finally, i went looking myself and here’s ones i found i haven’t read yet:
– bell hooks, ‘eating the other’
– don mee choi, ‘translation is a mode=translation is an anti colonial mode”
– susan sontag, ‘against interpretation’
– hannah arendt, ‘the crisis in culture’
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the less i read, the less i write, and as my ability and dedication to reading have decreased over time, i’ve found myself entirely unable to put my thoughts into words, and writing has become an impossible task
If you’re not reading (bare minimum) 10x more than you write, you just like hearing yourself talk. The point then isn’t about the conversation at hand it’s about you being in it.
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though 10 times more reading is an entirely arbitrary amount it is so true (at least to me) that my inspiration comes from the written work of others and without it i am lost and confused and so illiterate
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mims retweeted
This selective outrage is disgusting. Do you know how many muslim Algerian monuments France destroyed in Algeria, without the slightest restraint? The Djenina Palace in Algiers, an arab andalusian palace over 300 years old, razed in 1856. The Es-Sayida Mosque in Algiers, a historic mosque in the heart of the city, demolished in 1832. The Tachfiniya Madrasa in Tlemcen, a school and Quranic university from the Zianid era, more than 500 years old, demolished for nothing by France.
Half of our casbahs were wiped out. And I never see any Muslim get outraged over the colonial history of Algeria.
When you talk about colonialism, you only talk about human losses. Fine, Algeria is the land of 1.5 million martyrs. But there was also a cultural genocide. Our Islamic heritage, our wildlife and our forests, our education: all of it destroyed. So why are you crying over a burnt wall that will be restored within 48 hours?????????????????
felt a slight breeze open.spotify.com/track/3r8Ru…
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