I have been reading, voluntarily, again. Any urges to return to digesting, reflecting, and writing shriveled up after completing my doctorate. I let my essence wander for a year or so, and there’s been some rapping at my window recently.
Looks like those familiar stirrings are coming back. Today is not the day for outward pondering about my inner conflicts as to what this all means. This is mostly an announcement to [author] that I am ready to 1) create 2) myself 3) in public 4) again. One day, I will create in public, too. For now, I am content to have ‘something’ of me out here again.
Before I blog, I write, and before I write, I think, and before I think, I read. I expect to dive deeper into these titles individually as I complete some manuscripts that have pressing deadlines, and I am excited to revisit these lists.
Reading:
Thinking further: Fragments of Communicology (Vilém Flusser)
Interface Frictions: How Digital Debility Reshapes Our Bodies (Neta Alexander)
The Black Technical Object: On Machine earning and the Aspiration of Black Being (Ramon Amaro)
It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (edited by Joe Vallese)
To be Read:
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Safiya Umoja Noble)
Black Futures (edited by Kimberly Drew, Jenna Wortham)
Ordinary Notes (Christina Sharpe)
To be Read Again:
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Christina Sharpe)