La catástrofe interminable

Abstract

In this essay, I present the preliminary argument forwarded in my manuscript, The Interminable Catastrophe. The Interminable Catastrophe writes against the discourse of imminent disaster and considers the predicament of catastrophe as one which requires a rereading of Black radical thought in order to find an escape from circulating discussions concerning our planet’s ‘bad infinity’ (to borrow from Hegel) status and lifespan. Via the works of Sylvia Wynter, Kamau Braithwaite, CLR James, Derek Walcott, Clyde Woods, and others, I push against the constitutive limits of the Anthropocene/anthropocenic lens, and opt instead for a theoretical escape from this frame via a re-conceptualization of the catastrophic.