This course engages transdisciplinarian scholar Sylvia Wynter who argues that “semantically neurochemically-induced” narrations map how human, thus Humanism, gets encoded by society. Simply put, what separates human from their primate cousins is our ability to tell stories about in-groups and out-groups. Wynter’s provocation of “being human” necessarily leads to descriptions of power encoded by an “origin narrative”(Wynter 2015: 38). However, she identifies hopeful and radical ways that our bios and logos (nature and words) can be “redrawn again, in undared forms” (Wynter
1995: 35). Looking at large-scale human injustices such as immigration policy and anti-black violence, we draw on Wynter’s rich theoretical genealogy to discuss how global queer Black feminist critiques, science fiction/fantasy/horror genres, species catastrophe, AI, Afrofuturism, and the poetics/poiesis/praxis of anticolonial discourses evoke “undared forms.” This is a creative critical course.