Rishita Chaudhary
@rish_yossarian
multi-hyphenate
tech policy, media & society
Rishita Chaudhary
I have been thinking about growth and decay, the interplay between the two, the way all growth requires regeneration, which in turn requires a shedding, a composting, a reconstituting of old material. We don’t always know what needs to be shed, or what the optimal direction of growth is. This is where the “blind optimism” of a tree is helpful —... See more
Kinship: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Love Poem to Trees, Transience, and Eternity
My dear Cara,
You see I have let the weeks go by—thinking of you, but not writing to you. I believe you are one of the few who can understand that in certain crises, direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy. If I could have been with you in bodily presence, I should have sat silent, thinking silence a sign... See more
You see I have let the weeks go by—thinking of you, but not writing to you. I believe you are one of the few who can understand that in certain crises, direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy. If I could have been with you in bodily presence, I should have sat silent, thinking silence a sign... See more
In Aboriginal worldviews, nothing exists outside of a relationship to something else. There are no isolated variables—every element must be considered in relation to the other elements and the context. Areas of knowledge are integrated, not separated. The relationship between the knower and other knowers, places and senior knowledge-keepers is... See more
Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World | Are.na
Despite what dictionaries would have us believe, this world is still mostly undefined.
Maria Popova • The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name
Although we believe that there are things outside consciousness, we have direct evidence only for those that find a place in it.
A collection of intentions form hierarchical structure of attention that shapes consciousness and because consciousness is nonlinear the hierarchical structure of attention is itself shaped by consciousness.
The self is a
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