Category: The Year 2012
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Developing 2012 Perspectives on Michael Jackson – by Aberjhani
Image still from video for “Notes for an Elegy in the Key of Michael.” The quote reads: “The black star zooms gold. Wings of white flame torch his throat. His voice has arrived.” It turns out I was right to stop saying I’ve concluded my writings on Michael Jackson. After…
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Guerrilla Decontextualization and the 2012 Presidential Election Campaign (Part 1 of 3) | Aberjhani | Blog Post | Red Room
Freedom Tower workers go up on a lift as a U.S. flag waves in the foreground. (photo by Shannon Stapleton for Reuters) “…You are looking at the miracles and missing the meaning behind the miracles.” –Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Guerrilla decontextualization is a somewhat ungainly term that falls more out…
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Juneteenth 2012 Editorial with Poem: Every Hour Henceforth
Cover of forthcoming eBook Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black. The story behind the annual Juneteenth celebration is now fairly well known. The event commemorates June 19, 1865, the day slaves in Galveston, Texas, and other parts of the state learned for the first time they had actually been…
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Poetics of Paradigm Dancing in the 2012 Presidential Election Campaign (part 1) | Aberjhani | Blog Post | Red Room
Queen Elizabeth II enjoys a toast with President Barack Obama and actor Tom Hanks at a 2011 celebration. (photograph by Pete Souza) The British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II reportedly quoted the great Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay’s poem “If We Must Die” when he addressed the…
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