Unthinking Mastery

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UNTHINKING MASTERY Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements Julietta Singh Duke University Press Durham and London 2018 ...

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Acknowledgments vii Introduction Reading against Mastery 1 Decolonizing Mastery 2 The Language of Mastery 3 Posthumanitarian Fi ...

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A beloved mentor once told me that all books are in some sense auto- biographical. While writing Unthinking Mast ...

viii Acknowledgments and unbelievably generous commentary were instrumental to what the book would become and indeed to my own u ...

Acknowledgments ix care and refusal to let up on me during my graduate years ushered me toward a life of feminist deconstruction ...

x Acknowledgments Cheever, Daryl Dance, Joe Essid, Terryl Givens, Brian Henry, Ray Hilliard, Peter Lurie, Joyce MacAllister, Rei ...

Acknowledgments xi been so inexpressibly vital to me. It is with her I keep learning—even from afar—that being sensitive is a st ...

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Introduction Reading against Mastery Everywhere I see the battle for mastery that rages between classes, peoples, etc., re- prod ...

2 IntroductIon drives, corollaries, and repetitions across two crucially entangled moments of decolonization: the anticolonial a ...

reAdIng AgAInst mAstery 3 and literary texts in ways that can reorient our masterful pursuits, ones that characterize global rel ...

4 IntroductIon from the domain of Man as “the master- subject.”^1 Alongside Sylvia Wynter, he signals “different genres of the h ...

reAdIng AgAInst mAstery 5 techno- scientific innovations that allow us to trouble the category of the human as such. Following W ...

6 IntroductIon aim of forming other less masterful subjectivities. As I argue across Un- thinking Mastery, the act of reading is ...

reAdIng AgAInst mAstery 7 domination. In so doing, we concede to the inescapability of mastery as a way of life. In contrast to ...