The World Is Non-Binary
“Neither Washington nor Beijing” doesn’t simply signal that both states are equally bad, but it recognizes that imperialism is a world system not limited to the boundaries of nation-states.
“Neither Washington nor Beijing” doesn’t simply signal that both states are equally bad, but it recognizes that imperialism is a world system not limited to the boundaries of nation-states.
“Africa is not just this blank slate and these big companies are coming in and buying up land and kicking out people. There are politics going on.”
These events mark the beginning of Ai Weiwei’s struggle and surveillance at the hands of the state police.
My friends and I started to believe that, by revolutionizing our everyday lives, we could change the world, or at least change ourselves through study, going from modern slaves to social actors with a sense of dignity.