Queer Enlightenment

Sun Ra and the Arkestra played a week of eleven concerts at the Detroit Jazz Center. The shows were organized and soundboard recorded by Rick Steiger (a collaborator of John Sinclair). On New Year's Eve the Arkestra performed nearly a hundred Sun Ra compositions in three different sets. Remastered from the original cassette soundboard recordings by Christopher Eddy. Limited edition of 500 copies, originally a 28 cd-r set from 2007 in an edition of 400.

Editors: Dhawan, N., Fink, E., Leinius, J., Mageza-Barthel, R. (Eds.)
Provides an in-depth analysis and postcolonial critique of the Enlightenment norms of human rights, democracy, international law, sovereignty, secularism, justice, political modernity, and development
Illustrates how norms regulate and legitimize power and authority, but also how they are challenged, appropriated, and applied to contest these very systems of rule
Presents case studies that take into account the complex intersections and interconnections between the global North and the global South as well as the influence of the transnational