People don’t at first notice the change, or when they do are prepared to accept it as ‘necessary’

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Since 2010, the number of people sleeping rough in England has more than doubled and all other forms of homelessness (for instance, families living in temporary accommodation) are at record highs. Around eight hundred libraries have closed (a fifth of all libraries in the UK, most of them in deprived areas) and more than two hundred museums. In many cases, surviving institutions have reduced their hours and cut staff. More than a thousand publicly accessible swimming pools have been closed, and nearly 60 per cent of public toilets. So many bus routes have been cancelled that buses now cover 14 per cent fewer miles than in 2010. Councils face an estimated £14 billion backlog in road maintenance, with up to 50 per cent of roads judged to be at risk of complete deterioration within fifteen years.

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Why,? with this record, did the Tories keep on winning?

Carnival of Self-Harm, Tom Crewe in LRB
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River, 2015.

constructing paths and praxis ­toward an other­wise

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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

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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.”

Black Internationalism

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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

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—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