Four Autobiographical Notes
We can only make sense of the most spectacular genocidal and ethnocidal horrors of colonial racial capitalism after we have illuminated the “terror[s] of the mundane and quotidian” from which these spectacular horrors emerge.
Investigations into the Modern University - “Global Affairs”
The second of a series of dispatches titled “Investigations into the Modern University”, this dispatch identifies three fronts where radicals ought to be confronting the colonial ambitions of the modern university: the Global Student front, the Global Research front, and the Global Service front.
Investigations into the Modern University: An Introduction
The modern university is not, and has never been, a noble institution. Much to the contrary, it has historically been and remains to this day a racist, sexist, and classist institution devoted to the reproduction of ruling class elites and the reproduction of knowledge as the preserve of ruling class elites.
Who Goes Anti-Colonial?
It is an interesting and radical parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go anti-colonial and what sort of showdown would trigger them to do so.
The Ruling Class & the Radical Resistance
A radical resistance seeks to abolish the need for a ruling class, not to reform a ruling class.
Another Black Man in America
My own lived experience has revealed to me how the workings of optimizing powers are meant to be experienced as being taught lessons and having to teach lessons, as needing protection from oneself and needing to protect others from themselves.
Convivial Statements
I write that domineering statements are the condition of possibility for the effectiveness of violent communication, and I write that convivial statements are the conditions of possibility for the effectiveness of nonviolent communication — but what do I mean by this?
For bell hooks
The recent passing of bell hooks has inspired me to reconsider the clinical expression that she often used to name the deathly world of suffering that prevails over us, “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy”.
Freeing Time
All powers first establish themselves over us by determining the rhythm and tempo of our lives. This is to say, in other words, that power can only rule, discipline, normalize, and optimize our lives if it succeeds in ruling, disciplining, normalizing, and optimizing the rhythm and tempo of our lives.
It follows from this that countering the powers that determine the rhythm and tempo of our lives is decisive to countering any and all powers.
Countering Power
The “living worlds“ that I have envisioned must not to be made by seeking power but, rather, they must be made by countering power.
But what is power and how is it countered? And how do those processes “pivotal” to the making of living worlds contribute to countering power?