{"title":"Review of Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick (Duke University Press)","authors":"J. How, Gada Mahrouse","doi":"10.25158/l11.1.6","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"With 'Dear Science and Other Stories,' Katherine McKittrick does the work of liberation and enacts new ways of being. Building on her previous studies, this collection engages in a story-sharing, collaborative praxis that emerges from a \"black sense of place.\" McKittrick's Black and anti-colonial methodologies are \"rebellious,\" \"relational, intertextual, and interdisciplinary\"—thereby \"breaching\" the \"recursive,\" \"self-replicating\" logics of \"our present order of knowledge\" (44, 2, 23, 163). 'Dear Science' invents, reinvents, and reimagines \"being human as praxis\" through an aesthetic practice of deciphering theoretical texts, photographs, sounds, dance, and song (159). Illustrating her commitment to Black intellectual life, McKittrick writes, listens, and feels in communion with other creatives. In so doing, McKittrick skillfully bursts open the gatekeeping conventions that limit thought, and challenges readers to question what they think they know.\n","PeriodicalId":7777,"journal":{"name":"Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.25158/l11.1.6","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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With 'Dear Science and Other Stories,' Katherine McKittrick does the work of liberation and enacts new ways of being. Building on her previous studies, this collection engages in a story-sharing, collaborative praxis that emerges from a "black sense of place." McKittrick's Black and anti-colonial methodologies are "rebellious," "relational, intertextual, and interdisciplinary"—thereby "breaching" the "recursive," "self-replicating" logics of "our present order of knowledge" (44, 2, 23, 163). 'Dear Science' invents, reinvents, and reimagines "being human as praxis" through an aesthetic practice of deciphering theoretical texts, photographs, sounds, dance, and song (159). Illustrating her commitment to Black intellectual life, McKittrick writes, listens, and feels in communion with other creatives. In so doing, McKittrick skillfully bursts open the gatekeeping conventions that limit thought, and challenges readers to question what they think they know.
凯瑟琳·麦基特里克(Katherine McKittrick)在《亲爱的科学和其他故事》(Dear Science and Other Stories)一书中解放了人类,创造了新的存在方式。在她之前的研究的基础上,这个系列参与了一个故事分享,协作实践,从“黑人的地方感”中出现。麦基特里克的黑人和反殖民方法论是“反叛的”、“关系的、互文的和跨学科的”——因此“打破”了“我们目前的知识秩序”的“递归的”、“自我复制的”逻辑(44,2,23,163)。“亲爱的科学”通过解读理论文本、照片、声音、舞蹈和歌曲的美学实践,发明、重新发明和重新想象“作为实践的人”(159)。麦基特里克通过写作、倾听和感受与其他创意人士的交流,展现了她对黑人知识分子生活的承诺。在这样做的过程中,麦基特里克巧妙地打破了限制思想的守门人惯例,并挑战读者质疑他们自以为知道的东西。