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    Limit Formations: Violence, Philosophy, Rhetoric
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 56 (3-4): 330-337. 2023.
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    After Philosophy, Black Thought: Sylvia Wynter and the Ends of Knowledge
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 56 (1): 92-113. 2023.
    This article invites critical inquiry into the rhetorical form of Sylvia Wynter’s thought. The author identifies the key to Wynter’s thought as charting a cartography that is intransigently committed to a vision of the intellectual imagination at its most ambitious while staying true to the grain and detail of the liminal, the lumpen, and the particular. The upshot is that Wynter wants to open up a space for the imagination and labor of Black thought, one that comes after and beyond philosophy a…Read more
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    Guest Editor’s Introduction: The Time of Africana Philosophy
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 56 (1): 1-7. 2023.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Guest Editor's Introduction:The Time of Africana PhilosophyOmedi OchiengAfricana philosophy is in the main a philosophy of the present. Many will demur and with good reason. In the first place, in worrying about the definition and animating energies of Africana philosophers, Africana philosophers have looked to the past to furnish answers to the former, and to the future to motivate its orientation to the latter. For Lucius Outlaw, f…Read more
  • Groundwork for the intellectual life: ontology, imagination, and praxis -- Radical knowledge: toward a critical contextual ontology of intellectual practice -- Embodied knowledge: intellectual practices as ways of life -- Radical world-building: notes toward a critical contextual aesthetic -- Geographies of the imagination: figurations of the aesthetic at the intersection of African and global arts -- Theses on the intellectual imagination.
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    What Cannot Be Done
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 55 (1): 53-59. 2022.
    ABSTRACT 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 resistance by racially minoritized groups to police violence and murder; sustained insurgencies to imperialism abroad; the militarization of bor…Read more
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    ABSTRACT 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?
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    This essay critiques the ontology and epistemology of African philosophy, with particular attention to Odera Oruka’s sage philosophy project, one of the most influential schools of thought in African philosophy. Oruka posits an absolutist ontology that holds to a conception of epistemology as presuppositionless and transcendental. Against this, I argue for a critical contextual epistemology that proffers a view of epistemology as embodied, linguistically performed, social, ideological, rhetorica…Read more
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    The African Intellectual: Hountondji and After
    Radical Philosophy 164 25. 2010.
    This paper examines the intellectual habitus of Paulin Hountondji, arguably the most influential post-independence African philosopher, and the political, ethical, and intellectual stakes of his epistemological and rhetorical style. The paper culminates with a critical comparison of Hountondji’s intellectual imagination with that of prominent African philosophers and theorists.
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    What makes for good societies and good lives in a global world? In this landmark work of political and ethical philosophy, Omedi Ochieng offers a radical reassessment of a millennia-old question. He does so by offering a stringent critique of both North Atlantic and African philosophical traditions, which he argues unfold visions of the good life that are characterized by idealism, moralism, and parochialism. But rather than simply opposing these flawed visions of the good life with his own set …Read more