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Following a particularly unedifying debate over on r/CriticalTheory, I decided to make a subreddit devoted to the work of Sylvia Wynter. Here it is, newly minted: r/SylviaWynter.

Many Foucault fans will know that Wynter is strongly influenced by MF, particularly his notion of the episteme and his claim that Man is a recent invention. Wynter takes these ideas in radical new directions, departing from Foucault quite significantly while retaining a certain spirit of his work. That's my view, anyway. If you want to discuss everything and anything Wynter, please join the sub.

If you're completely new to Wynter, but want to find out how Foucault's work inspired one of the most influential theorists in Black studies, decolonial studies, queer and trans studies, and beyond, please check out the first post in the new subreddit, 'Getting started with Wynter'. If you have questions, please ask!

The recent conversation in here about Wynter and Deleuze made me realise that we need a Wynter subreddit. So I made one: r/SylviaWynter.

If you're into Wynter, please join and help to spread the word about one of our most important thinkers. Please share your own work on Wynter (and Wynterian themes), your thoughts and musings, and your favourite articles by others in Wynter Studies, as I call it.

If you're curious about Wynter, or struggling to get to grips with her famously dense and lengthy sentences, please join and ask for help!

Wynter tells us that in order to challenge the episteme of Man we must create and circulate new narratives of being human. Simply discussing her work and teaching others about it allows us to take a step in that direction. Let's use Reddit to hasten the "ceremony" that so many are longing for.