Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements

Julietta Singh challenges the drive toward the mastery over self and others by showing how the forms of self-mastery advocated by anticolonial thinkers like Fanon and Gandhi unintentionally reproduced colonial logic, thereby leading her to argue for a more productive human subjectivity that is not centered on concepts of mastery.

• A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (Forerunners: Ideas First)
• No Archive Will Restore You
• Waves of Knowing: A Seascape Epistemology
• The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Dissident Acts)
• The Hundreds
• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
• The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
• The Promise of Failure: One Writer's Perspective on Not Succeeding
• The Queer Art of Failure (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
• Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene