Descent & Transformation

Team Leader: Descent & Transformation A condition of Blackness is that it functions within the realm of the impossible, exceeding limitations via crucial strategies of fugitivity and adaptability. Frank B. Wilderson III, Black studies theoretician and author of the recently published “Afropessimism” notes that the classification of humanity has always kept certain lives outside of […]

The Ocean Carries ‘Memories’ of SARS-COV-2

The Ocean Carries ‘Memories’ of SARS-COV-2 A weekly meeting to discuss the connections between the pandemic and ocean memory leads to a collaboratively authored piece exploring what ocean memory can tell us about SARS CoV-2, published August 15, 2020, in Scientific American