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Who thrives in an undifferentiated environment?
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
It is in these modes and methods of self-cultivation and their extension to wider levels of community and universe that we might find the historical sources of a new universalism.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
these practices of creative self-making and the profligate circulation of these performative embodiments that come with the possibilities of Web 2.0, don't operate outside boundaries or constraints.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Orientalism
Our decisions must consider the well-being of those who have been excluded.
Arawana Hayashi • Social Presencing Theater: The Art of Making a True Move
antiessentialist conception of SF:
Rob Latham • Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings
is it an expression of queer anti-sociality, more evidence that “communities” are not communitarian?
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Yuk Hui, a contemporary philosopher from Hong Kong, writes on the potential for digital networks to develop new kinds of urban solidarities. He writes , “for such concrete solidarity to emerge, we need a techno-diversity which develops alternative technologies such as new social networks, collaborative tools, and infrastructures of digital i
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