Meditations in an Emergencythe Holocaust is never merely an example; it has taken on a uniquely metonymic relationship to apocalyptic catastrophe [...] As new endings approach, we’ve seen a spike in struggles over its memory.
A Memory, A Relicabout the image as a relic: discussing Jackie Sibblies Drury’s play about the Herero genocide + Nazik Armenakyan’s photographs of Armenian genocide survivors
The Chromatics of PlayBlackface works in the inverse: it is a marking of oneself like the other in order to demonstrate the power held by man over nature and animality because “color here connotes the slightly wild.”
Policing the Borders of SufferingIs the typology affixed to a structure more important than the material conditions produced? Is the semantic distinction more critical than the urgency of our collective solidarity and intervention?