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“The body is the site of anxiety, not just of one’s self-image but of its legality. A system, a person of power, an enemy cannot impose their law or hatred on someone with no body. Racism precedes race, and race is of the body.”
— Aug 14, 2021 08:35AM
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"This is our story now, a storm blowing us backwards into the future, where revisions gone by and visions yet to come become part of the same process, where slave narratives and science-fiction stories find common ground in their conflicting histories and spin off into new futures."
— Aug 11, 2021 02:03PM
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"Our media is so saturated with allusions that we scarcely think about them. A viewing of any single episode of popular television shows, seeing any big movie, or listening to any hit song yields references to any number of past cultural artifacts."
— Aug 10, 2021 01:52PM
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«In The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick defines “historicity” as “when a thing has history in it.” The many ALLUSIONS woven together through samples and rhymes give HIP-HOP a historicity than many other musical genres maintain in sound but not as much in their lyrics.»
— Jul 31, 2021 07:52PM
