of Unseen Things , 67 . 25. Warren, Ontological Terror , 23 . 26. Hartman, Scenes of Subjection , 9 . 27. Douglass, Terrefe, and Wilderson, “Afro-pessimism.” 28...

...- racist, decolonial, and settler decolonial politics, Lowe’s work draws forth some of the intellectual and political tensions be- tween Black studies (particularly the school of thought known as Afro- Pessimism) and Native American and Indigenous studies. Ulti- mately, however...

... of History.” 84. Ponton, “Afropessimist Account of History.” 83. Wilderson, Afropessimism , 15 . 82. Hartman, Scenes of Subjection , 52 . 81. Weier, “Consider Afro-pessimism,” 420 . 80. Woods, Blackhood against the Police Power , 54–55 ; Gordon, Disciplinary...

... incommensurability of Black subjectivity with the liberal ideal of self-ownership. Afro-pessimism has been particularly critical of this ideal and offers a powerful corrective, for example, to the rancid debates in liberal political philosophy on the “right” to self-enslavement surveyed here by Nichols. Yet...

... to health and education, premature death, incarceration, and impoverishment” endure as features of the black ordinary, widespread disillusionment with neoliberal statecraft has empowered white supremacist regimes across the West. 1 Though its merits remain contested by many, Afro-pessimism—a theoretical...

... , s.v. “para-,” def. 1. 21. Sexton, “Afro-Pessimism.” 20. Mavhunga, “Introduction,” 7 . 19. Garuba, “Explorations in Animist Materialism,” 274–75 . 18. African literary scholars such as Ato Quayson have long argued that interpretation of African literature focused either...

... in the negative relationship of the outside to the totality. In her contribution “Abolish the Oikos : Notes on Incapacity from Antiquity to Marxist Feminism, Black Feminism, and Afro-pessimism,” she challenges the Left truism that political economy—and thus labor and class—subtends all other forms of social...

...) = ∞ − ∞ or ∞/∞.” Copyright © 2019 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2019 Black feminism Afro-pessimism Black nihilism Badiou philosophy of math You can always identify the trauma of white sovereignty, in brief, with the extent to which it derives its essence and suffering from the prosopoeia of black catastrophe...

... , 1985 . Seigworth Gregory J. , and Gregg Melissa . “ An Inventory of Shimmers .” In The Affect Theory Reader , edited by Gregg Melissa and Seigworth Gregory J. , 1 – 25 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2010 . Sexton Jared . “ Afro-pessimism: The Unclear...

... University Press, 1993], esp. 160–74. Hereaft er cited as tld). This view cannot be squared, either, with afro-pessimism’s powerful account of racial blackness as the ground of world (see Frank Wilder- son, Red, White and Black [Durham: Duke University Press, 2010 Ver...

..., even and especially in their dehiscence.” See Sexton, “The Social Life of Social Death: On Afro- Pessimism and Black Optimism,” InTensions 5 (2011), httpwww.yorku.ca/intent/issue5/articles/pdfs/jared sextonarticle.pdf. 16. In fact, the focus on grammar arises directly from Spillers’s...

... of “Afro-pessimism” that came to shape debates in black studies, native studies, and comparative ethnic studies, among other fields, in the intervening years, drawing Qui Parle into a reading formation well beyond its initial intended audience. See, for instance, Dalton , “Black Holes”; Saucier...

... burden of a Western discourse that situates one's own attempt in relation to it and repeatedly establishes the new statement as an attempt to eradicate, validate, or ignore it." It is by no means "clear that there is a way out of this impasse. The Afro-centric impulse, which tries to excavate...

... as “AI:II.” 3. Toni Morrison, “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-Ameri- can Presence in American Literature,” Tanner Lectures, 1988, www .tannerlectures.utah.edu/lectures/documents/morrison90.pdf. 4. Donna Harraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto,” in Simians, Cyborgs...