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Onticide by Calvin L. Warren

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3.0

Thought-provoking, lacked clarity in certain ways. Ultimately the low star rating is from disagreement and a siding with Spillers and Wynter on the matter, as well as ambivalence toward Afropessimism as an all-or-nothing framework rather than a useful lens to call into question dominant paradigms and assumptions (i.e., theories of vitality, assumptions of "the Good" as "the Living" and what Living means)
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