The Privilege of Transgression

Jean-Christophe Goddard, combining Congolese popular reverse-anthropology, literary analysis, psychoanalysis and decolonial theory, sketches an unveiling of whiteness as an extrinsic disposition to absolutise violence beyond all measure, to perversely optimise it in the perspective of a kind of “negative perfection”. He reconstructs the figure of the White as one who, setting himself up as the sole master of the law, thereby establishes himself as the master of its violation, the master of unlimited transgression, which is no longer measured by the yardstick of the law, but feeds indefinitely on itself. The privilege of whiteness, which is whiteness itself, is the positive privilege of infinitely destroying others.