I think we are all, including the ‘productive’ people – those who consider themselves as thinking agents – in need of a lot of healing. And I do not mean one great healing. No, we need as many healing processes as there are places and figurations.
Isabelle StengersLuhmann remarks that when the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, newly established in 1969, asked its professors to report on the research projects they were working on. His reply was “Theory of society; duration: 30 years; costs: none
Luhmann and Systems Theory - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
Shirley’s House
Buffy Sainte-Marie
That the nation of leeches that conquered this land
Are the biggest and bravest and boldest and best.
And yet where in your history books is the tale
Of the genocide basic to this country’s birthThe Ocean Is So Noisy, Whales Are Starting to Talk on a New Frequency
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