In the outline of space they are always drawing so that they can happen. I rejoice in the freedom to be there, in that space, where the sounds and my listening to sounds are two phases of the same phenomenon.
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The technology of silence
https://multidimensional.link/static/audio/emilybyang-The%20technologyofsilence.m4a
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Slowly, the giant hand that has been crushing you relaxes its grip.
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The universe of possible worlds is constantly expanding and diversifying thanks to the incessant world-constructing activity of human minds and hands.
Speculative Everything, Dunne & Raby, 2013.
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They don’t go in straight lines. It helps if you listen in circles because there are stories inside and between stories, and finding your way through them in easy and as hard as finding your way home.
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1. Make something invisible for a camera, 2. Be invisible in plain sight, 3. Become invisible by becoming a picture, 4. Be invisible by disappearing, and 5. Become invisible by merging into a world made of pictures. 1) Form-giving is movement, action. Form-giving is life. 2) To improvise is to follow the ways of the world, as they unfold, rather than to recover a chain of connections from an end point to a starting point, on a route already traveled. And the aim is not to reach a terminus but to keep on going. In keeping going, one may travel the same ground, over and over again. 3) My scientific research has convinced me… that everything goes in cycles, in waves, it is my consolation, even if the periods of decay can be long, and the wave troughs deep; a crest comes again, if only one can wait…
Pity the Asian accent. It is such a degraded accent, one of the last accents acceptable to mock. How hard it is to speak through it to make yourself heard. I am embarrassed to say that I sometimes act like that white woman. When I phone in my order to a Chinese restaurant and the cashier doesn’t understand me, I repeat myself impatiently. When I call Time Warner and reach a representative with an Indian accent, I am already exasperated because I heard that Indian call centers barely train their employees. I have a theory that Seamless was invented so Americans don’t have to hassle with immigrant accents. Automation will replace Indian call centers for this very reason. Machines will flatten the accents of nationalities already flattened by English. (Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings, 2020)
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In front of the simple question of where to bury her, it suddenly became frighteningly clear to me—to me, the free, the liberated, artist—whose head was full of freedom—how deep the hidden ties between us went, how strong they were, and how my world could be destroyed in a moment if theirs caved in.
清明时节雨纷纷，路上行人欲断魂。借问酒家何处有？牧童遥指杏花村。《清明》The Mourning Day by 杜牧 Dumu
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I stood waiting by the window. Standing motionless looking into the distant night, I went over and over again the first words /
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the kind of fantasy relationships they desire but do not know how to get in real life.
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Slowly, the giant hand that has been crushing you relaxes its grip.
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Koren, "Wab-Sabi," 1994.
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Hazif, "The Gift: Poems by Hafiz." 1999.
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Zapatistas quote from Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown, 2017.
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