Elfina
@elfieinnarnia
All things whimsical, complex, and ordinarily magical.
Elfina
positive extreme love aka amigeist (Amigeist: A New Extreme Love Phenomenon)
Just as Tennov (1979) coined limerence to describe a particular extreme love phenomenon characterized by pathology, the positive extreme love connection identified in this research deserves a designation that reflects its unique qualities. The new phenomenon is called
... See more- Limerence is the obsessive, all-consuming feeling certain people get when they fall in love
- The most prominent characteristic of limerence, as she explains it, is
Ava • The Agony of Eros: On Limerence - By Ava - Bookbear Express
why on earth would we believe that a colonizing impulse would magically lead to universal prosperity this time around?
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
To best respond to whatever arises in front of us day by day or even moment by moment, we sometimes need to tighten up on the reins of autonomy, while loosening the reins of connection. In other moments, we tighten the connection reins, moving in closer to our partners while releasing the autonomy reins…With practice, we learn that autonomy and
... See moreJessica Fern • Polysecure
At the same time, imagination must be decolonized. The dominant modes of imagining the future—technocratic, extractivist, growth-driven—are not universal. They are specific to white, masculine, WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) subjectivities trained to equate imagination not only with control, scale and optimization, but... See more
Practical imagination
the colonisation of imagination?
Ava • The Agony of Eros: On Limerence - By Ava - Bookbear Express
Understanding oneself