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Art and design historian seeking enlightenment
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Christina Riggs
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Proud to be part of this fantastic special issue of Visual Studies: Colourised Histories, edited by
@liziwat.bsky.social
and Dominic Williams, bridging film and still photography to address questions of historical method, racialization, ethics, AI, and more. Thread 🧵 to introduce each article 🗃️📜📷📸🎥
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Visual Studies
Colourised Histories, reading digital/analogue photography and film archives now. Volume 40, Issue 1 of Visual Studies
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rvst20/40/1
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Bruno J. Navarro
about 1 year ago
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
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Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher
Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/12/18/judith-butler-interview-el-pais-gender-trans/
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New Fascism Syllabus
about 1 year ago
Dr.
@brianjgriffith.bsky.social
-- one of NFS' two co-curators -- has just published an OpEd on
@commondreams.org
that explores the legal and political parallels between Benito
#Mussolini's
declaration of
#dictatorship
in January 1925 and Donald J.
#Trump's
re-election as POTUS. See the link below.
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100 Years After Mussolini's Dictatorship, a Trumpian US Flirts With the Long Night of Authoritarianism | Common Dreams
The comparisons between Mussolini's declaration of dictatorship in 1925 and Trump’s re-election are striking.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-mussolini-authoritarianism
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Jen Evans
11 months ago
By omitting the tragic story behind Felix González-Torres "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery is setting a perilous precedent, warns art scholar Ignacio Darnaude.
www.out.com/gay-news/fel...
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The Smithsonian's queer erasure of an AIDS artwork should alarm us all
By omitting the tragic story behind Felix González-Torres "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery is setting a perilous precedent, warns art scholar Ignacio Da...
https://www.out.com/gay-news/felix-gonzalez-torres-smithsonian-untitled?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook#toggle-gdpr
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Do not despair! That is what they want. Focus. Pick your battles--as many as you can, but also no more than that. We must be in the eye of the shit storm and know it's not stopping anytime soon. We can do this because we must.
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Unvirtuous Abbey
11 months ago
“Make good trouble.” ~ John Lewis
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Michael Bérubé
11 months ago
Just imagine if she'd actually criticized the pathetic fragile manbaby
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Zadie Smith is just the smartest. This review of a new edition of The Third Reich of Dreams is as much about our own times as the Nazi period. Her essay is deeply chilling and brilliant. Also everyone must read The Fraud. Just saying.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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The Dream of the Raised Arm | Zadie Smith
It’s no wonder those who lived under the Third Reich suffered ceaseless nightmares. What of our dreams today, under the totalitarianism of the online algorithm?
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/05/the-dream-of-the-raised-arm-third-reich-of-dreams-beradt-zadie-smith/
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