After rights, after Man? Sylvia Wynter, sociopoetic struggle and the ‘undared shape’

Decolonial and post-colonial critiques have shown how rights naturalise a normatively white, Western bourgeois, appropriative subject, while negating other forms of being subjectivity. Given the disquiet around their reimagining subject calls on us to think ‘after rights?’. Thinking rights?’, insisting question mark, I argue, entails seeking ‘undared shape’ (Aimé Césaire) untethered from figure sovereign Man. Sylvia Wynter’s historical-philosophical critique Man, search for human Man’, are central understanding colonial-modern order role within this. Extending orientations, first analyse implicated in modernity-coloniality’s material symbolic violences. Second, examine amplification sociopoetic struggles – those wide-ranging modes sociality cultural, survival practices by Man’s enslaved colonised Others. Such aimed displace Man as locus structures, forging new meanings world-making this hegemonic figure. Importantly world politics scholarship, work with abolitionist-reparative intent towards modernity-coloniality its master subject. Finally, consider what renarrating outside Man's horizon abnormative, insovereign anti-individualist praxis means rights.