All of us who have citizenship in the imperial core have no business claiming anyone who is poor and experiences the violence of this empire outside of our borders has ability to structurally dominate us.... the eligibility that even on the most basic form of power analysis...

Having to contend with the reality that our proximities to this violent beast of empire; whilst keeping us in a system of internal colonies, still protects us as its subjects, hypervisibilises us to the detriment of those invisiblised forces us into hysterical logics.

The dissonance of being black in the academy; claiming to experience epistemic violence whilst abstracting material violences to suite your theoretical positions... the very same logics of violence you claim to be theorising against.

I’m writing about abstraction in the epistemology of western thought that arouse through enlightenment and its legacy of epistemic/material violence but this great tweet is making me think I should take on some contemporary nihilistic theories.. https://twitter.com/renyture/status/1385692856518594560