I think that theme of this week's readings centers around the assertion that Katrina revealed the failure of the nation state. So much of the rationalization of climatic harms built on the protections that the nation state and free market capitalism are hypothetically able to provide to those who are accepted by the state institution. Katrina demonstrated that in fact America and its resulting climate damages only exist to protect the needs and rights of a select few. In contrast, those excluded from this group, such as the Black working class majority of New Orleans, are left to fend for themselves with the advent of climate disaster. Music, especially the philosophical system that lives within Blues, exists as a key form of resistance to this paradigm. Music allows for a kind of universal connection between people that while subject to some of the colonial forces that remain in our wider lives, is more able to twist out of this structure than other methods of communication. It is much easier to engage in revolutionary ideas with blues music than say academia.