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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Armond R. Towns explores the mechanics of revolutionary thought and the media of resistance
Description: Armond R. Towns is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa. His research and teaching focuses on the relationship between media, communication, race, blackness, and history. Heβs just released an amazing book called On Black Media Philosophy with University of California Press. And heβs also the cofounder and editor of the brand new journal Communication and Race, which will start publishing issues in 2024.
In this conversation, we dwell with the sprawling, exciting claims of his new book On Black Media Philosophy. And one of the central theoretical problems in that book is the ques...