May 2011
23 posts
“I got something that makes me wanna shout. it goes
off in another chemistry,...”
– Fred Moten, I ran from it and was *still* in it. (via multitudes)
April 2011
13 posts
"Detroit, with its overwhelmingly black... →
the language of diversity really tells you very little.
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re: the previous post →
thegaysha:
If this is speaking of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, I need to point out that many of the grievances have been addressed.
See The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the current version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Indeed. But what I don’t believe has been addressed in its full dimensions—and...
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“My Dear Sir, I have received your declaration of human rights and want to say...”
– W.E.B. Du Bois (1944), as quoted in Randall Williams, The Divided World: Human Rights and its Violence (h/t lfnt)
“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense.”
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From Tenured Radical:
Don’t get angry about being an adjunct. The real problem right now is that education is in chaos. It seems pretty clear that there is no commitment among private or public institutions to return to full-time labor, and this situation is unlikely to get better in the time frame you need to establish a life and a pension plan. Be clear about why you have decided to...
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“Nowhere are the interrelated logics of property and the claiming of land,...”
– Audra Simpson, “On the Logic of Discernment”
Once I’m done with this dissertation, I want to read everything that Audra Simpson has ever written.
It’s interesting to look back at at my recent posts, and to realize that so many of them have been music and not writing/reflection. I think I work on music when I need to recognize a part of my own personhood that isn’t recognized in what is straightforwardly academic, even intellectual, especially when academic matters are saturating my life. In reflecting, I suppose that this is...
You Know You're A PhD Candidate When...: #4382
youlikemealready:
…it takes you 38 minutes to PERFECTLY compose, type, and send a single email asking to meet with someone ‘real quick’.
Bonus Points: if you haven’t spoken or seen that person in months & months but fully intend to use said meeting to ask them to replace member(s) of your dissertation committee anyways.
“I reminded her that my whole upbringing had been devoted to preventing me from...”
– Lucy, from Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy
“The impossible but necessary task of the reader is to set herself up to be...”
– Barbara Johnson, “Nothing Fails Like Success.”
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Sorry Robyn.