In the last few decades, the world has heard countless voices raised against the violence of racism. But living an anti-racist life means confronting the structural and systematic nature of racism, and how it adapts to serve our modern society; one that’s built on a bedrock of settler colonialism and capitalism.
In 10 minutes Andrew Brooks unpacks what race is, what it does, and why everything must change.
Andrew Brooks
Dr Andrew Brooks is a Lecturer in Media Cultures in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture at UNSW Sydney. His work investigates infrastructural and inequalities, policing and abolition, technology and aesthetics, race and anti-racism. He is a co-director of the UNSW Media Futures Hub, a researcher in the UNSW Centre for Criminology, Law and Justice, a founding member of the Infrastructural Inequalities research network, a co-editor of the publishing collective Rosa Press, and an affiliate investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. With Astrid Lorange, he is one half of the critical art collective Snack Syndicate. Their book of essays on art and politics, Homework, was published by Discipline in 2021. He is also the author of the poetry collection, Inferno, published by Rosa Press in 2021.