“Cake and comfort must come first!” … “and perhaps, in some imagined utopia” – ZS
Category: language
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constructing paths and praxis toward an otherwise
Reading List: Publishers for Palestine. Afterall.
These experiences shaped my understanding of what Quijano meant by ‘delinking’ (desenganche). Delinking from what – from the assumptions, principles and accumulations of meaning built upon the promises of modernity. 11
The second step of delinking is relinking. Relinking with what? According to Afro-Colombian thinker, activist and artist, Adolfo Alban Achinte to relink means to re-exist: not just in the sense of resistance but fundamental re-existence, for which there is no blueprint. It would be imperial to think that the necessary creativity once you delink from conceptual and emotional frameworks has been already mapped. It is up to the delinkers, so to speak, to work on their own relinking through their own memories, trajectories and forms of domination. However, I would say today that it is of the essence to relink with earth, with Pachamama (mother earth) as it is voiced in the South American Andes.
This exchange makes clear that decolonisation (as decoloniality) in the twenty-first century is not a master plan for liberation but a myriad of delinkings to re-emerge and re-exists in whatever communal we (each of us) find ourselves wounded by coloniality, which again are not the same for everyone.
Thinking and Engaging with the Decolonial: A Conversation Between Walter D. Mignolo and Wanda Nanibush.
Also, On Decoloniality, a series edited by Walter Mignolo & Catherine Walsh. 2018. “… constructing paths and praxis toward an otherwise of thinking, sensing, believing, doing, and living.”
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Look At Where We Are
It’s the living that’s bombocloth hard.
Burn-skin white man don’t want peace, he want Jamaica to become the USA state number fifty-one, shit, he would settle for just a colony.
some people still think white skin give him the authority to speak to anybody any way he feel like, especially man who don’t know word like authority.
But don’t eat crab? Not even with the nice, soft, sweet roast yam? And why kill a man for that?
A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel, Marlon James
Hot Chip – Look At Where We Are (Major Lazer Extended Remix), written by Hot Chip, Diplo & Major Lazer, 2013.
MiamiHerald.com on the billboard at PAMM.
“This project is sensitive to the context of PAMM and the surrounding neighborhood, and is less than 20 percent of the size of approximately fifty 10,000 square foot advertising signs that are already installed in the immediately surrounding downtown area,” Orange Barrel said. City rules requiring the PAMM sign to go dark after 11 p.m. and brightness restrictions “will ensure the sign does not create any negative impact.”
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Black Internationalism
The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Harvard University Press, 2003),
The Practice of Diaspora is nothing short of a masterpiece. By looking at the way black life, thought, struggles and quite literally, words, are translated across the black Francophone and Anglophone worlds, Edwards reveals how Paris became a locus for the development of black modernism and internationalism during the crucial interwar years. Rather than search for some essential unity, he explores difference, creative tensions, misapprehensions and misunderstandings between key black intellectuals. The result is a spectacular interdisciplinary study that will profoundly change the way we think about the African diaspora.–Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
—just an ache that grew
until she knew she’d already lost everything
except desire, the red heft of it
warming her outstretched palm.
I Have Been a Stranger in a Strange Land, Rita Dove -
mwen pa konn ki sa ou ye
“Kwè m si ou vle
mwen pa konn ki sa ou ye
Yon lonbrit ki pèdi kòd li nan mitan liv pwezi
Yon flè choublak ki gen malozye
Yon zwazo ak zèl li mare dèyè do l
Mwen pantan sou ou
san m pa t konnen kilès ou ye
Jodi a bouch ou tètanba
Rèl sa a pi gwo pase doulè w”Plidetwal (A Rain of Stars), Évelyne Trouillot, translated from the Kreyòl by Danielle Legros Georges
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Il te tient il est plus fort que toi
Ogun’s Return (Once Again… Statues Never Die), 2022
Inkjet print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
Framed: 60 1/4 x 79 7/8 x 2 1/4 inches / 153 x 203 x 5.6 cm
Edition of 6 + 2 APsOne of the edition is in the Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, museum purchase with funds provided by Jorge M. Pérez, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the PAMM Ambassadors for Black Art.
Sculpture at Maurice A. Ferré Park managed by by the Bayfront Park Management Trust.
“Mais soudain il te tient le poème
Comme si ta volonté n’importait pas
Il te tient il est plus fort que toi
Il est sous ta peau
Il se cache dans ton sang”Entre minuit et l’éternité, Kettly Mars
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in all likelihood, small
“perhaps, in all likelihood,
he put gently into the earth
some plants which, most likely,
some of them, in all likelihood,
continue to grow, continue
to do what such plants do, like house
and feed small and necessary creatures”A Small Needful Fact, Ross Gay
Small is the way to go.
