Название: Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements Автор: Julietta Singh Издательство: Duke University Press Books Год: 2017 ISBN: 9780822372363 Формат: pdf Страниц: 217 Размер: 11,7 mb Язык: English
For anticolonial thinkers, engaging the logic of mastery that had long since governed over the colonies was critical to restoring a full sense of humanity to the colonized subject, to building a thoroughly decolonized postcolonial nation-state, and to envisioning less coercive futures among human collectivities.
Seeking new genealogies for decolonial acts and thought, Julietta Singh unknots the connections between stubbornly resilient mechanisms of rule and current forms of knowledge production. Singh sketches the disastrous consequences of the ongoing investments in mastery that result in a ravaged environment and persistent racialized hierarchies of being, thereby giving us a critique of the human, a glimpse of the decolonization of the human, and the promise of something beyond the human