intergenerational memory
PhD thread 1 - absence & loss, language as inheritance, mapping the edges of belonging, absence as present void
intergenerational memory
the intimacy of never talking again
personalscriptures.substack.com
how silence/not speaking to someone is actually a deeper kind of intimacy
‘intergenerational learning spaces’. ‘I believe’, he told me, ‘that you need at least three generations exploring things together to generate the conditions for real wisdom and imagination to emerge.’
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Memory as Rebellion: On Trauma, Time, and Collective Amnesia
Jamila Bradleybrightblackhoney.substack.com
memory as archive, how capitalism/colonialism demands that we have a short-term memory and how choosing to remember is rebellious
belonging is made of the affective or material ties and obligations that link the individual to others.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
“how learning a third language became a place of reconciliation for my mother tongues”, language as inheritance, Ahmed on habituality, Morrison on a third thing
More Men Who Are Afraid
thesmallbow.comfirst piece by Aymann Ismail, scared of not being able to pass down his lineage to his kids (fear of kids becoming culturally muslim, losing the tether)
“The best long-term fuel source is some repeated act that energizes you in a way that then lets you become a generative person, who uses the energy to make things for others,” wrote investor Patrick O’Shaughnessy. Instead of focusing on what you leave behind, generativity is about what you give now—actively contributing to your community, creating
... See moreAnne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Social remembering: Our own recollection is tied to others with whom we have shared our life.
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
Memory is meant to be given. It isn’t held well alone. It is meant to be held in a collective and across generations. Memories that remain exclusive to a particular individual or even community are at risk of becoming false.