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Dear Science by Katherine McKittrick
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Book Description:
In 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. (Additional Information here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/dear-science-and-other-stories)
Part of the "Conceptual Territories: Unhatching" Series
A space to breach what might be called conceptual territories: not only the sites and objects of study confined to traditional disciplines, but also the cross and trans disciplinary concepts like gender, race, science, capitalism, etc. that seem fungible but whose meaning takes on the coordinates of the spaces and histories of the disciplinary sites and genealogies that summon them.
Sponsored by HATCH: Feminist Arts & Sciences Shop