2/19 11:30am Sage 5711 Despite the tech industry’s proclamations of human and social advancement, today’s engineering imaginary fails to account for blackness beyond carcerality, death, deficit, or extraction. This oversight, at best, or violence, at worst, obliges a just society to interrogate which humans factor into the imaginations of the people driving its so-called advancement. Using Wynter’s formulation of Man2 as a framework, I demonstrate how the engineering imaginary’s coherence around this “genre” of the human (re)produces anti-blackness at both the material and (seemingly) immaterial levels. Lingering with genre in my approach, I turn to the Black speculative imaginary, arguing that it decenters Man2 and can serve as a guide in designing technologies that enshrine Black futures. Kristen Reynolds is currently an International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Africana Studies, the Center for Digital Scholarship, and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University. She earned her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2024. Her research utilizes Black speculative literature and culture to interrogate how engineering imaginaries reproduce antiblackness through their coherence around Sylvia Wynter’s articulation of “Man2, overrepresented as the human.” Her work thereby seeks to demonstrate how Black speculative literature and culture posits new frameworks for designing and developing technologies that promote and protect Black futures.