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Everyone Wants a Village, Nobody Wants to Be a Villager by Abhi Meer aka The Vigilante
There is a sentence that addresses something most people feel but rarely articulate: Everyone wants a village. No one wants to be a villager.
We live in an era of ‘performed community’. People speak endlessly about belonging, about culture, about scenes. They consume them as content and they wear them as identity. They attend them as experience. What they do not do - or rather do not do enough - is produce it, show up for it, pay its costs, know its history or carry its weight.
This lecture and workshop session is an attempt to think through that sentence with some (actually, a lot of) precision, using three frameworks:
Alfred Adler's psychology of community.
The history of popular music cultures like hip-hop and techno,
B.R. Ambedkar's political philosophy.
Not because they say the same thing, but rather because their differences sharpen the argument. By the end, we should know something more specific about what the village actually is, who the villager actually is, and what it would cost to be one.
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