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A Chat about Permanent Crisis
We discuss the recent book by Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon.
A Conversation with Tao Leigh Goffe and Krystal Tsosie
On data sovereignty + Black and Indigenous storytelling
The Idealization of the Liberal Arts
Cristina Groeger argues that at the turn of the twentieth century liberal education "was held up...toward a variety of ends."
Situating IndigiData and Dark Laboratory
Data Sovereignty, Black and Indigenous Storytelling, and more
When Debt Is the Only Answer
A Review of Josh Mitchell's The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe
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Tim, Andy, & Rachel on whether Permanent Crisis fits into critical university studies, on whose pity party the book disrupts, on what 19c crisis talk can & can’t teach us about our present moment. @swarthmoreburke @hinesaj @rbuurma
https://aydelotte.swarthmore.edu/publications/a-chat-about-permanent-crisis/
An incredibly rich discussion of *Permanent Crisis* by @rbuurma @swarthmoreburke & @hinesaj. Thanks to each. Yes: “This book is a prologue to another inquiry, a sort of fumigating of space.” Lots of ground clearing for new thinking. https://aydelotte.swarthmore.edu/publications/a-chat-about-permanent-crisis/
When the academic humanities have been made through crisis-talk, what does it look like to write a way out of this situation?
Our directors (@swarthmoreburke, @rbuurma, and @hinesaj) chat about Paul Reitter and @cwellmon's PERMANENT CRISIS.
https://aydelotte.swarthmore.edu/publications/a-chat-about-permanent-crisis/
In case you missed it, you can find a recording of Thursday's conversation with @kstsosie and @taoleighgoffe, moderated by James Fenelon, on data sovereignty & Black and Indigenous storytelling. The recording will be available through December 31, 2021.
https://aydelotte.swarthmore.edu/publications/a-conversation-with-tao-leigh-goffe-and-krystal-tsosie/
