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Podcast: The Institute of Black Imagination.
Episode: E53a. Frank B. Wilderson III: On Afropessimism I.
Description: Today’s episode is with award-winning writer, scholar and activist Frank B. Wilderson III. Frank is known as the Godfather of Afropessimism: a critical theory that anti-blackness is “necessary for world-making at every level of abstraction.” Did that sound heady? Well, get ready. Frank’s curiosity, appetite for knowledge and nuance, along with his fearlessness to explore what is, in the absence of what isn’t, reminds us of the importance of inquiry and the power of examining the world around us. In part one of today’s episode, Frank reminds us to be fearless in the pursuit of kn...