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[Nishi Khodaria @Nishik99]

I found "Education and Empire" to be very pertinent to our discussions surrounding the pervasive and oppressive control of ideology and ideological state apparatuses, school and education, in turn, continue to play a huge role in 'colonizing minds.' #ENC600

[Nishi Khodaria @Nishik99]

@jpxrra Also, this reminded me of our discussions about the enforcement of English language in colonized lands, it was interesting to connect that to the hegemonic ways in which the colonial narrative was, in turn, also fed to the young generation, to fashion them into 'colonizers'

[Nishi Khodaria @Nishik99]

It is important for young children growing up to see themselves represented in the mainstream media as well, especially since it becomes such an integral part of their coming to terms with their identities and selfhood. #ENC600

[Nishi Khodaria @Nishik99]

Representation matters in the mainstream media on so many levels, but beyond greater representation, it is also important that it is not followed by fetishizing brown and black bodies into 'selling stereotypes.'

#ENC600

[Nishi Khodaria @Nishik99]

Professor Nericcio's works highlight, the many ways in which the representation of the Latinx community is supplanted by predominant White, fetishized imagery, which leads to a constant absence even with a greater on-screen presence, "we are everywhere and yet nowhere."

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[Nishi Khodaria @Nishik99]

In so many ways 'coming to (R)age' dismantles the mythic idea of 'childhood innocence,' inherently ignorant too; for minority children's experiences of growing up are never devoid of the larger instances of oppression, violence, and inequality.
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[Nishi Khodaria @Nishik99]

What was significant about this week's readings was the importance of 'rage' not only in the black and brown experiences of coming to terms with adulthood but also as a reaction against systemic oppressions they're subjected to since an early age.

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[Nishi Khodaria @Nishik99]

A recurring question surrounding the discussion of the post-human condition, and the advancement in nanotechnology, relates to the role of the environment and nature, to what extent will this advancement affect/impact the natural ecosystem #ENC600

[Nishi Khodaria @Nishik99]

The nanomites in the novel "Midnight Robber" represent the internalization of the systems of control prevalent in the 'master-slave' dynamic, as argued by Leong, any and every advancement in technology needs to address these technological legacies of racial slavery.
#ENC600

[Nishi Khodaria @Nishik99]

"We should figure out what nanotechnology wants and
train it to be a good citizen.” #ENC600

[Nishi Khodaria @Nishik99]

Professor Leong's "A Hundred Tiny Hands" presents interesting questions surrounding biopolitics, control and the rising nanotechnology, it was engaging to read about modern means of 'slavery' as foundational to the advancement of these systems.
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[Kendell Leigh @kendellleighw]

the real horror is being asked details about it tho #ENC600

[Nishi Khodaria @Nishik99]

And what are the factors, which influence 'skimming' or 'putting away' some texts over others, it's often common with classic works of literature, but aren't works by minority writers also not circulated as widely simply because reading them is seen as 'hard.' #ENC600

[Nishi Khodaria @Nishik99]

A prevailing question that came to me as I read Bayard's book, concerned the 'politics of non-reading' to what extent can not reading texts be unbiased, aren't certain works by Minority writers termed as 'difficult texts,' because of their different language. #ENC600

[Nishi Khodaria @Nishik99]

I'd really like to suggest the movie "Her" as an interesting virtual text to Haraway's cyborg, the movie looks at the romantic relationship between a man and his artificially intelligent virtual assistant, exploring the aspects of human, machine, body, pleasure and loneliness.

[Nishi Khodaria @Nishik99]

Haraway's contention of a post-humanistic and post-gender world though seems unlikely, even with the cyborg as our present social reality, to what extent can we understand it as separate from its human lineage, do we not also seek in the cyborg the elements of the human.
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[Nishi Khodaria @Nishik99]

Donna Haraway's 'cyborg manifesto' brings out interesting questions relating to human, body and identity, also what does it mean for our future relations with technology, for, "Why should our bodies end at
the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?"
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[Nishi Khodaria @Nishik99]

Some students in the comments section shared how they've had similar assignments in school for 'American history,' it is troubling to note that this kind of racial ignorance and historical amnesia continues to exist in education, ignorance in turn that can be extremely violent.

[Nishi Khodaria @Nishik99]

A recent assignment given to undergraduates at the African Studies program at SDSU is extremely problematic, wherein students are expected to imagine themselves as 'slaves' and write a 'slave narrative', I was astounded to note that this actually was an assignment for students.