If you can’t sleep, or live in a different time zone, you can get a dose of anarchy with our online panel “Conflict and affinity at the borders of anarchism” as part of the 8th International Conference of the Anarchist Studies Network, tomorrow, Monday, September 2, at 5:30am PDT.

Register for free here.

I’ll be presenting alongside comrades Ryan Knight and Imuris Valle. My talk is entitled “Toward the destruction of the Human.” Below is the abstract. Hope to see you there!

In recent decades, Black feminist and Afropessimist thinkers have problematized the notion of the “Human,” arguing that this construct of modernity is rooted in and necessitates an ontological and epistemological anti-Blackness. As an intellectual and socio-political movement, anarchism has come far in its analysis of race as a hierarchical social construct. Nonetheless, an unresolved tension within anarchism remains its origins in modernity and thus raises the question of how does a movement navigate and understand race if said origins are premised in anti-Blackness? This paper will offer a problematization of the Human drawing on theories of power, administrative violence, Black feminism, and Afropessimism. It will then propose that calls for the destruction of the Human and lines of flight from the Human inherently present a challenge to anarchist thought by forcing anarchism to reckon with its roots and its understanding of race from a perspective that, will be argued, is more radical than anarchism itself.