"Any criticism of being implies an answer, provided one can offer an answer to one’s fellow man, i.e., to a free agent." Frantz Fanon in his book 'Black Skin, White Masks'. How can this be understood?
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"Should I adjust my experience to align with measurement because that's reality? Isn’t it supposed to work the other way around – aren’t our tools meant to be helpful instead of regulative? Or do we grow so accustomed to the simple, standardised measurements performed by the various devices we use that our individual, lived experiences come to be perceived as somewhat bizarre deviations from the straight line?" A quote from my recent article on humanfactor.blog at https://humanfactor.blog/2023/04/17/measuring-and-living-an-experience/
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Measuring and Living an Experience
What’s the weather like where you are now? How would you check it – glance out the window, open it to get a feel, step outside, consult your preferred weather app? From this follows a m…
"I know of no other definition of the bad, it is bad to predestine one's reading, it is always bad to foretell. It is bad, reader, no longer to like retracing one's steps." Derrida
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In a time when simplification is the goal to strive for and when complexity is out of fashion, I find these words refreshingly encouraging: "Your brain is made to think about difficult things. To help you get to a point where you understand something that you didn't understand at first. And that becomes the cream of your life. The rest is boring and worthless. " Murakami in his story "Cream"
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Quote from the podcast on Lived Experience shared today on humanfactor.blog
"The fact of a certain interior life gives you access to social critique".
One's personal way of experiencing something enables one to notice and critically engage with social and cultural structures informing that experience. Others might not even notice these structures (due to other ways of experiencing), although also inhabiting them.
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"The fact of a certain interior life gives you access to social critique".
One's personal way of experiencing something enables one to notice and critically engage with social and cultural structures informing that experience. Others might not even notice these structures (due to other ways of experiencing), although also inhabiting them.
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