Texts That Refuse Conclusions

Open-ended · Structurally Unfinished

These works resist closure not as style, but as method.
They do not resolve the problems they raise, and they do not offer exit ramps.

Walter Benjamin — The Arcades Project
Theodor W. Adorno — Negative Dialectics
Michel-Rolph Trouillot — Silencing the Past
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak — A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
Édouard Glissant — Poetics of Relation
Achille Mbembe — Critique of Black Reason
Jacques Derrida — Specters of Marx
Avery Gordon — Ghostly Matters