Commonspace
Aca-zine:
an ongoing collection of digital notations in collage and zine formats as part of my SSHRC-funded research creation project.
“I believe in the world and want to be in it. I want to be in it all the way to the end of it because I believe in another world in the world and I want to be in that...the other thing, the other world, the joyful noise of the scattered, scatted eschaton, the undercommon refusal of the academy of misery.”
- Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study
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Signatories of Longing: Identity-making in Asian diaspora
(full PDF download)
This aca-zine was adapted from a paper presented at Congress 2023 as part of the ACCUTE Conference’s GSC Panel – Reckoning Displacement through Story(tell)ing.
That paper, in turn, was developed from a presentation done in a graduate course, Unlearning the Archive taken in my first year of doctoral studies, 2021.
Special note: Link to the open access edition of Dr. Lily Cho’s Mass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-Citizens
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Collage schematics from early reading for the comprehensive exams in my Major field - Postcolonial
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