Semassa Kpatinvo BokoInstitute for Critical and Social Inquiry applicationThis was written while applying for The New School’s Institute for Critical and Social Inquiry summer program 2024. The application was for…Aug 5Aug 5
Semassa Kpatinvo BokoFract/al Subjects*This essay was written for a graduate course on race and technology. The primary text for the piece is Denise Ferreira da Silva’s Toward a…Jun 27Jun 27
Semassa Kpatinvo BokoSans-Soucci Plantation*This essay was written for a graduate theory course. The primary text for this piece is Michel-Roplh Trouillot’s Silencing the Past: Power…Jun 27Jun 27
Semassa Kpatinvo BokoThe Apostate Revolutionary(this short creative essay is based on the book _Whither Fanon_ by David Marriott)Mar 21Mar 21
Semassa Kpatinvo BokoBlack Reconstruction as a PortalThis piece was written as a cover letter application for the 2022–2023 Black Reconstruction Fellowship at UC IrvineDec 31, 2022Dec 31, 2022
Semassa Kpatinvo Boko2022 Momus Emerging Critics Residency ApplicationStatement of IntentAug 11, 2022Aug 11, 2022
Semassa Kpatinvo BokoI Mumbled At the Fire“Silence often denotes something that is suppressed or repressed and is an interiority that is about withholding, absence, and stillness…Apr 22, 2022Apr 22, 2022
Semassa Kpatinvo BokoA Foray into African StudiesThese remarks were given at a University of California African Studies workshop held at UC Berkleley in March 2022.Apr 11, 2022Apr 11, 2022
Semassa Kpatinvo BokoReview of Frank Wilderson’s _Afropessimism_“Althusser writes about the three great fatherless children of modernity: Marx, Nietsche, and Freud. And then ya know you get from those…Apr 3, 2022Apr 3, 2022
Semassa Kpatinvo BokoOf What to the Slave is Juneteenth?Racial slavery remains an under-theorized and misunderstood condition.Jun 17, 2021Jun 17, 2021