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a racial crime to be yourself if you are not White in America. It is a racial crime to look like yourself or empower yourself if you are not White. I guess…
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Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
La précarité existentielle, la dépendance, les délaissements, les rejets sont les pires produits de notre civilisation (qui a par ailleurs ses vertus) ; ces produits sont en cours d’universalisation, mais rencontrent encore heureusement de fortes résistances culturelles dans le reste du monde. Dans le même temps, dans les pays du Nord,
... See moreEdgar Morin • La Voie : Pour l'avenir de l'Humanité (Essais) (French Edition)
Peace, Walter Brueggemann
Lisa Sharon Harper • The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right
The latter is a dysgraphia of disaster, and these disasters arrive by way of the rapid, deliberate, repetitive, and wide circulation on television and social media of Black social, material, and psychic death. This orthography makes domination in/visible and not/visceral. This orthography is an instance of what I am calling the Weather; it
... See moreChristina Sharpe • In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
In their eyes, reform was entirely enlightened policy, and in advocating it, they repeatedly invoked the rhetoric of "freedom," "modernity," and "liberty."
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
Bhopal remains a stark disclosure of the discordance between corporate globalization and the possibility of security and sustainability for human communities.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
“I was assigned, at some point, a piece about a spree of killings and land thefts carried out with impunity in the West Bank since October 7th. The piece mostly focused on a single settlement where a man who had gone to pick olives on his land one Saturday was shot by an off-duty Israeli soldier. His execution had been captured on video. The story
... See moreDetermined to unshackle market forces from the heavy hand of the state and the millstone of “tax and spend,” the classes that led this bloc aimed to liberalize and globalize the capitalist economy. What that meant, in reality, was financialization: dismantling barriers to, and protections from, the free movement of capital; deregulating banking and
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