https://www.zakiyyahimanjackson.com/about daily 1.0 2024-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/1590288321494-FZJXEEO9KYDGBRF7LYV0/Z_Pic.jpg About - Zakiyyah Iman Jackson is Associate Professor of Literature at Duke University. Her research explores the literary and aesthetic aspects of Western philosophical and scientific discourse and investigates the engagement of African diasporic literature, film, and visual art with the historical concerns, knowledge claims, and rhetoric of Western science and philosophy. Professor Jackson is the author of Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World. Becoming Human is a call for rethinking the philosophical import of African diasporic literature and visual art. It demonstrates that gender, sexuality, and maternity are integral sites for producing a human-animal distinction that persistently reproduces the racial logics and orders of Western thought. Jackson argues that the literary texts and visual artistic practices featured in Becoming Human generate transformative possibilities for reimagining being by neither relying on animal abjection to define what we call human nor reestablishing “recognition” within liberal humanism as an antidote to racialization. Ultimately, Becoming Human reveals both the terrorizing peculiarity of reigning foundational conceptions of “the human” rooted in Renaissance and Enlightenment humanism and expressed in current multiculturalist alternatives as well as highlights generative, unruly senses of being/knowing/feeling existence put forward by black feminist theory, literature, and art. Becoming Human is the winner of the Harry Levin First Book Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association, the Gloria Anzaldúa Book Award from the National Women’s Studies Association and the Lambda Literary Book Award for LGBTQ Studies. Professor Jackson is at work on a second book, tentatively titled “Obscure Light: Blackness and the Derangement of Sex/Gender.” The project provides a critique of biocentrism (or biological reductionism and determinism) and elucidates what Jackson argues is the indistinction of sex/gender and race. It maintains that antiblackness constitutes the bedrock of modern Western logics of sex/gender, in science and philosophy, and meditates on the transfiguring potentialities of blackness. Jackson’s work has appeared in scholarly journals such as Feminist Studies, e-flux, Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, South Atlantic Quarterly, and Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience in addition to exhibition catalogues for the Whitney Museum, Hammer Museum, and The Studio Museum of Harlem. https://www.zakiyyahimanjackson.com/books daily 0.75 2022-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/f44fcd5a-7047-4608-8734-1f709db75566/800px-Black_Hole_in_the_universe.jpeg Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/52470e68-764c-44b1-8929-7a2688ac4cf4/9781479830374.jpeg Books https://www.zakiyyahimanjackson.com/media daily 0.75 2022-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/77809d75-3572-41fe-80e3-ed9c7709cb30/1_2.jpg Media Fantastic Blackness with Tav and Shanté “Interview: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson on Becoming Human,” March 21, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/1597955291824-4WZ87RP4ZE8W23S6VANT/ParViews.jpg Media Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael, “Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World w/ Zakiyyah Iman Jackson,” August 14, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/1597955853738-S2P3V3LZ51N64V9K356V/Always.jpg Media Always Already Podcast, “Interview: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson on Becoming Human,” July 2, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/1597960952488-CSLHSJIWCFYZTSH3KGGB/BlkAgenda.jpg Media Black Agenda Report, BAR Book Forum: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s “Becoming Human,” May 20, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/1597961074759-XSSPGC16XE1LNUTCA16P/BlackPerFINAL.jpg Media Black Perspectives, “Becoming Human: A New Book on Blackness and Animality,” May 8, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/9dea7f1f-b0fb-466e-82b8-33ae3dc8f6c6/Screenshot+2024-07-10+at+1.19.48%E2%80%AFPM.png Media Zakiyyah Iman Jackson speaks at Loophole of Retreat: Venice, a symposium held from Oct 7-9, 2022 at the Fondazione Cini in Venice, Italy, in conjunction with Simone Leigh: Sovereignty, the artist's exhibition at the U.S. Pavilion as part of the 59th Biennale di Venezia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/f98726ed-1f2b-4264-a75a-1da59cebda65/hqdefault.jpeg Media A Map to the Door of No Return at 20: A Gathering (York University) (K’eguro Macharia, Tiana Reid, Sam Tecle, and Zakiyyah Iman Jackson) November 4, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/8974051a-0d51-4147-a5f4-7b202fdedede/Screen+Shot+2022-02-04+at+5.23.38+PM.png Media The Center for Religion & the Human Presents Zakiyyah Iman Jackson in Conversation with J. Kameron Carter (Indiana University) March 24, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/a0323b65-2395-4bf2-9545-ba5899977dd1/Screen+Shot+2022-02-10+at+9.36.23+PM.png Media Looking Like a Person: Portraits after Coloniality (Huntington Library) (Malik Gaines, Simon Gikandi, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Joseph M. Pierce) October 5, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/4b2477fb-5d8c-45a7-b612-b163ec1b9cff/Screen+Shot+2022-02-04+at+5.26.56+PM.png Media Against Criticism: Notes on Decipherment and the Force of Art (UCLA program in Experimental Critical Theory and Hammer Museum) (Zakiyyah Iman Jackson and Kenneth Reinhard) May 6, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/37004686-e774-4787-bc8b-0062b720f37c/Screen+Shot+2022-02-10+at+11.01.12+AM.png Media Messy Studio: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21–Academy) (Markus Reymann, John Palmesino, and Zakiyyah Iman Jackson) June 21, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/d871b1e4-91ae-4346-871f-b342bebae7d4/Screen+Shot+2022-02-10+at+11.01.39+AM.png Media Fleshing out the Image: Pleasure and Refusal in Contemporary Aesthetics: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson in conversation with Denise Ferreira da Silva (University of Copenhagen) November 27, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/e6077b0b-b204-4142-95e5-36efc6eaec36/Screen+Shot+2022-02-10+at+11.02.36+AM.png Media Becoming Human Book Launch (Eric Ziner, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Tavia Nyong’o, Joshua Chambers-Letson, and Ann Pellegrini) May 5, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/7ff351bb-e0a5-4102-9ee5-da28dd00b7fd/Screen+Shot+2022-02-10+at+11.03.17+AM.png Media Loophole of Retreat: Guggenheim Museum (Tina Campt, Dionne Brand, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Christina Sharpe, and Vanessa Agard-Jones) May 3, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/a82212e0-e581-495f-8508-022f6128b364/Screen+Shot+2022-02-10+at+11.03.32+AM.png Media The Theoretical Turn Panel: Columbia University (Josef Sorett, Rizvana Bradley, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Christina Sharpe, and Joseph Winters) April 25-27, 2019 https://www.zakiyyahimanjackson.com/scholarship daily 0.75 2022-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/ecc9e5ee-1646-46ac-b3fd-fee4e8e4552f/topia.jpeg Scholarship “Black Light: On the Origin and Materiality of the Image” Special Issue A Map to the Door of No Return at 20: A Gathering. Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies journal, 46 (April 2023) 134-148. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/4713d772-0880-468c-9cc1-53165ced4594/moreposthuman.jpeg Scholarship “Ontologized Plasticity.” More Posthuman Glossary. Edited by Rosi Braidotti, Emily Jones, and Goda Klumbyte. Bloomsbury Press (December 2022) 89-90. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/b5ee1a01-b55e-48be-8cd5-db8be0bf2726/oceans.jpeg Scholarship “Genealogical Mutations in the Works of Wangechi Mutu,” excerpt from Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World, in Oceans, edited by Pandora Syperek and Sarah Wade. MIT Press (June 2023) 116-123. Whitechapel Gallery, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/1721095265356-QL0WJ3B76LUYFHZX9R9I/laurawilcox.jpg Scholarship Interviewed by Lauren Wilcox, “Black Feminism at the End of the World” International Politics Reviews journal (March 2022) Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/43f0d074-07e7-4cfb-8c5e-c467f391da85/Image+1.jpeg Scholarship “Ontological Slippage and the Amassing Utility of Blackness” in Everlasting Plastics: 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale Catalogue, edited by Tizziana Baldenebro and Lauren Leving. Columbia University Press (May 2023) Online and 71-73. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/dba3f3e0-4614-4d90-86ce-80f051da1df7/Screen+Shot+2022-10-30+at+2.37.15+PM.jpg Scholarship "Saidiya Hartman by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson" in BOMB Magazine. Winter 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/d2a540f9-d61b-4d97-8125-30f8af065920/51chlo6z4iL.jpg Scholarship "Black Light: On the Origin and Materiality of the Image," in "As Quiet as It's Kept," Whitney Biennial 2022 (Whitney Museum, New York, 2022). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/1590115364040-D5ZWNB25VDJY72SCDHTV/Book_Cover.jpg Scholarship Women in Theory, Book Forum on Becoming Human: Matter and Meeting in an Antiblack World Forum Contributors: Joshua Chambers-Letson, Penelope Deutscher, Tavia Nyong'o and Zakiyyah Iman Jackson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/1590115364040-D5ZWNB25VDJY72SCDHTV/Book_Cover.jpg Scholarship "Black feminism at the end of the world: an interview with Zakiyyah Iman Jackson" in International Politics Reviews, March 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/33e8797a-df6b-4e1a-b169-bdd6c5d9656d/61aeG8PXAyS.jpg Scholarship “Against Criticism: Notes on Decipherment and the Force of Things,” in No Humans Involved (Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 2021). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/1590126928838-HXLGA8MLMN5AB777IQ0J/20140301_Trade-151_0124-copy.jpg Scholarship “Suspended Munition: Mereology, Morphology, and the Mammary Biopolitics of Transmission in Simone Leigh’s Trophallaxis” in E-Flux Journal, 105 (December 2019) 1-8. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/c31cb145-acc3-4715-83be-83f337625fb9/SAQ_117_3_pr.jpeg Scholarship “ ‘Theorizing in a Void’: Sublimity, Matter, and Physics in Black Feminist Poetics” in South Atlantic Quarterly, 117. 3 (July 2018) 617-648. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/1590128135364-A2YJOWT81EXE35YJNYMM/Sense.jpg Scholarship “Sense of Things” in Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 2.2 (December 2016) 1-48. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/90a13bd7-f6d4-4b41-b1d2-b45ba7687a8d/25.1-2.2016.fallwinter.png Scholarship “Losing Manhood: Animality and Plasticity in the (Neo) Slave Narrative” in QuiParle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, 25.1-2 (December 2016) 95-136. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/1590128939969-N6D9PYK3UIN4IBKPVKF7/Outer+Worlds.jpg Scholarship Outer Worlds: The Persistence of Race in Movement ‘Beyond the Human’ ” in Gay and Lesbian Quarterly (GLQ), 21.2-3 (June 2015) 215-218. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/1590129032067-4QD8JA68LAB2CR3ICJJ3/Animal.jpg Scholarship “Animal: New Directions in the Theorization of Race and Posthumanism” in Feminist Studies, 39.3 (January 2013) 669-685. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/1590129187857-ETPWEPBLB6Z38T8O63QI/Waking.jpg Scholarship “Waking Nightmares” in Gay and Lesbian Quarterly (GLQ), 17.2 (April 2011) 357-363. https://www.zakiyyahimanjackson.com/media-1 daily 0.75 2022-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/85d32551-6474-4d04-8e9d-a82c4f814858/hqdefault.jpeg Media (Copy) - Make it stand out A Map to the Door of No Return at 20: A Gathering (York University) (K’eguro Macharia, Tiana Reid, Sam Tecle, and Zakiyyah Iman Jackson) November 4, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/1595638468797-05KDZWHMN7GQ3XPZNKXS/Screen+Shot+2020-07-24+at+5.49.44+PM.png Media (Copy) Messy Studio: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21–Academy) (Markus Reymann, John Palmesino, and Zakiyyah Iman Jackson) June 21, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/e4cc2560-224a-4485-860e-9dbb0be48bc7/Screen+Shot+2022-02-04+at+5.23.38+PM.png Media (Copy) - Make it stand out The Center for Religion & the Human Presents Zakiyyah Iman Jackson in Conversation with J. Kameron Carter (Indiana University) March 24, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/31844970-c71a-4d77-95cd-06ea2b294b48/Screen+Shot+2022-02-04+at+5.26.56+PM.png Media (Copy) - Make it stand out Against Criticism: Notes on Decipherment and the Force of Art (UCLA program in Experimental Critical Theory and Hammer Museum) (Zakiyyah Iman Jackson and Kenneth Reinhard) May 6, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/1597955853738-S2P3V3LZ51N64V9K356V/Always.jpg Media (Copy) Always Already Podcast, “Interview: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson on Becoming Human,” July 2, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/1597955291824-4WZ87RP4ZE8W23S6VANT/ParViews.jpg Media (Copy) Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael, “Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World w/ Zakiyyah Iman Jackson,” August 14, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/1597960952488-CSLHSJIWCFYZTSH3KGGB/BlkAgenda.jpg Media (Copy) Black Agenda Report, BAR Book Forum: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s “Becoming Human,” May 20, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/1597961074759-XSSPGC16XE1LNUTCA16P/BlackPerFINAL.jpg Media (Copy) Black Perspectives, “Becoming Human: A New Book on Blackness and Animality,” May 8, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847323266-72NWHRF1QFUTULW9BR18/20140301_Trade-151_0124-copy.jpg Media (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847322796-4GQWUIJZ69E1XBVGEYUY/Large+JPG-20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Media (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847322171-2YHNWSTDQVJZWG6BB8MJ/Large+JPG-Aro+Ha_0428.jpg Media (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847321447-1IJTU4ZDFUYJYXJTERFM/Large+JPG-Aro+Ha_0010.jpg Media (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847320238-2VZQPV9ELGH1BFG69Q8J/Large+JPG-Aro+Ha_0393.jpg Media (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847319534-81UFWBJ847PXRDO7CHWE/Large+JPG-Aro+Ha_0380.jpg Media (Copy) https://www.zakiyyahimanjackson.com/obscure-light daily 0.75 2024-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/48224064-f372-43a9-a55b-918e8d0c055b/800px-Black_Hole_in_the_universe.jpeg Obscure Light Obscure Light https://www.zakiyyahimanjackson.com/becoming-human daily 0.75 2022-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec32e802865592f4b798d81/1589857626380-5L3KAH7L08GQJ0LVU6MU/Book_Cover.jpg Becoming Human - “Brilliantly reframes the relation between blackened life and the category of human, by shifting the terms of the debate.” — Saidiya Hartman, author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments