Ryan Ikeda on Excavating the Logics of White Supremacy in Electronic Literature
BCNM DE student Ryan Ikeda (Rhetoric) published an article on white supremacy and race within the electronic literature space in the Electronic Book Review!
From the description:
Thinking about the ways in which critical infrastructure studies can allow us to engage in antiracism critiques and practices, Ryan Ikeda provocatively challenges the electronic literature community to address some of the symbolic and material structures that he argues uphold the field. To this end, Ikeda positions elit infrastructure as dynamic and generative sites of cultural activity, and attends, in particular to the ELMCIP Knowledge Base, recent ebr discourses on decolonization, ELO fellowships, and literary historical genealogies, to examine how each constructs, affirms, racializes and extends power, privilege, and status to its members.
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