Dear Science and Other StoriesIn Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography, and black feminism as well as a mix of methods, citational practices, and theoretical frameworks, she positions black storytelling and stories as strategies of invention and collaboration. She analyzes a number of texts from intellectuals and artists ranging from Sylvia Wynter to the electronica band Drexciya to explore how narratives of imprecision and relationality interrupt knowledge systems that seek to observe, index, know, and discipline blackness. Throughout, McKittrick offers curiosity, wonder, citations, numbers, playlists, friendship, poetry, inquiry, song, grooves, and anticolonial chronologies as interdisciplinary codes that entwine with the academic form. Suggesting that black life and black livingness are, in themselves, rebellious methodologies, McKittrick imagines without totally disclosing the ways in which black intellectuals invent ways of living outside prevailing knowledge systems. |
Contents
Curiosities My Heart Makes My Head Swim | 21 |
The Smallest Cell Remembers a Sound | 36 |
Something That Exceeds All Efforts to Definitively Pin It Down | |
Failure My Head Was Full of Misty Fumes of Doubt | |
Got LifeRebellion Invention Groove | |
Dear Science | |
DIEGESES AND BEARINGS | |
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academic Afrofuturism algorithms analytical anticolonial Autopoiesis biocentric biological determinism black body black consciousness black creative black diaspora black geographies black humanity Black Metamorphosis black music black sense black studies citation codes collaborative colonial concept creative text critique Dear Science demonic ground diaspora Dionne Brand discipline displacement Drexciya Duke University Duke University Press Durham Édouard Glissant engender Frantz Fanon Gender grooves Human Geography ideas identity imagine indigenous interdisciplinarity interdisciplinary Katherine McKittrick knowledge system labor liberation live logics metaphoric method-making methodology Middle Passage narratives neurobiology nonworld normative NourbeSe Philip numbers oppression Paul Gilroy physiological plantation plantocratic Poetics of Relation political practices praxis produced race racial violence radical rebellion referencing reinvention relationality Routledge Ruth Wilson scientific racism sense of place sharing slave ship slavery social songs space story struggle Sylvia Wynter system of knowledge theory Toronto undo writes York Zong Zong massacre