Assignment task:
Wynter's writings, is representatively linked to the figure of Man1 (invented by the Renaissance's studia humanitatis as homo politicus and therefore differentiated but not wholly separate from the homo religiousus conception of human) that was tethered to the theological order of knowledge of pre-Renaissance Latin-Christian medieval Europe; this figure opened up a slot for Man2, a figure based on the Western bourgeoisie's model of being human that has been articulated as, since the latter half of the nineteenth century, liberal monohumanism's homo oeconomicus . 4 These figures, both Man1 and Man2, are also inflected by powerful knowledge systems and origin stories that explain who / what we are. These systems and stories produce the lived and racialized categories of the rational and irrational, the selected and the dysselected, the haves and the have-nots as asymmetrical naturalized racial-sexual human groupings that are specific to time, place, and personhood yet signal the processes through which the empirical and experiential lives of all humans are increasingly subordinated to a figure that thrives on accumulation.