ABV #44: School-to-prison pipeline, precision + “the people who run it”
∞ “The Rebirth of Cool: Trust, Tech, and Dystopias” by Tressie McMillan Cottom.“I kid Justin about calling me the guest pessimist. He had me visit because I’ve talked a bit about the course’s theme for...
View ArticleABV #45: “By right or by force”
∞ “Everyone Watches, Nobody Sees: How Black Women Disrupt Surveillance Theory” by Sydette Harry.“Surveillance is based on a presumption of entitlement to access, by right or by force. More importantly,...
View ArticleABV #49: “Self-deleting”, speech + sign-systems
∞ “How I Learned To Stop Erasing Myself” by Durga Chew-Bose.“The same goes for when I make a reservation or greet the hostess at a restaurant. “D’s fine,” is what I’ll say in a slack warble as if...
View ArticleABV #51: Museums, “material remnants” + the macabre
∞ “Open Minds, Open Hearts: Paddington’s London” by Brian Baker.“The film of Paddington is located in a very different kind of London. Sure, there are nods to indexical landmarks (the London Eye, the...
View ArticleABV #54: “Little colored pictures”
∞ “Peak Meaninglessness” by John Michael Greer, via Innovation Patterns.“If this seems somehow reminiscent of last week’s discussion of externalities, dear reader, it should. The claim that technology...
View ArticleABV #56: “Post-Election Depression Special”
∞ “We’re fucked. Now is the time for solidarity.” by Zoe Stavri.“We could talk about this election until the whole country falls into the sea as it rightly deserves, but there are more pressing things...
View ArticleABV #61: “not right, not yet, never yet”
∞ “Democracy is Joy” by Mark Fisher.“It’s somewhat ironic that theories of the “Event” have come to the fore in the most fashionable areas of academic political philosophy at just the moment in history...
View ArticleABV #64: “also citizens”
∞ “Chinua Achebe, The Art of Fiction No. 139”.“I don’t lay down the law for anybody else. But I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens. They are generally adults. My position is...
View ArticleABV #70: “the longest one I’ve walked”
∞ “something there is that doesn’t love a wall” by Sarah McCarry.“What a luxury to breathe in deep the last faint scent of blooming, pocket a drift of petals. All around us pain aggregates, an abscess...
View ArticleABV #71: “Limited perspectives and personal biases”
∞ “Sexism, crime fiction and JK Rowling’s ‘Career of Evil’” by EH Pipher.“Authorial voice aside, Rowling’s style has always been to tell stories through the eyes of her characters, with their limited...
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