Dear Science and Other Stories

Katherine McKittrick's Dear Science and Other Stories explores black and anticolonial methodologies through storytelling and citations, offering interdisciplinary codes to disrupt knowledge systems and imagine rebellious ways of living.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 29 January 2021
Publisher: Duke University Press

Katherine McKittrick's "Dear Science and Other Stories" is a thought-provoking and meticulous exploration of black and anticolonial methodologies. She draws on various disciplines, including black studies, race studies, cultural geography, and black feminism, employing a diverse range of methods, citational practices, and theoretical frameworks. Through her analysis of texts by intellectuals and artists such as Sylvia Wynter and the electronica band Drexciya, McKittrick reveals how narratives of imprecision and relationality challenge knowledge systems that seek to observe, index, know, and discipline blackness. Throughout the book, McKittrick weaves curiosity, wonder, citations, numbers, playlists, friendship, poetry, inquiry, song, grooves, and anticolonial chronologies into the academic form, creating a rich and interdisciplinary tapestry. She suggests that black life and black livingness themselves are rebellious methodologies, offering glimpses into the ways in which black intellectuals invent ways of living outside prevailing knowledge systems.

Weight: 528g
Dimension: 160 x 237 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781478010005