On life and death, blackness and nothingness

Not just the absence, the refusal of a standpoint.
Existence without standing from no standpoint.


What is it to think without a standing point.

"This is to say that what I do assert, not against, I think, but certainly in apposition to Afro pessimism, as it is, at least at one point, distilled in Sexton’s work, is not what he calls one of that project’s most polemical dimensions, “namely, that black life is not social, or rather that black life is lived in social death” (Sexton 2011b: 28). 

What I assert is this: that black life—which is as surely to say life as black thought is to say —is irreducibly social; that,
moreover, black life is lived in political death or that it is lived, if you will, in the burial ground of the subject by those who, insofar as they are not subjects, are also not, in the interminable (as opposed to the last) analysis,“death-bound,” as Abdul JanMohamed (2005) would say."

Not just the absence, the refusal of a standpoint.
Existence without standing from no standpoint.

What is it to think without a standing point.

FRED MOTEN - in BLACKNESS AND NOTHINGNESS

TO AFFIRM IN THE INTEREST OF NEGATION WHAT NOTHING IS.