熔化时钟
& Other Stories
ByEloghosa OsundeIn Eloghosa Osunde’s column熔化时钟,她分开了超现实的时间和感官。
如果你真的想到它,我们都在巨人字典里面升起。我们知道的社会只是一个共享定义的集合。谁是正常的?什么是美?谁是罪犯?什么是女人?什么是男人?什么是好爱情?什么是性别?什么是公平的? Who is holy? What is evil? The more you agree with the definitions you’ve been given, the more you belong. The more you belong, the farther away you are from punishment. And you want to be safe in this scary place, don’t you? So you do what you’re应该要做,你避免了导致痛苦的东西。你也不希望孤独,你,所以你相信这个规则:没有什么,除了定义的行之外,你没有任何东西。当你很少的时候,你被告知了这一点,你的问题会让你陷入困境,你是谁和意志总是be too small to challenge a meaning. You’re just one person and this is how it works: society decides, you obey. But is that true? Seeing as many of us are alive on the outskirts of definitions, seeing as that’s the address that saved some of our lives, the place where we watch our safeties spring out of the ground, it’s clear that whatever was defined can be redefined. Whatever was written by a person for a people, can be edited by a person or a people. We’re proof. What is society, anyway? It’s an anthology of someones. We make it up. We have always made it up.
Art making is my strongest argument for redefinition, because nothing shows you the lie of impossibility and the multiplicity of worlds better than a body of work standing where once there was nothing. You don’t know how to turn Something into Something Else? Listen to what a remix does to a song: how in非洲女士, an ADM remix, TMXO lays Masego’s music over a Lagbaja sample, rubbing two worlds against each other until they spark a three-minute-fifty-seconds long fire. Listen to the红热+骚乱专辑以纪念Fela的音乐,并进入Meshell Ndegeocello,Manu Dibango,Sade Adu,Kelis,Common,Tony Allen和D'Angelo的房间被邀请到同一个众议院。或者看JanelleMonáeDirty Computer并注意到你持续太紧的世界归结在另一个现实中。看希腊电影狗屎and remember how you were taught to see; see how every manipulation has its genesis in language, how language reshapes the cornea and whatever stands before it. ReadThe Memory Police作者:YōkoOgawa并注册了对前提熟悉的内容;你以前见过哪里?这很奇怪,不是,知道我们记得的是合作。查找所有五个混音到Rema的“Dumebi”[破坏,主要的Lazer,Henry Fong,Becky G,Matoma]。所有这些Unalike分支,从同一棵树中生长。你认为语言是在石头中设置的吗?聆听尼日利亚使用Pidgin-A Genius组成将一个人讨论自己英语的兄弟圈。严格的二进制文件和流派是真实的,直到你看DJ Moma玩纽约俱乐部或DJ Aye播放拉古斯之夜。技术上是这样的东西应该是不可能的大陆将你带到同一个舞池上,那个声音会议这个合成器,低音吉他自由落下的古代鼓的深咕噜声—but there you are, all of a sudden, thinking, Wait, who said these things can’t belong together?Read More