"To understand Black nihilism and its dangers for Black life, it is helpful to first consider the distinction between pessimism and nihilism from in the work of Fredrich Nietzsche."
🔒 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01914537231184486 #philosophy #nihilism #Nietzsche #afropessimism #racism

We've been thinking in and through afropessimism and its identification of anti-blackness as foundational to the modern world order since we began Ill Will. Here are a few articles that touch on these themes:

Print version of Wilderson's classic article The Prison Slave as Hegemony’s Silent Scandal
which (along with Saidya Hartman's Scenes of Subjection) first articulated the afropessimist position : https://illwill.com/print/the-prison-slave-as-hegemonys-silent-scandal

Onticide: Afropessimism, Queer Theory, and Ethics: https://illwill.com/onticide-afropessimism-queer-theory-and-ethics

‘We’re Trying to Destroy the World’:
Anti-Blackness and Police Violence After Ferguson (interview with Frank Wilderson): https://illwill.com/were-trying-to-destroy-the-world-anti-blackness-and-police-violence-after-ferguson

Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope: https://illwill.com/black-nihilism-and-the-politics-of-hope

As Free as Blackness Will Make Them (interview with Frank Wilderson): https://illwill.com/as-free-as-blackness-will-make-them

#afropessimism #blackness #philosophy #anarchism #revolution

pornotroping (uncountable)

(feminism) The process of reducing a person or group of people to mere flesh, stripped of personhood and made into the object of violent and sexual impulses.

#feminism #afropessimism

A passage by Zahi Zalloua that quotes Wilderson. #afropessimism

As Wilderson powerfully puts it, the Middle Passage ontologically changed African lives in a way that even exceeded the existential imprints left by the Shoah: "Jews went into Auschwitz and came out as Jews, Africans went into the ships and came out as Blacks. The former is a Human holocaust; the latter is a Human and a metaphysical holocaust"

What is #Afropessimism ? What is #history ? What can history (not) do in service of black people given the insights of Afropessimism? If history fails to service black people, what should be done with history? This article argues that an unavoidable conclusion of Afropessimism is that history, a disciplinary mode of knowledge production, is tethered to the historical construct of the Human and thus is exploitative of the Slave/the Black, which is the negative image of the Human.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hith.12261

This article elaborates on the implications of this indictment of history, suggesting that invention of different ways of being becomes at least possible to imagine—to think about—when history is brought into relief, not as the form by which historians account for the past but rather as the evidence of who historians are and what they value in the world as it exists.

RT @eyeamamultitude@twitter.com

"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

As free as blackness will make them - An interview with Frank B. Wilderson III - Read more: https://enoughisenough14.org/2020/09/16/as-free-as-blackness-will-make-them-an-interview-with-frank-b-wilderson-iii/ #afropessimism #antireport