Step 1: Donate to the Sameer Project here (suggested donation $60 USD).

Step 2: Register for “Afropessimism 101” here.

There is an irreconcilable distinction between human beings and blacks, and this split structures the modern world. This is the base principle of afropessimism, a meta-critique of critical theory which argues that global civil society, the regime of human being, depends on anti-blackness to function.

After reading selected texts, we will gather to discuss the vast implications of this analytic - as thinkers, artists, and living people - and what it takes to nurture a culture of (world-ending) politics that remains unrealized.

Register ASAP to afford pre-reading time!

Jon Jon Moore Palacios is a writer and scholar of afropessimism, poetry, and the paranormal. He received his MA in African-American Studies from UC Berkeley and has received fellowships from the Community of Writers Workshop, the Center for African Studies at UC Berkeley, the San Francisco Public Library, and Harvard Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research. His criticism and poetry has been published in the Cleveland Review of Books, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Offing, Qui Parle, and more.