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Vivek Santayana


Doctoral Candidate in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.
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Monthly Archives: June 2020

How Speculating about Beethoven’s Race Misses the Point

23 Tuesday Jun 2020

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Beethoven was One-Sixteenth Black, Black History, Epistemic Injustice, Heuristic Injustice, Ludwig van Beethoven, Nadine Gordimer

My response to a recent article on Classic FM’s web site about a Twitter discussion on the possibility of Ludwig van Beethoven being Black, and the epistemic injustices that this discussion exposes.

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Comrades: a Revolutionary RPG by W.M. Akers

22 Monday Jun 2020

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Comrades: a Revolutionary RPG, Powered by the Apocalypse, Table-Top Roleplaying Games, W.M. Akers

Some reflections on Comrades, a table-top role-playing game about revolutions by W.M. Akers, and why I want to play the game in today’s political climate.

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What Does it Mean to Have a ‘Conversation’ about Empire?

09 Tuesday Jun 2020

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Colonialism, Edward Colston Statue, Empire, History, Rhodes Must Fall

Some reflections on a recent BBC Radio 4 interview about the need to ‘have conversations about empire’, and what the terms of such ‘conversations’ mean.

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