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* Advance Praise and Reviews * "This book is Black world building at its finest, beyond rhetorical gestures or fictional "what ifs." Philip Butler raises the stakes of who we can become by offering an architecture of who we've always been - brilliance embodied!" -- Dr. Gary F. Green II, Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Social Transformation at United Theological Seminary and Founder of Racial Intelligence Systems Still Black, Posthuman unravels the relationship that Black people have with humanity and Blackness by exploring Blackness at the intersection of Black theological thought, posthumanism, Black literature, and physics. Butler focuses on the significance of recognizing the dynamic and unpredictable nature of Black subjectivity that exists outside the realm/limitations of humanity. Still Black, Posthuman engages to what extent Black imaginings concerning the liberative realm have been shackled by placating to and living within the bounds of westernized notions of humanity.
Review Quotes: * Advance Praise and Reviews * "What looks at first like a book of wild range: Five Percenter ontology, parts work, cosmology, Kali, turns out to be a single claim rehearsed at ascending scale, from the soul-self to the nation. Butler has built something fractal and strange and coherent. Still Black, Posthuman refuses to ask permission, which is precisely its argument."-- Michael E. Sawyer, professor, African-American Literature & Culture, University of Pittsburgh
"This book is Black world-building at its finest, beyond rhetorical gestures or fictional 'what ifs.' Philip Butler raises the stakes of who we can become by offering an architecture of who we've always been--brilliance embodied!" -- Gary F. Green II, associate professor and director, Racial Intelligence Systems, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities