✨✨✨Human beings are magical. Bios and logos. Words made flesh, and muscle, and bone, and animated by hope and desire, belief materialized in deeds, deeds which actualize our realities.✨✨✨#SylviaWynter
"Empire’s most powerful apparatus is the education system. It initiates us into a culture and knowledge system that instructs us to want to be of a specific ethnoclass of humanity..." - Sylvia Wynter
Colonization- Racism- Poverty- Climate crisis- Homelessness- Precarity- NIMBYism- Xenophobia- Hate- Apartheid- Corporate imperialism are all deeply connected. I am learning from Sylvia Wynter (see @WynterArchive) and Katherine McKittrick (@demonicground) about this. Long🧵(1/13)
Assigning this masterpiece today from @WynterArchive. This text is nothing less than a programmatic manifesto for the new anti-colonial practices needed in the new millennium. A must read for anyone anywhere.
@pjdaurio @babadookspinoza Honoring so many insurgent scholars but today especially Walter Rodney (read How Europe Underdeveloped Africa), Sylvia Wynter, Frantz Fanon, and the new book by @dylanrodriguez “White Reconstruction”- these maps show how white supremacy structures the whole world as a plantation.
@CulturedModesty My #SylviaWynter-Black Lives-Human course syllabus from last year is on my website. I have notably revised the syllabus for current spring '21 iteration. But the one from last year has several SW works to engage with:
https://t.co/FmGpjCJ1ko
'The essays and articles collected here go beyond making an argument against colonialism, but set out to decolonize the nature of the discourse that legitimated the imperial order.'
The early essays of Sylvia Wynter. (Photo taken from the @WynterArchive).
https://t.co/3pEM9Y8mLk
✅Available now #REVIEW-ESSAY OF: Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human As Praxis (Katherine McKittric ed) by Iliaris Alejandra Avilés-Ortiz from Colegio de Mayaguez UPRM
🔗Available at: https://t.co/iXWOl9fe2f
@WynterArchive@ProjectMUSE