Revolutionary Thoughts
2020
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Digital Installation
Revolutionary thoughts is a digital installation of audio fragments, split across the 9th issue of the online publication The Mass Collection, which can be viewed at www.the-mass.com. Each fragment, presented in the publication in the form of a small dandelion seed, is a Revolutionary Thought. Some are old, some are new (depending on perspective). The works blow in reverse through the publication, landing back on the dandelion towards the final pages.
Revolutionary thoughts (some not new, depending on circumstances)
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that a computer is a brain, or a computer is a tree, and not the other way round.
that everyone should be entitled to a universal basic income
that children have wisdom
that people can change, with time
that to grow old is not a form of degradation or loss, but a process of enrichment (Braiding Sweetgrass)
that time is not linear
that genitalia are beautiful
that the definition of sentience might not always rely on criteria such as motility, activity, or even biological processes (Chen, Animacies)
that disability is not defect
that there is no natural order
that there is no such thing as unnatural
that gender is a culturally specific phenomenon
that women have sole jurisdiction over their bodies
that family is not genetically defined
that two men can lovingly raise children
that politics can never be made distinct from day-to-day life
that words represent only one way of explaining
that to be alone is not the same as to be lonely
that no one should be a billionaire
that rent is theft
that everyone should be entitled to free housing
that law is not justice, that justice is not necessarily moral, that morality is not any one thing
that good and bad are contextual
that emotions are as valid as what is often called reason or rationality; that to hierarchise these is to be a puppet of the patriarchy
that there is no such thing as a binary
that borders should not exist
that people can never be illegal
that we are responsible for the cataclysm of the climate crisis
that we have never been and never can be distinct from the natural world
that corporations should not be afforded personhood
that trees, plants, animals, fungi, and things we call inanimate, are our teachers
that soldiers are victims, not heroes, of war
that there is no such thing as a deterrent, nuclear or otherwise; that it is only ever a weapon
that death is a part of life; that both life and death should be cherished
that facts are not political stances, but their interpretation is
that there is no such thing as unskilled labour
that heterosexuality did not exist before the twentieth century
that debate with Nazis is never debate
that art that we enjoy can be made by people we don’t agree with
that people are whole
that healthcare should be free
that democracy does not serve everybody equally