Race and the Fiction of Sovereign Embodiment, a talk by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson

We are proud to announce the Fourth Annual Joint Center for Knowledge, Technology and Society and Center for Nursing Philosophy colloquium

Race and the Fiction of Sovereign Embodiment

By Zakiyyah Iman Jackson

RSVP/registration is required. 

 https://ucihealth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7GSvxY4UR5ez00GCJJjq5w#/registration

For more information, please contact

Miriam Bender miriamb@uci.edu or Duncan Pritchard dhpritch@uci.edu

Zakiyyah Iman Jackson is associate professor of English and the director of the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Southern California, USA. Her research explores the literary and aesthetic aspects of Western philosophical and scientific discourse and investigates the engagement of African diasporic literature and visual culture with the historical concerns, knowledge claims, and rhetoric of Western science and philosophy.

This talk draws from a spate of her recent work on the intractable racial inheritance of our ideals of bodily autonomy and selfdetermination. It asks if ethics’ hegemonic premises are foundationally and seemingly insuperably antiblack, what does that suggest about our potential to craft a counterhegemonic mode of response to debility and premature death while in the maw of antiblackness’ domination of diagnosis and cure?