Kennan Ferguson teaches political theory at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where he is professor of political science. He is the author of four books, including Cookbook Politics and All in the Family: On Community and Incommensurability.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: No Politics

Kennan Ferguson 

1. Absorption and Coloniality 

Joshua Clover

2. Antisocial (A Literary History)

 Theodore Martin 

3. The Big and Small No: Critique of Contemporary Solutions of Difference (Deleuze and Derrida)

 François Laruelle 

Translated by Anthony Paul Smith

4. The Philosophical Problem of the Demiurgic Dream as Inherently Humanist

 Katerina Kolozova

5. Without Priors

 Frank B. Wilderson III

6. Afro-Pessimism and Non-Philosophy at the Zero Point of Subjectivity, History, and Aesthetics

Andrew Culp

Contributors

Index

"Leading scholars traverse the wide range of political action when "no" is in the picture, analyzing topics such as collective action, antisocialism, empirical science, the negative and the affirmative in Deleuze and Derrida, the "real" and the "clone," Native sovereignty, and Afropessimism"--