![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It then contends that Katherine McKittrick’s rearticulation of the Promise of Science can be extended to incorporate the promise of science fiction. It argues that Afrofuturism has the potential to interrupt the linear progression from human to posthuman and that Octavia Butler’s Fledgling proffers a narrative of race as a technology that disrupts the presumed post-raciality of posthumanism and transhumanism. Working through Sylvia Wynter’s theories of the rise of Man-as-human in particular, the project highlights how black thought on the human displaces the uncritical whiteness of posthumanist thought. Each is meant to allude to the generative potential in different iterations of black thought that engages the human. It articulates five categories of analysis: displace, interrupt, disrupt, expand, and wither. This thesis engages black critical thought on the human and its contemporary iterations in posthumanism and transhumanism. ![]()
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