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10 months ago

Black text on white background. Transcribed text: But if we cannot always know the significance of the moment in the moment, it is also true that our moment, the one in which we now live, feels like one of chronic “crisis”: political, economic, and climate crises besiege us, along with other existential crises posed by the exponential development of artificial intelligence, and the recurring nightmare of nuclear war. Isabella Hammad Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

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10 months ago

#CurrentlyReading Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative by Isabella Hammad and Witches by Brenda Lozano #books #reading #BookSky #RecognizingTheStrangerOnPalestineAndNarrative #RecognizingTheStranger #IsabellaHammad #Witches #BrendaLozano

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@shieram.bsky.social

1 year ago

These people lived in a so-called open-air prison, under siege for seventeen years, their calorie-intake counted by the Israeli state, their living conditions already “uninhabitable.” Yet there was a future there and it has been destroyed.’

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1 year ago

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@paperpills10.bsky.social

1 year ago

Mahmoud Darwish tells us: "Gaza does not propel people to cool contemplation; rather she propels them to erupt and collide with the truth."
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@paperpills10.bsky.social

1 year ago

Acronyms devised like "WCNSF":
Wounded Child No Surviving Family.
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@paperpills10.bsky.social

1 year ago

A little girl, rescued from the rubble of her destroyed home and carried out on a stretcher by three men, asks if they are taking her to the cemetery. -But it is terrible: the girl has been preparing herself to die and now thinks she is dead.
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1 year ago

Ten thousand dead children is not self-defense.
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1 year ago

It also signified a paradigm shift: it showed that a system in which one population is afforded rights that the other population is denied will be safe for neither.
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1 year ago

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1 year ago

How to confront this except perhaps with what the Palestinian novelist Emile Habibi named "pessoptimism"-an acutely Pal- estinian frame of mind?
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@paperpills10.bsky.social

1 year ago

And yet the pressure is again on Palestinians to tell the human story that will educate and enlighten others and so allow for the conversion of the repentant Westerner #Hammad24 #IsabellaHammad
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@paperpills10.bsky.social

1 year ago

The Palestinian struggle has gone on so long now that it is easy to feel disillusioned with the scene of recognition as a site of radical change, or indeed as a turning point at all.
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1 year ago

The idea that Jewish Israelis at large might be persuaded through dialogue to see Palestinians as human is also absurd, given that Israelis live in a militarized society in which dissent is punished.
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@paperpills10.bsky.social

1 year ago

How many Palestinians, asked Omar Barghouti, need to die for one soldier to have their epiphany?

Many Palestinians have nevertheless devoted their lives and careers to actively trying to induce epiphanies in other people.#Hammad24 #IsabellaHammad
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@paperpills10.bsky.social

1 year ago

Individual moments of recognition are repeatedly overwhelmed by the energy of a political establishment that tells the onlooker: this is not what it looks like. It is too compli- cated to understand. Look away.#Hammad24 #IsabellaHammad
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@paperpills10.bsky.social

1 year ago

In an interview, Marías said that while for some the novel "is a way of imparting knowledge," for him "it is more a way of imparting recognition of things that you didn't know you knew.
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@paperpills10.bsky.social

1 year ago

the Ancient Greek terms for recognition, reader, and reading-anagnorisis, anagnóstês, and anagnosis are closely related both phonetically and conceptually. #Hammad24 #IsabellaHammad
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@paperpills10.bsky.social

1 year ago

...and listening carefully to the voices of others, in ways that ask for our imaginative participation and that might also shed light upon our own experiences of being alive on this planet.
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@paperpills10.bsky.social

1 year ago

... some because it's a rare chance for concentrated solitude, to be neither working nor passively consuming the content of a screen but thinking deeply about experiences other than our own using some of the tools of our dream life...
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@paperpills10.bsky.social

1 year ago

And on the other hand, there is a relationship between novels and what for want of a better phrase you might call our spiritual lives. Some of us read them for comfort, or to escape; some to learn about the world;
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1 year ago

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