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With Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis, Katherine McKittrick sets out to put the analytical, creative, and intellectual work of Sylvia Wynter on the map.Wynter, a Jamaican writer and thinker, has put forth an extensive corpus of theoretical and creative texts in which she interrogates and challenges the currently hegemonic biocentric conception of the human and its seemingly inescapable.
Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis is a critical genealogy of Wynter’s work, highlighting her insights on how race, location, and time together inform what it means to be human. The contributors explore Wynter’s stunning reconceptualization of the human in relation to concepts of blackness, modernity, urban space, the Caribbean, science studies, migratory politics, and the.
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Katherine McKittrick researches in the areas of black studies, anti-colonial studies, cultural geographies and gender studies. Her research is interdisciplinary and attends to the links between epistemological narrative, liberation, and creative text. Katherine also researches the writings of Sylvia Wynter.
Katherine McKittrick is a professor in Gender Studies at Queen's University.She is an academic and writer whose work focuses on black studies, cultural geography, anti-colonial and diaspora studies, with an emphasis on the ways in which liberation emerges in black creative texts (music, fiction, poetry, visual art). While many scholars have researched the areas of North American, European.
Building on a discussion and interview that began in 2007, this conversation between Katherine McKittrick Sylvia Wynter tracks and particularizes Wynter’s larger intellectual project. Key areas of inquiry include knowledge production, black studies, Blombos Cave, the figure of homo oeconomicus, Copernicus, autopoeisis, global warming, and the writings of W.E.B. DuBois and Frantz Fanon.
Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis is a critical genealogy of Wynter’s work, highlighting her insights on how race, location, and time together inform what it means to be human. The contributors explore Wynter’s stunning reconceptualization of the human in relation to concepts of blackness, modernity, urban space, the Caribbean.
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Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis, edited by Katherine McKittrick, is a strong contribution to the ongoing conversations that Wynter's theory provides to critical theory, decolonial thought, aesthetics, political philosophy, and sociology.
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Book review: Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis. The prelude to Being Human as Praxis ’ essays is Katherine McKittrick’s transcription. Reading The Hills of Hebron in the context of.
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Katherine McKittrick researches in the ar-eas of black studies, anti-colonial studies, cultural geographies, and gender studies. Her interdisciplinary research attends to the links between epistemological narra-tives, practices and texts that focus on lib-eration, and creative text. McKittrick also researches the writings of Sylvia Wynter.
The Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history, literature, science, and black studies, to explore race, the legacy of colonialism, and representations.