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i've done alot of political organizing.
i teach, which i think is mostly about empowerment, getting folk to think differently about their world, and not with the same kind of politics that i talk about here--more abstract ususally, so more about trying to encourage thinking than telling what to think, more about treating thinking and forms of expression as craft, as process, than trying to dictate outcomes. working on argument, how to make them--and i make students i happen to agree with politically work as hard as those i don't agree with politically. because this, all of it, is about process and attention and relations to information, really. conceptual frameworks and ways to use them in the sorting and processing and ordering of information, trying to convince folk that the way they write and think is creating an order and not reproducing one that's out there in the world. you know.
this is one of the many ways in which roachboy is so different from me that i see roachboy as a fictional character more than anything else.
i like to think making strange soundart is a public action that makes the world a little Otherwise even if its transient and site-specific. i have parallel pollyanna ideas about the writing i put out into the world.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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