Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human As Praxis

Katherine McKittrick’s edited volume Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis is, as its title makes plain, rooted in the concept of praxis. This is a concept that, for Wynter, involves a vital ethic – vital, as in a matter of life and death. The volume is comprised of a lengthy conversation between Wynter and McKittrick alongside essays by scholars working within a variety of conceptual frames. It is out of this dialogic space that the foundations, provocations, and promise of Wynter’s intellectual/activist project emerge. McKittrick’s interview questions are perfectly attuned to the relational “knot of ideas and histories and narratives” that Wynter’s “anticolonial vision” evokes (2). They invite Wynter to…