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Category: Issue #3

Baldwin’s The Evidence of Things Not Seen: A Political Violence Perspective

Berkeley M. BorkertApr 24, 2025

The Evidence of Things Not Seen is a poignant analysis of the Atlanta child murders, a series of killings perpetrated against Black children throughout 1979-1981. In this essay, James Baldwin offers a scathing critique of the city’s response to the...

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Mind the Gap: AI’s Psycho-Legal Error, and the Importance of Consciousness

Luke William LawApr 24, 2025

“If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was travelling its way of its own accord…So would a Being, endowed with higher insight...

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Afro-____ism: Futurity, Surreality, and Pessimicity in Black Aesthetic Creation

Koan Roy-MeighooApr 24, 2025

We have, in the past several decades, seen the terms Afrofuturism, Afrosurrealism, and Afropessimism proliferate across aesthetic and academic works to discuss the relationship between “blackness” and the future, or more specifically, the possibility of black sovereignty. Within a largely...

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Examining the Prevalence of Race-Thinking in Today’s Society

Delaney FischerApr 24, 2025

To evaluate the validity and prevalence of race-thinking, I will be using the definition and implication as presented by Paul C. Taylor in his book, Race: A Philosophical Introduction (2013). Taylor defines race-thinking as “a way of assigning generic meaning...

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Biopower and the State of Exception

Leo Bizarro MokriskiApr 24, 2025

Throughout the various works in political philosophy, the question of sovereignty has always been central in the discussion of the foundation of the state and its legal norms, from the stipulation of the social contract and the state of nature...

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The Sin of The Superman

Ajah BowserApr 24, 2025

How can one distinguish “good” versus “bad” or “bad” versus “evil” as continuously referenced in Niechezhes’ discussions in The Genealogy of Morality? Alfred Hitchcock’s phenomenal story writing and cinematography in Rope ties together the themes regarding the rhetoric of being...

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Afropessimism, Hegel, and Humanity

M. Shane LiApr 24, 2025

Frank Wilderson III presents afropessimism as an “analytic lens that labors as a corrective to Humanist assumptive logic” (Wilderson III, 2020, pg. 228). Afropessimism provides a theoretical lens for understanding Blackness as slaveness that makes Blackness distinct from the types...

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Socialization, Alienation, and Exploitation

Evan BazelApr 24, 2025

Latent in Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality is a dialectic of socialization and alienation. In order to determine the origins and development of inequality in civil society, Rousseau attempts to analyze the development of civilization itself. This analysis...

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Mass Incarceration: From the 13th Amendment to Cop City

Natalie Rodriguez-EmaApr 24, 2025

For nearly 200 years, the United States has branded itself as a land of freedom and “liberty and justice for all”. This myth was bolstered by the 13th Amendment, stating that slavery shall not exist in the United States except...

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Gayatri & Ketchikan

Neeraj PalnitkarApr 24, 2025

Ketchikan This poem is written after the homelands of the Tlingit and Haida peoples. In a dark wood, my eyes catch a bird or a will-o’-wisp, a scarlet flame haunting the air. My feet stumble, succumbing to residual seasickness. The...