SAH Commons | Omedi Ochieng | Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/ochieng/activity/ Activity feed for Omedi Ochieng. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:07:59 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 1f6b41d7b5f9858cee1ebb59924fc61e Omedi Ochieng deposited Ante/Para/Post— Theory in the group Black Radical Tradition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884709/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:32:36 -0400 This essay invites thought on the structure, texture, and limits of theory in the North Atlantic university humanities as brought into relief by Israel’s ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people. I suggest here that the deep idiomatic and affective reflexes of theory are emergent and contoured by the imperial colonial i…[Read more]

]]> 0 af4afac503a0bd6abb9254a02138452a Omedi Ochieng deposited Ante/Para/Post— Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884397/ Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:41:10 -0400 This essay invites thought on the structure, texture, and limits of theory in the North Atlantic university humanities as brought into relief by Israel’s ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people. I suggest here that the deep idiomatic and affective reflexes of theory are emergent and contoured by the imperial colonial i…[Read more]

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]]> 0 94979b900b531c89dc70c7ce5b70537b Omedi Ochieng deposited Guest Editor’s Introduction: The Time of Africana Philosophy in the group Black Radical Tradition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1841253/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 02:23:42 -0400 Africana philosophy is in the main a philosophy of the present. It is striking, however, that though the present suffuses and saturates the ideas, relationships, and contours of Africana philosophy, the overwhelming registers of the field, its idioms and grounding metaphors, turn on past and future states. The reasons why are worth exploring. This…[Read more]

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]]> 0 f0d26d2c3d51e66f4dd1b1b55891a4fd Omedi Ochieng deposited African Philosophy and Rhetoric in the group Black Radical Tradition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1840221/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 02:24:06 -0400 This article assembles a bibliography of African philosophical and rhetorical intellectual traditions.

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]]> 0 9b33fa51a0ed0ca3d29b427ec8f21a57 Omedi Ochieng deposited Defeat the Police https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1840110/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:43:33 -0400 The police cannot be reformed. What is immediately striking about popular strategies to respond to police violence—for example, the proposal to defund the police and those that advocate for community control of the police—is how inadequately they confront what looms as the most definitive feature of the police: namely, its role as a cou…[Read more]

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]]> 0 d0d3f18aaf37d6d8474575623bff5672 Omedi Ochieng created the group Black Radical Tradition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839159/ Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:55:47 -0400 0 7dbbdc678ad9927f46c5f4950267d8ee Omedi Ochieng created the site Black Radical Tradition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839158/ Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:52:31 -0400 0 b1b185284c662c00c17c0696a0c476c1 Omedi Ochieng deposited Prophecy and Wisdom in the African American Intellectual Imagination https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839157/ Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:47:23 -0400 African American public intellectual life emerges in the dialectic between at least two major black intellectual traditions—prophetic and wisdom traditions. By situating black public intellectuals within the longue durée of critical contestation, I complicate our understanding of the deeper logics driving harsh exchanges in black pu…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed54352bfd2c10c0e174bd72873d46d7 Omedi Ochieng deposited What Cannot Be Done in the group African Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839094/ Thu, 30 Mar 2023 02:23:41 -0400 This essay argues that recent catastrophizings over freedom of speech are symptoms of a conjunctural crisis in the North Atlantic world. They index, in the main, a crisis of profitability and deindustrialization in the Global North, as seen for instance in the lumpenproletariatization of the working and professional classes; increasing domestic…[Read more]

]]> 0 5317944203e822e7dd3540128e4a2029 Omedi Ochieng deposited Meaning at the End of Meaning: Nihilism, Great Nonsense, and Praxis in the Shadow of Extinction in the group African Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839093/ Thu, 30 Mar 2023 02:23:38 -0400 I suggest in this essay that the responses to the coronavirus pandemic by the North Atlantic elite ought to be accounted in part to the circulation of nihilism as a structure of feeling under late capitalism. I then pose the question, how ought we think of meaning and meaning making under the shadow of ongoing extinction?

]]> 0 db53fcddf99e9263c4a95832a5cd25d5 Omedi Ochieng deposited What Cannot Be Done https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1838951/ Wed, 29 Mar 2023 03:59:41 -0400 This essay argues that recent catastrophizings over freedom of speech are symptoms of a conjunctural crisis in the North Atlantic world. They index, in the main, a crisis of profitability and deindustrialization in the Global North, as seen for instance in the lumpenproletariatization of the working and professional classes; increasing domestic…[Read more]

]]> 0 13f99f6eead1b6ab4a672d04d68e3f95 Omedi Ochieng deposited Meaning at the End of Meaning: Nihilism, Great Nonsense, and Praxis in the Shadow of Extinction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1838949/ Wed, 29 Mar 2023 03:50:56 -0400 I suggest in this essay that the responses to the coronavirus pandemic by the North Atlantic elite ought to be accounted in part to the circulation of nihilism as a structure of feeling under late capitalism. I then pose the question, how ought we think of meaning and meaning making under the shadow of ongoing extinction?

]]> 0 eddda4e7ca15c005fce8c6f44e77947d Omedi Ochieng changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1838948/ Tue, 28 Mar 2023 23:41:30 -0400 0 df12646ce4ab450c3a3dfd392b67dc2d Omedi Ochieng deposited Forty Theses on the Intellectual Imagination in the group African Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1636538/ Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:35:07 -0400 This chapter assembles theses — a distinctive genre of writing that articulates an intervention in a political, economic, or cultural practice — on the form and animating vision of intellectual practice.

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