You are strongly advised to take the F24 Frantz Fanon seminar to prepare for this course. We will approach Sylvia Wynter’s wide-ranging and original body of work by focusing on her engagement with Fanon. Specifically, we will track the shift from her concern with Fanon from her earlier experiments with a Caribbean decolonial critical theory to her adaptation of Fanon’s sociogeny into the sociogenic principle and a new humanist planetary project. Both Fanon and Wynter agree that a fundamental transformation in the constitution of the social environment is needed, yet their respective concepts of sociogeny and the sociogenic principle offer importantly different responses to the question of how such environments might be transformed. If Fanon ultimately stresses the need for revolutionary praxis to create a “new man,” on Wynter’s account such transformation requires finding ceremonies to prompt evolutionary shifts in our way of being human. We will ask questions such as: What implications do sociogeny and the sociogenic principle respectively have for responses to racism and ecological destruction? How novel is the new humanism that Wynter proposes? What does Wynter’s later project mean for epistemology, academic philosophy, Black Studies, and the university more broadly?