[Xmca-l] Re: Emotion as "Sputnik"
Andy Blunden
andyb@marxists.org
Fri Jun 19 19:02:05 PDT 2020
I shared with my friends a list which was sent me last
weekend of all the protests being organised in New York that
Saturday. The point was that there were dozens of them, all
called by different sectional and special interest groups,
"independently." This is the marker of a real movement, not
a "campaign," but real change under way. :)
andy
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On 20/06/2020 11:27 am, Peg Griffin, Ph.D. wrote:
>
> It is a Bakhtinian moment! In fact, I just realized when
> I read your note that intersectionality and intersectional
> allies call out for Bakhtin type thinking.
>
> I noticed an unusual pattern developing this week. While
> black organizations organized the Juneteenth rallies,
> marches, teach-ins, demonstrations that occurred all day
> (and some tomorrow), many different allied organizations
> used their own text lists and email lists to urge
> participation of their members and followers in the day’s
> events. The messages that were sent typically describe the
> day, give details about a half dozen of the events, and
> describe how the allied organization’s main purpose is
> consistent with celebrating Juneteenth because it is tied
> to achieving racial justice and/or the breakdown of white
> supremacy. From local groups (like one formed to get DC
> voting representation in the House and Senate) to
> international groups like Amnesty international, from
> groups focusing on the climate crisis to ones focusing on
> indigenous peoples and immigrants, from litigation groups
> like ACLU and SPLC to religious and arts groups and
> school/uni alumni. I asked anyone I chatted with about the
> texts/emails/social media they got the Juneteenth events
> this week and virtually everyone got at least a half dozen
> from surprising sources.
>
> For me, this is about avoiding “future forgetting,” as you
> put it, Mike. What’s that saying about in variability
> there is hope? When Planned Parenthood, for instance, is
> telling people on its e-mail list about Juneteenth
> celebrations they can participate in, well, what can I
> say? Intersectionality and variability and hope, that’s
> what.
>
> Peg
>
> *From:*xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu
> [mailto:xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu] *On Behalf Of
> *mike cole
> *Sent:* Friday, June 19, 2020 12:40 PM
> *To:* eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>
> *Subject:* [Xmca-l] Re: Emotion as "Sputnik"
>
> Its a Bakhtinian moment, Peg, when when repressed voices
> bring back a national memory
>
> and the consciousness of a nation (consciousness as
> humans' relationship to nature and each other) has
>
> undergone a qualitative shift. Will it be papered over by
> future forgetting? Too soon to tell.
>
> If Juneteenth becomes a national holiday, it would be a
> very interesting shift in national memorializing and perhaps,
>
> even, race relations.
>
> For those like me who have inherited only a foggy notion
> of Juneteenth , the attached link might be helpful.
>
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>
>
> mike
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 9:07 AM Peg Griffin, Ph.D.
> <Peg.Griffin@att.net <mailto:Peg.Griffin@att.net>> wrote:
>
> Phillip,
>
> Your note on missing voices reminded me of Sandro
> Duranti once saying that he had gained ears.
>
> And it seems a propos of a good Juneteenth Day. So…
>
> Long ago and far away (from me right now at least),
> before xmca, even before xlchc maybe, in two funny
> temporary buildings in a little grove of a few trees
> with occasional ocean breezes and a picnic table and
> benches, there were a bunch of what some on the staff
> called “labbies,” with lots of differences in academic
> standing, community culture, family race, nationality,
> and short and long term motives. We gathered and gave
> each other questions and occasional answers and lots
> of worrying and enjoying.
>
> Along came Sandro as a post doc. His family lived in
> LA and he stayed in San Diego for several days a week.
> After a month or so, he told us about a party he went
> to over the weekend when he was back in LA. As usual
> there were lots of local university faculty and
> students. He said it felt different for him, though.
> And he had finally pinned down what it was.
>
> He was listening with extra ears – ears from black and
> brown people who constituted a large portion of the
> lab, its taken for granted history, its day to day
> goings on. He heard things that needed to be
> countered, challenged, questioned, discussed – things
> that might have just passed by before but now seemed
> to be things that wouldn’t be said had he been a
> person of color from the Lab. His extra ears gave him
> ideas, feelings, words and motives that he hadn’t
> experienced before.
>
> Sandro is a gifted anthropologist, originally from
> Italy, with advanced degrees from the US. And a dear
> sweet man.
>
> Peg
>
> *From:*xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu
> <mailto:xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu>
> [mailto:xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu
> <mailto:xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu>] *On Behalf
> Of *White, Phillip
> *Sent:* Friday, June 19, 2020 10:18 AM
> *To:* eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu <mailto:xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>>
> *Subject:* [Xmca-l] Re: Emotion as "Sputnik"
>
> David - very contextualising background information -
> which i appreciate. do you think that there is a
> thread here in the activity of resolving disputes that
> 'might makes right' -
>
> reflecting on my initial response to Veresov, could
> have been an emotional sputnik - so much tension in
> the air these days here in denver - but i don't want
> to make excuses -
>
> i'm reminded on Nina Simone's song:
>
> Alabama's gotten me so upset
> Tennessee made me lose my rest
> And everybody knows about Mississippi goddam
>
> not just racism, but all isms have just gotten to me
> recently - and i'm missing the voices of twenty years
> ago - to mention just a few: Suzanne De Castle - Mary
> Bryson - Kathryn Alexander - Eva Ekablad, to mention
> just a few - of course, we've still got Peg -
>
> later -
>
> phillip
>
>
> --
>
> /Crush human humanity out of shape once more, under
> similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same
> tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and
> oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same
> fruit, according to its kind. C.Dickens.///
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