Foucault: Power

Foucault: Power

If there are a number of terms in the lexicon of contemporary critical social, political, and legal thought that one cannot go about without invoking the name of Michel Foucault, “power” is definitely one of them—despite Foucault’s later protestations that the...
Elimination in Settler Colonialism

Elimination in Settler Colonialism

Since October, the world has watched in real time the transformation of Gaza from a concentration camp into a killing field. Besieged by land, air, and sea, Palestinian men, women, and children are now subject to a historically unprecedented program of mass...
Édouard Glissant: The Right to Opacity 

Édouard Glissant: The Right to Opacity 

The Martinican poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant called for a “right to opacity” throughout his work. Speaking about small countries in the Caribbean in his 1981 Caribbean Discourse, he said, “We demand the right to opacity.” He would reiterate this claim in his...
Metaracial: Notes on the Thought of Rei Terada

Metaracial: Notes on the Thought of Rei Terada

Rei Terada’s concept metaracial emerges from her 2023 book, Metaracial: Hegel, Antiblackness, and Political Identity, the result of a sustained engagement with Hegel’s enduring influence on how we think about race — or rather, how race structures our thinking. In this...