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The Amherst Student

Volume 152 • Issue 1

The Amherst Student

The Newspaper of Amherst College Since 1868

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Trenati Baker '20

Number of Articles: 1

First Article: May 1, 2020

Latest Article: May 1, 2020

#IntegrateAmherst: Updating to Remain the Same

By Trenati Baker '20 and Black Student Union

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May 1, 2020

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun’s book, Updating to Remain the Same. Chun observes that crisis interrupts habit, and, in response, social actors and innovators respond to crisis by reinventing the old habit as fresh and updated, but more or less, the same. Chun quotes Milton Freidman “‘‘only a crisis— actual or perceived— produces real change.’” However, Chun argues “Crises become ordinary…thwart change and make the present, as Lauren Berlant has put it, an impasse, an affectively intense cul-de-sac.” The

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