This essay was commissioned by Museion in Bologna for the accompanying publication to HOPE (September 2023 – February 2024). It is a brief reflection on the politics of hope under the conditions of racial capitalist realism, and why Frederick Douglass was technically a proto-accelerationist.

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Edited by Bart van der Heide and Leonie Radine. Cover artwork by Abdul Qadim Haqq.