I think that using alien to describe otherness works,” says Reynaldo Anderson, a professor who writes about Afrofuturism. Anderson is one of many theorists who view the alien metaphor as one that explains the looming space of otherness perpetuated by the idea of race. “We’re among the first alien abductees, kidnapped by strange people who…

‘Participant observation’ is not simply a research technique: it rests on the human capacity to form relationships, and it entails a struggle to maintain some degree of reflexive distance without violating those relationships. Gary Robinson, 2004 (via actuallyvirtual)

‘Participant observation’ is not simply a research technique: it rests on the human capacity to form relationships, and it entails a struggle to maintain some degree of reflexive distance without violating those relationships. Gary Robinson, 2004 (via actuallyvirtual)

This talk addresses some of the changes that have both pitched artists industry-wide into a debt-driven milieu and simultaneously worked against shared ideals of criticality and cooperative organizing; It points out, however, that these more collaborative tendencies are always latent and subject to reawakening. School, Debt, Bohemia: on the Disciplining of Artists | THE ARTIST…

This talk addresses some of the changes that have both pitched artists industry-wide into a debt-driven milieu and simultaneously worked against shared ideals of criticality and cooperative organizing; It points out, however, that these more collaborative tendencies are always latent and subject to reawakening. School, Debt, Bohemia: on the Disciplining of Artists | THE ARTIST…

You guys know about vampires? … You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this idea that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. And what I’ve always thought isn’t that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. It’s that if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them,…

You guys know about vampires? … You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this idea that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. And what I’ve always thought isn’t that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. It’s that if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them,…