Week 6 (September 22) |
4:00-4:20pm |
Gather Yourself Up
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4:20-4:30pm |
Connect
Zoom room opens so that we can say hello and enter as fully as possible in such a space. |
Presentations
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BREAK: 5:47-6:02pm
Open Sessions
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1. Announcements, Reminders & Check-In . . .
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2. SYNTHESIS WRITING ACTIVITY
Part I
In your google folder for this class, open up a new doc. Start writing. What connections are you making now between all of the readings and discussions we have had? Where is your thinking now? Notes from last week's zoom chat box are below. The bottom of last week's agenda also has a re-cap. Feel free to turn your cameras off to do this writing. You won't need to paste this in chat. I'll read you google doc writing later. I will let you know when writing time is up. |
Part II
THE AVATAR... Yes, as in pick your own avatar for your work as teacher/scholar/academic. Name them. See them. Be them. Theorize AS them, not like them. I will read the directions out loud here... a few times. Write what comes to mind. Ignore the prompts that don't work for you. Put aside any self-doubting. What comes to you is perfection, as is. |
3. Sharing and Open Discussions
These are your points from last week on
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"I desire against the assemblage that created me." ~la paperson
Colonial universities rely on the abstraction of their violence… call them "systems" when it's a really specific person or office doing the harm. Ahmed writes a lot about how sometimes (oftentimes) a structure is a very specific person or act or organization. Coming up against a structure can be coming up against the weight of the violence that university or institution wants to control, both in terms of exposure but also in terms of liability. We see this right now with how TCU is putting the entire Fort Worth community at risk, at how they have been leading the charge to be exempt from the Americans with Disabilities Act, and how they have prolonged any sense of reconciliation or repair at the department and university levels for the harm still being done to Black women at our university. These people have names. Decolonization is complex, yes, but there are instances when coloniality has a very specific name. If we aren’t scyborgs, but we’re “here,” what are we and what are we doing? It’s a modest proposal: a third university “is possible,” but it does carry a particular disposition and presents imaginative possibilities. A "'fourth,' autonomous form of civil society" is entirely distinct from the university. I question my privilege of being here, among other things. Colonial technologies can work for your “decolonizing enterprise” while you let the university “tick its own countdown.” How do we not fall into the pit of hopelessness of working within colonial structures? |
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