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McKittrick’s iconic idea is that knowledge can be reorganised through story, rhythm, citation, black study and creative method rather than disciplined explanation alone. The theoretical contribution lies in her refusal to separate science, poetics, geography and black livingness into isolated regimes of proof: method becomes a compositional act, an ethical arrangement of relation, opacity and address. For Socioplastics, Dear Science offers an indispensable model of epistemic infrastructure as narrative assembly: the archive is not a passive storehouse but a situated engine that permits new modes of reading, indexing and world-making. Its operational value is methodological: it authorises a readerly field where data, memory, image, sound, geography and theory can be held together without collapsing into disciplinary hierarchy. The conceptual bridge is to black geographies and critical knowledge production, where the form of research itself becomes a spatial and political intervention.