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“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein (April 26, 1889–April 29, 1951) an Austrian-born philosopher who spent most of his life in England, including teaching at Cambridge.
what I’m talking about is food that’s made to close the gap between homes: a critical need when one lives in exile. It’s hard to give it a label, but other immigrants and children of immigrants recognize it when they see it. Unlike “fusion,” which is often focused on aesthetic innovations and mashups, these immigrant dishes are more like culinary... See more
Taste • Closing, Not Fusing, The Gap
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
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
Writing about “Zami” by Audre Lorde, bell hooks says: “Encouraging readers to see dreams and fantasies as part of the material we use to invent the self, Lorde invited us to challenge notions of absolute truth. Her insistence that there is no absolute truth when it comes to how we remember the past, that there is fact and interpretation of fact,
... See morethe intimacy of never talking again
personalscriptures.substack.com
how silence/not speaking to someone is actually a deeper kind of intimacy
came to understand that when we do the hard work of remembering, for ourselves, for our ancestors, what we have been taught to forget, another clothesline of memory can emerge, with clothespins of resilience riding in the wind.
Becky Thompson • Teaching With Tenderness
Now… they resolved to go back to their own land; because the years have a kind of emptiness when we spend too many of them on a foreign shore. But… if we do return, we find that the native air has lost its invigorating quality, and that life has shifted its reality to the spot where we have deemed ourselves only temporary residents. Thus, between
... See moreBarry Eisler • A Clean Kill in Tokyo
language for what I believe it is: a medium that is formed as it is used, a structure that is built by feedback effects, a road that is paved at the same time as we walk it.