"part of what we in an American university have to consider now, what it is for us to have been made custodians of those principles [of free speech] even as we are made to watch when they are dissolved in an infernal public private partnership." Fred Moten
https://twitter.com/sedyst/status/1320081828078931971
"it is that this ought not to drive us to defend an abstract principle of free speech, which is only ever concretized, and usually at the same moment dishonestly and disgustingly sacralized, in exclusion."
"instead and in refusal of that, lets claim and eruptively assert our fugitive speech, which is fueled by the realization of the conditions we live in"
"why given the contradiction of free speech, would we try to exercise it
instead let exorcise this liberal illusion along with the more immediately deadly materialities of the military corporate liberalism"
instead let exorcise this liberal illusion along with the more immediately deadly materialities of the military corporate liberalism"
"which have given a conquest and deprivation
which we now need to speak and act against both openly and surreptitiously"
which we now need to speak and act against both openly and surreptitiously"
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