Frank Wilderson: Afro-pessimism And Modern Slavery (podcast) | Town Hall Seattle
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- In this week’s interview, correspondent Anastacia Renee talks with Author Frank B. Wilderson III about Afro-pessimism-an intellectual movement that theorizes blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Wilderson contends that Black struggles cannot be conflated with the experiences of any other oppressed group. Rather than interpreting slavery through a Marxist framework of class oppression,
He asserts that the social construct of slavery-as seen through pervasive, anti-black subjugation and violence-is hardly a relic of the past, but an almost necessary force in modern civilization. Wilderson illustrates the theories of Afro-pessimism through his own lived experience, echoing the works of powerful civil rights advocates through a combination of groundbreaking philosophy and striking personal memoir. Get an insider’s look and stay in the know about what’s going on in this moment at Town Hall Seattle.
Frank B. Wilderson III is the professor and chair of African American studies at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid. He is the author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid and Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms. Visit Frank's website for scholarly articles and more information about Afropessimism: www.frankbwild...
Anastacia Renee is a multigenre writer, educator, interdisciplinary artist and Deep End Podcast co-host. She is a 2020 Arc Fellow(4Culture) recipient of the 2018 James W. Ray Distinguished Artist Award for Washington Artist (Literary), Seattle Civic Poet (2017-2019), Poet-in-Residence at Hugo House (2015-2017), and Jack Straw Curator (2020). Renee has received fellowships and residencies from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, VONA, Artist Trust, Jack Straw, Ragdale, Mineral School, Hypatia in the Woods and The New Orleans Writers Residency. Anastacia-Renee's work has been published in, Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry, Spirited Stone, Foglifter, Cascadia Magazine, Pinwheel, The Fight and the Fiddle, Glow, The A-Line, Ms. Magazine and many more. Visit Anastacia's website: www.anastacia-...
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The recording quality is horrible which is unfortunate because the interview surface's some good points, worthy to be heard clearly.
“Throughout the first years of our lives we were forced not just to internalize a few aspects of capital, but to build up a structure of internalizations. As our capacity for coherent natural self-regulation was systematically broken down, a new system of self regulation took its place, a coherent system, incorporating all the aspects of self-repression. We participated in capital’s ongoing project of colonization by colonizing ourselves, by continually working at the construction of a unitary character-structure (character armor), a unitary defense against all drives, feelings, and desires which we learned were dangerous to express. In the place of our original transparent relations to our world, we created a structure of barriers to our selfexpression which hides us from ourselves and others.”Jay Amrod and Lev Chernyi, “Beyond Character and Morality: Towards Transparent Communications and Coherent Organization.” Howard J. Ehrlich ed. Reinventing Anarchy, Again (San Francisco, California: AK Press, 1996), 321
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Thanks for upload!
28:00 by your being youre already guilty and you can't be innocent
30:00 we have to destroy the plantation which is global civil society
The stigmas attached to ppl bc of colour/culture is similar to the stigmas attached to ppl who have mental illness. Abused and bullied by others, not given opportunities to succeed and live peaceful lives.
@6:18ish: 'we know , , empathy is an impossible transaction between blackness and the rest of the world' I hope he clears that up before this talk is done, 'cuz it's an indictment of the entire world as racist, and, one assumes, he is not! Empathy between races is NOT impossible! I am sorry you felt as a nightmare. From white perspective, mine, until recently we have seen little to look up to in the black race as those presented us have been normally criminalized. Now we know they were set up; victims of institutional racism, whatever, but that is the view. Now we see black role models such as yourself, Condoleeza Rice, Barack Obama, Malcom Nance, the list goes on and we whites realize our own shortcomings. I have been assaulted by a black man with a pit bull. I have been held at gunpoint by a black youth. I have been screeched at by a black man, both of us waiting in welfare lines because I was white. I have been denied a job because I was white. I have been sneered at by blacks because I was perceived as gay. I have been refused artistic space, because the space was reserved for women of color, white doesn't count; I have been deemed 'subhuman' to my face by gay men because I was female. Racism, sexism, homophobia go many ways and I sure hope this interview gets better.
Did you just "both sides" the last 300 years?
@@kiriende3691 No. But in rethinking the vid, I guess he's correct if damning. Human slavery started where humans did: in Africa. As blacks were the initial traffickers in humans, I guess "Afro-pessimism-an intellectual movement that theorizes blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery" is real. I am edified. And realize there is absolutely no hope for ever eliminating racism in the black race. Wow, that sure got turned on its head.
@@chrisg307 Your bitter racial resentment kind of makes his point.
@@kiriende3691 This kind of content is really for non-black people. They don't and can't understand it.
Rofl if she’d only gotten to 31:09