Rigor is not punitive. It is simply a reality that the modern world and its challenges have placed for us. We are faced with thinking a freedom that is not inscribed in the logics of the available knowledges--or rather the knowledges made available to us.
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Blog: Speak to Mekhet
Mekhet:
"After in the sense of before, alongside, or preceding..."
Politicians are not heroes.
Read MorePolitical thought then asserts that the leader is necessary, assuming that leadership will resolve the crisis-experience, all the while obscuring on whose behalf the crisis is understood and imagined, particularly the crisis-experiences germane to market societies.
Read MoreWe rarely consider the political as normatively violent. Because we cannot order the political in other ways. Until we do.
Read MoreFor you. For Alice. For Ravi.
Read MoreThe destruction of Africa’s past required the Negro—what Aime Cesaire characterized as thingification. European modernity needed things.
Read MoreReading and writing is long and hard. An original idea is not as simple to conjure as fleeting thoughts and simple observations are to utter. But it is the foundation for knowing.
Read MoreWhere we lack imagination, where we forget or foreclose the lessons of our ancestors, where we limit our cultural identities to places we migrated to and not from, these become the sites of our destruction.
Read MoreRobots are the result of a concept of reason that has overextended itself, if not exposing its own fundamental alienation from a metaphysics of Divine order.
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What I would come to learn later was that Malcolm was a student, a scholar, and an organizer… We were just mad.
Read MoreFor it is intellectual warfare that has thus far been waged to prevent us for considering freedom “on our own terms.” The struggle in and for ideas precedes any quest for liberation.
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