Thursday Oct. 17: Race and urban guerilla groups

What role does social death and anti-Blackness play in militant politics? This week's reading, written by an American Afropessimist theorist, juxtaposes three urban guerrilla groups (the German Red Army Faction, the Black Liberation Army, and the Irish Republican Army). It attempts to think their difference from the point of view of race, social death, and the 'capacity' or incapacity to enact a dialogical play of recognition with the State and civil society.
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For a bit of background on the Afropessimist perspective on the significance of the legacy of slavery and Blackness for contemporary radical political theory, the same author has a well-known essay from 2003, entitled "Gramsci's Black Marx: Whither the Slave In Civil Society?"
A read version is here,
A zine version here.

Meeting 8pm, Tempest Library