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History written by the victors offers glimpses of marginalized figures, for whom we need to “fabulate” stories to “strain against the limits of the archive” and “represent lives… through the process of narration.” Building relationships between things is a form of authorship too.
Mindy Seu • On Gathering
I think it’s also important to admit, to attest to, and to [bear] witness to the violence of the archive of slavery, which is about erasure. There are tick marks instead of names; it’s all about the slave’s relationship to the accumulation of wealth for another. The archive doesn’t tell us the story of someone’s life.
Bettina Judd • On
Changing the interpretation of the past is critical to controlling the future.
Benjamin Life • Tweet
Unless forcibly coerced, people adopt new cultural values and material expressions of identity because they see them as socially advantageous. Warriors, pirates, refugees, economic migrants and family followings all have their place in any picture of the emerging native societies of Early Medieval Britain. A seemingly inescapable concentration on,
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We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience
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Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
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this is the power in not only individually dreaming, but in collectively dreaming. There is power in communing in ideas of freedom that whiteness could never even fathom.
Annika Hansteen-Izora • Communal Dreaming
“deliberately neutral or forgetful landscape being forged elsewhere in the centre of Belfast ......in an effort to attract financial investment and tourism” (McDowell and Braniff 2014 p01). With so much purposeful removal of memory and meaning, it is hard to imagine that a legitimate architectural intervention can help record and articulate the con... See more
Meaning, Memory and Amnesia | uniformnovember
We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience
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