From Tragic Mulatto to Cinematic Blackout
Katherine Adams on the cinematic figure of the “tragic mulatto.”
Source: e-flux.com
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Dewey Crumpler: Post Atlantic
The figure of the container, a symbol of global capitalism’s flows, violence, and erasures, looms large in Post Atlantic, a show of eleven paintings and five collages by Bay Area artist and septuagenarian Dewey Crumpler.
Source: brooklynrail.org
Contemporary agriculture: climate, capital, and cyborg ecology
Climate change will put pressure on world food production. We must disentangle the potential benefits of agricultural science and technology from agribusiness' centralised control of the food chain.
Source: libcom.org
The Fun of
The creators of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’ have created a video game worthy of Kant’s maxim,
Source: popmatters.com
Black Study, Black Struggle - Boston Review
The university is not an engine of social transformation. Activism is.
Source: bostonreview.net
'There's This Illusion That It's an Equalizer': Artist and Director Martine Syms on the Myths of an MFA Education
As Martine Syms's new film "The African Desperate" hits streaming, she discusses the animating forces behind the art-school satire.
Source: artnet.com
How a New Generation Is Combatting Digital Surveillance
Younger voices are using technology to respond to the needs of marginalized communities and nurture Black healing and liberation.
Source: bostonreview.net
The Quietus | Reviews | Fred Moten / Brandon López / Gerald Cleaver
A new rock music and pop culture website. Editorial independent music website offering news, reviews, features, interviews, videos and pictures
Source: thequietus.com
A spirit guide to ethical black feminist thinking and praxis
Bell hooks’s refusal to ‘get in formation’ foregrounded healing as the foundation to a communal liberatory agenda
Source: mg.co.za
On the anniversary of the Zong massacre, M. NourbeSe Philip's epic poem rises again
Exactly 240 years ago, a massacre began on the Zong slave ship. The tragedy inspired the Canadian poem Zong! by M. NourbeSe Philip. She reflects on the mass murder, the bizarre court case, and the work of art still rising from its depths.
Source: cbc.ca