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Zakiyyah Iman Jackson

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In this episode, Emily is delighted to talk with Dr. Zakiyyah Iman Jackson about her new book Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World. Turning to African diasporic literature, Jackson theorizes the relationship between blackness and animality, bringing black critical theory and posthumanism to bear on one another. Our conversation traces Jackson’s intellectual journey to the book project and to the question of animality more broadly, examines the methodological approaches of the book and the possibilities and poetics of language, and unpacks the project’s political stakes. On the way, we discuss plasticity, Jackson’s ontology, the importance of cultural production for theorizing the human, the relationship between science/positivism and colonialism, and more. Requests for texts for us to discuss? Dreams for us to interpret? Advice questions for us to answer? Email us at alwaysalreadypodcast AT gmail DOT com. Subscribe on iTunes. Follow us on Twitter. Like our Facebook page. RSS feed here. Thanks to Bad Infinity for the intro music, “Post Digital,” from their album FutureCommons; always already thanks to B for the outro music. For the mp3 of the episode click here. https://alwaysalreadypodcast.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/zijackson.mp3   Links:  Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s website and twitter Becoming Human at NYU Press Virtual book launch for the text hosted by NYU Press Interview with AAIHS on the book

In this episode, Emily is delighted to talk with <a href="https://www.zakiyyahimanjackson.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr. Zakiyyah Iman Jackson</a> about her new book <a href="https://nyupress.org/9781479830374/becoming-human/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World</a>. Turning to African diasporic literature, Jackson theorizes the relationship between blackness and animality, bringing black critical theory and posthumanism to bear on one another. Our conversation traces Jackson’s intellectual journey to the book project and to the question of animality more broadly, examines the methodological approaches of the book and the possibilities and poetics of language, and unpacks the project’s political stakes. On the way, we discuss plasticity, Jackson’s ontology, the importance of cultural production for theorizing the human, the relationship between science/positivism and colonialism, and more. Requests for texts for us to discuss? Dreams for us to interpret? Advice questions for us to answer? Email us at alwaysalreadypodcast AT gmail DOT com. Subscribe <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/always-already-podcast-episodes/id879272845" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">on iTunes</a>. Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/AlwaysAlreadyOn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. Like <a href="https://www.facebook.com/alwaysalreadypodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">our Facebook page</a>. RSS feed <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/alwaysalreadypodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Thanks to <a href="https://soundcloud.com/badinfinity" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bad Infinity</a> for the intro music, “Post Digital,” from their album <a href="https://soundcloud.com/badinfinity/sets/futurecommons" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FutureCommons</a>; always already thanks to B for the outro music. For the mp3 of the episode click <a href="https://alwaysalreadypodcast.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/zijackson.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. <a href="https://alwaysalreadypodcast.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/zijackson.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://alwaysalreadypodcast.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/zijackson.mp3</a> Links: <ul> <li>Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s <a href="https://www.zakiyyahimanjackson.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/zijackson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">twitter</a></li> <li>Becoming Human at <a href="https://nyupress.org/9781479830374/becoming-human/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NYU Press</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlVbefIeRWQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Virtual book launch</a> for the text hosted by NYU Press</li> <li><a href="https://www.aaihs.org/becoming-human-a-new-book-on-blackness-and-animality/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Interview</a> with AAIHS on the book</li></ul>

Interview: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson on Becoming Human — Epistemic Unruliness 30

What would happen if we threw out the boundaries between academic disciplines? How would our collective histories, conflicts, and corporealities change if we stopped assuming that art, science, and politics have ever been separate projects? Today's guest, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, argues that the complexity of blackness and gender reveal the deep imbrications of all of these projects at the bedrock of what it means to be human. In episode 112 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach interviews feminist scholar Zakiyyah Iman Jackson about her new book and the role of blackness in defining the human both historically and in our current world, how black feminist interdisciplinarity offers tools for resisting complex social violences, and why helping art and scholarship foment minor revolutions is how Zakiyyah imagines otherwise. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/112-zakiyyah-iman-jackson

What would happen if we threw out the boundaries between academic disciplines? How would our collective histories, conflicts, and corporealities change if we stopped assuming that art, science, and politics have ever been separate projects? Today's guest, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, argues that the complexity of blackness and gender reveal the deep imbrications of all of these projects at the bedrock of what it means to be human. In episode 112 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach interviews feminist scholar Zakiyyah Iman Jackson about her new book and the role of blackness in defining the human both historically and in our current world, how black feminist interdisciplinarity offers tools for resisting complex social violences, and why helping art and scholarship foment minor revolutions is how Zakiyyah imagines otherwise. Transcript and show notes: <a href="https://ideasonfire.net/112-zakiyyah-iman-jackson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ideasonfire.net/112-zakiyyah-iman-jackson</a>

Zakiyyah Iman Jackson on Black Feminist Interdisciplinarity