While this text is the final chapter of his book, full of imagination and pastoral gander, I wonder, is Mentz yearning for a new jerusalem? is this new jerusalem of plurality achievable? while living in the Anthropocene means finding floods where you don’t expect them and hadn’t encountered them before. that the climate change stories we need today include both the human perspective that counsels repentance, change, and survival, and the posthuman vision that promises shock, disorientation, and new possibilities.

Oh Jerusalem x Lauryn Hill

"can I even factor, that I've only been an actor In this staged interpretation of this day focused on the shadow, with my back turned to the light too intelligent to see it's me in the way"

prophet of israel

king james bible

Jonah trying to hide his nakedness in the midst of bushes; Jeremiah in the wilderness (top left); Uzeyr awakened after the destruction of Jerusalem. Ottoman Turkish miniature, 16th century.[66]

Jonah represents the teaching of teshuva which is the ability to repent and be forgiven by God

plural futures and unknowing

Break Up the Anthropocene argues that this age should subvert imperial masculinity and industrial conquest by opening up the plural possibilities of Anthropocene debates of resilience, adaptation, and the struggle for environmental justice.

• mentz

once a man twice a child

the anthropocene is an old man that is breaking down

antihistoricism

THEY ARE WHITE! CALL IT WHAT IT IS

!!!!!!!!!!!

the apps arent just bias but the drivers are too due to fears about driving in these neighborhoods. their avoidance of the neighborhood in turn has a negative impact on how the apps algorithm alters itself to surge prices and etc.

does this mean that homeless women are using less resources when in fact they need more due to hygienic needs?

what the fuck

zillow racism

defamiliarize

HUMANITY

when did man, human beings and technology begin to have a perverse relationship with each other

we need to get on the same page and we need to understand why we are using particular terms and how folks across disciplines are using the term and questioning the term

whendid things begin and when should we start to trace the trajectory

there are other ways of understanding the past. there exists other ways of knowing and epistemologies.

its an individual solution for something that is much larger and calls out this western emperialist logic

there's no solution! theres evolutionary nostalgia but what might this look like

communal and structural changes

guthrie is arguing that will smiths characters takes on some afrofuturist sensibilities

access is still a point of anxiety and where there is an assumption of disinterest there really might be an issue with an allocation of funds.

what do the preoccupations and anxieties charted in the 2002 special issue of Social Text invite us to consider about the role and status of afrofuturism at the turn of the century? what do those concerns invite us to consider about afrofuturisms role and status?

in the Internets attempt to blurr raced, gendered and classed divides, is it helping to promote global social justice and equality, and eradicate racism or is it aiding in the complexity and spread of misinformation that already marginalized oppressed groups experience in the physical

this idea opf multiple selves goes back at least a century

identity politics - comes from the 70s by the combahee river collective and it means that our identities are political. (race, ethnicity, gender, etc.) all these identities matter!

i was waiting for this

i don't like this definition because it centers scientific understandings of technology practice as the norm when a more neutral definition should be used according to earlier arguments in the text

many are comfortable with the notion that technology can mean anything to anybody in any field precisely because when we define it with precision & clarity it brings us face to face with what our current understanding of the field lacks

no it is not but the use of technology and access to certain technology is a sign of class, mobility and modernity.