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FCJ-228 University, Universitas

By ⋅ December 20, 2019 ⋅ Post a comment

Erin Manning SenseLab, Concordia University, Canada It cannot be denied that the university is a place of refuge, and it cannot be accepted that the university is a place of enlightment. (Moten and Harney, 2009: 145) Nothing About Us Without Us! (Charlton, 2000) Universities have a long history. The mantra of the universitas – ‘the […]

FCJ-224 Design Thinking, Design Activism, Design Study

By ⋅ March 16, 2019 ⋅ Post a comment

Maria Hynes The Australian National University, Australia But we won’t stand corrected. Moreover, incorrect as we are there’s nothing wrong with us. (Harney and Moten, 2013: 20) In their consideration of the contribution of academic labour to what they call the ‘social reproduction of conquest denial’, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten isolate a number of […]

FCJ-223 Fugitively, Approximately

By ⋅ March 16, 2019 ⋅ Post a comment

Erin Manning SenseLab, Concordia University, Canada Two phrases haunt my thinking. The first comes from Fred Moten: all black life is neurodiverse life. It might also have been black life is always neurodiverse life. The second is approximation of proximity. The feeling is that the ambiguity of memory in the first has a connection to […]

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