September 2011
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Anonymous asked: If you haven't already read it, I would strongly recommend Cedric Robinson's Anthropology of Marxism. I think you would really appreciate what it's trying to do.
August 2011
19 posts
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so I guess i’m a doctor now?
parallels (1/5/83-8/23/01)
I think you’ve heard this story before. 8/23/01, couple weeks before the towers. I’m clutching the wheel of a rented club wagon and trying to play it much cooler than I can reasonably claim while doing 80 in the midst of a torrential downpour. No straight seeing here: I’m in the thrall of the road’s own punctuality. I’m about yellow lines and white dashes right...
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Anonymous asked: What's your sense on how Black Studies in the United States relates to the rest of the African diaspora? I've heard some arguments that it's often a colonial arrangement, that takes the experiences of Black people in America as the normative to which to compare the experiences of Black people elsewhere.
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metonymia asked: on a scale of 1 to aimé césaire how much of a badass was Toussaint Louverture?
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metonymia asked: can i still dance around to the seed 2.0 in the privacy of my own room ?
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ecrivaine asked: What's your dissertation about?
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Anonymous asked: who is your best friend ever, not just on tumblr but IRL? answer carefully and make sure to cite me in your acknowledgments TWICE. xoxoxo
Reblog if you'll answer anything that gets put in...
negritaaa:
yo. i got a message as soon as i hit reblog.
i’m on a writing break, so you got half an hour before i delete this and go back to dissertation hell. so try me. or don’t.
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harunwasagoon asked: How's that dissertation of yours coming along? Must be crunch time, huh
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anti-oppression discourse, part whatever
This is stupid long, so it’s under a cut. It’s a slightly spruced up version of a response to the hullabaloo around this post and to a discussion about it on livejournal that I rather unwisely responded to when my identity was put on trial. Props is due, though, to paradox_dragon for a thoughtful response that was about ideas and not just my body (which, by the way, is hecka...
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curate replied to your post (Not that it matters, but I actually respect that…
jumping in out of context w/ a musing ques: what’s a praxis of self-awareness as process that doesn’t reinforce anti-creative, reductive rationality (& conseq’y anxiety &/or depression)? & what’s the use of semi-anon communication, ie my question?
I wish I could say for sure. Like most remedies, too...
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(Not that it matters, but I actually respect that last poster’s caricature a lot more than a lot of the other responses, which didn’t engage with what I wrote as much as with what they were afraid what I was writing. And what they were afraid I was writing was always kind of a boogeyman-ish caricature of what I actually wrote, which made it quite easy to dismiss. At least this person...
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“Yawn. I see nothing more than poorly reasoned, unclearly written mental...”
– the sharpest response yet to my post from last week.
New York: Earlyish September-Late-ish September SoCal: Late September Portland?!: Mid-October Baltimore: Late October
Once I get this dissertation done, I need to have nothing to do with the Bay Area for a while.
