#cosmotechnics
“Forms of rituals, such as manners, make possible both beautiful behaviour among humans and a beautiful, gentle treatment of things. In a ritual context, things are not consumed or used up but used. Thus, they can also become old”
“Rituals are characterized by repetition. Repetition differs from routine in its capacity to create intensity”
“Symbolic
... See moreritual things → recognised as technology
36. how language shapes the way we think
open.spotify.comAnimacy: Braiding sweet grass, process to become native -> animism / regionalism (Cascadia)
Cosmotechnics, Yuk Hui, and the Possibility of Changing Your Story
open.spotify.comMyth → ontology → technology
For west (Greek, not Christian?) : competition is the story, wisdom is a gift in the east, benevolence feeds into tech as way of flowing with life, west tech is to take it
‘ Thinking, rooted in the earthy virtue of place is the motor of cosmotechnics… not a refusal of progress or a homecoming to traditionalism, rather a reappropriation of tech from the perspective of the local and a new understanding of history ‘ - quoting Yuk Hai
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