On the suicide of Angelus Novus: Searching for history’s future through (academic) hell

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Notes

1 I should note that although Republicans ran Hell, the Democrats had been a sizable minority—and sometimes slim majority—in the government. However, they could never decide if a half glass of water or full glass of water should be given to the denizens of Hell and, through their constant infighting, ensured that no real progress was made. This dynamic was of course by design, as it put Hell’s residents in a constant state of hope that things could get better, which (it being Hell) they obviously could not.

2 I will note that even though I did see a few individual black women in Hell, this was the only time that I saw them en masse—further evidence that folks never do, but really should, listen to black women.

3 I hope that those who read this piece also explore the work in the rest of the issue. The contributions of the authors are excellent steps in the direction of unlearning, undoing, and overcoming neoliberalism wihtin and beyond academia. I want especially to point readers to the world-making theorization in Ashley R. Hall’s essay in this issue, “Towards Love as Life Praxis: A Black Queer and Feminist Pedagoigcal Orientation.”