What is interesting about Butler is that she shows that pessimism does not only exist for its own sake. The pessimist tends to be someone who is not necessarily braver, but who, for some reason, cannot look away when others gladly do.
Nicholas Brady
Nicholas Brady is a Black writer from Baltimore and an Assistant Professor of Critical Black Studies at Bucknell University. His scholarly work investigates the ways that Black flesh conceptually disturbs normative understandings of technology, machine intelligence, the political, the urban, ecology, sexuality, communication, and social change. He is currently at work on two monographs. He is currently at work on a monograph exploring the relationship between blackness, sound, and artificial intelligence.