Introduction: Decoloniality in the Break of Global*Blackness — Movement, Method, Poethics
Thinking through the multiplying disorders and worldwide demonstrations staged in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and others in the US and Global South, this introduction offers to think of decoloniality in the break of global*Blackness as movement, method and poethics. We focus on the radical spaces of uncertainty and exorbitant violence that make it necessary to read both decoloniality and global*Blackness as two sides of the same coin operating to deracialize everywhere for worlds otherwise. The essay introduces readers to the concept of global*Blackness, connecting terms through an asterisk as a new way of expressing the undefinable, unsayable, the profane, the ungiven dimensions that unsettle the global and at the same time resonates with the political history of Blackness in the world. Global*Blackness allows us to consider key questions related to how the concept illuminates modes of decoloniality that offer hope for a re-existence under conditions of dignity and for rebirth. In an extensive discussion of the concept of decoloniality as deployed by key thinkers, the authors also offer to link the current struggles to decolonize with the anticolonial struggles of the past, apprehending the present through entangled temporalities. These reflections on global*Blackness, decoloniality and the thought and movements that they generate are carefully illustrated in the contributions in this volume which explore the scenes of coloniality and the resolves to decolonize—to bring forth futures without the violence of our disorderly present.
