Sam Durant’s installation, “We Are the People,” on view at Project Row Houses in 2003. Photo by Rick Lowe, courtesy Project Row Houses. The readings this week concern democracy and neoliberalism. They provide case studies and examples, definitions and contestations. … Continue reading
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our … Continue reading
“Driving through this part of Louisiana you can pass four prisons in less than an hour. ‘The spirit of every age,’ writes Eric Schlosser, ‘is manifest in its public works.’ So this is who we are, the jailers, the … Continue reading
Bodies, Borders and Boundaries 1. 2007. acrylic and ink on wood panel. 36×36. By Cheryl Schainfeld. **** October 19th, 2014 Sutton and Kelly left me thinking as I sat in the local Cracker Barrel. I thought about the forms of … Continue reading
image from: <http://social.dol.gov/blog/going-digital-new-x-ray-technology-in-black-lung-claims/> These readings trace, or track evidence of neoliberalism (with special attention to the occupation of Appalachia’s coalfields) in different ways. I am reading these three pieces (Removing Mountains by Rebecca Scott, “Is Another Place Possible” by Barbara … Continue reading
My post from RE: Graduate Student Reflections and Explorations maintained by the Institute for Policy and Governance here at VT: https://blogs.lt.vt.edu/reflectionsandexplorations/2014/09/25/hashtag-heartwork-notes-on-the-relationship-between-place-and-identity-2/
“Justice is what love looks like in public.” –Cornel West image from www.vanguard.edu I found these readings (chapters 1,3,8,& 9 from Meg Luxton’s “Social Reproduction,” two articles by Annelise Orleck and a 1913 manifesto) to be about resistance, domesticity, labor, … Continue reading
[blog # 3] I don’t want to suggest that the position of the outsider is always or only negative,or necessarily critical, or bound up in envy, a yearning for an inside position. The outside is capable of great positivity … Continue reading
Neoliberalism Interrupted: Thoughts on Disruptions Neoliberalism Interrupted offers an interesting linguistic turn. We are not discussing a reversal, upheaval, demolition or strategic dismantling of Neoliberalism in the examples provided, but rather exploring interruptions. While reading both the Neoliberalism, Interrupted and … Continue reading
Because I mentioned this in class… here’s a glimpse into the political music(s) that interest me in the context of our readings. VIDEO: “Country Boy” by Aaron Lewis If you watch Aaron Lewis video above, or more importantly, passively hear … Continue reading