“There's an enormous difference between normative white masculinity and normative black masculinity.” Quote by Jess Row
“In the early days of the Internet, the word "navigation" had this ingrained in it. There really was a sensation of the cyber-flâneur, as you really would have no idea where you would end up. You would end up on pages that had nothing to do with what you wanted, experiences that were totally unanticipated. You had to connect the dots, connect the parcels of your experience. It was totally open to randomness.” IdeasEndsWantedInternetPagesNo IdeaSensationsDotsCyberRandomnessNavigationParcel Author:Sergio Chejfec
“I like to compare the first experiences of the Internet - the fortuitousness, the chance - with reality, with the experience, for example, of being in a city that you don't know. Many times - and I don't know if I can totally defend this argument - I've found that the way one experiences the world, and daily life, we are constantly dealing with these perceptions. And it seems like it works, this superficial perception of determinacy, but it's completely ridiculous.” IfsKnowsWorldWayFirstsI CanRealitySeemsFoundChanceCitiesExampleInternetPerceptionArgumentRidiculousCompareDaily LifeSuperficial Author:Sergio Chejfec
“Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a species of history, of evidence. It's a way for the way the narrator to construct a semblance of self, even though all of this creates a deception, a way to think of one's traces as a real way to define oneself. The trace is fallible, impermanent. It's one of the motives I had in mind throughout the text.” PeopleThinkingWayMindRealSelfUseCultureAbilityEvidenceMarkNotesSpeciesOneselfNostalgiaDeceptionMotiveConstructsNarratorsSemblance Author:Sergio Chejfec
“There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.” MenCultureBlackPositionAbsenceAmerican CulturePosition Of Power Author:Jess Row
“You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop.” ThinkingMenYearsPastWhitePiecesTenSpeechTwentiesHip HopHipsHopsWhite ManAdoptedOver The Past Author:Jess Row
“There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense.” PeopleBornQuietClaimsNonsenseTemperamentReservedPessimistic Author:Jess Row
“The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is socially constructed is a very complex debate.” IdentityComplexesComplicatedGenderDebateTransgender Author:Jess Row
“I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.” PeopleRaceIdentityCrisisGenderIdentity Crisis Author:Jess Row
“For me, there's a very clear parallel between the practice of insight in Buddhism and what's called prajna - the insight that arrives through meditation.” PracticeClearMeditationBuddhismInsightParallels Author:Jess Row
“Prajna is insight into the world. And a lot of that insight has to do with karma and the way karma affects our lives.” WorldWayOur LivesInsightKarma Author:Jess Row