November 2010
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gonegood said: off topic: [laughter] is my favourite thing to see in scholarly interviews, second, perhaps, only to [incoherent mumbling]-which i saw in one once and i can never remember where…
Omg I hope you find it. Part of me feels like it must be Žižek. Also, I feel like the sign [laughter]—not [laughs] or [laughing] but [laughter]—in that specific interview gestures to a context of social...
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Damn, I thought I was going to enjoy this book, too.
In contrast to the kind of colonial formation that Cabral or Fanon con- fronted, settler colonies were not primarily established to extract surplus value from indigenous labour. Rather, they are premised on displacing indigenes from (or replacing them on) the land; as Deborah Bird Rose points out (1991: 46), to get in the way all the native...
For all the homage paid to heterogeneity and difference, the bulk of ‘post’-colonial theorizing is disabled by an oddly monolithic, and surprisingly unexamined, notion of colonialism. This would seem to spring from two distinct sources. The first is a pervasive Eurocentrism - or, as we might better term it, Occidocentrism - on the part of academic theorists, for whom colonialism...
Discourse of the University - Provision and worship of “objective” knowledge - usually in the unacknowledged service of some external master discourse.
doesn't have much use for the colonialism and...
peace to cranberries and cranberriness!!!
Critics of the Obama administration’s escalating intrusions on the dignity and violations of the privacy of air travelers are certainly correct in raising holy hell with the voyeurs and bullies that run the homeland’s security apparatus. The president’s men are a nasty little bunch, who seem to respond to every hint of danger by shouting “strip!” and fondling everyone within reach. But I must...
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be jealous
curate:
I met lowendtheory recently and that was cool
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“Thanks to heavy airplay on urban contemporary radio stations, ‘I Can’t Go for That’ also topped the U.S. R&B chart, a rare feat for a non-African American act. According to the Hall and Oates biography, Hall upon learning that ‘I Can’t Go For That’ had gone to number one on the R&B chart, wrote in his diary, ‘I’m the head soul brother...
“This September, a group of researchers at the University of California reported that a survey of predominantly white, middle-class graduating college seniors revealed that 80 percent believed confrontations, ranging from nonviolent mass demonstrations to violent acts, are necessary to achieve social change.”
- Report of the President’s Commission on Campus Unrest, 1970.
[the...
Of course when I need to write a paper I get all...
By the way, to whomever anonymously asked that fabulous question the other day, I haven’t forgotten or ignored you. It’s just a question that requires a lot of care to write about, and it’s a topic I’ve spent a lot of time trying to write about in a way that doesn’t feel exceedingly cliché and/or too academic. I’m in the process of writing a conference paper...
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abbyjean replied to your post: They sure fucked up a bunch of songs I love on…
keep your glee out of my en vogue!
I’m SAYING.
They sure fucked up a bunch of songs I love on Glee tonight.
minou replied to your post: “If Negro leadership, especially the new young…
I sorta disagree with this text but I like when you post stuff, so.
Thanks! I disagree with parts of it too, although I don’t know if my disagreement with it is more about its usefulness in 2010 than about the patterns it’s responding to in 1967. But you should say more (if you want)!
“If Negro leadership, especially the new young generation, also understood the history of the white Marxist Left, then they would better understand American capitalism and the Marxist Left’s real position within it. They would see how the myth of the Negro revolution is used by both capitalism and the white Left. However, the inner dynamic of American capitalism has nullified any...
“Bobby Kennedy recently made me the soul-stirring promise that one day—thirty...”
– from “From Nationalism, Colonialism, and the United States: One Minute to Twelve: A Forum” in The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings by James Baldwin (via ahnka)
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So! I just noticed! As of today I have something like 30% more followers than I did last week. How nice!
For the new folks, you know, feel free to drop a line and say hello. It’d be especially great if you’d let me know in the case that you are either 1) a law enforcement officer or 2) higher education faculty or administration.
Expect more posts like this!
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Generally speaking, in contemporary U.S. universities, the philosophy of departmental structuring, as well as the allocation of human and material resources within the humanities and the social sciences, operate on the basis of a relatively straightforward hierarchy of knowledges. On one hand, there is what are commonly understood as “traditional disciplines”; on the other, there are “identity...
“These doctors of philosophy never concede the moon to be less polished than a mirror; they want it to be more so, if that can be imagined, for they deem that only perfect shapes can suit perfect bodies. Hence the sphericity of the heavenly globes must be absolute.”
- Galileo, Dialogues
roropcoldchain asked: Peanut M&Ms or Plain?
What is your favorite color?
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there, will it make a sound?
What's your name?
What is your favorite color?
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there, will it make a sound?
What's your name?
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I’m in a question-answering mood. Maybe even for the TMI kind. Anonymous is enabled, in any case. Wanna try me?
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I keep starting to write something to air my annoyance at the way that feminist (and) lefty POC blogs are shitting on Nicki Minaj. And then I stop because I have other stuff to do, and because really, I could care less about defending Nicki Minaj. I think she is incredibly dope, and smart, and probably the most technically skilled rapper to break through to the mainstream since Ludacris, but she...
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