Aggregate – Black Spaces Matter
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Aggregate – Black Spaces Matter
Residential segregation, zoned consumption, and an increasingly diffuse web of power are embedding progressively deeper into our world’s fabric. Avatars of nations remain with new matrixes of power overlaid and nestled within.
Jesse Robertson • A Complicated System of Traps: On Quinn Slobodian’s “Crack-Up Capitalism” — Cleveland Review of Books
in focusing only on the material basis of harm—environmental hazards, brutal police officers, and discriminatory employment algorithms, to name a few—we may overlook the ideas and ideologies that continue to give rise to those harms again and again. If, as Kelley laments, “There are very few contemporary political spaces where the energies of love
... See moreRuha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
We close, then, with a rumination on cracks and their role in crafting a more equitable world for all curious minds.
Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
Part of what I feel is important right now is to be in the system and to be creating these pockets and spaces and kind of stretching the constraints of people deeply in the current broken system to think differently, to expand their perspective, to exercise their moral imagination to look at a situation from a seven generations in the future, or fr... See more
Felix de Rosen • Sensing Towards Personal & Cultural Transformation
Zoning for diversity must be thought of differently from the usual zoning for conformity, but like all zoning it is suppressive. One form of zoning for diversity is already familiar in certain city districts: controls against demolition of historically valuable buildings. Already different from their surroundings, these are zoned to stay different
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