Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Theoretical Futures": The Creation of a Concept / Grant Farred -- 1. On the Fecundity of Small Places / John E. Drabinski -- 2. Paulin J. Hountondji on Philosophy, Science, and Technology: From Husserl and Althusser to a Synthesis of the Hessen-Grossmann Thesis and Dependency Theory / Zeyad el Nabolsy -- 3. The State of Crisis and the Crisis of the State in the Twenty-First Century / Radwa Saad -- 4. Insurgent Practices in Contemporary Francophone Africa: Emerging Critical Challenges / Kasereka Kavwahirehi -- 5. Tampered Witnessing: Visual Agency and the African American Poet / Gregory Pardlo -- 6. Subverting Colonial Aesthetics: Frantz Fanon, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Janelle Monáe / Sarah Then Bergh -- 7. Seductive Solidarity: Comrade Lover and Other Demons / Akin Adesọkan -- 8. Seeing, Hearing, Breathing, and Witnessing from the Africana Center at Cornell: An Afterword / Pierre-Philippe Fraiture -- Contributors -- Index.