{"id":18202,"date":"2014-03-11T09:43:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T13:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=18202"},"modified":"2014-03-11T09:45:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T13:45:01","slug":"my-application-for-the-amtrakresidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2014\/03\/11\/my-application-for-the-amtrakresidency\/","title":{"rendered":"My Application for the #AmtrakResidency"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"_AmtrakResidency__\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Full Name*:<\/strong> David A. Banks<\/p>\n

City*:<\/strong> Troy<\/p>\n

State*:<\/strong> New York<\/p>\n

email*:<\/strong> david.adam.banks at gmail dot com<\/p>\n

twitter*:<\/strong> @da_banks<\/p>\n

Facebook URL:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DABanks<\/p>\n

Instagram handle:<\/strong> thoriumdirigible<\/p>\n

Why do you want an #AmtrakResidency?* [In 1,000 characters or less (including spaces)]<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I want to be a part of the #AmtrakResidency insomuch as this is one of only a handful of options left to me as an author. Its good to see that someone is willing to give away a thousand dollar ticket for a couple of tweets and a blog post. I want my workspace to be funded by a tax structure written by corporations combined with ticket sales from working stiffs going back and forth on the Northeast corridor. Food is included in this trip right?<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t to say that the rustbelt house I live in right now isn\u2019t implicated in similar forms of oppression. I just like how easy it is, while onboard a massive machine, to draw such a clear and straight line between capitalist exploitation and my own creative flourishing. Here I am, on a diesel powered train thinking deep thoughts while thousands die in wars for foreign oil. Too on the nose? Let\u2019s just stick to the fact that I will be helping you make Amtrak the Carnival Cruise line for hipsters.<\/p>\n

How would this residency benefit your writing?* [In 1,000 characters or less (including spaces)]<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This is an important question so I\u2019m glad you asked it. However, I\u2019m unsure whether you\u2019re asking this because you honestly do not know how this could benefit writers, or because you\u2019re screening for applicants that, in the words of your Social Media Director Julia Quinn, understand that this arrangement should be \u201cmutually beneficial.\u201d I think its great that you\u2019re offering yet another opportunity for millennials to do what we\u2019ve been doing since 2008: run a social media campaign for free in hopes that you\u2019ll see fit to pay for the exact same work a year from now. I am really looking forward to advertising your services to the audience that I\u2019ve meticulously and loving cultivated for four years. This is definitely how I want to spend my social capital. That being said, I think its important to me, as a writer, to embed my practice within intersecting structures of power so I like the idea of writing about gentrification while I gentrify an entire continental transportation system.<\/em><\/p>\n

Upload a sample of your work* <\/strong>[Uploaded]<\/a><\/p>\n

Supporting link:<\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/www.davidabanks.org\/2014\/03\/11\/a-sample-of-my-work\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Official Terms* <\/strong>[Oh, I read them. https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarahkendzior\/status\/442678025352536067<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Full Name*: David A. Banks City*: Troy State*: New York email*: david.adam.banks at gmail dot com twitter*: @da_banks Facebook URL: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DABanks Instagram handle: thoriumdirigible Why do you want an #AmtrakResidency?* [In 1,000 characters or less (including spaces)] I want to be a part of the #AmtrakResidency insomuch as this is one of only a handful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1512,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9967,22846],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-experimental-format"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18202"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18212,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18202\/revisions\/18212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}