{"id":2570,"date":"2024-01-03T19:40:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T19:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2024-01-03T19:46:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T19:46:06","slug":"new-year-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/new-year-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The holidays came and went, the calendar turned over, and I missed all my (very) self-imposed deadlines for sharing some reflections on 2023. The last few months have been full of difficult witnessing\u2014of brutal settler colonial and neo-imperial violence, of right-wing attacks on cultural and academic institutions, of climate thresholds passed, of water tables drawn down. In 2024, I recommit to struggle for justice in all these dimensions, in the streets as much as from the studio.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/MIT_Electricity_GearoidDolan_cropped.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/MIT_Electricity_GearoidDolan_cropped-1024x682.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sarah Kanouse throws back her head and holds her arms wide in a moment from the performance\" class=\"wp-image-2571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/MIT_Electricity_GearoidDolan_cropped.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/MIT_Electricity_GearoidDolan_cropped.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/MIT_Electricity_GearoidDolan_cropped.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/MIT_Electricity_GearoidDolan_cropped.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/MIT_Electricity_GearoidDolan_cropped.jpg?w=1622&amp;ssl=1 1622w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>My Electric Genealogy<\/em> performance at MIT. Photograph by Gearoid Dolan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<style>.kadence-column_26c2d1-ad > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column_26c2d1-ad > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column_26c2d1-ad > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column_26c2d1-ad{position:relative;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column_26c2d1-ad\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<h2>My Electric Genealogy:<br>Final Performances and Video<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I&nbsp;closed out the 2022-2023 tour of \u201cMy Electric Genealogy\u201d at MIT in mid-November in a performance in the Cube at the Art, Culture, Technology program, co-sponsored by History of Architecture. It was the first time that my partner Nick or my daughter Genesee had seen the final product of years of research, writing, performance study and media-making, and they did so under nearly ideal conditions: an enthusiastic packed house and first-rate tech. MIT livestreamed the show, with the archived video available on YouTube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can\u2019t think of any project that has functioned as an organizing principle of my life for as long as this one. Wrapping it up feels necessary, but it\u2019s also bittersweet. The other fall performances were all beautiful opportunities to connect with old friends and seed new ones. I\u2019m currently working on getting the script published and hope to have more to announce on that soon.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_8996cd-61 .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_8996cd-61 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-_8996cd-61\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2>Over the Levee, Under the Plow<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/OLUP_StPaul.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/OLUP_StPaul-1024x682.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A series of wooden, open top boxes containing colored texts on a wooden table\" class=\"wp-image-2572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/OLUP_StPaul.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/OLUP_StPaul.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/OLUP_StPaul.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/OLUP_StPaul.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/OLUP_StPaul.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption>OLUP as installed in the Law Warshaw Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/regionalrelationships.org\/olup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Over the Levee, Under the Plow<\/a><\/em>, a collection of artist\u2019s publications and prompt cards I co-organized with Ryan Griffis, appeared in two iterations of the exhibition Insurgent Ecologies, curated by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/imanijacquelinebrown.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Imani Jacqueline Brown<\/a>&nbsp;and Shana Griffin at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.antenna.works\/insurgent-ecologies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Antenna in New Orleans<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiasimonegardner.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tia-Simone Gardner<\/a>&nbsp;at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Macalester College<\/a>&nbsp;in St. Paul, Minnesota. This project will also be published, with a short essay I wrote on using it in the classroom, in&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.existentialtoolkit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How To Teach in a Burning World<\/a><\/em>, edited by Jennifer Atkinson and Sarah Jaquette Ray.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_448716-ec .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_448716-ec .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-_448716-ec\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2>In Brief<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>My 2019 film&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/portfolio\/grassland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Grassland<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;is included in the recently published book and online exhibition&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/ecoartspace\/docs\/thenewgeologicepoch#:~:text=The%20artworks%20depicted%20in%20The,that%20help%20envision%20larger%20alternatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The New Geologic Epoch<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melanie Armstrong\u2019s chapter in the recently published book&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/uwapress.uw.edu\/book\/9780295752341\/resisting-the-nuclear\/\"><em>Resisting the Nuclear: Art and Activism Across the Pacific<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;includes&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltlcservice.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The National Toxic Land\/Labor Conservation Service<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradonuclearatlas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A People\u2019s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><\/em>Rebecca Zorach\u2019s new book&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/T\/bo211513319.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America\u2019s Racial Enterprise<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;comes out in March and includes a discussion and documentation of my 2012 film&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/portfolio\/around-crab-orchard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Around Crab Orchard<\/a>.<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_377477-f7 .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_377477-f7 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-_377477-f7\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"has-text-align-center\">The Long Read: Reckoning with Reckonings<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>People often characterize&nbsp;<em>My Electric Genealogy<\/em>&nbsp;as a \u201creckoning\u201d, and for a long time I agreed. I even called it that in my last newsletter. I began working on the project contemporaneously with the global surge in Indigenous resistance to resource extraction that began with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/idlenomore.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Idle No More<\/a>&nbsp;movement in Canada in 2012, the rise of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blacklivesmatter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Black Lives Matter<\/a>&nbsp;in the United States in 2013, and international resistance to colonial monuments that rose to prominence with the Rhodes Must Fall campaign in South Africa in 2015. This moment of reckoning arguably reached its zenith with the great global conjuncture of 2020. Pandemic lockdowns allowed millions around the world to take to the streets to protest the police murder of George Floyd while normalizing ideas about progressive social infrastructures like guaranteed income, a moratorium on evictions, and the elevation of public health over policing. Four years later, the backlash is stunning to behold: a global rise in far-right politics; a return to the punitive policing of addiction and homelessness; a new generation of \u201canti-woke\u201d demagogues; and U.S climate policies that have largely abandoned provisions for mass social infrastructure in favor of subsidizing individual green(er) consumption to enable the ways of life of settler liberalism to continue just a bit longer. All this has left me more than a little suspicious about whether \u201creckoning work\u201d is actually, well, working, and whether I want to characterize my project in those terms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-image-fill\" style=\"grid-template-columns:35% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/QA_Square_Azra-1024x1024.jpg);background-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/QA_Square_Azra-1024x1024.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The artist Sarah Kanouse sits on the right in conversation with the artist and architect Rania Ghosn at MIT. Photograph by Azra Aksamija.\" class=\"wp-image-2574 size-large\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/QA_Square_Azra.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/QA_Square_Azra.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/QA_Square_Azra.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/QA_Square_Azra.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/QA_Square_Azra.jpg?w=1468&amp;ssl=1 1468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2>The inability of a global moment of historical reckoning to generate a sustained commitment to imagining and enacting new and markedly different futures was arguably latent in the word reckoning itself.<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The inability of a global moment of historical reckoning to generate a sustained commitment to imagining and enacting new and markedly different futures was arguably latent in the word<em>&nbsp;reckoning&nbsp;<\/em>itself. The term derives from verbs in multiple early Germanic languages associated with the accounting of money, property, and debt, often after an individual\u2019s death, as well as testimony and storytelling. These include the Old Frisian&nbsp;<em>rekenia<\/em>&nbsp;(to calculate, to distribute, to say); the Middle Dutch&nbsp;<em>r\u0113kenen, reeckenen<\/em>&nbsp;(to set right, put in order, to settle accounts, to include); the Middle Low German&nbsp;<em>r\u0113kenen<\/em>, r<em>eknen<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>r\u0113ken<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>recken<\/em>&nbsp;(to count, to assess, evaluate, to think, to judge); the Old and Middle High German&nbsp;<em>rehhan\u014dn, rehhen\u014dn<\/em>&nbsp;or rechenen (to arrange, prepare or to count). The concept\u2019s scope broadened to assume a moral and political valence; the same word lies at the root of the modern English&nbsp;<em>right&nbsp;<\/em>and German&nbsp;<em>recht<\/em>, with their associations of both correctness and citizenship<em>.&nbsp;<\/em>The&nbsp;<em>day of reckoning<\/em>&nbsp;is core to millenarian Christianity, given as a synonym for \u201cdoomsday\u201d and the final judgement of God, after which the world will be instantly transformed by divine action, not over time with earthly effort. The etymology reveals reckoning to be construed as a largely individual affair: a final \u201caccount\u201d in both the narrative and financial sense, told to God or inventoried for one\u2019s heirs, the summation of a human life. Reckonings are therefore, intrinsically paradoxical but also reductive. Simultaneously intergenerational and end-of-days, reckonings look mostly backward. Their futurity imagines only one or two thin, reproductive generations, or else no future at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Whyte_Shotwell-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"382\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Whyte_Shotwell-1024x382.jpg?resize=1024%2C382&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Two-up image showing screenshots of the texts referenced below: &quot;White Allies, Let's Be Honest About Decolonization&quot; and the publication &quot;Bearing&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-2575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Whyte_Shotwell-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C382&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Whyte_Shotwell-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C112&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Whyte_Shotwell-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C286&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Whyte_Shotwell-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C573&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Whyte_Shotwell-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C763&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Whyte_Shotwell-scaled.jpg?w=2280 2280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Cover images for Kyle Powys Whyte&#8217;s and Alexis Shotwell&#8217;s texts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of the texts I returned to again and again while working on \u201cMy Electric Genealogy\u201d suggest a different way to think about responsibilities of ancestry and attachment than a term tethered to money and millenarianism. In 2018, Neshnabe philosopher Kyle Powys Whyte called for White \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/issue\/decolonize\/2018\/04\/03\/white-allies-lets-be-honest-about-decolonization\" target=\"_blank\">allies to be critical about their environmental realities\u2014and about the purpose of their environmentalism. To do this, allies must realize they are living in the environmental fantasies of their settler ancestors<\/a>.\u201d The following year, settler Canadian philosopher Alexis Shotwell speculated, \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackwoodgallery.ca\/publications\/sduk\/bearing\/claiming-bad-kin\" target=\"_blank\">What could it mean for those who benefit from oppression\u2014white people, and settlers more generally\u2014to claim kin with oppressors? If we are complicit in the pain of this suffering world, how might we take responsibility for our bad kin?<\/a>\u201d The forms of recognition and responsibility invoked separately by Whyte and Shotwell are more diffuse and open-ended than the summative approach embedded in the concept of&nbsp;<em>reckoning<\/em>. They invoke a longer (albeit still human) timeline and a potentially more expansive and tenuous network of kinship than that suggested by \u201cheir\u201d or even \u201cdescendent.\u201d Whyte and Shotwell suggest that there is no outside position, at least for settlers, from which to assess, evaluate, think, and judge. Any such \u201caccount\u201d must also include the one doing the counting, as well as how we learned to tally value, and to what end. It is therefore intimately tied up with selfhood as fashioned by settler liberalism, as well as subjectivity as a dimension by which it might be challenged and changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/MIT_Lecture_GearoidDolan_small.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/MIT_Lecture_GearoidDolan_small-1024x683.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The artist Sarah Kanouse sits to the right side of an image of a performance space and gazes at a 35mm slide projection of a family image. A large-scale projection showing another White-presenting woman giving a lecture is shown in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-2576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/MIT_Lecture_GearoidDolan_small.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/MIT_Lecture_GearoidDolan_small.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/MIT_Lecture_GearoidDolan_small.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/MIT_Lecture_GearoidDolan_small.jpg?resize=1536%2C1025&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/MIT_Lecture_GearoidDolan_small.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption>My Electric Genealogy performance still. Photograph by Gearoid Dolan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If \u201cMy Electric Genealogy\u201d is a reckoning, it\u2019s also a reckoning with reckonings, an act of generational and spatial transmission that, like electricity itself, moves in all directions simultaneously. At the final performance, I was asked if the coda \u2013 in which activists from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dine-care.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Din\u00e9CARE<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tonizhoniani.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">T\u00f3 Nizh\u00f3n\u00ed \u00c1n\u00ed&nbsp;<\/a>propose to use the high-voltage transmission lines my grandfather built to carry Navajo-generated solar power to Los Angeles, with just compensation \u2013 gave me \u201ca chance to love my grandfather again.\u201d I think I replied that I was much more invested in collective than individual relationship repair, but the question has stuck with me. Hope and love after all, are not the opposite of critique but, as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/evekosofskysedgwick.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick<\/a>&nbsp;taught us long ago, the affects that allow it to evolve toward reparation. \u201cBecause the reader has room to realize that the future may be different from the present, it is also possible for her to entertain such profoundly painful, profoundly relieving, ethically crucial possibilities as that the past, in turn, could have happened differently from the way it actually did.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>References<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. \u201creckon, v., Etymology\u201d, September 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sedgwick, Eve.&nbsp;<em>Touching Feeling<\/em>. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002, 146.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shotwell, Alexis. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackwoodgallery.ca\/publications\/sduk\/bearing\/claiming-bad-kin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Claiming Bad Kin: Solidarity from Complicit Locations<\/a>.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Bearing<\/em>&nbsp;3 (March 2019), 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whyte, Kyle Powys. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/issue\/decolonize\/2018\/04\/03\/white-allies-lets-be-honest-about-decolonization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White Allies, Let\u2019s Be Honest about Decolonization<\/a>.\u201d Yes Magazine April 3, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays came and went, the calendar turned over, and I missed all my (very) self-imposed deadlines for sharing some reflections on 2023. 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