 One approach to this work eventuates in the Afro-pessimism of Frank Wilderson, Saidiya Hartman, and others, or in the debates about the view between its advocates and those who decline to claim it, like Moten. This is a notoriously difficult approach to pin down, in small part because a very different view, much more prominent in international relations than in political theory and philosophy, goes by the same  name.[14]  With respect to the philosophical view that is our concern here, Jared Sexton, quoting Bryan Wagner, describes it as “among other things, an attempt to formulate an account of [Black] suffering … ‘without recourse to the consolation of transcendence’” (Wagner 2009, 2, as quoted in Sexton 2016, par. 8). Elsewhere in this remarkable essay, aimed at clearing away the misconceptions and misguided criticisms that swirl around the view, Sexton explains: