Tag: books
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Life in little pieces
Braids or mosaics or fragments, but never a whole Questions Why is writing fragmentary prose so much easier than cohesive prose? Why am I resisting the urge to say it’s a necessary form to use when writing about climate catastrophe? Are our brains fragmentary or just brains? Thinking There’s a reasonably accepted wisdom that fragmentary…
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This boat is ours
When survival is a shared endeavour, who comes first? Questions What does safety mean in catastrophe? Does survival depend on conformity or rebellion? And what happens if you disagree with the people you’re trying to survive with? Who gets to be saved? Thinking It has often struck me how reports of disaster, catastrophe, and crisis,…
Alison Theresa 