autodidact. scattered notes on the conjuncture. deconstruction, t/races, fragments, poetics, anarcho-communism, fugitive nihilism

London
Joined October 2007
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Dhanveer and me in conversation with Jeremy
In depth discussion of the history of Black Cultural Studies in Britain and the more recent adoption of US 'Black Critical Thought' by younger scholars, through to the revival of Black Marxism in very recent years. culturepowerpolitics.org/202…
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"When people talk about the need for Black Excellence I counter with an insistence on Black mediocrity: the right for black people to be as average, flawed, compromised & mistaken as any other group of people. The right, ultimately, to be human." R.I.P. Jason Arday
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Dhanveer and me in conversation with Jeremy
In depth discussion of the history of Black Cultural Studies in Britain and the more recent adoption of US 'Black Critical Thought' by younger scholars, through to the revival of Black Marxism in very recent years. culturepowerpolitics.org/202…
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As I've said before it is helpful to realize that the US isn't really a proper nation-state, but more like a heavily armed hedge-fund that a periodically rewrites its investment prospectus and rebalances an asset portfolio of markets, members, and money power.
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Renee was one of my students years ago. I held her baby. She was kind and talented, a working class mom who put herself through school despite circumstances that would’ve crumpled the pathetic rich boy politicians who sadistically abetted her murder God damn them all
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Shabana Mahmood in 2017 remarking on the UK, one of the most prosperous nations on earth, debating whether to take in a few thousand children while Bangladesh is housing 800,000 refugees, and asking whether we would be as generous as them. Not with you in charge, eh?
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