Unthinking Mastery Quotes

“If the masterful work of global imperialism functions through the dehumanization of those it aims to conquer, and if we can now argue that the human to which we have been aspiring is intimately bound to a logic of mastery, then looking toward those “other genres of being human” that have been lived and will be lived by those subjected by imperial force might offer us other performances of the human that allow us to begin to practice nonmasterful forms of politics.”
― Julietta Singh, Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements

“we must begin to exile ourselves from feeling comfortable at home (which so often involves opaque forms of mastery), turning instead toward forms of queer dispossession that reach for different ways of inhabiting our scholarly domains—and more primordially, of inhabiting ourselves.”
― Julietta Singh, Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements