Kirsten

We think we tell stories, but stories often tell us, tell us to love or to hate, to see or be blind. Often, too often, stories saddle us, ride us, whip us onward, tell us what to do, and we do it without questioning. The task of learning to be free requires learning to hear them, to question them, to pause and to hear silence, to name them, and

‘Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis’

Ralph Waldo Emerson (apparently)

Want us to reckon with the layers of labelling, with the action of naming.

Oh, so you are saying the people are not real.

Nope, I am asking you to consider though what is real about them. Is it their roles, their titles, their identities? To what extent are they real?

And if not that what is real about them? What is under the layer of labelling?

‘Why do we attend to the things to which we attend?’

Harold Innis (Canadian media theorist)