#sylviawynter

[thereisbeautyintheordinary]

...authenticity is hard to find when you’re living under a world system of knowledge that perpetuates falsehood.

[thereisbeautyintheordinary]

I wrote this after reading a chapter of Sylvia Wynter’s “On Being Human As Praxis.” This poem is me unpacking my previous ways of thinking, how I was hegemonically socialized to think and unpacking this idea of symbolic death for myself. This poem is me grappling with the fact that my possibilities before were limited, but now, they are endless.

[blacklifescience]

Come on Kid, Let’s Go Get the Thing: The Sociogenic Principle and the Being of Being Black/Human

This essay surveys key areas in the extant of Wynter’s and underscores how particular thinkers have, either in part or to a large extent, challenged what she de

“This essay surveys key areas in the extant of Wynter’s and underscores how particular thinkers have, either in part or to a large extent, challenged what she describes as the over-representation of Man. The research traces the ways in which black subjects negotiate biocentric racial scripts in relation to their own inventions of blackness and uncovers the ways in which Wynter’s insights on sociogeny help clarify the process through which blackness—as we know it—becomes a reality.”

-MS

[blacklifescience]

"because our world is an interacting system in dynamic change, our system of scholarship rooted in its own sanctified categories, is in a large part, unavailing to the needs of mankind." — Sir Stafford Beer in Sylvia Wynter's "No Humans Involved": An Open Letter to My Colleagues

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[culturite]

"that area of experience that we term the new world" :: #sylviawynter #blackmetamorphosis #smallaxe

[cuffytaughtme-blog]

Unsettling the Coloniality of Being...outline

The Honorable Sylvia Wynter, O.J.

Introduction

All of the struggles of our millennium (climate change, income inequality, 3rd-world exploitation etc.) are rooted in the overrepresentation of “Man” as if were the human species itself.

“Man”: Western bourgeois, whiteness

Central but neglected in this struggle are the “New Poor” (Bauman): refugees/economic migrants in the third world, as well as Black and dark-skinned Latino prisoners and “Welfare Moms” in the West.

Africa’s position as the most impoverished continent is paralleled to Haiti being the most impoverished country in the Americas, and is paralleled to Black Americans occupying the bottom class in US society.

The “n*gger” is the furthest removed from “Man”.

The movements of the sixties challenged “Man” but these movements were sanitized, and “Man’s” overrepresentation has since been re-institutionalized.

The upheaval of the sixties parallels the Renaissance and Reformation, movements which produced the concept of “Man”

“Man” replaced the central authority of the church.

Race is “the most efficient instrument of social domination invented in the last 500 years.” (Quijano)

The “invention of Man” (Foucalt) resulted in the domination of Europe as well as African enslavement, Latin American conquest, and Asian subjugation.

[sitasuzanne]

Early #xmas spoils. #steam #controller #sylviawynter #games Bring on the complex #platformgames

[punkintheafricandiaspora]

Suppose I had said, “natives” and “blacks” are to the West’s “Man” the analogue of the laity to the clergy; so that we are the bearers of“human otherness” to the West’s conception of “Man.” If we are the bearersof “human otherness,” it means that the world of the human remains subordinated to the world of “Man.” We are going to have to struggle for an entirely new definition of what it is to be human.

Interview with Sylvia Wynter in Proud Flesh: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics & Consciousness (Issue 4 (2006))