“That contrast between that apart-ness, that distance, that segregation and that intenseĬloseness – you can’t help but be shaped by all of it,” he says. His friends or the people who worked in his family’s home. But there still were daily interactions, whether with Goldberg, who is white, attended segregated schools, surfed on segregated beachesĪnd swam in segregated pools. As a young boy growing up in Cape Town, South Africa under apartheid, Race and racisms have been a part of his consciousnessįor his entire life. With his ready laugh and easygoing demeanor, it’s sometimes easy to forget the serious Should be taught in schools, “but I wanted to thread race into all aspects of lifeīecause it is part of all aspects of life.” Of the moment,” he says, referring to the debate over whether critical race theory “Today, that might be different, given the explosiveness Nevertheless, Goldberg intentionally avoided a separate chapterĪbout race in his new book. On race was opening out across the human sciences to address the ways racisms haveīeen systematically structured into state and social institutions as well as pervasivelyĬulturally expressed. At the same time, critical theoretical work Goldberg is a world-renowned expert on critical race theory, which emerged as an analyticalįramework in the legal academy in the 1980s to challenge deep-seated assumptions that There’s no way you can writeĪ book on dread today without writing a chapter on COVID.” “It was obviouslyįeeding the already-paranoid condition that we were in. “As soon as COVID hit, I knew there was something there,” he says. Pandemic – something any reader in any part of the world can relate to. The serendipitous timing of his writing allowed him to include a look at the COVID-19 Personal stories offer relational ways of thinking that make it accessible to non-academics. Though Dread deals with concepts of critical theory, its pop-culture references and Of personal data for financial gain and political control, as a root of dread. The centerpiece of the book focuses on “tracking-capitalism,” the collection Global perspective on the causes for its pervasiveness and finally suggests potential The book opens by defining the concepts of dread, fear and anxiety, then offers a
The result of his extensive research is a new book called Dread: Facing Futureless Futures (Polity, 2021). This? Obviously, you can point to the craziness around the presidential election ofĢ016, but it struck me as a more enduring systemic condition.” “So, I started thinking more sustainably: What is it that is producing There’s very little – nothing that was spelling out conceptually what this condition “There’s obviously Kierkegaard and Freud, but in terms of contemporary critical theory, I knew what the external conditions were, but I was trying to put my finger on theĬonception that would give that a kind of palpable sense.”ĭuring a morning swim, he began reflecting on those feelings, which led him to seek Tightened solar plexus,” he says with a laugh. “Like all of us, I was waking up in late 2016 and the beginning of 2017 with a really The University of California, Irvine and director of the UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), dread appeared to permeate more and more aspects of life, and he was curious to Long before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, David Theo Goldberg was focused on feelingsįor Goldberg, Distinguished Professor of comparative literature and anthropology at
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