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Muindi Fanuel Muindi
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Social Practice, Philosophy, Poetry

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Join me on May 24.

There will be mathematics, music, philosophy, poetry, technics, Deep Listening and Black Study. The vibe will be conversational and participatory.

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May 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This June, I will release two companion volumes—AGAPE: A Fugitive Planner’s Guide to Empire and Fugitive Erotics: Black Rites of Breakage and Repair.
May 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Thinking and feeling our way through the next AGAPE session with my brilliant co-facilitator wasn’t easy—but it was necessary.

The readings for this session are some of the strongest in the entire series.

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“Prisons & Fortresses” - Carceral Violence — solutionsforpostmodernliving
To understand our age of Global Apartheid and Planetary Ecocide is to grasp that "across the planet we are living in a prison." To understand the global prison properly is to recognize that those phys...
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April 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Empire compels us to labor in service of sustaining its machinery of survival, even as it destabilizes that very machinery. The opening weeks of the Trump administration mark yet another intensification of that dynamic.
The Machinery of Empire — solutionsforpostmodernliving
Empire is not a monolithic institution but an assemblage of abstract and concrete machines—some co-opted from pre-colonial social formations, others with distinctly imperial and colonial origins, and ...
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February 19, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Struggling with the reporting on Congo that I've been encountering, I've written a dispatch of my own that places current events in context and provides insight into the importance of what is (and isn't) taking place.

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War Machines in Eastern Congo — solutionsforpostmodernliving
The crisis in Congo is neither recent nor isolated. It cannot be understood apart from Empire’s entrenched legacies of extraction, violence, and control. Over centuries, these forces have repeatedly t...
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February 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This dispatch redefines Blackness as a condition that both exceeds and honors ancestry, by interrogating the boundaries of solidarity, the mythologies of labor exploitation, and the ritualized violence that sustains global civil society.

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A Black Planet — solutionsforpostmodernliving
This essay redefines Blackness as a condition that both exceeds and honors ancestry. While deeply rooted in shared African descent, Blackness also extends to those whose kinship is analogical and ecol...
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February 5, 2025 at 5:20 AM
A counter to recent coverage on events ranging from the AI arms race, to the cutting off of US aid, to tariffs and looming trade wars, this dispatch argues that the Trump administration’s production of global instability makes sense for the U.S., given its push to maintain hegemony within Empire.
Dominance and Disorder — solutionsforpostmodernliving
This dispatch, written for members of the AGAPE research group, situates U.S.-China competition as a central dynamic in Empire’s mutation, urging critical inquiry into how local and global forms of re...
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February 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
A pastiche of previous works revisited and remixed in the context of Black History Month in the U.S., exploring the interconnected struggles of African peoples—on the continent and throughout the diaspora.

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Avenging the Black Ghost of Empire — solutionsforpostmodernliving
This dispatch explores the interconnected struggles of African peoples—on the continent and throughout the diaspora—centering what Kris Manjapra terms the “Black Ghost of Empire,” a spectral force tha...
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February 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This dispatch, written to provoke reflection and dialogue for the inaugural session of the AGAPE research group’s second iteration, draws parallels between the domestic counterinsurgency strategies of post-World War II America and the legacy of colonial military policing in postcolonial nations.
Counterinsurgency in Green and Grey — solutionsforpostmodernliving
This dispatch draws critical parallels between the domestic counterinsurgency strategies of post-World War II America and the enduring legacy of colonial military policing in postcolonial nations. By ...
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January 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The primer for the first session of the second iteration of the AGAPE research group is linked below.

Do get in touch if you're interested in joining us this sunday, the 26th!

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“Guns & Bombs” — Physical Violence — solutionsforpostmodernliving
Empire relies on physical violence to maintain control, deploying militarized force to threaten, brutalize, and kill rebels while flattening sites of rebellion. This session will explore the history a...
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January 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The latest AGAPE pre-read explores how trauma is weaponized to sustain global apartheid, distorting care into complicity with oppression. It examines how trauma conditions individuals to uphold systems of domination.

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Cultivating Creative Maladjustment — solutionsforpostmodernliving
This dispatch explores how trauma is weaponized to sustain global apartheid, distorting care into complicity with oppression. Using the figures of a white boy witnessing racial violence and a Black gi...
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December 30, 2024 at 7:36 PM
The next AGAPE pre-read explores how force, the raw application of strength, transitions into power—an insidious and systemic architecture that perpetuates dominance long after Empire’s forces have withdrawn from the battlefield.

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Between Force and Power — solutionsforpostmodernliving
This dispatch interrogates the mechanisms of control that sustain Empire. It explores how force, the raw application of strength, transitions into power—an insidious and systemic architecture that per...
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December 19, 2024 at 5:25 AM
The next AGAPE pre-read explores the intertwined forces of raciality, imperial extraction, and ecological ruin in the Anthropocene.
It envisions practices that resist the Imperial technosphere’s encroachments and nurture more-than-human worlds.
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Decomposing the Technosphere — solutionsforpostmodernliving
Building on The Desertion of Empire , which theorized the refusal of imperial domination, and The Analytics of Raciality , which examined racialized hierarchies in demography, geography, and his...
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December 12, 2024 at 5:59 AM
The next dispatch in my series of AGAPE pre-reads analyzes the first of two defining fractures of Empire in our time: the racial fracture. It picks up from our reading of Denise Ferreira da Silva’s incredible book, Toward a Global Idea of Race.

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The Racial Fracture — solutionsforpostmodernliving
In preparation for the relaunch of AGAPE in January 2025, here is the second of a series of dispatches revisiting the histories, theories, and proposals explored in our earlier gatherings. This second...
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December 6, 2024 at 6:28 PM
As we approach the relaunch of AGAPE, I am also excited to share a series of dispatches revisiting crucial histories, theories, and proposals from our first series of gatherings.

This one marks the crucial distinction between empires and Empire.

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The Desertion of Empire — solutionsforpostmodernliving
In advance of the relaunch of the AGAPE Seminar & Studio in January 2025, the dispatch below digs deep into the crucial distinction between empires and Empire that was drawn in several session...
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December 6, 2024 at 6:25 PM
After false start in September, the AGAPE Seminar & Studio, is set to relaunch in January. This dispatch outlines the outcomes of the first iteration, charts the course for the second, and calls on collaborators to help shape the journey ahead.

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The Journey Ahead: The Second Iteration of AGAPE — solutionsforpostmodernliving
After a brief false start in September 2024, the Against Global Apartheid & Planetary Ecocide (AGAPE) Seminar & Studio, is set to relaunch in January 2025, reenergized and ready to deepen its ...
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December 6, 2024 at 6:24 PM