"Decolonizing the Mind," Rethinking Marxism 30, no. 2 (2018), 1-26.

This essay makes use of several genres of writing and digital art to consider what it means to decolonize one’s intellectual and emotional labor. It treats artwork as a language, a form of communication, a mode of cultural practice and resurgence. Art is part of the struggle to reclaim a future that is not about the future at all but a present in which Indigenous territories, stories, bodies, and sensualities are unoccupied and uncivilized: I want to live there; that is where I live.

Key Words: Eroticism, Futurism, Indigenous, Storytelling, Territories

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

—Ai Weiwei

There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.

—Octavia E. Butler

Full article and gallery available here: https://sfsu.academia.edu/jmbarker.