study.
a part of praxis, which is the reflection and the action that is directed at the structures from which change is desired, as Paulo Freire would discuss it.
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- Sep 2021
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www.minorcompositions.info www.minorcompositions.info
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“The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it’s fucked up for you, in the same way that we’ve already recognized that it’s fucked up for us. I don’t need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker, you know?”
“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” --Lilla Watson
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Moten and Harney tell us to listen to the noise we make and to refuse the offers we receive to shape that noise into “music.”
fight against the need to categorize and id everything we come across in the ways we've been taught to, particularly by the english language. this expands how we as humans relate and complicates the notion of civilization and society if we deconstruct categories and allow the natural flow of things to dictate how we relate and feel no need to clarify and simplify through category. how would the relationship to indigenous languages and cultural organizing fit into this framing?
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In order to bring colonialism to an end then, one does not speak truth to power, one has to inhabit the crazy, nonsensical, ranting language of the other, the other who has been rendered a nonentity by colonialism
all aspects of colonialism including formal language become unusable. language of animacy, we lose aspects of cultural interaction due to how we frame society via our language.
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The disordered sounds that we refer to as cacophony will always be cast as “extra-musical,”
can be found in the experimental musical styles of many house DJs in Detroit, Sterling Toles, Wajeed are some examples.
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what black people, indigenous peoples, queers and poor people want,
Moten often leaves women out of his critique and I wonder what that's about.
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