THEORIZING IN A VOID: A READING LIST
Week 1: THEORIZING IN A VOID
“Theorizing in a Void” by Zakiyyah Jackson + “The Lie At the Center of Everything” by Christina Sharpe
Week 2: INTRODUCING SYLVIA WYNTER
“Homo_Narrans_and_the_Science_of_the_Word” by Bedour Algara + And What About the Human? by Anthony Bogues + “Before Man: Sylvia Wynter’s Rewriting” by Denise Ferriera Da Silva
Week 3: WYNTERs
“Unparalleled Catastrophe for the Species,” by Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick + “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being,” by Sylvia Wynter + “Towards the Sociogenic Principle,” by Sylvia Wynter
Week 4: BLACK FEMINIST POETHICS
“Towards a Black Feminist Poethics,” by Denise Ferriera Da Silva + “Beyond Miranda’s Meanings” by Sylvia Wynter + ““Venus in Two Acts” by Saidiya Hartman
Week 5: DA SILVAs
“In the Raw, ” by Denise Ferriera Da Silva + “On Difference Without Separability,” by Denise Ferriera Da Silva + “Beyond the Equation of Value,” by Denise Ferriera Da Silva
Week 6: THE BELLY OF THE WORLD
“Mama’s Baby Papa’s Maybe, Too” by Hortense Spillers + “The Belly of the World” by Saidiya Hartman + “At the Intersections of Assemblage,” by Patrice Douglass
Week 7: JACKSONs
“Sense of Things,” by Zakiyyah Jackson + “Losing_Manhood” by Zakiyyah Jackson + “Animal” by Zakiyyah Jackson
Week 8: HEARTBREAK
“Black ‘Feminisms’ and Pessimism” by Tiffany Lethabo King + “Speaking the Hieroglyph” by Selamwit Terrafe + “808s and Heartbreaks” by Katherine McKittrick and Alexander Weheliye
Week 9: DOUGLASSs + THE HOLE OF METAPHYSICS
“Black Feminist Theory for the Dead and Dying,” by Patrice Douglass + “On Being Fear,” by Patrice Douglass + “(Non)presence: The Hole of Metaphysics,” by Le’ah Kaplan
Week 10: SPILLERs
“All The Things You Could Be By Now, If Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother,” by Hortense Spillers + “The Politics of Intimacy,” by Hortense Spillers + “Interstices: A Small Drama of Words,” by Hortense Spillers
Week 11: WHAT EXCEEDS THE HOLD?
“What Exceeds the Hold?” by Christina Sharpe and Selamwit Terrafe + “The Anarchy of Colored Girls” by Saidiya Hartman + “An Ars Poetica,” by Dionne Brand
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