Benjamin P. Davis talks to Usha Natarajan about Ben's book on the inspirational Caribbean poet, Édouard Glissant. What we can learn from Glissant about human rights? What does Glissant mean by the 'right to opacity'? Is it necessary and possible to know the Other? How do we 'choose our bearing' and engage in ethical academic and legal praxis amid neoliberal institutions that are in varying degrees complicit in genocide, famine, violence, and suffering?| TWAILR
**This piece is co-authored by Wanda Alarcón, Dolores Inés Casillas, Esther Díaz Martín, Sara Veronica Hinojos, and Cloe Gentile Reyes For weeks, we have been inundated with executive orders (220 a…| Sounding Out!
This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x. ChI-ca-NA. La-TI-ne. ChI-ca-n-@. Xi-can-x. Funded by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research Initiative, the Latinx Sound Cultures Studies Working Group critically considers the role of sound and listening in our […]| Sounding Out!
In both sound studies and the sonic arts, the concept of “resonance” has increasingly played a central role in attuning listeners to the politics of sound. The term itself is borrowed from acoustics, where resonance simply refers to the transfer of energy between two neighboring objects. For example, plucking a note on one guitar string […]| Sounding Out!
***This post is co-written by Petra Rivera-Rideau and Vanessa Díaz On the night of September 12, Colombian pop star Shakira made history as the first predominantly Spanish-language artist to be honored as MTV’s Video Vanguard at the Video Music Awards (VMAs). The award recognizes artists who have had a major and innovative impact on music […]| Sounding Out!
May 13 is World Cocktail Day, which celebrates the anniversary of the first-ever publication of the definition of “cocktail” in 1806, as "a stimulating| University of Pennsylvania Press