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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
... . McKittrick Katherine . “ On Plantations, Prisons, and a Black Sense of Place .” Social and Cultural Geography 12 , no. 8 ( 2011 ): 947 – 63 . McKittrick Katherine , ed. Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . McKittrick Katherine...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 1–17.
Published: 01 June 2020
... Wynter’s thought, urging caution against too-ready celebrations of the malleable brain as the pivot of her decolonial thought. We begin with an article by Neel Ahuja, “Reversible Human: Rectal Feeding, Plasticity, and Racial Control in US Carceral Warfare,” that encapsulates the kernel of the issue’s...
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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 (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 (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 19–44.
Published: 01 September 2015
... find prima facie evidence of its “logical culmination in genocide.”8 This genocidal logic surfaces in the dispersal of human beings within what Sylvia Wynter identifies as the construction of modernity’s fatal racial continuum — the devastating...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (4 (141)): 23–49.
Published: 01 December 2019
... and confirm a certain recognizable corporeal subject, one who is constantly and consistently seized by biopolitical power. The question is urgent because we need alternative representations to make alternative demands. And we need such alternatives because, as Sylvia Wynter’s oeuvre makes clear, the struggle...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 29–65.
Published: 01 June 2019
... production étatique. 15 Wynter, “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom.” 16 von Bieberstein, “Speculation on Death.” 17 Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership, “Legacies of British Slave-Ownership” ; Draper, Price of Emancipation...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 109–124.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Moore Jason W. 2015 . Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital . London : Verso . Salvesen Britt , ed. 2013 . New Topographics . Göttingen : Steidl . Scott David . 2000 . “ The Re-enchantment of Humanism: An Interview with Sylvia Wynter...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 1–18.
Published: 01 June 2023
... emplacement in a spiral of imbalance. Lack of sweating was taken as a sign of superiority, signifying the elevation of an enclosed body rather than a porous one, a distinction that overlaps neatly onto other forms of disciplining bodies and behaviors, one of whose most pernicious forms, as Sylvia Wynter...
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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
..., Laclau, and Žižek, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality; see also Butler, Precarious Life. 15. On coloniality of power, see Quijano and Wallerstein, “Americanity as a Concept”; on the coloniality of Western humanism, see Wynter, “Unsettling...
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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 (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 125–147.
Published: 01 December 2020
... . Sullivan Nikki . “ Transmogrifications: (Un)Becoming Other(s) .” In The Transgender Studies Reader , edited by Stryker Susan Whittle Stephen , 552 – 64 . London : Routledge , 2006 . Wynter Sylvia . “ Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human...
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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 (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 51–67.
Published: 01 June 2021
... with Sylvia Wynter .” Small Axe , no. 8 ( 2000 ): 119 – 207 . Seed Patricia . American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2001 . Wynter Sylvia . “ 1492: A New World View .” In Race, Discourse...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 1–13.
Published: 01 June 2001
... and in the Communist International. In this sense, the literary may represent, as Sylvia Wynter has argued with regard to the “blurred genre” of C. L. R. James’s 1963 “autosociography,” Beyond a Boundary, the “condition...