Our first full class of ‘world building’!! At the start of class we were introduced to an exercise Dr. Ansari has devised on building cosmologies and creating myths from scratch. This idea at first seemed fun and exciting (which it was!!), but towards the end of class, the world my…

The modern world system, as colonial/capitalist, relies on non-economic order (on work being done that is not productive). It ignores education, healthcare, and social work (not compensated enough for the importance of the work, which literally keeps the world alive). It relies on oppression. This oppression has historically relied on…

We continued on with the iceberg exercise from last week, however, this time my group focused on gender inequality in the tech industry. First, we were asked to use the top-down approach to analyze the issue as it is today. We then switched to the reverse order of the exercise…

Midterm Ideation: I have chosen to focus on the evolution of Pakistani social structures. I have no doubt that most of this research will lead me to the caste system in India. To be quite frank I don’t know a lot about caste history so a lot of this will…

Dr. Ansari said something in class today in reference to a question I asked which really resonated with me. I can’t remember the specific question right now, but it went something like this: How can we as people work outside of the community for a better world when we’re still…

Today, I am still in Saudi Arabia, this time writing from my sister's old room which consists of two twin beds. It’s where we are sleeping throughout our stay, surrounded by family photos and our “name art” (done in Dubai circa 2007 in a mall by a South Indian man…

Aníbal Quijano first coined the concept of modernity/coloniality, which was later developed by Walter Mignolo. These concepts of modernity and coloniality are referred to as two sides of the same coin, seemingly different but one cannot exist without the other. …

Ahmed Ansari writes: While ‘decolonisation’ has recently become common parlance in the political language of the Left in the United States, there has been little effort, whether in the academy or in public discourse and praxis, in reflecting more deeply on what it means and what it entails given the…

This week I made a “windshield wiper” for glasses. My friends who wear glasses have always complained about their glasses fogging up and rain getting their lenses “too wet”, so, I decided to make something that could help them out. When testing out the Servo Motor in the beginning, the…