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Uncut Conversations

As I've gleaned from other posts so far, Uncut Funk has been a particularly popular read for our class; this strikes me as unsurprising considering the warmth (and intellect) of bell hooks and Stuart Hall shines through every page. 

The "fluidity" of conversation, to quote Hall (5), sits in stark contrast to both stuffy, static conference panels and the decentralized "mirage" of digital networks that Gilroy critiques in the book's foreward (ix).  My question for this week asks: 

How can we subvert academia's demand to talk at, not with, people and instead "engage knowledge across different kinds of boundaries," as hooks (6) so beautifully puts it? 

a. How can we make conference panels more collaborative, more organic, more alive? 

Glenn H 

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