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 for rebellion against knowledge systems.

Format: Paperback / softback
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 disrupt 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, suggesting that black life and black livingness themselves are rebellious methodologies. She imagines the ways in which black intellectuals invent ways of living outside prevailing knowledge systems, without fully disclosing their methods.

Weight: 376g
Dimension: 153 x 229 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781478011040