Thank you, Pablo, for this heartening post. I couldn't agree more about the creation of sanctuaries, and that "our main task is to snatch away the wielding of wonder as superstition and fear. You can’t make someone reason out their way out of religious fanaticism, but perhaps we can use art to turn submissive fears into autonomous imagination and the ability to visualize the possible." This reminds of me of the ways the Romantic Naturalists, Dadaists, and Surrealists aimed, in times of existential crisis, to "re-enchant the world." Now is the time for the undoing of undue dualisms, such as that between observer and observed ("self" and "other"), and the envisioning of alternative socio-ecological imaginaries. https://www.alycesantoro.com/writing/an-intricate-ensemble
The best thing I’ve read on this depressing day, thank you.
thank you.
Thank you, Pablo, for this heartening post. I couldn't agree more about the creation of sanctuaries, and that "our main task is to snatch away the wielding of wonder as superstition and fear. You can’t make someone reason out their way out of religious fanaticism, but perhaps we can use art to turn submissive fears into autonomous imagination and the ability to visualize the possible." This reminds of me of the ways the Romantic Naturalists, Dadaists, and Surrealists aimed, in times of existential crisis, to "re-enchant the world." Now is the time for the undoing of undue dualisms, such as that between observer and observed ("self" and "other"), and the envisioning of alternative socio-ecological imaginaries. https://www.alycesantoro.com/writing/an-intricate-ensemble