Gary Wilder is a Professor of Anthropology, History, and French and Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke, 2015) and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars (Chicago, 2005). He is co-editor of The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present (Fordham, 2018) and The Fernando Coronil Reader: The Struggle for Life Is the Matter (Duke, 2019).

• Preface ixIntroduction: The Opposite of Pessimism Is Not Optimism 1I. Refiguring Politics1. The Possible- Impossible: Dialectical Optics and Uncanny Refractions (Here, Now, Us) 172. Concrete Utopianism and Critical Internationalism: Refusing Left Realism 353. Practicing Translation: Beyond Left Culturalism 624. Of Pessimism and Presentism: Against Left Melancholy 86Intermezzo5. Solidarity 1096. Anticipation 122II. Unthinking History7. Time as a Real Abstraction: Clock- Time, Nonsynchronism, Untimeliness 1398. Dialectic of Past and Future 1579. It's Still Happening Again: Ontology, Hauntology, and Ellison's Dialectics of Invisibility 19110. A Prophetic Vision of the Past: Glissant's Poetics of Nonhistory 221III. Anticipating Futures11. The World We Wish to See 263Acknowledgments 291Notes 295Index 363

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Gary Wilder is a Professor of Anthropology, History, and French and Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke, 2015) and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars (Chicago, 2005). He is co-editor of The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present (Fordham, 2018) and The Fernando Coronil Reader: The Struggle for Life Is the Matter (Duke, 2019).

• Preface ixIntroduction: The Opposite of Pessimism Is Not Optimism 1I. Refiguring Politics1. The Possible- Impossible: Dialectical Optics and Uncanny Refractions (Here, Now, Us) 172. Concrete Utopianism and Critical Internationalism: Refusing Left Realism 353. Practicing Translation: Beyond Left Culturalism 624. Of Pessimism and Presentism: Against Left Melancholy 86Intermezzo5. Solidarity 1096. Anticipation 122II. Unthinking History7. Time as a Real Abstraction: Clock- Time, Nonsynchronism, Untimeliness 1398. Dialectic of Past and Future 1579. It's Still Happening Again: Ontology, Hauntology, and Ellison's Dialectics of Invisibility 19110. A Prophetic Vision of the Past: Glissant's Poetics of Nonhistory 221III. Anticipating Futures11. The World We Wish to See 263Acknowledgments 291Notes 295Index 363

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Gary Wilder is a Professor of Anthropology, History, and French and Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke, 2015) and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars (Chicago, 2005). He is co-editor of The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present (Fordham, 2018) and The Fernando Coronil Reader: The Struggle for Life Is the Matter (Duke, 2019).

• Preface ixIntroduction: The Opposite of Pessimism Is Not Optimism 1I. Refiguring Politics1. The Possible- Impossible: Dialectical Optics and Uncanny Refractions (Here, Now, Us) 172. Concrete Utopianism and Critical Internationalism: Refusing Left Realism 353. Practicing Translation: Beyond Left Culturalism 624. Of Pessimism and Presentism: Against Left Melancholy 86Intermezzo5. Solidarity 1096. Anticipation 122II. Unthinking History7. Time as a Real Abstraction: Clock- Time, Nonsynchronism, Untimeliness 1398. Dialectic of Past and Future 1579. It's Still Happening Again: Ontology, Hauntology, and Ellison's Dialectics of Invisibility 19110. A Prophetic Vision of the Past: Glissant's Poetics of Nonhistory 221III. Anticipating Futures11. The World We Wish to See 263Acknowledgments 291Notes 295Index 363

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