What implications do sociogeny and the sociogenic principle respectively have for responses to racism and ecological destruction? Both Frantz Fanon and Sylvia Wynter agree that we need a fundamental transformation in the constitution of the social environment, yet their respective concepts of sociogeny and the sociogenic principle offer 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 begin the seminar by reading selections from Black Skin, White Masks, as well as The Wretched of the Earth to trace Fanon’s development of Sociogeny. Through the lens of sociogeny, we will consider questions of racial identity, social ontology, and what this means for Pan-Afrikanism, anti-colonial, and -imperial solidarity and community; the role of land and nature in Fanon’s vision of a transformed and liberated social environment; and the relation of anti-colonial violence and healing in Fanon’s psychopolitics. In the second half of the course, we will turn to Wynter, to see how she transforms Fanon’s notion of sociogeny into the sociogenic principle and the search for a “new science” and ceremony.