· 2020
Dear Science and Other Stories
- 971citations
- 2020year
Short summary
Katherine McKittrick's work positions black storytelling and stories as rebellious, anticolonial methodologies that interrupt dominant knowledge systems.
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Key points
- Black storytelling is presented as a strategy of invention and collaboration.
- Narratives of imprecision and relationality interrupt knowledge systems that discipline blackness.
- Interdisciplinary elements like curiosity, playlists, and poetry are used as anticolonial codes.
- Black life and livingness are framed as rebellious methodologies.
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Abstract
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.
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Field: Cultural Studies
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