In this workshop, we’ll take a careful read of Sylvia Wynter’s long and wide-ranging essay “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation–An Argument.”
The stakes are pretty high:
the struggle of our new millennium will be one between the ongoing imperative of securing the well-being of our present ethnoclass (i.e., Western bourgeois) conception of the human, Man, which overrepresents itself as if it were the human itself, and that of securing the well-being, and therefore the full cognitive and behavioral autonomy of the human species itself/ourselves.
What framework(s) for study and for intellectual intervention does Wynter offer us? How do you feel challenged by her? What should we do?