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We are building something immense together that, though invisible and immaterial, is a structure, one we reside within—or, rather, many overlapping structures.
Rebecca Solnit • Rebecca Solnit: How Change Happens
Solnit suggests that the real disaster is everyday life, which alienates us from each other and from the protective impulse that we harbor.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Rebecca Solnit explores the connection in “A Paradise Built in Hell,” articulating how amidst the destruction that disasters enact, more considerate and caring communities often arise. It’s a dynamic that can spark deep joy for those who experience it, Solnit writes — a joy that “reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness an... See more
Johanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
Hope in the Dark - Rebecca Solnit (April 2025)
Quotes:
a disaster is a lot like a revolution when it comes to disruption and improvisation, to new roles and an unnerving or exhilarating sense that now anything is possible.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
