Between Ecstasy and Abjection: Black Studies and the Excessive Sacred.

The author reflects on the left sacred and religious thought to think between and beyond the optimism/pessimism binary. He discusses the commitment of Fred Moten to the extravagance of blackness and Frank Wilderson to examining where blackness causes the order of things to break down, Wilderson's definition of Afro-pessimism, and Wilderson's book "Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of US Antagonisms."