Reading Michael D. Jackson in Darb El-Labanna

Reading the work of Michael D. Jackson at CILAS, – an alternative space which supposedly challenge hegemonic practices- is an invitation to think critically and alternatively to what it means to give primacy to the immediacy to our lived experiences. Furthermore, it is space where we are mindful and critical of this “rush”. This course is not in any way an invitation to propose the eradication of the role of theory- as if it is possible?- from our lives. Instead, it is an invitation to acknowledge these previously mentioned gaps through the inspiring and poetically articulated work of Michael D. Jackson. In these moments of time and space, where personal and political events are intertwined, creating a flux of uncertainty and anxiety, we read together words that reminds us of our sense of agency. Who knows, maybe our attempts to carve out our space in the midst of these structural impositions are situated within the very same ‘gaps’ we rush to cover?