When I woke up today, I lazily got rid of my comfortable and warm Chinese blankets and went to the kitchen to drink my Colombian coffee. I absently skipped through the news on my American computer while trying to explain to my Californian roommate that, despite what she had seen in films, Rio is not a jungle […]
Sketch of a Pedagogical Eating-lecture
We set our pedagogical project on, at, with, and under the table. We see the table as a setting that, drawing on Paulo Freire, scripts relationality—and for Freire, a radical pedagogical project begins with dialogical relations. However, the table was not our initial point of departure; rather, we arrived at it through hours of dialoguing, […]
Desborde: Overflow and the Politics of Resistance
Desborde: Overflow and the Politics of Resistance Belén Santiago Pedro Luke Mira Our investigation focuses on the edge of the acceptable in protests and politics. Through an array of complementary analytical approaches, we will explore this edge in order to draw broader conclusions on the role of desborde/overflow in the performatives acts of protest, language, […]
Proposal: Being With
15 October 2018 Decolonial Theories & Practices Professor Diana Taylor Group Members: Susana Costa Amaral, Lee Xie, Ricardo Duarte Filho, Annie Seminara, Kristen Holfeuer Proposal: Being With Introduction A giant white sheet floats around the city. The fabric is punctuated by heads from the participants of this collective performance. Their bodies are hidden under the […]