The latest issue of e-flux journal contains my essay “Forms of Strife,” the last section of which discusses the clampdown on academic and civil liberties in Europe and the US in relation to genocidal attacks on forms of life in Palestine and other post/neo-colonies. Right after the issue was published, ICE arrested a Palestinian (former) student who had led protests at Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil. The Trump regime presents Khalil as “the first of many” be deported.
In exchanges with colleagues, I find myself discussing the question how critical pedagogy will be possible in the years to come. With zombie neoliberalism either axing programmes and departments or making them inhospitable to meaningful thought and practice, and with neofascism decreeing crucial field of inquiry taboo, forms of life in academia and culture will need to have the resilience of weeds.
Image: drawing from Marwa Arsanios’s series Resilient Weeds.
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