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A Convergence Series Culture continues to be hijacked by the right. We present this series along with our partners as a call to action to reclaim culture for those who seek justice. Just as sunlight on a sunny morning isn’t experienced as separated wavelengths and colors, we don’t live our lives as beings split into economic, cultural and political parts. For those of us working primarily with and through culture, how does this shape our work?
Just as sunlight on a sunny morning isn’t experienced as separated wavelengths and colors, we don’t live our lives as beings split into economic, cultural, and political parts. For those of us working primarily with and through culture, how does this shape our work? In 1944, the anticolonial surrealist, writer, and politician Aimé Césaire argued for the importance of “poetic knowledge” in decolonization efforts.
Frames shape how a story is told: what is emphasized and deemphasized, included and excluded. If the frame is individualism, then unions, community land trusts, and cooperative businesses are the stories of witches and thieves. If the frame is meritocracy, then affirmative action, reparations, maximum income, and guaranteed basic income are scientific impossibilities.
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