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Photo by Etienne Girardet on Unsplash Adam Grant wrote Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know and says that rethinking starts with intellectual humility: acknowledging what you don't know, the areas where you're ignorant. There are many areas I know very little about. Cancer research or immunology, but also the world of … Continue reading Should Adam grant think again?
Bryan Level for Getty Images. When the news about the fight between Trump and Musk surfaced, it made me think of implosion and how that seems to be a common thread in the chaos in the world right now.ย According to the Oxford Dictionary, an implosion is โan instance of something collapsing violently inwards.โ Stars … Continue reading The road of systemic implosions
Rolando Vazquez Melken was a guest speaker in the fifth Writing for Transformation course and answered questions from participants about decolonial theory in the context of storytelling and journalism. He is Professor of Post/Decolonial Theories and Literatures, with a focus on the Global South at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam in … Continue reading In decolonial journalism, small questions are fundamental
The zozobra marionetteย representing anguish, anxiety and gloom is being burned every year in September in Santa Fe, New Mexico.โImage from Flickr. Have you ever heard of the word 'zozobra'? It was new to me until this afternoon when I went through my notes of Naomi Kleinโs book Doppelganger. She mentions โzozobraโ somewhere at the beginning … Continue reading How to deal with soul sickness zozobra?ย
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