"there is no singular epiphany"... "it’s more than a dream, actually. It’s been realized. It will be a new standard that, I hope, will apply to every intellectual work, a consistent way of naming every piece of intellectual creation" JA: That’s right, and the idea is to create an intellectual robustness. So if you think about citations when using URLs, if we make an intellectual work, we stand on the shoulders of giants, which we all do, and we cite our influences in some way—not necessarily in a formal academic sense, but we simply refer to them by linking to the original thing you were looking at. URLs are an example of how we become intellectually dependent on this citation mechanism. But if that citation mechanism is actually like plasticine, and it is decaying all around us—if oligarchs and billionaires are in there ripping out bits of history, or connections between one part of history and another, because it interferes with their agenda—then the in...

To experience the community lands in the current period is to merely peer through and above the narrow gaps of thick steel bars. Indigenous peoples are being prevented access and movement to, from and across customary lands, and cultural property by U.S. legislation. Indigenous peoples’ concerted efforts to challenge the legality of U.S. deathscapes and settler ecologies/economies of war: “i.e.: a technology-saturated ‘roof’ of militarized airspace, filled with satellites, space debris plummeting down and being vaporated by NASA Space Engineers in Florida stadium lights, and agents stalking indigenous women under cover, in the dark, infrared radar, watch towers, drones, unmanned spy aircraft, and cyber information sharing crackdowns, spearheaded through the “Virtual Border Neighborhood Watch Program”, “border radio interoperability”, the “Texas Data Exchange” programs, and “K-9 units” [1] demands a critical genocide analysis in the conte...

nobody can hear us by this wall History and Memory Twin Monster Slayers Twin Dons Twin Patrons Twin Caciques Twin Chiefs Twin Mischiefs Twin Mister Chiefs Palpable containments Carceral aspects Punative suspects Research assets Nde' pain Compressed, stolen, Steel Wall Enclosure enclosed her Memory and Repression doesn't even leave pulp behind when it consumes us

RAVEN EYE, book review , by William Arce Excerpt: "The emphasis on "revolution" and "women" is at stake throughout the whole text. ... the women in the "rez" find themselves under the dual oppression of their men and of white society." "The last poems are especially moving in their range and scope. Elements of lost history, forgiveness, spirittual healing and the omnipotent power of memory ore resurrected: "Raen knows/Raven breaths"...

Currently revising Chapter 3, a good thing Professor Shepherd nudged me to slow down and 'do' the Anglo-American early-to-late modern build-up of narratives which supported hyper-sovereignty, i.e. the power to kill without end. Currently reviewing Mbembe's work which will support my thesis (forthcoming in my dissertation!, sorry, can't share yet, though after May will link the diss here, so thanks and be patient!) Blue Skies in Pullman--believe it or NOT! I'm outa here!

Frustrated with how dependent the Sharepoint model is upon one person's ideations, skills, knowledge and energy, and thinking about future projects as I move into the Job Market in search of a new home, I got to browsing digital journals this morning. I found good news and am feeling hopeful that my move forward toward new communities will be empowered through critical dialogues and collaborations with engaged civic minded actors. Although I will be focused on completing my dissertation over the next 45 days, and the intensity of that effort, I am mindful that I want new tools and methods, and seeking new commitments from collaborators... to go further, to build new engines and scales . Are you Curious? Here are a few places I'm visiting this morning: " Programmed Visions " Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Raegan Kelly " Blue Velvet " by David Goldbert, Stefka Hristova, Erik Loyer, and Liu Sola " VECTORS " " Kairos " " Hypercities " ...

On the persistent defiance of the logic of imperialism ... My parallel universe 'self' intercepted my touchgraph while cruising my google alerts. AS NEO SAID TO THE ORACLE, "BUT, WHAT DOES IT MEAN?" Hey Nils and Theron...Per usual, I'm few beats late to the conversation. I would advise anyonewho is seriously committed to the larger structural uses of E-portfolios by contemporary students-- who by the way do not view the college classroom as their most significant 'center' of knowledge and tool acquisition, (providing one is inclined to view the technology and control over the production as the domain of liberatory education)--,to examine their assumptions about knowledge and power and the political will of the Indigenous peoples. Like it or not, Indigenous Peoples are re-shaping international law, rights regimes, and more borders than ever before--and this is increasingly relevant to e-portfolios. We need a new framework. Why such rigid parameters about...