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Today, the constant onslaught of damning information about environmental degradation is impossible to ignore. To survive, the human psyche resorts to a cognitive dissonance. I couldn’t simultaneously feel the weight of shrinking biodiversity in the Amazon, coral bleaching in the Maldives and koalas caught in Australian bushfires every day because t
... See moreAn air altogether of occupying a time not his own – might he be more at ease in an Edwardian dining room, say, or on a pitching clipper’s deck? Very likely.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
They sat proudly on his shelves as symbols, representing the knowledge that he still
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
know that it is paper about to tear, but for the fibrous memory that still lingers there, supple, vascular, and standing tall. The tree was past and the paper is present, and yet paper still remembers holding itself upright and altogether. Like a dream, it remembers its sap.
Ruth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
Arcadia Molinas • Against Fluency - Tetragrammaton
As a writer myself, I’m keenly aware of the instability of texts and the futility of tracing and enforcing authority.
Laozi • Laozi's Dao De Jing
Every place, every name, became part of an ever-expanding filter. Then, every morning, I went through everything I could get my hands on—long ropes of news, starling flocks of status updates, the confetti of stock prices—looking for familiar faces.
Robin Sloan • Annabel Scheme
Cultural critic Lauren Berlant puts it eloquently: “There is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory.”
Sara Ahmed • The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
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