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Ferreira da Silva''s own words, in interviews and an original essay, frame this collection of interdisciplinary scholars and artists engaging with her influential work at the intersections of global race, ethnic, and feminist studies. As a decolonial feminist philosopher, Denise Ferreira da Silva has pushed the fields of ethnic and feminist studies beyond traditional stakes in US-centered formulations of difference and inclusion. In Conversation with Denise Ferreira da Silva is an interdisciplinary reading companion of Silva''s work - and its reckoning with the persistence of global racial violence - designed to help scholars, students, artists, and activists better engage in a global idea of race. While traditional scholarship around difference has often focused on describing difference as separation, segregation, and subjugation, Ferreira da Silva''s art practice and philosophical writings attempt to think and teach "difference without separatability" The book is framed by original interviews with Ferreira da Silva on topics including Black Brazilian thought and feminist studies, disorder and Afro-pessimism, citation politics and decoloniality, and Spinoza and physics. Contributors from a broad range of disciplines - such as comparative literature, creative writing, criminology, gender studies, and global studies - provide short reflections on Ferreira da Silva''s methods and arguments on these topics. By providing a way to enter into dialogue with Ferreira da Silva''s works, this volume brings one of the most distinguished and consistent recent voices on the nature of the human to those interested in engaging questions of racial power and difference within their own disciplines.
List of contents
List of Figures
Orientations1. Introduction
(rashné limki, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Julietta Hua, University of California, Davis, USA)2. Interview with Denise Ferreira da Silva
(Denise Ferreira da Silva, University of British Columbia, Canada, with rashné limki and Julietta Hua)3. Fractal Worlds
(Long Bui, University of California, Irvine, USA) Part I: Applications4.Section Introduction
(rashné limki, and Julietta Hua)5. Interview with Denise Ferreira da Silva
(Denise Ferreira da Silva, University of British Columbia, Canada, with rashné limki and Julietta Hua)6. Rehearsing "The Scene of Nature": Writing and Reading the Text of Anti-Black Police Violence
(Carson Cole Arthur, University of London, UK)7. Reading as Alchemy: What Feminist Anti-War Ethics Can Learn from Denise Ferreira da Silva
(Danielle Bouchard, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)8. Digital and Algorithmic Landscapes and the Raciality of Technology
(Julietta Hua, University of California, Davis, USA)Part II: Philosophies9. Introduction
(rashné limki and Julietta Hua)10. Interview with Denise Ferreira da Silva
(Denise Ferreira da Silva, with rashné limki and Julietta Hua)11. Facing Denise Ferriera da Silva: Philosophy and Black Brazilian Radical Thought
(Federico Sanguinetti, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, Brazil, Agnes Oliveira Costa, UFRN, Brazil, Pedro Joao da Silva Bisneto, UFRN, Brazil Translated by Katucha Bento)12. On the Impact of Denise Ferreira da Silva's Scientific Thought (Huamnities, Brazil, and Elsewhere)
(Alexandro Silva De Jesus, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, Translated by Thuani Queiroz)
13. Shine: On Hegel, Marx, and the Non-appearance of Blackness in Denise Ferreira da Silva's Raw Materialism
(Sara-Maria Sorentino, University of Alabama, USA)Part III: Speculations14. Introduction
(rashné limki and Julietta Hua)15 Interview with Denise Ferreira da Silva
(Denise Ferreira da Silva, with rashné limki and Julietta Hua)16.
Tikal Futura: Central American Futurities, Latinx Studies, and Other Possible Narratives (¿ensayito futurista?)
(Cecilia M. Rivas, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)17. Anastasia's Eyes
(Nathalia Carneiro, University of São Paulo, Brazil)
18. Towards a Different Future of Ethnic Studies
(Maile Arvin, Unviersity of Utah, USA)19. Four Notes on Black Art: Authority, Criticality, Subjectivity, and Separability
(Denise Ferreira da Silva, University of British Columbia, Canada)
Notes on ContributorsIndex
About the author
Julietta Hua is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of California, Davis, USA. She is the author of Trafficking Women’s Human Rights (2011) and co-author, with Kasturi Ray, of Spent Behind the Wheel: Taxi Drivers in an Uber Economy (2021).rashné limki is Senior Lecturer in Race, Decolonial, and Organization Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her academic thinking and writing focus mainly on the role of coloniality in the world as is, and the possibilities for decolonization.Abimbola Adelakun is Assistant Professor in the Department of African/African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is co-editor, with Toyin Falola, of Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora (2018). She is also the author of Under the Brown Rusted Roofs (2008) and writes a weekly column for PUNCH Newspapers.Toyin Falola is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is an Extraordinary Professor of Political Science, University of Pretoria. He has received over 30 lifetime career awards and 24 honorary doctorates.
