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This goal will be achieved if everyday practices, "ways of operating" or doing things, no longer appear as merely the obscure background of social activities, and if a body of theoretical questions, methods, categories, and perspectives, by penetrating this obsurdity, make it possible to articulate them. --- Michel de Certeau, the Practice of Every
... See moreA new idea can be spread quickly if someone can explain it and communicate it to others before they have to discover it themselves. But the chief advantage of language is not communication but autogeneration. Language is a trick that allows the mind to question itself; a magic mirror that reveals to the mind what the mind thinks; a handle that turn... See more
Kevin Kelly • What Technology Wants
“I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible. Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.” ― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
“It's a perspective that calls for reconciliation that begins within, acknowledging the other that resides in each of us, which, if not addressed, perpetuates the external and internal patterns that re-produce conflict.” (https://jabsc.org/index.php/jabsc/issue/view/526) How can we address the other that resides in each of us? The other perspective
... See moreDonella Meadows’ definition of systems: a set of **interrelated** elements **organized** to serve a particular function or to seek a particular goal.
In the worst of these conditions, knowledge is wielded as a tool of power through which education systems can actively oppress entire populations, preventing the awareness of their own agency in their lives.
