“But what can a poor boy do, except to sing for a rock’n’roll band?” Jagger and Richards put it succinctly. What can you do if you are white, middle class? And maybe middle aged and male as well? The discussions during the symposium frequently returned to the question and problematics of the trip to Rosengård. Was it ethically justified? And more generally, what is it we think we can accomplish by collaborating with people living under quite different circumstances? And is “collaborate” actually the correct word? Is it rather the case that we use “them” for our own purposes? The argument against these statements is of course that, yes, we are aware of all these problems, we have thought of them before the symposium, we basically deal with them everyday and we believe that all other alternatives are worse. But does that argument hold?
What are your views on how to conduct academic work – or artistic – work on matters such as new media politics?
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