Anti-Blackness, Social Death, and Negative Universality
Philosophy & Social Criticism: An International, Interdisciplinary Journal
Published online on June 09, 2026
Abstract
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Afro-pessimism poses one of the most profound challenges to contemporary political theory. By conceptualizing Blackness as social death, it argues that anti-Blackness is not a contingent injustice but the ontological ground of modernity. If Blackness ...
Afro-pessimism poses one of the most profound challenges to contemporary political theory. By conceptualizing Blackness as social death, it argues that anti-Blackness is not a contingent injustice but the ontological ground of modernity. If Blackness ...