Metasurface hopefully provides a novel view of the warp and weft of contemporary visual culture, contemporary visuality, and issues pertaining to graphicacy. We would like to explore a host of issues - not just those pertaining to visual culture and communication - such as creative communities (the emphasis of my research), design culture, design education, art and design in rural America, teaching in higher education and host of corollary topics.
Hollow controversy. Everybody get off their "high-moral" horse and get to know (that's lay-person slang for "study" or "learn about") someone who allegedly contributed significantly to the Egyptian empire, and/or at least contributed significantly for folks in our region/era to actually get off our asses and pay attention to this region/timeline/culture. What is this: the "stepford wives" of Egyptian history?
Actually, in a culture where whiteness is seen as a baseline and where blackness and all things African have been relegated to the realms of shadow (vide Conrad's oft cited summary of Africa: "The horror. the horror"), this controversy is anything but "hollow."
Were that we lived in a nation where race matters didn't matter.
peridyd, I believe we're saying the same thing (although I must not have articulated it clearly). I titled it hollow controversy because my point was that we should be paying attention to the calibre of the human, rather than the race or color of the human.
Hollow controversy. Everybody get off their "high-moral" horse and get to know (that's lay-person slang for "study" or "learn about") someone who allegedly contributed significantly to the Egyptian empire, and/or at least contributed significantly for folks in our region/era to actually get off our asses and pay attention to this region/timeline/culture. What is this: the "stepford wives" of Egyptian history?
ReplyDeleteActually, in a culture where whiteness is seen as a baseline and where blackness and all things African have been relegated to the realms of shadow (vide Conrad's oft cited summary of Africa: "The horror. the horror"), this controversy is anything but "hollow."
ReplyDeleteWere that we lived in a nation where race matters didn't matter.
peridyd, I believe we're saying the same thing (although I must not have articulated it clearly). I titled it hollow controversy because my point was that we should be paying attention to the calibre of the human, rather than the race or color of the human.
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