words matter
Everything that is spoken and can be spoken is merely a figurative term we use to nominate the unnamable, an inventory of “metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms” that we have mistaken for the real and fixed. All we have is language and we cannot get beyond it.
Tan Tuck Ming • My Grandmother Glitches the Machine
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The limits of that language—shared assumptions of class, culture, education, ethics—both focus and shrink the scope of the fiction.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
A verb moment is an act of community, a partnership with the world, with the universe.
poetrynw.org • Magical Realism and the Sociology of Possibility
Calling things by their true names cuts through the lies that excuse, buffer, muddle, disguise, avoid, or encourage inaction, indifference, obliviousness. It’s not all there is to changing the world, but it’s a key step.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
The Bureau of Linguistical Reality
Richard Fisher • Why We Need New Words for Life in the Anthropocene
To make diagnosis something ‘empowering’, the first step is to completely break it apart and acknowledge all of its potential different and conflicting functions. Diagnosis can give you access to community, or cut you off from community. It can give you access to benefits, or it can bar you from income through employment. It could get you your
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