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Institute for Critical and Social Inquiry application

This was written while applying for The New School’s Institute for Critical and Social Inquiry summer program 2024. The application was for…

Aug 5, 2024

Aug 5, 2024

Fract/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 27, 2024

Jun 27, 2024

Sans-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 27, 2024

Jun 27, 2024

The Apostate Revolutionary

(this short creative essay is based on the book _Whither Fanon_ by David Marriott)

Mar 21, 2024

Mar 21, 2024

Black Reconstruction as a Portal

This piece was written as a cover letter application for the 2022–2023 Black Reconstruction Fellowship at UC Irvine

Dec 31, 2022

Dec 31, 2022

2022 Momus Emerging Critics Residency Application

Statement of Intent

Aug 11, 2022

Aug 11, 2022

I 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, 2022

Apr 22, 2022

A Foray into African Studies

These remarks were given at a University of California African Studies workshop held at UC Berkleley in March 2022.

Apr 11, 2022

Apr 11, 2022

Review 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, 2022

Review of Frank Wilderson’s _Afropessimism_

Apr 3, 2022

Of What to the Slave is Juneteenth?

Racial slavery remains an under-theorized and misunderstood condition.

Jun 17, 2021

Of What to the Slave is Juneteenth?

Jun 17, 2021

Semassa Kpatinvo Boko

Semassa Kpatinvo Boko

The apostate marabout in absentia. Tentative tai chi swordsman. Soul-not-for-sale whilst suffering from weltschmerz. Somewhere sippin' baobab juice.

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