Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. The Free Black Is Nothing 1
1. The Question of Black Being 26
2. Outlawing 62
3. Scientific Horror 110
4. Catachrestic Fantasies 143
Coda. Adieu to the Human 169
Notes 173
Bibliography 201
Index 211
Calvin L. Warren is Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University.
"Calvin L. Warren recalibrates Afro-pessimism in new directions
while he seriously deepens, extends, and requires that we pay
closer and better attention to the claims made by Afro-pessimist
thinkers. He turns toward a new philosophy of the Americas that
requires a re-reading of philosophy insofar as it is founded in
producing the absence of blackness and black people as the
foundation of its very possibilities. Poised to re-animate Black
studies in an important way, Ontological Terror will be a
foundational text of Afro-pessimist thought, even as it exceeds the
term. This is a work of accomplishment."--Rinaldo Walcott, author
of "Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora, and Black
Studies "
"Calvin L. Warren recalibrates afro-pessimism in new directions
while he seriously deepens, extends, and requires that we pay
closer and better attention to the claims made by afro-pessimist
thinkers. He turns toward a new philosophy of the Americas that
requires a re-reading of philosophy insofar as it is founded in
producing the absence of blackness and black people as the
foundation of its very possibilities. Poised to re-animate Black
studies in an important way, Ontological Terror will be a
foundational text of afro-pessimist thought, even as it exceeds the
term. This is a work of accomplishment."--Rinaldo Walcott, author
of "Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora, and Black
Studies "
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