Visual Identity Politics and Remix Society
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Identity politics

Identity (construct of…)

“Now part of what”…“I see as the problem is the idea of anybody’s having to fight the fragmentation and multicultural diversity of the world, not to mention outright oppression, by constructing something so rigid as an identity, an identity in which there has to be a fixed and immobile core, a core that is structured to hold inviolate such a complete biological fantasy as race— whether white or black”  —Samuel R. Delany, interviewed by Mark Dery, 1994

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Designing dialogue

Dialogue test: Black & white relations — 2

A dialogue with Jacco van Sterkenburg about New powerful relation between black and white.

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Designing dialogue

Dialogue test: Black & White relations — 1

On November 19, 2015, I had a dialogue with Serana Angelista about New powerful relation between black and white

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Incomplete timeline of human classification

1995 — Voluntary Affirmative Action Information

Designed by Players Casino (Found in a record sleeve of funkband WAR. In possession of the author.)

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Incomplete timeline of human classification

1920 — Distribution of the Primary Races

Designed by Theodore Lothrop Stoddard, American historian, journalist, eugenicist, Klansman, political and racial theorist.

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Incomplete timeline of human classification

1912 — The Races of Mankind about 1500

designer unknown. Published by George Philip & Son Ltd., London

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Incomplete timeline of human classification

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1896 — Color of Skin after G. Gerland

designed by W.Z.R. Fecit after G. Gerland

Incomplete timeline of human classification

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1893 — Principal Types of Mankind (after Huxley)

Designed by The Jonas Brother (after Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist)

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Incomplete timeline of human classification

1891 — The Races of Mankind Before European Expansion

designer unknown. Publish by Charles Scribner's Sons

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Incomplete timeline of human classification

1880 — Menschenrassen

published by Brockhaus' Conversations-Lexikon

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Incomplete timeline of human classification

1785 — The Outline of History of Mankind