https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s2-ep3-hope-questioning-and-getting-lost-with/id1519965068?i=1000519932046
- white modernity names a place, makes us fully in-place or categorized by insisting on the agency of the individual, when you name forcefully our relationships w each other and the environment is lost
- we are obsessed with highways but we need the cracks—that is where the moss grows.
- when a yerba shaman notices that health is entangled w sickness, he cuts body open
- we need to get lost to find a diff way, we are living in incarceration of a single way
- we need seams
- “post-activism”
- we cannot solve the world sitting outside of it
- who is doing the doing “who is the activist” what does agency mean
- figure of cracks and fault lines and fissures. post disaster spirituality
- communities of fate
- “we learn how to stay with the trouble”
- what is power?
- modernity: my ability to name things
- yerba: the excess of spilling away, something escaping its container
- yet to come, entangled and emboided, diffractive, entangled w mushrooms and rhizomatic processes
- “the end of hope”
- rupture not rapture
- hope is western colonial concept of unending progress, terrestrial present
- the end of hope as the crack, the fissure. hopelessness - theres promise and power there. a queer kind of continuity that you found in nothing.
- some of the ways we perform hope is to tether ourselves to massive institutions “we will arrive some day”
- a queering of the binary between these two