The Problem with Language
Craig Mallett We (modern) humans have a great tendency to want to categorize things to make sense of them, and I dare say it’s linked directly to our allergy of the mysterious and unknown. Every week I run into the inevitable “so what do you do” question, and as I start my attempt […]
Forgive My Ineptitude
Christian Paev Writing about the Movement is paradoxical. It seems doomed from the start because it cannot be adequately described. Even a bad experience is better than none, and even the best experience won’t be able to encapsulate everything I want to express. To begin with an apology for the limitedness of the text seems right. […]
Trauma Sensitive Language & Allowance
Nicki Miller View this post on Instagram A post shared by Movement Missing Links (@movement.missing.links) A friendly reminder that trauma-sensitivity is a real thing and makes a difference in how people show up in their bodies. The same nervous system that is holding on to trauma is the same one responsible […]
Binary Fictions vs. Complex Realities
Dare Sohei why & how so many “logics” are poisoning us into monsters, a furiously incomplete discourse on furiously incomplete discourses this will be a ramble. i like rambles. #deathjazz this week we got the pereniall christo fascists wanting to overturn roe vs wade thing again, because their idea of heaven-on-earth is a […]
A Culinary Metaphor (Describing Physical Alchemy)
Dave Wardman People keep asking me: what is Physical Alchemy? How does it differ from other physical methods? How is it similar? Are you just re-badging known methods with new terminology?! ‘Just what do you think you’re doing, Dave?‘ Up until this point I have usually opted to answer this question in reverse: […]
Neurobation
Dave Wardman Neurobation: the tedious and unnecessary use of brain science terminology when every day words will suffice. It’s a thang. Caste your gaze around social media and you will not doubt its increased prevalence. It has strongly entered the physical work sphere. It has even proceeded into the C2rberus and C1rberus segmentation of the […]
Language of the New Alchemy
Dave Wardman ‘[…] It is very difficult, almost impossible for [hu]men of different categories and of different modes of perception to understand one another, because they call one and the same thing by different names, and they call different things by the same name.’ [G] It has become increasingly clear in the course of […]