In-Process Writing

I made a space over the summer to compile my writings to date to get a better picture of the folding, tangling & converging ideas that not only concern me but that I've taken up in writing. Many of these writings (all maybe) were written as course work, but I've also listed ideas at the end that I've wanted to develop but have not yet.

Anyway, here are the essays from 

Fall '20

• Nietzsche's Justice, Contract & Compensation in Aeschylus' Eumenides (1.3k)
• Power, Archive & Memory in the Inquisition & Early Modern State (.9k)
• Foucault, Discipline & Punish: “Illegalities & delinquency” & “The carceral”
• An Exhausted World: Justice, Abolition & Reaction in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (1.7k)
• Justice & Commitment: Revolutionary Struggle in late 20th Century U.S., Chile, Ethiopia (1.6k)
• Commitment: What Does It Mean to Give One's Life? (1.3k)
• Justice, Exhaustion & Resolution in Roberto Bolaño's By Night in Chile (.6k)
• Writing Makes A Non-Place Happen: Escape, Commitment & Adventure in Patricio Guzmán's Obstinate Memory (1k)
• Abolition & the Problem of Truth Commissions (1.1k)
• Beyond Healing the Unreparable: Revolution, Apocalypse & Abolition (1.3k)
• Whose Truth? Whose Reconciliation? The TRC in Peru (.5k)
• Involuntarism in Contemporary Abolition & Derrida's Impossible Justice: The Commitment of Giving One's Life in John Brown & George Jackson (10.4)

Spring 21

• Children of the World, Unite: You Have Nothing to Lose But Adults! (8.4k)
• Listen! Chiasmus and Paradox in Beowulf  (5.7k)
• Poetics of Abolition (2.7k)

Fall 21

• On Abolitionist Rhetorics: A Reading of Ersula J. Ore’s Lynching in Conversation with the Summer 2020 Rebellion in the US (5.8k)
• An End of Trauma Theory: Abolition, Interpellation & the Relations of Production of Trauma (9k)
• Repetition & Trauma --??>> Trauma: A Problem of Captive Repetition (2.8k)
• Trauma & the Production of Subjects (1.6k)
• Trauma & Interpellation (3.1k)
• Poiesis, Silence & Speech Against Trauma: Involuntarism in a Titleless Poem by Primo Levi (1.7k)
• Presentations
• On the Rhetorics of Whiteness (60 min)
• Abolition: Beyond the Limits of Anti-Racism (30-40 min)
• The inadequacy of antiracism
• The logic & power of abolition

Previous work: 

Longer (>2.5k)  

• Clotel, the Slave Narrative & the Logic of Whiteness (5.7k) 

• Echoes of Niobe: Resignifyin(g) as a Radical Act of Tradition Making (6.4k)

• Exhaustion & Equivocation: Concepts, Gender & Political Violence in Hamlet & Macbeth (4.6k)
• Ghost in the Machine: Production of Home, Blackness & Whiteness in Tar Baby (2.4k)
• Mobilizing Sedentary Thought: Deleuze’s Learning & Freud’s Uncanny (5k) 

•  A Revolutionary Subject is Uncanny (5k) 
• Poetics of Solidarity (2.3k) 

Shorter (<2.5k)

• Get There: Jazz in Toni Morrison’s Jazz
• Rememory in Beloved
• Notes on Contradiction & Resolution
• Intervention: Jodi Dean's Comrade & a Question of Pessimism in Kimberlé Crenshaw's "Mapping the Margins"
• Ontology of Grief
• Reading Hong Reading Lorde: How the Erotic Opens Difference
• Distraction, Neoliberal Fear Manager
• An Existential Problematic of Feminism: Against White Feminism's "Third World Women"
• Literature & the Possibility of a Post-Carceral Subject
• What is Plato Hiding Inside Socrates? A Reading of Derrida's "Plato's Pharmacy"
• Revolution, Organization & Spontaneity in Literature : A Reading of Lukacs' "Realism in the Balance" (Lenin & Literature)
• Whiteness in Dorothy Kim's "The Politics of the Medieval Preracial"