MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Event

Dec 11, 2019
Troubling Epistemics and Postcolonialism

For this session we will read the following texts that will be introduced by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga:

[Provocation Text:]  Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa (Forthcoming). “Strategic Deployments & Creative Resilience: Fanon and the African Technological”. Draft under copyright, please do not cite, nor circulate further.

[Complementary Readings]: Fanon, Frantz (1965), A Dying Colonialism. New York: Grove Press; Yusoff, Kathryn (2018), A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 

All texts for this and future sessions are available on the Nextcloud repository.

Organizer(s)
Address
Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Room
Room 265
Contact and Registration

Open to all, no registration required. Any questions about this or further sessions can be addressed by sending an email to Marianna Szczygielska at szczygielska@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de or by speaking directly to Marianna, Edna Bonhomme, or Helen R. Verran in person.

About This Series
“Troubling Epistemics and Postcolonialism” is a monthly reading seminar interrogating "postcolonial" as an analytic concept in the history of science. The goal is to understand the ethics and mechanisms of our own epistemic practices as they relate to politics and power. We aim to examine the ways that epistemology is both historically contingent and actively produced within the history of science with the goal of troubling our disciplinary positions. For each meeting we list and circulate
  1. a short ‘provocative text’ to carry the empirical element and to provoke us to go wider in attempting to attend to something that troubles. Everyone is expected to read that text
  2. two or three "theoretical" or descriptive papers that we feel might be useful in "attending to the trouble." These are optional readings. The idea is that everyone who attends the discussion will have read at least the short provocation paper and bring some "troubles" to the meeting
2019-12-11T11:00:00SAVE IN I-CAL 2019-12-11 11:00:00 2019-12-11 12:30:00 Troubling Epistemics and Postcolonialism For this session we will read the following texts that will be introduced by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga: [Provocation Text:]  Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa (Forthcoming). “Strategic Deployments & Creative Resilience: Fanon and the African Technological”. Draft under copyright, please do not cite, nor circulate further. [Complementary Readings]: Fanon, Frantz (1965), A Dying Colonialism. New York: Grove Press; Yusoff, Kathryn (2018), A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.  All texts for this and future sessions are available on the Nextcloud repository. Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany Room 265 Marianna SzczygielskaEdna BonhommeHelen R. Verran Marianna SzczygielskaEdna BonhommeHelen R. Verran Europe/Berlin public