The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.
Teju ColeTo be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.
Teju ColeNot explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.
Teju Cole