poetic tactics
to counter extraction
What is a poetic tactic?
Why extraction?
Physical extraction is constitutive
of digital culture
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Extraction is also pervasive as
an ethos, a social norm
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“...Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives…”
– Poetry is Not a Luxury (Audre Lorde) - download
“Recognizing that revolutionary leadership means more than just protesting oppression but also projecting a vision that encourages grassroots creation of positive alternatives designed to create more human humans, transformative organizing involves doing the work of loving each other in ways that seem ridiculous if we only think of revolutionary change as masses of people mobilized to make demands on a state… even if we protest so effectively that we acquire state power, if we don’t change our ways of thinking and relating to one another, we will only further develop this contradiction with new people in charge. These changes must be rooted in love.”
– Organization Means Commitment (Grace Lee Boggs) - download
Quiet
Listening
Deep ______
“The most important thing in communication is to hear what is not said” Peter Drucker.
Listening to WKCR →
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“Shallow solidarity was based on the logic of exchange -- You show up for me, and I will show up for you. But deep solidarity was rooted in recognition -- I show up for you, because I see you as part of me. Your liberation is bound up in my own.”
― Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
“It is with acts of attention that we decide who to hear, who to see, and who in our world has agency. In this way, attention forms the ground not just for love, but for ethics.”
“Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent response to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places.”
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– How to Do Nothing
(Jenny Odell)
– Staying with the Trouble
(Donna Haraway)
Are these actually
poetic tactics for training attention, not just to counter extraction?
What might these poetic tactics look like?
Small resources
Collective resources
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