Positioning queerness and marginalization with an orientation towards hope at the center of the project of actioning change within the university system, with a range of textual support, from Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, to Jack Halberstam, bell hooks, and José Esteban Muñoz.
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Study Proposal + Biography
Re-visiting my application Study Proposal for Applied Imagination while writing my life story in bio form for the end-of-the-year publication shows the inevitability of my project.
“We never create anything fresh or valuable in utter isolation; we always create in relation to other people and other things”
Because the Galaxy needs creativity™
What does it mean to reify an idea, to give it weight and meaning?
Can that be done in writing? How do ideas spread in the world?
Why are community and collaboration important?
Can these concepts be represented in poetry?
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Mapping UAL power structures*
Information gathering and visual mapping university structures in a conversation with Adam Ramejkis.
Haraway, in her thinking, structure, and writing is advocating for messy entanglement, for multiple perspectives—not only human—and lessons from other-than-human ways of being.
“Tentacularity is about life lived along lines—and such a wealth of lines—not at points, not in spheres”
A damning portrait of the state of higher education today: neoliberal market forces have corporatised and commercialised universities to death.
A 45-minute presentation and workshop offering an experience of and reflections on the emergent networks of knowledges and communications that arose from the non-hierarchical, transdisciplinary approach of Ramejkis’ series of sessions: Communication through intercultural lenses.
Reflecting on a form of cross-boundary leadership across landscapes of practice from social learning theorists Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner.
“Organizational structures focused on delivery are often maladapted for innovation, which requires new connections across silos. Innovation also requires enough freedom from institutional inertia to leverage these connections and think outside the box. Accustomed to taking risks and working across boundaries, systems conveners often find themselves in a position to straddle this tension between autonomy and organizational accountability.”