On the idea of race and blackness, Denise Ferreira da Silva, in her Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007), advanced what she called the 'analytics of raciality'. Her aim was to understand how the 'nineteenth-century scientific projects of knowledge produced the notion of the racial, which institutes the global as an ontoepistemological context'. Thus, for her, the 'whole field of modern representation' is already contaminated with the logic of racial subjection, which has global implications. In that context, any understanding of modern global blackness comes already configured with this discourse of subjection. In her chapter 'Outlining the Global/Historical Subject', the specifics of how one is racialized in various locations remain a subject of continuing salience, as she sees the 'national text' reconfiguring globality and historicity. In many ways, though, this work owes a certain amount to Sylvia Wynter's 'theory of the human' (Wynter, 2003), which argues that Western man instated himself as man and instituted all others as deselected others, in accordance with a biocentric  
conception tying the human to Homo economicus and, therefore, to material possession, and linking the deselected others to dispossession.