African-American, Caribbean, Courses

30 Aug 2019

Black Existentialism – revised syllabus

Here is my revised syllabus for a course I've taught a bunch of times: Black Existentialism. This revision includes more…

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African-American, Courses

30 Aug 2019

Seminar on Angela Davis

Here is the syllabus for my F/19 course on Angela Davis. The centerpiece of the course in Davis' Blues Legacies…

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African-American

29 Apr 2019

Vernacular Culture and Belonging

Neil Roberts hosted a fantastic symposium on April 13th, putting together an eclectic group of political theory oriented folks to…

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African, African-American, Caribbean, European, Middle Passage, Postcolonial

28 Apr 2019

ReBIT19 – Pessimism as Interpretative Frame

The second annual symposium under the rubric Re-Thinking the Black Intellectual Tradition was held on March 30th, 2019. We gathered…

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African-American, Caribbean

28 Apr 2019

The Poetics of Beautiful Blackness

Broadly: How can the abjection of blackness under regimes of anti-blackness be (or has it already been) reversed, disrupted, disputed,…

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Caribbean, Glissant, Middle Passage

28 Apr 2019

Event and Passage

What is the Middle Passage to philosophical thinking? My talk at Society for French Historical Studies, linked HERE in very…

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Caribbean, Glissant, Middle Passage

21 Mar 2019

Preface to Glissant and the Middle Passage

Here is a preview of my new book Glissant and the Middle Passage: Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss with University of Minnesota…

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African-American

09 Apr 2018

ReBIT18 – The Question of Medium

Texts, conversation, and friendship … I value these three things more than anything else. Whether books or gestures or habits…

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African-American

24 Mar 2018

Draylen Mason, photographed

The last couple of days have had a bunch of photos of Draylen Mason circulating, the kid who was killed…

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U.S. Politics

15 Feb 2018

“A School Shooting”; or, Necropolitics Again

I went to bed and woke up with the same troubled conscience of all decent people. Yet another school massacre,…

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