words matter
We’ve lost vocabulary for the complex, the not-yet-formed, the things that aren’t yes or no. The things that are both grief and relief. Love and frustration. Our modern language rewards clarity, speed, unambiguity. But life is rarely binary. It’s contradictory, uneven, full of in-betweens. The things that matter most are hard to say - and even
... See moreAnna Branten • The Collapse of Communication
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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
Words shape our ideas, how we see the world, and how we relate to one another. As design teacher and researcher Anne Galloway says:
Language makes it possible for us to navigate places and relationships; to express needs and requirements;... See more
“Language doesn’t just make things—it assembles, cobbles together, entire worlds and all the relations within.”
Language makes it possible for us to navigate places and relationships; to express needs and requirements;... See more
Nicole Fenton • Words as Material
our imaginations shape the experiences we design, and the experiences we design shape our imaginations.
And language is a fundamental tool in architecting both. The details and specificity and intention of it constructs our beliefs about how the world is, and can unlock all of the new ways we might hope it to become.
And language is a fundamental tool in architecting both. The details and specificity and intention of it constructs our beliefs about how the world is, and can unlock all of the new ways we might hope it to become.
Olivia Vagelos • We Are Not the Only "Who"
I don’t need donations. I do, however, need investments, and investment signifies a commitment to seeing something through, while a donation usually exists as a one-off gift. How is language being used to reprogram the way that we’re putting energy into the world? Money that’s invested is money that’s going to multiply.
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
"For example, look at the dominant discourse framing the current state of Work as an “Anti-Ambition” or “Anti-Work” Movement, painting a picture of people simply not wanting to work. In fact, they are not rejecting Work per se. They are rejecting the current system of Work (Work 2.0) and demanding a world of Work anchored in values such as equity,
... See moreRodrigo Turra from The Nexialist • 🛗✨The Nexialist #0133
we talk a lot about how we need new words to bring people into new worlds. what we've seen with so much of this new corporate press lexicon is new words to keep people in the old world.