UMA RECUSA DA CATEGORIA É POSSÍVEL NO AFRO-PESSIMISMO?

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https://doi.org/10.22409/cpgqbh73

Abstract

Abstract: This text stems from discussions concerning Afropessimism and a potential rejection of the category. Through critical fabulation, I seek to articulate questions and provocations arising from internal contradictions within foundational texts of Afropessimism, examining how these texts attempt to negate the very ontological basis of their thought: the category of race. By analyzing this tension between negation and ontological articulation in the works of scholars such as Frank B. Wilderson III, Saidiya Hartman, Calvin Warren, and Hortense Spillers, I trace the pathways and possibilities emerging from the epistemological short circuits they produce. In doing so, I aim to present the author with a complexity of thought that exceeds a reading solely focused on Frank B. Wilderson III’s book Afropessimism.

 

Keywords: Afro-Pessimism. Race. Category

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  • Caio Netto dos Santos, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)

    Coordenador da Escola de Marcenaria da Leo Social PROAC n45083. Doutorando em Arte e Educação no
    Departamento de Artes do Instituto de Artes da Universidade Estadual Julio de Mesquita Filho - IA UNESP.
    Mestre (2023) em Artes Visuais no programa de Processos e Procedimentos Artísticos da mesma universidade. Pesquisador na linha de pesquisa GIIP - Jogos, cAt (ciência/Arte/tecnologia) e no grupo de estudos GIRA - Grupo Interdisciplinar de Raça e Política do Departamento de Ciências Políticas da USP.

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2025-10-03

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Vol. 27 No. 2 (2025): Dossiê Especial do Observatório Fundiário Fluminense - OBFF

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Dossiê

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UMA RECUSA DA CATEGORIA É POSSÍVEL NO AFRO-PESSIMISMO?. Confluências | Interdisciplinary Review of Sociology and Law, [S. l.], v. 27, n. 2, p. 324–341, 2025. DOI: 10.22409/cpgqbh73. Disponível em: https://periodicos.uff.br/confluencias/article/view/68154. Acesso em: 5 dec. 2025.