feeling like a 👶🏽 learning to walk

i've also learned stealth is important to community learning, operating from below.

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“We're no forms/ There is nothing in this world has not been constructed into a perceptual framework of meaning. Across time, & even in the present, we attempt to redefine those shapes, forms & figures in very nice & generous ways. But what we lose is the idea that they're illusions in themselves.”

“the Way guiding us at any given moment need not be a path with a defined terminus or summit. It can be uncertain & tender: a not-quite-knowing where one has come from, a not-quite-knowing where one is going, held with enough attention & intention to count as orientation nonetheless”

one, two, back to the groove.

my aspiration is to rid this world of its forms/figures… or at least help dislodge them.

Young artists are “fed up with the narratives of what computation can be/ they’re creating their own pathways, connected to larger issues/ demanding computation meet them at that space of refusal/ more of I need the tech to do X, Y, Z, as opposed to tech is doing X, Y, Z, & I need to respond to it”

“Even all the money in the world cannot buy us time, ever passing. Seasons, ever changing this great, even beautiful cycle of life, which leaves us no choice but to accept it gladly“ - BEEF, Season 2

"They will only allow one of you to shine, because it dismantles and dispowers the group. And essentially: you've been caputured. Think about that."

"When you cosign them, when you collaborate with them, when you allow yourself to be co-opted, you are compromised. Do you really think you can speak your shit, do you think you can really talk about why shit is oppressive, how it led to this? You're compromised!"

People continue to protect those who do not need protection. And abandon those who do.

“Programs are no longer just tools of logic. They are becoming creative, intuitive, and emotional, just like humans. This is the future the Oracle believed in, even when she couldn't see it. A world where machines and humans don't exist as enemies, but as evolving beings, learning from each other.”

the global imperial circuitry is still running, nyc remains a major node

just moderated my first qualitative interview ever, and i LOVED it 🌷

this fucking weather 🌱✨

“The analytic/continental divide created institutional conditions where continental philosophers had to materially ally themselves with African-American & Latin-American philosophy & with feminist philosophy to form a collective that could institutionally legitimize these philosophical traditions”

finally: spring ☀️

I understand we are in a historical moment where resistance is a dominant political vernacular. Still, we need to insist that some practices are about making and inhabiting the world we want. That they will persist after—and because of—resistance.

Nonfiction writers are commonly told to be accessible. Toni Morrison’s goal is more exciting. “A very strong visceral and emotional response as well as a very clear intellectual response... I don’t want to give my readers something to swallow. I want to give them something to feel and think about.”

there’s a rhythm to reclaim

the original purpose of academia was for rich white men to come up with reasons why they actually deserved the shit they stole and would definitely get into heaven the Enlightenment is when they thought they proved it conclusively and would therefore always be protected by the divine/natural order

switched it up, 1st morning class 🏋🏽‍♂️

It‘d be absorbed same way slavery didnt (doesnt) cause a global ethical crisis, blackness is the necessary outside that coheres society/ the “huMan” (and its juridical, knowledge, political-economic systems) Ramon Amaro saw same apparatus in technohuman relations: the “becoming-Black of technology”

there's a moment after slowly struggling through a scholar's dense prose/vision that suddenly it clicks, reading their work then quickly becomes fluent. like activating a new language. i fucking love that moment; a beginning, an opening.

magic, a reminder to whimsy ✨

“The Economist doesnt estimate how many ppl these strikes killed. It measures proximity instead/ The precision descends with the position. 13 Americans, counted exactly. Fewer than 20 Israelis. For Iran, they cannot say/ Iranian deaths register less as losses & more as potential American discomfort

when social constructionists say race is real, the same way money is… (i heard this analogy used a lot in social psychology) sci-hub.st/10.1002/ajpa...

I would reverse the correlation. Marginalization is a product OF emotional intimacies/connectedness in colonial/capitalist states. The capitalist state's primary objective is to disrupt this to increase reliance on it and increase capital accumulation.

“Walter Rodney’s life & scholarship show us that the mind achieves freedom last. Until the mind is captured, the body is held captive in vain. Even after body has been released, if mind fails to achieve its freedom, body remains captive as it will continue to serve the ends of the captor’s captivity

my talk on racecraft in psych spooked audiences, esp those who study race as identity. they wanted race to "be real". i calmed them by telling them to separate identity from classification, but that's a fake solution; it evades how (even good-intentioned) science is/becomes an apparatus of raciality

📢How can "deviant" Black politics destabilize dominant views within political science, and better analyze blackness and politics? Davies explores this in her article, analyzing Black scholarship and encouraging methodological pluralism in Black politics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“My interviewees not only seek to stand up against those in power, but rather to find forms of creativity to embody their struggles and realize their feminist aspirations. They are no longer trying to convince us of their humanity.”

hang snatch practice, 120lbs 🏋🏽‍♂️

So much of the mostly digital written record for the past decade or more (by scholars, activists, other people sharing insights) has been eaten by AI and deleted from social media platforms, voluntarily or via account suspensions. In the future, what archives will they have? Who will read them?

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"never can we remain in the wreckage or dis-solution that follows from diagnosis refuse the demand to move forward, in a clear direction, or in any direction, and instead sink into disorientation so that we become aware that we can/should question our very foundations and their pre-given compass"

We've been unable to "shift out of our present conception of Man, out of our present World System" in part bc of “our reluctance to see a relationship so global in reach—between the epistemology of knowledge and the liberation of the people—a relationship that we are not properly able to theorize”

I’ve been listening to this on repeat this week. It’s a very good album, and maybe my favorite album title ever?

So glad to see that their paper is out. 🚨🚨🚨 "‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’ in Journal of Sociolinguistics @riannawalcott.bsky.social @christianilbury.bsky.social Link below #Linguistics #OpenAccess

“Black artistry advances a thought of negativity without recuperation. Rather than acceding to presumption that Black art should advance a reparative politics, its negative power lies in incisive critique of social order. It challenges political grammars by disclosing & unsettling their foundations”

“Thirty years later, now, it may have become evident to many that Deleuze’s image was partial, that it missed something… At the same level of abstraction, raciality recalls how human beings do not exist (live and die) in this world in the same way” socialtextjournal.org/periscope_ar...

just started watching the show soulmates & episode “little adventures” has such a cute exploration of a poly relationship it looks different for everyone & takes lots of communication, but when it works, it works🥰

"how to make a film without time? linear time—is at the core of the critique of historical materialism & its account of value/ time’s ethical force is obstacle to a political program that deals with the pervasiveness of racial violence & the colonial juridical mechanisms that facilitate extraction"

the violence of *humanization*.... this quote stuck with me for years, it's the problem with dehumanization research: what human figure/genre are they trying so hard to include us into? at what cost?

“When figured racially, subject of psychoanalysis is mediated juridically & scientifically/ doesn’t stand alone as figure of authority, nor enter naked in symbolic positions of authority neither— Freud ego, Lacan subject— survives confrontation with the wounded captive body in scene of subjugation”

"When decolonial philosophy and praxis are taken seriously, merely studying or raising questions about gender and sexuality is not inherently revolutionary or radical If feminism is merely the recuperation of a positively defined “womanhood” or “manhood,” it becomes a colonial feminism"

shoulder press practice, 105 lbs 🏋🏽‍♂️

“Personhood was never intended or shaped to be something we would use for freedom, for thriving of all human beings & other beings/ was a way of individualizing actions & responsible-izing people who were powerless so they could be dealt with by powerful men who wanted to exploit or dispossess them”

"This does not need a remedy, this does not need a balm, this needs an ending," Dionne Brand