14 Sep Words to Ponder #54
Today's Words to Ponder are from Taiye Selasi's wonderful Ted Talk, "Don't Ask Where I'm From. Ask Where I'm Local." "All Identity is local. All identity is experience. Our experience is where we're from." ...
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12 Sep Words to Ponder #53
Today's words to ponder are from philosopher Donna Haraway. ...
26 Jul Words to Ponder #52
Today's words are from the sometimes imponderable but always evocative Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Make rhizomes, not roots, never plant! Don’t sow, grow offshoots! Don’t be one or multiple, be multiplicities! Run lines, never plot a point! A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia ...
24 May Words to Ponder #51
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Today's words to ponder come from David Graeber, American anthropologist and anarchist social and political activist. He died in 2020. “At a moment when the capitalists’ collective refusal to even consider rethinking any of their basic assumption about the world might well mean not just the death of capitalism, but...
04 May Words to Ponder #50
More words from Raoul Vaneigem Everything that human beings do and undo passes through the mediation of language. The semantic realm is one of the main battlefields in the struggle between the will to live and the spirit of submission. The fight is unfair. Words serve Authority more faithfully than most...
18 Apr Words to Ponder #49
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Today's words are from Belgian radical philosopher Raoul Vaneigem's influential (in the 1960s) book The Revolution of Everyday Life. “People are far too unperturbed, it seems to me, by the way in which the world, in certain periods, assumes the forms of the prevailing metaphysics. No matter how bizarre belief in...
13 Mar Words to Ponder #48
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These Words to Ponder are those of performance activist Hector Aristizabal, taken from a wonderful interview with him at Creative Art Space. To be creative is to participate consciously in the ongoing creation of the world. Creativity is not primarily about producing art. It is about entering into relationship with life...
27 Aug Words to Ponder #47
I think about how exhausting the indicative becomes - the constant demand to perform progress, to show we're winning, to prove harm is decreasing. Bayo Akomolafe...
04 Oct Words to Ponder # 45
A rabbi was asked by one of his students “Why did God create atheists?” After a long pause, the rabbi finally responded with a soft but sincere voice. “God created atheists” he said, “to teach us the most important lesson of them all – the lesson of true compassion. You...
03 Apr Words to Ponder # 44
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"If the human race is still here in 100 years, it will be because of lots of people doing lots of little things. Bigger things can get co-opted or bought off by the powers that be. But if there are many, many little things going on it will be too...