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brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 23m

Folkloring Jamaica 🇯🇲 . Happy to come across this reference, especially since it’s Caribbean Folklore Month. Bookmarked! 👇

Folkloring Jamaica 🇯🇲 @folkloringjamaica.blacksky.app · 3h

Happy to come across this reference, especially since it’s Caribbean Folklore Month. Bookmarked!

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 5h

In "Bêtes Noires," Lauren Derby explores storytelling traditions among the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, focusing on shape-shifting spirit demons called baka/bacá. Read the introduction now for free: buff.ly/FMxVGtA

brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 26m

a sign of ill-gotten wealth associated with predatory capitalism.

brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 26m

vernacular sayings about goats.9 But as we shall see, bacá spirit demons most often appear as dogs, cattle, horses, and feral pigs—the animals that enabled the dispossession of the indigenous Taíno. I argue here that the bacá is first and foremost a “commodity familiar,”

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brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 27m

that have become spirit demons. Perhaps the most diabolical of all these creatures is the goat, as evidenced by the fact that repressive dictator Rafael Trujillo was nicknamed “the Goat”; those who loathed him had a feast of goat meat upon his death, and Dominican popular speech includes dozens of

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brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 28m

a dead person is introduced. This specific fusion of a money making male spirit and a being that can shape-shift into an animal is unique to Hispaniola and is a manifestation of what Dominicans call the fukú de Colón, or curse of Columbus, since it is only the types of animals brought by Columbus

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brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 29m

They are also shape-shifting creatures that can morph from a little black humanoid figure in urban contexts to an animal host in rural settings. As campesino (rural smallholder) Domingo Bautista put it, “The bacá is a natural being that is made with an animal, into which the spirit of

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brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 32m

Duke University Press. In "Bêtes Noires," Lauren Derby explores storytelling traditions among the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, focusing on shape-shifting spirit demons called baka/bacá. Read the introduction now for free:

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brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 4h

more duchamp..

brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 3d

the owners of the telegraph on hearing that an asylum seeker just won the £26mil euro millions in the uk.. [six men getting sick (six times) ] by david lynch. youtu.be/trR-NYKdj1Q?...

Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times) by David Lynch

YouTube video by John Robison A.K.A. Captain PirateFace

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brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 4h

Crisis And Critique.

brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 4h

Agon Hamza. We are proud to announce that our next guest on the podcast will be Jean-Jacques Lecercle.

Consider subscribing to our channel for past and future episodes:

Agon Hamza @agonhamza.bsky.social · 4h

We are proud to announce that our next guest on the podcast will be Jean-Jacques Lecercle.

Consider subscribing to our channel for past and future episodes:

www.youtube.com/@crisisandcr...

open.spotify.com/show/71HTMeq...

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brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 5h

More: Confronted with Pan’s protruding ribs, sunken stomach and pelvic bones, one suspects that attempting to decode the gestures and refusals of the nude may be distracting us from other, more plainly evident revelations –

brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 5h

ongoing legal and existential attacks against transgender individuals, the action coupled with the show’s references to martyrdom and metrics calls up grimmer associations.

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brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 5h

ArtReview. Referencing Duchamp and Donatello, the Chinese-American artist’s self-portraits decode the gestures and refusals of the nude.

While Pan’s shrouded face and posture invoke a very twentieth-century kind of surrealist uncanny, given the US’s

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 5h

Referencing Duchamp and Donatello, the Chinese-American artist’s self-portraits decode the gestures and refusals of the nude
artreview.com/ren-light-pa...

Review: Ren Light Pan at Lyles & King, New York | ArtReview

Referencing Duchamp and Donatello, the Chinese-American artist’s self-portraits decode the gestures and refusals of the nude

artreview.com

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brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 5h

and stop taking shots of the inside of a studio.."it doesn't mean anything..(the grand tour begins..)

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brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 5h

hey..maybe that thing originated in wales..(who wrote those damn reviews anyway..chuckle chuckle..!) heh..

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brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 5h

I keep thinking..what if that thing came out of wales (and not the metropolitana.?)

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brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 5h

don't say: "i've heard (from) AND seen that face before..!"

brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 5h

Grace Jones - I've Seen That Face Before (12" Version) youtu.be/h02LY6KnyoI?...

Grace Jones - I've Seen That Face Before (12" Version)

YouTube video by Grace Jones [unofficial]

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brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 6h

"take it away and bring it back, once you've thought it through.." (hah..) or hardy har har.."call yourself a blooody professional.?"

brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 6h

heh.."take it away..!" "i'm not taking that thing on trust..!"

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brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 6h

chuckle chuckle..! yes.."what is it.?", "what is this thing.?", "what is this thing suppose to do.?"..what is the meaning of this.? "explain it to me properly.?" ("are you just trying to waste my time.?" again.?)

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brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 6h

Godwyn’s entry into the anti-slavery discourse reflected a common strategy whereby reformers sought to attack the very idea of slavery, redefining it in such a way as to make it compatible with slaves’ rights, ultimately transmuting it a lesser type of servitude.

brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 6h

Finally, after years of failed reforms, Godwyn began to attack the moral character of those in England who remained ambivalent about settler immorality (1685). This more robust accounting of Godwyn’s development helps to illuminate broader trends in anti-slavery thinking in the seventeenth century.

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brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 6h

In the first phase of his early letters, he focused on the corruption of vestry power in Virginia, of which slave baptism was a secondary issue (1672). This subsequently gave way to criticisms of slave master absolutism after witnessing slave master brutality in Barbados (1680).

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brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 6h

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Beyond helping to extend our biographical understanding of Godwyn, these texts also illuminate how his anti-slavery arguments evolved throughout the 1670s and 1680s. These documents reveal that his thinking developed in three phases.

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