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Far from Ukraine, Putin’s War Worsens Palm Oil Crisis (Boston Review)

April 29, 2022April 27, 2022

A piece in Boston Review about the imperial history of palm oil, from the transatlantic slave trade to the invasion of Ukraine.

Categories Public EssaysTags colonialism and empire, Palm Oil, race and racism

“Revenge Politics, Revenge Economy, Revenge Culture” dossier (Social Text Periscope)

April 29, 2022April 22, 2022

Text, the venerable journal of critical theory, has published a dossier of short pieces on revenge in their online annex, Periscope

Categories Edited CollectionsTags colonialism and empire, culture, imagination, race and racism, revenge, theory

Notes towards a theory of risk management as human sacrifice (and vice versa) (Schemas of Uncertainty)

April 29, 2022April 21, 2022

An essay on racial capitalism, empire and the gory capitalist cosmology

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags capitalism, colonialism and empire, financialization, race and racism, theory

Entangled Legacies: Race, finance and inequality (Manchester University Press)

April 29, 2022March 17, 2022

Coming in December 2022 from Manchester University Press, a collection edited by Paul Gilbert, Clea Bourne, Max Haiven and Johnna Montgomerie for newcomers and specialists alike

Categories Edited CollectionsTags colonialism and empire, financialization, race and racism

A review of J. Lorand Matory’s The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make (Journal of Cultural Economy)

April 29, 2022July 2, 2021

This review of Review: J. Lorand Matory’s The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make will appear later this year in the … Read more

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags book reviews, colonialism and empire, race and racism, theory

Our Wrecks of the Medusa: A Dialogue

March 9, 2021January 24, 2021

Phanuel Antwi and I prepared this dialogue for publication by Ramallah’s AM Qattan Foundation in their ebook Isolation, Separation and Quarantine: More than a Pandemic, … Read more

Categories Academic Articles and ChaptersTags art, colonialism and empire, pandemic, race and racism

Empires of Pain: A Story of Racism, Opioids and Revenge (graphic novel)

June 9, 2021October 24, 2020

It is my great pleasure to present “Empires of Pain: A story of Racism, Opioids and Revenge,” a short 15-page web-comic I produced along with … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags colonialism and empire, culture, graphic novel, opioid crisis, race and racism

Rising up against white revenge (ROAR Magazine)

April 29, 2022June 3, 2020

ROAR Magazine has published a short essay I wrote “Rising up against white revenge.” The current uprisings reveal that America is haunted by the reality … Read more

Categories Public EssaysTags race and racism, revenge, social movements

In conversation with Phanuel Antwi about Revenge Capitalism

December 19, 2021May 8, 2020

I was thrilled to talk with my friend Dr. Phanuel Antwi about my new book Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, … Read more

Categories Audio, VideoTags colonialism and empire, race and racism, revenge

The Politics of the Opioid Crisis on KPFA’s Against the Grain (audio)

March 9, 2021March 9, 2020

I was pleased to have an opportunity to talk through some of the themes in a chapter titled “Our Opium Wars Pain, race, and the … Read more

Categories AudioTags colonialism and empire, opioid crisis, race and racism
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