Rishita Chaudhary
@rish_yossarian
multi-hyphenate
tech policy, media & society
Rishita Chaudhary
But the novels of Dostoevsky "are composed purely and wholly of the stuff of the soul. Against our wills we are drawn whirled round, blinded, suffogated, and at the same time filled with a giddy rapture. Outside of Shakespeare, there is no more exciting reading." Ultimately, Russians realize,
"we are souls, tortured, unhappy souls; whose only
... See more“At the same time, art cannot be understood in terms of purpose. As the sculptor Charles Ray has said, art is “for absolutely nothing.” To make, or experience, art is to enter a kind of free zone; it slows us down, places us in some epistemological estuary, takes us into the wild. We make art from our flaws, fragilities, perversities, from our need
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Each word is a portable cathedral in which we clarify and sanctify our experience, a reliquary and a laboratory, holding the history of our search for meaning and the pliancy of the possible future, of there being richer and deeper dimensions of experience than those we name in our surface impressions. In the roots of words we find a portal to the... See more
Maria Popova • The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name
We can define rituals as symbolic techniques of making oneself at home in the world. They transform being-in-the-world into a being-at-home. They turn the world into a reliable place. They are to time what a home is to space: they render time habitable. They even make it accessible, like a house. They structure time, furnish it. In his novel
... See moreByung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
“Perhaps we should try keeping our eyes open while we pray, and look for the meaning hidden in the things right in front of us.”
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig review – fifty shades of sad
Experienced party hosts of reddit, what are things beginners forget about hosting a good party?
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