... the challenges of using literary humanism to denounce an antiblackness that its logics reproduce, and the incompatibilities that exist between BLM and intersectional movement politics, Afro-pessimism, and narrative humanity. antiblackness Asia Pacific Economic Conference APEC Black Lives Matter BLM breath...

...Challenges recent tendencies to conflate radicalism with pessimism. Argues that framing political issues in terms of optimism vs. pessimism misses the point. Argues that the opposite of a categorical political pessimism is neither optimism nor idealism but concrete utopianism. Introduces idea...

...This chapter challenges recent tendencies within critical theory toward political pessimism and Left melancholy. I trace some of the ways that a well-founded pessimism about our global political present devolves into an ungrounded presentism. The latter forecloses concrete utopian attempts...

...Recent theorizing in black studies, under the label Afro-pessimism, argues that hope for ending racial injustice is misguided. Racism is deeply woven into the metaphysics, or onto-theology, of the West—an argument that is made both through readings of philosophical texts and through empirical...

... pessimism, which believes that evil is on the whole triumphant. The ultimate aim of the discussion is to present some thoughts on the method of estimating the worth of human life. pessimism evil human life Josiah Royce worth of life [Reprinted from FE, pp. 155-86.] The problem...

...This chapter argues that both secular and theological approaches to ethics are flawed because they are thematizations of that which cannot be articulated in itself in language (God, the neighbor, history, etc.). Yet instead of authorizing cultural pessimism, this leads only to a critique. history...

... to philosophical inquiry, including, above all, its ability to confront philosophical pessimism. Hegel G W F idealism Morris George Sylvester Adorno Theodor Continental Philosophy idealization law Nancy Jean Luc pessimism rupture justice relations alienation Being the Question of chaos Heideggerian...

... destituent potential fragmentation Berlant Lauren cruel optimism Campt Tina M apophasis apophatic folding Rubenstein Mary Jane seed sowing activism Afropessimism Black feminism Capitalism environmental justice hope negativity nihilism pessimism undecidability … if time is not empty...

...-pessimism—one field to have defied neoliberal postcritique—heightens the contrast between a dynamic critique of racism and the flat response to misogyny, particularly racist misogyny. A proper response will not come through neoliberal gender identity. The impossibility of sexual dfference demands once again...

... in which one believes there is an unbridgeable separation between human meaning on the one side and brute, indifferent nature on the other. In a neglected chapter titled “Poetry and Philosophy”, Dewey holds that pessimism is a cultural condition that leads to the belief in the utter meaninglessness...

... debt, the chapter examines how the novel presents innovative forms of resistant collectivity. Black and Blur Moten Evans Gil Jacobs Harriet Moten Fred Porgy and Bess Gershwin & Evans unadjusted emancipations Wilderson Frank B III Afro pessimism Blake or The Huts of America Delany Clotel...