'The Reason of Unreason': Achille Mbembe and David Theo Goldberg in conversation about Critique of Black Reason.
- Resource Type
- Interview
- Authors
- Goldberg, David Theo
- Source
- Theory, Culture & Society. Dec2018, Vol. 35 Issue 7/8, p205-227. 23p.
- Subject
- *ARCHIVES
*REASON
*SLAVERY
*VIOLENCE
*PESSIMISM
- Language
- ISSN
- 0263-2764
David Theo Goldberg engages Achille Mbembe in a wide-ranging conversation on the key lines of analysis of Mbembe's book, The Critique of Black Reason. The discussion ranges across a broad swath of key themes: the constitutive feature of racisms in the making of modernity and modern capitalism as conceived through the global black experience; the African and French archives in constituting, resisting, and refashioning 'black reason' and its multiple registers; the centrality of slavery to this constitution and resistance; thinghood and humanity; liberalism as the basis for racial pessimism. The discussion closes with Mbembe's plea for a shared being and an exchange about repair and reparation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]