The Third Event: Bedour Alagraa on Sylvia Wynter and Black Radical Thought
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
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The First and Second Events in Winter's Conception
Sylvie Winter says man's overrepresentation is a key obstacle in our ability to move past what she calls society's descriptive statement for being the human. The Copernican break, Darwinian rupture and Funonian break are three events that have shaped Western epistemes current understanding of the human. But it feels like the apparatus of mainstream media and education within the US specifically, but also globally, are also disciplined to operate within the narratives of the second event. So where does this point of practice? And there is a struggle for a role for a new humanity here?
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