Abstract

Within our current order of knowledge, propagated by the Humanities and Social Sciences, the mattering of Black lives is all but inconceivable. The only possibility for challenging this inconceivability, asserts Sylvia Wynter, is to rewrite our current order of knowledge such that it refuses the overrepresentation of European man and opens to multiple co-existential and relational modes of humans being. While the call to rewrite is a call to rethink, reimagine, re-curricularize knowledge processes, it should also compel a reconsideration of the act of academic writing, as a key site where Black and other disenfranchised people are rendered less than human or not human at all. And as such it is also the site, upon which Black and other disenfranchised people have historically intervened “cutting and augmenting” meaning with sound to announce the presence of Black/Human and to bring forth new insights toward the project of rewriting the current order of knowledge in the interests of a multiple/co-existential rendering of humans being.

摘要

在人文和社会科学传播的当前知识顺序内，黑人生活的问题几乎是不可想象的。西尔维亚·温特（Sylvia Wynter）断言，挑战这种不可思议性的唯一可能性是重写我们当前的知识秩序，以使它拒绝欧洲人的过分代表，并开放人类的多种共存和关系模式。虽然重写的呼吁是对知识过程的重新思考，重新想象，重新课程化的呼吁，但它也应该迫使人们重新考虑学术写作的行为，因为这是黑人和其他被剥夺权利的人被赋予低于人类或非人类的重要场所。完全没有 因此，它也是该网站，