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+====The American Dream is a dream of black suffering. The Political sustains a false narrative of progress—anti-black violence is only increasing.==== |
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+**Warren '15** (Calvin, Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, "Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope," CR: The New Centennial Review, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2015, pp. 215-248, PMuse) OS |
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+Perverse juxtapositions structure our relation to the Political. This becomes even more apparent and |
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+advances political apostasy as the only "ethical" response to black suffering. |
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+====This narrative is sustained through a politics of hope—cruel optimism forces black bodies into an unending pursuit of the source of their own annihilation. The Political shields itself from criticism through continuous futural temporality and the terror of "no alternative."==== |
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+**Warren '15** (Calvin, Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, "Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope," CR: The New Centennial Review, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2015, pp. 215-248, PMuse) OS |
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+To speak of the "Politics of Hope" is to denaturalize or demystify a |
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+the only "hope" for blackness in an anti-black world. |
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+====The alternative is political apostasy. Self-ex-communicate yourself from the Political—it is constitutively unethical.==== |
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+**Warren '15** (Calvin, Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, "Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope," CR: The New Centennial Review, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2015, pp. 215-248, PMuse) OS |
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+For West and Brogdon, nihilism is a spiritual-psychic disorder that requires a |
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+symbolic as inherently wicked and rejects it both as critique and spiritual practice. |