“The road forward is blocked, the instruments of the present are insufficient, we can’t get to the past” (Edward Said, After the Last Sky).
What do we call violence whose operation is to make any resistance against violence impossible?
I reflect on the concept of (b)ordering, drawing insights from three films: a) “Singing in the Wooden House” by Kirsten Adkins, b) “Moonscape” by Mona Benyamin, and c) “Haaf” by Julia Parker and Heather Andrews. thinkingculture.gla.ac.uk/read/reflect...
As we approach Christmas and the New Year, I can't help but think about the people of Gaza, Sudan, and so many other war zones who are facing death and destruction every day. What would be a Christmas and New Year gifts for the children in these war zones? A #ceasefire would be the best gift.
The plea for a ceasefire shall never be exhausted by being said too much. We must loudly demand a ceasefire until it exhausts the violence and gives birth to peace. #CeasefireInGazaNOW
If there are lessons humanity has learned from perpetual wars, it is the fact that one violent force cannot create peace by deposing another. What makes peace possible is a complete renunciation of the idea of war and envisioning peace in a relationship of coexistence. #CeasefireInGazaNow
We seem to have reached a point where calling for a ceasefire becomes something we must fear uttering? War does not bring peace; it only destroys its possibility. The least we could do is to demand a #CeasefireInGazaNOW
The unheard cries of children in Gaza, who are so dismissively denied a voice, are haunting. Their lives are being torn apart before our eyes, and their dreams are being rendered impossible. They are born in a siege, only to die in a siege of carnage. #CeasefireInGazaNOW
“At the very moment when the world seems to break up we still take it seriously and perform reasonable acts and undertakings, the condemned man still drinks his glass of rum” (Levinas, Existence and Existents).
A colleague from Gaza: "We are surrounded by the bodies of children, women & men buried under rubble. While we are still alive, our neighbors are trapped under the rubble. One thing remains true for all of us: we all sought a life of dignity.May the Almighty receive us in His mercy”. #CeaseFireNow