Any serious engagement with the theory of social death must contend with Afro-pessimism. Socio-Legal Studies advances social death as an un-raced and universalizable phenomenon. Lisa Guenther’s Solitary Confinement, is exemplary of this kind of work. In order to construct a phenomenology of race, Guenther attempts to analogize a theory of slavery (social death) with a theory of phenomenology and solitary confinement. Furthermore, Guenther takes up a humanistic reading of Frantz Fanon’s work, as if Fanon was affirming the possibility of a “new humanism” that could restore social life against social death in the post-colonial wake. This essay is an attempt to provide an Afro-pessimist reading of social death; one that engages anti-blackness as a fundamental condition of civil society and provides a close reading of Fanon’s psychopolitics of racial violence.

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暴力的入侵：非裔悲观主义和阅读超越单独监禁的社会死亡

对社会死亡理论的任何认真参与都必须与非洲悲观主义作斗争。社会法律研究将社会死亡视为一种非种族和普遍化的现象。Lisa Guenther 的 Solitary Confinement 就是这类作品的典范。为了构建种族现象学，Guenther 试图将奴隶制（社会死亡）理论与现象学和单独监禁理论进行类比。此外，冈瑟对弗朗茨·法农的作品进行了人文主义的解读，仿佛法农肯定了一种“新人文主义”的可能性，这种“新人文主义”可以在后殖民时代恢复社会生活，对抗社会死亡。这篇文章试图提供一种对社会死亡的非洲悲观主义解读；