RADICAL PEDAGOGY IS NOT about narcissism Narcissus is always looking for her/his/their own reflection self-reflecting: Hey guys! Something with your eyes! Decolonize your guise! Does size matter, otherwise? De-phallocentricize? De-logocentricize? De-anthropocentricize? De-centricize Za-zee-zy-ci-say-wi-fi-csi-9-see-centric Eccentric like a clown, like a fool gettin’ down Like the shepherd gettin’ laid, am I overpaid? From ‘RADICAL PEDAGOGY’, the collective […]
NOW I SPEND MY WHOLE DAY INSIDE HERE I HAD TO LEARN MY HOME ALL OVER AGAIN ALTHOUGH I AM SITTING IN THIS ROOM SOMETIMES I FEEL AS IF I AM IN TRINIDAD text from Stephen Willats ‘Concrete Windows’, included in the catalog ‘…AND OTHER SUCH STORIES’, edited by Yesomi Umolu, Sepake Angiama, and Paulo […]
Intimacy is a vital ingredient for learning – especially when working within informal spaces. To learn from each other and be open to knowledge requires us to be vulnerable, to trust, and to be willing to actively listen openly. – Sepake Angiama ‘Intimacy’, in ‘aneducation documenta 14’, Archive Books: Berlin, 2018 I share these books […]
* Dylan Robinson Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2020, p. 15.
documenta 14 is not owned by anyone in particular. It is shared among its visitors and artists, readers and writers, as well as all those whose work made it happen. We write incarcerated by the myth of individual authorship. Whether poetry or prose (or whatever this is) I blow out hard from these puffed-up lungs. […]
Holiness is what is dear to the gods. Who said that? I dunno but it’s not helpful. Never mind, ignore it. Let’s check-in instead. So, how are you coping? Healthy and sane? My starting position (forced on each of us, black reader and white writer, by this writing and our society) were the sites of […]
On this day commemorating incomplete emancipation, I offer you this unfinished blogpost in the form of three unanswerable questions: How many Republican sheep does it take to maintain Trump’s regime? How many armed militia statue-protectors does it take to maintain settler colonialism? How many commercial prisons does it take to maintain racist injustice? This blogpost […]
As promised in Wednesday’s post, here is the first part of the Black Athena Reloaded session from the documenta 14 public program The Parliament of Bodies: While the second session focused on the brutal slavery document, Le code noir, this first discussion engages the theme of ‘Ideas as Migrants – Our Common Ghosts’, and is […]