Garza, Cristina Rivera (2020). The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation.
Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 2020.
From the chapter on Disappropriation – Writing with and for the Dead, we will read and discuss from page 52 (Disappropriation:A poetics of community) until page 56 (first paragraph, ending with “how the community w…[Read more]

Garza, Cristina Rivera (2020). The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation.
Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 2020.
From the Introduction, we will read and discuss from last paragraph on page 3 (“Writing against the status quo”) until page 7 (first paragraph ending:”of what occurs.”) (pp 0-20)

Starting from Kenneth Goldsmiths’ appropriation of the autopsy of police-murdered Michael Brown as a piece of conceptual poetry, Ken Chen asks challenging questions about the way this incident was not an accident.
From reading this text, we understood that an anti-colonial, feminist practice of Open Content would need to formulate “a politics of a…[Read more]