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Illegibility was a political act.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
White people were looking at themselves and what their history has wrought, like a domestic animal having its face shoved into its own urine.”
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
What Happens to All the Asian-American Overachievers When the Test-Taking Ends? -- New York Magazine - Nymag
Wesley Yangnymag.com
It’s always startling to come across Cha’s videos in the company of other artists, as if I’m seeing a relative whom I haven’t seen for years in a bright public space. But what are you doing here, I want to ask, where have you been?
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
ours is an era of decline that has turned from the outward to the inward obsession with identity and “authenticity,” both personal and tribal, fueled by digital connectivity. Paradoxically, social media in this sense is anti-social, leading to the disintegration of community through a kind of connected isolation.
Noema • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
The dream of a Liberal (arts) education—which is the scaled, democratic form of the Keatsian ideal of negative capability—cannot hold up when liberalism itself is held to be suspect.
Zohar Atkins • The Liberal Arts Are Dying Because Liberalism is Dying
Orientalism
global cosmopolitanism, widely
Homi K. Bhabha • The Location of Culture (Routledge Classics)
nuanced ecologies of being and identity.