“Or is anyone’s identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?”
Leckie 207
Woke has become an almost perfect …
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I’m Being Cancelled! Update 8
The origins of the war on woke can be traced to the decline of political “isms” shaping political discourse, resulting in the growing popularity of rhetorical performances that draw on “deeper societal cultural-ideological themes” to dehistoriciz[e] naturalizations of contingent contemporary …
I’m Being Cancelled! Update 7
The first draft of the article is finished. It only took a few days! It’s the first time I’ve ever written an outline before starting the writing, and I’m amazed by the clarity this provided. The argument quickly came into …
I’m Being Cancelled! Update 5
Love this quote from Guillermo Gomez Pena:
…Do performance artists have a job? Our job may be to open up a utopian/dystopian space, a demilitarised zone in which radical behaviour and progressive thought are allowed to the place event if
I’m Being Cancelled! Update 4
I’ve been working with the Live Art Archive in Bristol this week. I’m sat in the reading room now, writing this, sitting with the many possible directions this research could go in. Each scribbled note is an immanence of other …