In Conversation with Denise Ferreira da Silva

Julietta Hua is Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's 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.

• List of FiguresOrientations: Interlocutors1. 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 Law, 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. 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 (Humanities, 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. Anastásia'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

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