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This is a transcription of an radio interview with Frank B. Wilderson III, taped in October of 2014, in the midst of the ongoing anti-police struggles taking place in Ferguson, MO. Wilderson is in conversation with IMIXWHATILIKE hosts Jared Ball, Todd Steven Burroughs and Dr. Hate.
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An audio recording of the interview can be found under the title “Irreconcilable Anti-Blackness and Police Violence” on the show’s website: http://imixwhatilike.org/2014/10/01/frankwildersonandantiblackness-2/ Transcription and zine layout by Ill Will Editions, November 2014. Minor edits have been made for length and readability.
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See Wilderson’s article, “The Black Liberation Army & the Paradox of Political Engagement,” available in zine form at ill-will-editions.
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For a longer version of this argument, see Wilderson’s article, “The Prison Slave as Hegemony’s (Silent) Scandal,” Social Justice, Vol. 30, no. 2 (2003).
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Wilderson, F.B. (2018). “We’re Trying to Destroy the World”: Anti-Blackness and Police Violence After Ferguson. In: Gržinić, M., Stojnić, A. (eds) Shifting Corporealities in Contemporary Performance. Avant-Gardes in Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78343-7_3
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