language
Love bombing, gaslighting, and the problem with pathologising dating talk
James Greigdazeddigital.com
That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
-The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
a beautiful passage from sublime’s innaugural zine on why language matters, in the context of building a different web.
“So thinking is prior to language. What language contributes is to firm up certain particular ways of seeing the world and give fixity to them. This has its good side, and its bad. It aids consistency of reference over time and space. But it can also exert a restrictive force on what and how we think. It represents a more fixed version of the... See more