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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Sylvia Wynter"”.
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Overrepresented Man: Genre, Violence, and Hegemony
… and material violence. Following the work of Sylvia Wynter, a framework of "genre" is engaged to provide an account of intersectional social identities, disproportionately distributed hegemonic violence (including both state and non-state actants), and the traditions and technologies of …
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Cynical Futurities: A Critical Methodological Intervention Toward a Cynical Geography
… political subjectivity. Heeding the words of Sylvia Wynter, "…the Jester's role in the pursuit of human knowledge alternates with the Priest's role—transforming heresies into new orthodoxies, the contingent into modes of the Absolute." I recover the Cynic, once sutured to a distinctly …
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Algorithmic Hypnosis
… Turning to thinkers like Wendy H.K. Chun, Sylvia Wynter, Alexander Galloway, Bernard Stiegler and Françoise Laruelle, I look at how the politics of commonality are embedded in the technologies which surround us, both in the mainstream as well as in critical thought.
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Culinary Man
… I call "Culinary Man." This phrase follows from Sylvia Wynter's account of "the overrepresentation of Man," which describes the colonial field of subjectivity which revolves around a normatively white, male, and European figure of authority. Drawing from these sources, this dissertation seeks to …
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GEOGRAPHY HESITANT AND AFRICAN ASCENDANT: ADDICTION, DEBT, AND OTHER BIOSOCIAL BARRIERS TO (RE)MEMBERING—A CASE FOR BLACK SPACE AND AFRICANA GEOGRAPHICAL STUDIES
… (such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Franz Fanon, and Sylvia Wynter) —who are increasingly, if not frequently referenced by Black geographers; and also those scholars rarely, if ever appearing in geography manuscripts (including Cheikh Anta Diop, June Jordan, Oyèrónké Oyewùmí, Greg Carr, Marimba Ani, …
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Illegible Subjects: Knowledge and American Modernity, 1898-1985
… such as Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Sylvia Wynter. I intervene in their conceptions about the relationship between knowledge production and social change by examining a series of American writers who, rather than remaking the normative codes that impose legibility on social and …
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Establishing an immanent counterhumanism for the un-foreclosure of the future: Deleuze, Mbembe, Hartman and the anarchic Open World
… counterhumanism and exemplified by the work of Sylvia Wynter, is deeply prevalent in antiracist struggles, and argues that a false image of the human is at the core of oppression, that a new, all-inclusive image must be fostered to replace it. The other, nonhumanism, emerges from some …
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Toward a Curatorial Praxis of Planetarity
… Denise Ferreira da Silva, Édouard Glissant, Sylvia Wynter, and Anna Tsing). The analysis is structured around five curatorial modes (collaboration, confluent processes, situated crossings, embodied events of knowledge, and transdisciplinary research), and through a discussion of four case …
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Cartographies of Black Diaspora and Foster Care Diaspora: Arguments Toward Abolition in the Aftermath of<em> Partus Sequitur Ventrem</em>
… of Man by Black feminist scholar Sylvia Wynter. Both Man1 and Man2 maintain systems of oppression, such as racism, sexism, misogynoir, classism, and so on. In “Unsettling the Coloniality…” Wynter proposes that Man1 developed from the 14th to the 17th centuries and traveled to New …
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Wolf Packs: U.S. Carceral Logics and the Case of the New Jersey Four
… dimension of the genre of Man as delineated by Sylvia Wynter. And I think that innocence, and the criminality that is required as its opposite, shows up in the defense of the Seven, the media and court depiction of the case itself, and the rhetoricization of Newark as both ghetto and …
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these americas: Black and Indigenous Poetics Exhausting the Human
My dissertation maps a poetics of the Americas through the work of Black and Indigenous poets. I draw on a wide array of interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies to examine lineages of poetic practice in the Americas through their interrelated literary, historical, material, spiritual, and …
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Subjects of Care: Ethics, Education, Extremism
This dissertation questions a popular logic that takes the cultivation of “better thinking” as the path toward more caring and ethical political engagement. I study this logic by looking to globally pervasive educational and psychological approaches to counter-extremism, which target Muslims …