Madelyn Elizondo
@melizondo
Madelyn Elizondo
“To have faith in the possibility of love as a social,
and not only exceptional individual phenomenon
is a rational faith based on the insight into the very nature of man.”
— Eric Fromm
and not only exceptional individual phenomenon
is a rational faith based on the insight into the very nature of man.”
— Eric Fromm
Love as a Revolutionary Social Ethic
Doors, NYC
via NYPL
On Photography, Susan Sontag
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” (15)
Reading List: Latin American Liberation Theology – Duke Divinity School Library
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“the habit of photographic seeing— of looking at reality as an array of potential photographs— create estrangement from, rather than union with, nature”
“So successful has been the camera’s role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.”
“the profileration of photographs is
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poesis as self making, wintour ethno poetics
Using love as a social tool, we resist the precarity forced upon us by an exploitative, violent, profit driven social structure. A revolutionary love ethic embodies our social values and radical critique as an organizing principle for material political demands. A commitment to connection, compassion, dignity, and relationship over profit,... See more
Love as a Revolutionary Social Ethic
Liberation Theology Recommendations
‘the option for the port arises from faith in Christ,” an essay by Gustavo Gutierrez
A Theology of Liberation, Gustavo Gutierrez
Jesus Christ Liberator, Leonardo Boff