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A zine version of Marquis Bey’s “Impossible Life: a Meditation on Paraontology” is now available in our printworks library

illwill.com/print/impossible-l

Is it possible to twist free of the ontological apparatus of anti-blackness? Marquis Bey intervenes into the debate around Afropessimism.

"The 'para' in paraontology invites us to care less about the mandates of ontology — mandates that offer paltry, unchosen options that stanch the possibility of life lived otherwise — and instead to care more about all those other things we might have been and might be if only we could unleash our imaginations."

illwill.comImpossible Life • Ill WillMarquis Bey on twisting-free of the ontological apparatus of anti-blackness.

For those less familiar with Marquis Bey's work or the relationship between afro-pessimism and anarchism, we recommend our interview with Bey from October 2021:

illwill.com/print/impossible-l

illwill.comImpossible Life • Ill WillMarquis Bey on twisting-free of the ontological apparatus of anti-blackness.
Ill Will

We've been thinking in and through afropessimism and its identification of anti-blackness as foundational to the modern world order since we began Ill Will. Here are a few articles that touch on these themes:

Print version of Wilderson's classic article The Prison Slave as Hegemony’s Silent Scandal which (along with Saidya Hartman's Scenes of Subjection) first articulated the afropessimist position : illwill.com/print/the-prison-s

Onticide: Afropessimism, Queer Theory, and Ethics: illwill.com/onticide-afropessi

‘We’re Trying to Destroy the World’:
Anti-Blackness and Police Violence After Ferguson (interview with Frank Wilderson): illwill.com/were-trying-to-des

Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope: illwill.com/black-nihilism-and

As Free as Blackness Will Make Them (interview with Frank Wilderson): illwill.com/as-free-as-blackne

illwill.comThe Prison Slave as Hegemony’s Silent Scandal • Ill WillDownloadable PDFs of articles and posters for printing and distributing in real life.