oh lord, caught again
Seems I misquoted Deborah Meadows. Sorry about that.
What follows is from her:
Have to reply to Susan's comment: not quite anything a mentor said, neither ambition nor biggness. This has to do with how we each negotiate a relationship to failure in our art--it's different than linear success, safety in art--how complacency is death to art.
On privilege: bell hooks proposes the model of living a contradiction, to be educated but still affiliated with her working class origins. This means we don't assimilate to the dominant group but use our rarefied educations to draft letters to the editor, testify in court, make education accessible to other working class students, have a role in institutions civic or art or what have you, it means occupying a position that the field of Sociology does not recognize when it creates the category of "middle class" as someone with a college degree quickly absorbing our abilities to the projects of those already in power.
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What follows is from her:
Have to reply to Susan's comment: not quite anything a mentor said, neither ambition nor biggness. This has to do with how we each negotiate a relationship to failure in our art--it's different than linear success, safety in art--how complacency is death to art.
On privilege: bell hooks proposes the model of living a contradiction, to be educated but still affiliated with her working class origins. This means we don't assimilate to the dominant group but use our rarefied educations to draft letters to the editor, testify in court, make education accessible to other working class students, have a role in institutions civic or art or what have you, it means occupying a position that the field of Sociology does not recognize when it creates the category of "middle class" as someone with a college degree quickly absorbing our abilities to the projects of those already in power.
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