Reciprocity in the Time of Despair

I’m thinking about Donna Haraway, the biologist, feminist, radical and formulator of the descriptive value of recognizing and exploring the oddity of our interspecies reality. [1] That we live with companions virtually all the time and everywhere, and that we are not, in fact, able to think ourselves adequately as lone individuals. That we gain … More Reciprocity in the Time of Despair

“Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.”

Tonight, staring at my Facebook page and feeling despair, squeezed between the power of two national states to oppress and paralyze, my loneliness and demons of my son’s abduction hounding, the ghosts of my tormentors, the abductors of my son, hovering  like Jacob’s angel,  taunting my courage  and the moral obligations and demands of love, … More “Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.”