… it is perfectly legitimate to see connections between objects that are intentionally produced at a distance from one another.
If this were not so, one would have to conclude that what is important in the description of phenomena is the intention of their creator, which is not always the case.All of us know far more than we think we know and say far more than we think we say. The entire culture of an age speaks, to a greater or lesser extent and to a more or less profound degree in all our work.
It is precisely by not producing hierarchies and ghettos among texts that we can discover recurring trends that distinguish “our” mentality (in this case our “taste”) from that of other periods. It is only by pursuing the unlikely connections that we shall discover— if we allow ourselves the benefit of the doubt— how that mentality and taste might develop.
— Omar Calabrese, Neo-Baroque: A Sign of the Times (1992)
RESIST! dogma, propaganda, exploitation, passivity… (bold = links)
* Some useful information on labor, rights, and organizing in the U.S.: AFL-CIO / AAUP (academia) / and TUGSA (the Temple University Graduate Student Association)
* Check for hidden bias in news sources: Allsides / Consider the role of your own biases in how you consume media: Learning for Justice (SPLC) / More reliable news sites: The Associated Press and Reuters
* Accessing the books you need, banned and otherwise: see Monoskop, Open Library, and archive.org