12 06, 2020

Immigrant media guru struggles with Kikuyu vernacular African media television station in the diaspora

By |2020-10-08T16:14:10+00:00June 12th, 2020|Practice|0 Comments

What place should vernacular stations have in the diaspora landscape? Are they instruments to preserve cultural heritage or vehicles to sharpen ethnolinguistic cleavages for African migrant communities that have had decades of post-colonial conflict between them? What is true, is that the question of vernacular language in the African diaspora community broadly, is both a bridge and a barrier to bringing the African community together.

15 08, 2019

Woodstock Turns 50: Behind the Curtain with John Morris, Head of Production

By |2019-08-23T14:00:33+00:00August 15th, 2019|Arts & Letters|0 Comments

When you have a master or a leader, there’s always another master somewhere fighting them off or trying to contest them. The masters of other people can look pretty annoying to you, if not contemptible, irrelevant, reprehensible. I think about Beatlemania, where people were just horrified — What the hell is going on? These four guys with weird floppy haircuts. Or with Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, or any of the other rock stars. The disgust and terror that people have that others are caught up.

25 07, 2019

Freud, Woodstock, and Crowd Behavior

By |2019-08-08T14:38:37+00:00July 25th, 2019|Arts & Letters, Theory|0 Comments

When you have a master or a leader, there’s always another master somewhere fighting them off or trying to contest them. The masters of other people can look pretty annoying to you, if not contemptible, irrelevant, reprehensible. I think about Beatlemania, where people were just horrified — What the hell is going on? These four guys with weird floppy haircuts. Or with Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, or any of the other rock stars. The disgust and terror that people have that others are caught up.

9 11, 2018

Lady Gaga and Moral Reasoning

By |2019-03-27T20:46:04+00:00November 9th, 2018|Justice, Practice, Theory|0 Comments

Lady Gaga rightly encourages us to respect and accept all people, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. But at this juncture Lady Gaga's thinking become problematic. Respecting and accepting all people doesn’t automatically also mean that we should accept and affirm all the behaviours of all people.

28 09, 2018

On the Strange Agreement Between Artists and Trump Administration: Doubts About the International Criminal Court

By |2019-03-28T03:56:54+00:00September 28th, 2018|Arts & Letters, Practice|0 Comments

Art of Politics, Politics of Art, A Series By: Jeanette Joy Harris In this series, Jeanette Joy Harris looks at how artists

9 02, 2018

“To Art Its Freedom”: Right-Wing Arts Policy in the New Austria

By |2019-03-29T06:04:43+00:00February 9th, 2018|Arts & Letters, Practice, Theory|0 Comments

Art can be a challenge to power, or be power’s instrument. Sometimes it can even end up being both. This last is what happened recently in Austria, where a new, right-wing government has adopted the motto of an art movement that formed in Vienna in 1897, precisely in opposition to conservative leadership.

Go to Top