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The elder patiently started again to show me how to set the weft, but it was when I finally suspended rational calculation (she does this, then that) and trusted my fingers to imitate her fingers' "dance" that I could do my weft and then weave |
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To fully grasp the instrumentality and brutality of citizenship, we must imagine the Jews in Algeria not as an already-diasporic group in exile--the "Jews"--but instead as part of the indigenous populations of North Africa who were colonized in 1830 |
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An Open Letter to Hannah Arendt |
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While C. L. R. James offers his ancestors, he is careful not to offer "all" of them--only those who have struggled against slavery. He isn't offering an ideological, ethnic, or biological filiation, but apolitical, anti-colonial one |
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Ancestors of Choice: Toward a Decolonial Genealogy |
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Wars create an ecology, a biosphere, in which people will live permanently, even after the political component of the war ends. This biosphere contains within itself the destruction of social relationships and the destruction of the built environment that was created to protect people |
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Transcript: Biospheres of War |
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Maiming, therefore, is not just a bodily assault but also a phenomenon that reorganizes social orders. It delimits not just corporeal resistance but also the horizons of liberation, through the short-circuiting of organizational vitality and growth |
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Forgetting is the opposite of justice, sometimes. At other times, destroying the historical trace might be precisely what justice demands. Had my grandfather not cemented over the mosaic, he may well have lost his land and livelihood, and for the second time |
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Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2019 |
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Public Program and Working Group |
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It as if the woman, grown old into a more "normal" trajectory, shows us the violence of reproductive heteronormativity, of the expectations from a grandmother who must not care about humanity, but only about grandchildren |
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Education and the Incalculable |
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak |
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Tagore asked students to engage with their hands, their minds, their bodies in a space of thinking around the sonic and the physical, as a way to revive the spirit of revolution against two hundred years of the British occupation of India |
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Transcript: Forms of Afterlife |
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The arrival to Kom Ombo was a devastating shock to all. Where there was once water, there would now be endless stretches ofdesertic landscapes and exposure to the sun, and where there should have been integration, there was in fact more isolation |
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Nubian Historiography and the Eternally Beating River of Return |
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Literally translated as "corner" the zawiya is a geometry of sonic amplification, where an acute angle reflects and focuses sound onto a receptive audience. It allows one to hear history and converse with the dead |
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The wealth that has been accumulated by the descendants of the occupiers; the wealth that was sent back to Europe in the form of objects but also of raw materials that entered the initial accumulation of capital; the stolen wealth that has been transformed in so many ways, is also composed of water |
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