Dear science : and other stories
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Dear science : and other stories
（Errantries / a series edited by Simone Browne, Deborah Cowen, and Katherine McKittrick）
Duke University Press, 2021
- : pbk
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In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography, and black feminism as well as a mix of methods, citational practices, and theoretical frameworks, she positions black storytelling and stories as strategies of invention and collaboration. She analyzes a number of texts from intellectuals and artists ranging from Sylvia Wynter to the electronica band Drexciya to explore how narratives of imprecision and relationality interrupt knowledge systems that seek to observe, index, know, and discipline blackness. Throughout, McKittrick offers curiosity, wonder, citations, numbers, playlists, friendship, poetry, inquiry, song, grooves, and anticolonial chronologies as interdisciplinary codes that entwine with the academic form. Suggesting that black life and black livingness are, in themselves, rebellious methodologies, McKittrick imagines without totally disclosing the ways in which black intellectuals invent ways of living outside prevailing knowledge systems.
Table of Contents
He Liked to Say that This Love was the Result of a Clinical Error ix
Curiosities (My Heart Makes My Head Swim) 1
Footnotes (Books and Papers Scattered about the Floor) 14
The Smallest Cell Remembers a Sound 35
Consciousness (Feeling like, Feeling like This) 58
Something That Exceeds All Efforts to Definitively Pin It Down 71
No Place, Unknown, Undetermined 75
Notes 79
Black Ecologies. Coral Cities. Catch a Wave 83
Charmaine's Wire 87
Polycarbonate, Aluminum (Gold), and Lacquer 91
Black Children 95
Telephone Listing 99
Failure (My Head Was Full of Misty Fumes of Doubt) 103
The Kick Drum Is the Fault 122
(Zong) Bad Made Measure 125
I Got Life/Rebellion Invention Groove 151
(I Entered the Lists) 168
Dear Science 186
Notes and Reminders 189
Storytellers 193
Diegeses and Bearings 211
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