ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Jesse A. Goldberg reads Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s M Archive: After the End of the World both as continuing Afrofuturism’s tradition of conceptualizing apocalypses in the plural, understanding slavery and colonization as endings to worlds already past, as well as an innovative shift towards conceptualizing the end of the individual self as a liberating ending of an oppressive world. Gumbs is both channeling the insights of her ancestors—Sun Ra, M. Jacqui Alexander, and others—and charting a new path. Gumbs shifts from imagining a community of individuals liberated from anti-Blackness to imagining the end of the world of individual identity itself.
