Sylvia Wynter and the Question of Technology

This special issue of Social Text emerges from the expanding con- versation across disciplines—philosophy, Black Marxism, critical race theory, aesthetics, feminist critique, and neurophilosophy—that engages Wynter as a source of methodological invention rather than static exegesis. The contributors activate Wynter’s thought to interrogate the entanglements of race, technics, and futurity, building on her call to reconfigure the human as a praxis of planetary coexistence rather than an extractive category of destruction and rule.

Contributors: Manuel Arturo Abreu, Phoebe Braithwaite, Ayanna Dozier, Michele Elam, Che Gossett, Pat Kinley, and Tavia Nyong’o