"One also might take the example of Tupac Shakur as a man whose life and works
expose the possibilites for self-transformation through creating something of a crisis in
the identity-fixing function of the performative. Born in Brooklyn to a mother who was a Black Panther, Shakur
attented the Baltimore
School for the Arts, where
he was recognized as having
incredible talent. His career
as a “gangsta rapper” was
coupled with his poetry writing,
for example, and his outstanding
performances in various
movies. Shakur’s position within the symbolic does not
reduce to that of some “angry black man,” which, as one who
grew up in poverty and various ghettos, current power structures seem
to demand. Rather, Shakur made his position within the symbolic order
tremble; he was arrested for assault and sexual misconduct while at the same
time heavily involved in large works of charity, and continuing to practice his art.
Through resistance of power via his questioning of his own social identity, Shakur’s
life points the way towards a means of actively recreating the self through one’s own
practices."
Thinking Otherly.John Hartmann meteorite.
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