Who Is the We in Diaspora? Liner Notes from the Future

Abstract

ABSTRACT “Who Is the We in Diaspora?” is episode 12, season two of Digital Salon , an experimental podcast begun at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Produced by coauthor Jonathan Jae-an Crisman, the “DJ,” it meditates on the Atlanta shootings of six Asian spa workers on March 16 2021. The transcript of this episode is presented anew, paired with “liner notes” that are a collaboration between the DJ and his “critical listener,” Jacqueline Barrios, coauthor of this piece and co-producer of Digital Salon, through textual “accompaniments” on the episode and its afterlife to stage the work’s claim to its own futurity.