...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...

... the central engine by which abstract codes of the human are built and constantly remade. The article importantly clarifies readings of her work that would overemphasize plastic neurobiology as the crux of her critique of Man or interpret Wynter to argue that race functions as the “master code” of all other...

... the commu- nication diagram? As I have shown, even the process of hearing a sound (which we can understand as information) implies an active process of compression and simplifi cation—involving layers of unconscious percep- tion. Neurobiology has studied this process and given us a glimpse...