“Sometimes you have to follow the opposite course: Distrust agreement and find in dissent the confirmation of your own intuitions. There is no rule; there is only the risk of contradiction. But sometimes you have to speak because you feel the moral obligation to say something, not because you have the ‘scientific’ certainty that you are saying it in an unassailable way.”
Notes from April 2025
The future is inevitable; what is needed now are concrete steps toward healing as a collective, not a fight for futuristic vision (must look to the present!)
Culture as collective memory
Romanticizing the Motherland? Second gen. in exile as wistful, moving back to regain a sense of identity that is lost
BUT no such thing as overblown romantasy, it is a true thing to connect with where one came from, where their family came from
Current Book List
Travels in Hyperreality, Umberto Eco
Visual Explanations, Edward R. Tufte
Art As Research: Opportunities and Challenges, ed. Shaun McNiff
Critical Craft: Technology, Globalization, and Capitalism, ed. Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber and Alicia Ory DeNicola
