The revolution will not be sold! We're back with the first episode Season 2! In today's episode, Brendane and Alyssa share what they got up to over the summer break and then jump right into the episode unpacking the philosophical concept of Aesthetics and how it is bound up in politics and power. In the What We're Reading segment, the pair discuss Angela Davis' 1994 essay "Afro Images: Politics, Fashion, and Nostalgia" to think about the ways society refashions the revolutionary past - in this instance how Davis' afro goes from symbol of resistance to fashion statement, evacuating her contribution to Black radicalism through commodification. In What In the World?! Brendane and Alyssa discuss Tiffany's new "About Love" campaign that features Jay-Z, Beyonce, a rarely viewed Basquiat, and a priceless blood diamond. Finally, they touch on the issues and contradictions of the activist-influencer industrial complex through the recent events with the Jessica Natale (formerly @soyouwanttotalkabout on IG) and bestselling author Ijeoma Oluo.
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Discussed this week:
Afro Images: Politics, Fashion, and Nostalgia (Angela Davis, 1994)
"Corporate America's $50 billion Promise" (Washington Post, 2021)
Other Readings:
The Politics of Aesthetics (Jacques Rancière, 2013)
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Transcript will be available on our website here.
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Bonus Episode: Hot Takes
ICONversations, Pt. 4: Dr. Yolanda T. Moses
ICONversations, Pt. 3: Tracy Heather Strain
ICONversations, Pt. 2: Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole
ICONversations, Pt. 1: Dr. Irma McClaurin
S3, E9 You Asked, We Answered!
S3, E8 The Crown Chronicles
S3, E7 We Call Her Zora
S3, E6 Diary of Mad Black Women
S3, E5 It's Not You, It's Them: Tips for Academic Conferences
S3, E4 All Skinfolk Ain't Kinfolk
S3, E3 Looting the Womb: Black Birthing People and Reproductive Unfreedom
S3, E2 The Death of Sovereignty
S3, E1 Dangerously in Love with Celebrity
S2, E16 Practicing Zora
S2, E15 What In The World?!
S2, E14 Defund the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
S2, E13 No Body is Normal
S2, E12 Villain Origin Story
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