Dear Zoe, It’s me. You? Us. 13 years in the future. You’re an undergrad working two jobs to support yourself through your undergraduate degree. You are volunteering and working and studying easily 70+ hours a week. I’m a professor (well, a lecturer who is on a tenure track job before finishing your PhD–go you!). I’m… Read More
to heck with irony
To heck with an art world that robs us of space to express earnestness and vulnerability and forces our most audacious and un-containable desires and dreams within the ennui and irony of white supremacy and capitalist production. We deserve art and spaces that can expand with our most lusty, audacious, powerful and time-space-bending dreams. i’m… Read More
Listening to A Tribe Called Red in Britain: how I learned to centre music-as-political philosophy
I started a PhD in Scotland in October 2010. I sometimes joke that my second ethnographic experience, as an anthropology student, was in being immersed in the British academy and encountering the ongoing British imaginaries of itself as civilizer, intellectual powerhouse and ‘saviour’ of peoples around the World. To say that living in Britain was… Read More