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June 12, 2026June 13, 2026 Chris SunamiPhilosophy

Free Your Mind: New Philosophy, official release event at Clintonville Books, Wednesday July 1st, 2026, open to the public. https://clintonvillebooks.com/events/5612920260701 Imagine if Plato’s Symposium was set at a meeting of a Black secret-society, inside a boarded-up[…]

More Reconstructivists

February 21, 2019 Chris SunamiArt

Over the years my reconstructivist art theory has proven inspirational to a number of interesting artists, thinkers and academics. Here are a couple of the coolest ones I’ve come across recently: Above, painter Peter SmeethPeter[…]

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Reconstructivist Art: The Neverending Story

January 24, 2019January 24, 2019 Chris SunamiLiterature

Repost – In honor of the 40th anniversary of… Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story (1979) as an example of Reconstructivist Art Michael Ende’s international bestseller found an audience among children and adults alike, due to[…]

Reconstructivist Art: Y Tu Mama Tambien

October 25, 2018October 25, 2018 Chris SunamiMovies

In honor of his new movie Roma, please enjoy this repost about the film that first introduced me to my favorite director, Alfonso Cuarón’s Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) as an example of Reconstructivist Art[…]

Reconstructivist Art: Man of La Mancha

August 30, 2018August 31, 2018 Chris SunamiPlays and Musicals

Please enjoy this repost: Man of La Mancha (1965) by Wasserman, Leigh and Darion as an example of Reconstructivist Art The ground-breaking and seminal seventeenth-century Spanish novel Don Quixote attracted a number of prior attempts[…]

Reconstructivist Art: Dr. Horrible

June 14, 2018June 14, 2018 Chris SunamiPlays and Musicals

In honor of the 10 year anniversary of its release, please enjoy this repost of a post about Dr Horrible. Joss Whedons’ Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (2008) as an example of Reconstructivist Art To avoid[…]

Reconstructivist Art: Mona Lisa

April 12, 2018April 12, 2018 Chris SunamiMusic

Repost: Wyclef Jean’s Mona Lisa as an example of Reconstructivist Art Mona Lisa was a little noted deep-album cut from hip-hop impresario Wyclef Jean’s multiplatinum album The Carnival (1997). A radical reinvention of the remixed[…]

Reconstructivist Art: Kehinde Wiley

February 22, 2018February 21, 2018 Chris SunamiArt

In honor of Kehinde Wiley’s new presidential portrait, please enjoy this repost of my article considering him as an exemplar of Reconstructivist Art, originally published not long after his Columbus Museum of Art show in[…]

Reconstructivist Art: American Born Chinese

November 30, 2017November 30, 2017 Chris SunamiComics and Graphic Novels

Repost Reconstructivist Art: American Born Chinese is a critically acclaimed graphic novel by Asian American writer/illustrator Gene Yang, which centers around what at first seem like three very different narratives. The first is a superhero-themed[…]

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Sound of Silence: Reconstructivist Art

October 19, 2017October 18, 2017 Chris SunamiBeauty

Simon & Garfunkel may have a reputation as the whitest music ever, but there’s not many places you can go in American popular music without finding an African-American somewhere nearby. In the this case, the[…]

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Sound of Silence: Reconstructivist Art