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Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 97–119.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Max Hantel; Kyla Schuller; Jules Gill-Peterson This article critically examines the role of neurobiology in the work of Sylvia Wynter through her own “pieza framework.” Wynter argues that the pieza , the figure of exchange invented at the beginning of the slave trade, haunts contemporary political...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 67–107.
Published: 01 June 2019
... about under the rubric of “black malpractice” as a poetics of the sacred. Among the interlocutors are Georges Bataille, Nathaniel Mackey, Dawn Lundy Martin, Fred Moten, Cedric Robinson, Denise Ferreira da Silva, and Sylvia Wynter. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 blackness poetics...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2019
... the planet’s resources.” 16 There is a double extraction: race is materialized via inhuman matter (slave as chattel, and gold) and (non)personhood (labor, flesh, and fungibility). In the reification of Earth in formation with subjective modes outside of white Western Man (deftly articulated by Sylvia Wynter...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of as always entangled. The editors elaborate this ecological view by drawing on theories of coloniality, especially the work of Sylvia Wynter (and her human/Man distinction) and Stefano Harney and Fred Moten (in The Undercommons ). In this framing, the university appears as a specific, but not isolated, part...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 1–17.
Published: 01 June 2020
... to the alleged “end” of racism in UNESCO’s postwar rebuttal of the biological notion of race and its insistence in the universal plasticity of the human. The final article turns to the role of neuroplasticity in Sylvia Wynter’s thought, urging caution against too-ready celebrations of the malleable brain...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 81–110.
Published: 01 December 2018
... are threatened by economic development “dispensable” lives, invoking an idea of life that is “cast as non-Human or less-than-Human.” 6 Mignolo draws on the writing of Sylvia Wynter to describe how the Western European idea of the human is a particular one, made universal, which then both narrativizes...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (4 (157)): 1–36.
Published: 01 December 2023
... as learn the value of laboring for oneself, they have also long been considered collective scenes of resistance to chattel slavery. 67 Sylvia Wynter famously situated slave plots in a “plantation-plot dichotomy,” in which the “plot system” became “the focus of resistance to the market system...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 19–44.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Wynter identifies as the construction of modernity’s fatal racial continuum — the devastating distinction and schematic binary of existence separating the “selected” from the “dysselected” (the latter, for Wynter, “the category of ‘natives’ and ‘niggers...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (4 (141)): 23–49.
Published: 01 December 2019
... another social space. Finally, the article reflects on Margolles’s invitation to participate in performing her sculptures and on the circuits of debt, remittances, and gifts proffered by such intimate engagements with bodily and nonhuman life. 42 Wynter, “Unsettling the Coloniality,” 268 . 43...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 29–65.
Published: 01 June 2019
... the death and wastage of racial slavery. Drawing on the writings of Sylvia Wynter, we might view the procedures of emancipation as imperial “Man’s” effort to capture, domesticate, and rule the incalculable and unclaimed rami financial instruments and cations of hundreds of years of his own death making. 15...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 109–124.
Published: 01 June 2016
... of Malm and Hornborg and of Moore could be revisited in light of Sylvia Wynter’s effort to propose an “embattled humanism” (the formulation is David Scott’s) on the basis of a diagnosis, itself borrowing from Frantz Fanon, of our “sociogenic code”: the “principle/code that is constitutive of the multiple...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 1–18.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of Bodybuilding .” Paragraph 26 , no. 1–2 ( 2003 ): 163 – 74 . Thompson Krista . Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetics Practice . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2015 . Wynter Sylvia . “ Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 21–47.
Published: 01 June 2002
... theorist Sylvia Wynter’s attempt to recast the human sciences in relation to a new conception of “man” provides contexts in which to think the “human” that not only bridge the ever widening gap between the cognitive life sciences and humanities but also incorporate the colonial and racialist histories...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 71–97.
Published: 01 March 2023
... in the introduction. First, races are naturalized anew by substituting self-narration with a scientific “cosmogony” or origin narrative (to borrow Sylvia Wynter's term) 35 based on technical procedures of DNA comparison and pattern recognition. Second, races are reculturalized to neutralize the politically...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 263–265.
Published: 01 September 2009
... Sylvia Wynter Denis Lacorne Social Text 100 • Vol. 27, No. 3 • Fall 2009 DOI 10.1215/01642472-2009-051  © 2009 Duke University Press 2 6 3 Madison: David Bathrick Richard Herskowitz Prospero Saìz Serafina...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 85–107.
Published: 01 December 2015
... . Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . McKittrick Katherine , ed. 2015 . Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Mill John Stuart . (1844) 1967 . “Of the Laws...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (1 (158)): 53–79.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., Capitalism in the Web of Life ; Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature . 2. Perhaps suggesting a link with Sylvia Wynter's ideas about “earth-indigenization” ( Black Metamorphosis , 19–20 ). 3. Gilroy, “After the Great White Error,” 74 . 4. Gaard, “Toward a Queer Ecofeminism...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (1 (66)): 45–73.
Published: 01 March 2001
... history of institutional intervention has been elided by the “internationalization” of the discourse of diaspora developed in British cultural studies. Scholars including Mae Henderson, Wahneema Lubiano, and Sylvia Wynter have expressed fears that the recent...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 21–41.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., in Sylvia Wynter’s terms, blackness is the symbolic negation of womanhood and manhood, as much as it is of whiteness — thereby underscoring how sexual violence and the explosion of gender categorization evince the fundamental antagonism...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 125–147.
Published: 01 December 2020
... without possessively owning a particular conception of it, a conception that very often approximates what Sylvia Wynter calls an oppressive, hegemonic “genre of being human”? 16 That seems to be the challenge, one I cannot answer fully in this short response. My initial answer might be that material...