Thoughts on my relationship to critical theory and the acadamic way of applying linguistic context to ? (existence?). These feelings relate to my second creative project, which is my music project. I believe in the potency of melody, as a nonlinguistic and magical storytelling.
obsession with something bad
grappling a waterfall with names
to tame and we say
philosophy is a coping mechanism, is inevitable
as we obsess over darkness
so the bright fantastic smiling flowers
go past in our naming
what about a heeding to the sweet bushes
hearing the laughing children
always blessing our earth
what about to practice a noticing
of love to drink it up to expand with it
there is a bad thing a bad feeling
sending us running into sadness
so let ourselves be sad
it’s not a problem. it doesn’t fail the other feelings.
a torch hovers over turning sides, let it turn!
There is much suffering and exploitation in our world. What does it mean to isolate suffering into the academic way?
a goal to decolonise the mind: dissolving a linguistic framework between our minds and the chaotic realms of other beings. I’m so excited to expand (away?) from the critical theory lens, an important method (it’s own dissolving practice), yet perhaps it’s limits are in the negative, the critique. The criticising tool is not enough to feel the chaotic realms of other beings. Along with terrible systems and evil energies there are fantastic beings and joyous energies, and caring systems. Opening.
I am not only “colonised”, I am also “coloniser”, depending on a situation. Not proudly but not always inevitably, which therefore requires learning critically. Standing crosswise in the circle of domination/dominated, as an active actor. solution: critical theory? or perhaps practices of loving kindness. both? like the radical theologists? agnostic spiritualities rooted in eco-social materialisms, light enough to shift and mould with other agendas and belief systems, hard enough to fight domination and ignite solidarity, a soft passivity that’s able to say “no” and act. honest love that acts with the full wavelength of our emotive capacities! shlove like a push and a shove.
the quest is to find a spiritual approach to being that is capable of critiquing and resisting colonialism, feudalism, privatisation (something major religions not only fail to do but also fascillitate and manage) while practicing love, and avoiding over-contextualisation. 🙂 :p
If we trust the human, then we can trust a capacity to understand and act without the methodologies of critical theory? not for the sake of comfort (“lazyness”), but for the softness of methods that loosen the linguistic projections. words are limited?