#podcast Glitter, sequins, faux flowers... and vultures hiding in the garden. Jamaican artist Ebony G. Patterson on beauty as a Trojan horse: how opulence seduces the eye while refusing to let the "un-visible" disappear.
Bling, grief, the Tivoli Incursion, cockroaches and flies, death as community.
🎧 rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-444-ebony-g-patterson/
New #podcast 🎙️ Central to AbdouMaliq Simone's work is extensionality — the ways relations stretch across households, neighborhoods, and economies, enabling partial connections and provisional alignments.
Infrastructure isn't only technical; it's social. People become the conduits through which resources circulate and possibilities emerge.
🎧 https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-457-abdoumaliq-simone/
#architecture #urbanism #blackness #Blackstudies #globalsouth
Kehinde Andrews, Black Royalty, wrote:
Birmingham City University has cut the MA Black Studies and Global Justice with NO consultation and put me and 4 other Black members of staff jobs at potential risk of redundancy. Read the open letter signed by more than 130 academics, activists, politicians and authors and sign the petition
https://www.change.org/Saveblackstudies
New #podcast
What if informality isn't absence but dense coordination?
In AbdouMaliq Simone's work, 'popular territories' — across Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia — are sites where people continuously recalibrate relationships to space, authority, and livelihood. Fragile and generative at once.
And what if infrastructure is not just pipes and roads but also people?
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-457-abdoumaliq-simone/
#urbanism #BlackUrbanism #infrastructure #fugitivity #BlackStudies #architecture
New #podcast: Architect + curator Mpho Matsipa talks about Black urbanism, African mobilities, the uneasy legacies of modernism, racialized ecologies, and the extraction of Black time through regimes of waiting and migration. We also think with Mpho’s reading of Mbembe’s ‘distributed university’, where museums, salons, independent art spaces and networks become infrastructures for redistributing knowledge and resources.
> How Black Studies departments are being dismantled at American colleges. https://lithub.com/how-black-studies-departments-are-being-dismantled-at-american-colleges/
FTA: “The most dangerous threat to Black studies right now is not coming from the federal government,” he writes. “It is coming from institutions that have decided, in advance, that accommodation is the same thing as survival.”
#academia #HigherEd #DEI #racism #BlackStudies #AfricanAmerican #BlackMastodon
A New Era of Scholarship Is Shining a Light on the Black Philosophical Tradition
Without this history, students may see Black thinkers as footnotes rather than world-historical contributors.So much of Black History Month gets flattened into trivia about a few iconic figures. But as Jarvis Givens reminds us on Code Switch, its origins were far more radical: a project to reclaim histories that were ignored or suppressed. A good prompt to rethink how we engage this month.
#BlackHistoryMonth #CodeSwitch #JarvisGivens #BlackStudies
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/04/nx-s1-5690184/the-history-of-black-history-month-one-hundred-years-in
Radio Web MACBA
Audubon Ballroon (he/him)
Charlie McHenry
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD
A. Rivera
The USA Potato
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