Danae Martinez joined us to discuss an essay she shared recently titled, Why I Am (Not) an Afropessimist, at least in part to address what has been an uproarious response to the emergence of Afro-pessimism as theory or ideology and, in particular, the work of Dr. Frank Wilderson. Much more at imixwhatilike.org
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Real Talk About Afro-Pessimism
How much of the pushback on Afro-pessimism doesn't go as deep as even the "graduate school read?" How much of it is simply a reaction to the name? Thanks for the important work you do!
All of these terms and categories remind me of what our Esteemed Ancestor Amilcar Cabral said: "Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone's head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children."
Ok I stopped when she said that she hasn't dont the research or the read the works. So why the hell am I listening to her?
Afropessimism = just old fashioned racism. It is nothing you cannot read in colonial literature.
I like when you say "let's reassess"
Thx Yvette Carnell for your interview with JARED BALL that introduced him to me
I didn't never gathered her position.
Part 2 follow up?
I don't want to presume hypocrisy so I would rather ask; how do you reconcile your criticism of internal conflict between different sects of oppressed marxists as mirroring capitalist competitiveness while simultaneously stating multiple times throughout the video that you want to "win" and at the end adding "more importantly than making things better". In my opinion you have pinpointed a pragmatic inevitability of the marx's concept of alienation as implemented into a societal structure the size of modern developed nations. You allude further, with your analogy of the blue house, that even after you have reached your objective an avant garde position must be maintained. In my opinion this makes the marxist system infinitely cyclical, but I don't consider my opinion absolute. I am just moderately informed and always trying to learn from different understandings so I look forward to a reply. 🙂
Pessimism entails to get what we want we have to destroy the world. OKAY! I get it! Right-wingnuts are highly pessimistic! So Feminism, Marxism, otherism-is'min'ing, etc., are so Different. But seriously so that means we have to dream and act BIG to change the coordinates of what appears possible, because pessimism buttresses the limit of the apparently politically possible, and taking it, while HOPE means realizing that horizon while NEVERTHELESS lurching beyond it not because you must, but because you CANNOT do OTHERWISE.