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A feeling when conditions from the past are haunting us and still make noises in our heads, although they seem to be distant. Can apply to historical conditions. Past events influence today’s minds and actions. E.g. our own past, as well as societal, institutional pasts inevitably shape theories and how we look at them. What we teach and learn today is intertwined with our past. Echoes reproduce power structures and reach into the present. The original sound can deform, how it is heard from a distance changes (e.g. become shriller). Although today many look on colonialism more critically, it still shapes institutions, worldviews, actions. It is visible in the books resting in our libraries, in the accessibility of institutions (Decolonising Knowledge: What Is Decolonisation? | Rolando Vázquez Melken 5:24), how history is told by western museums. We must recognize and draw attention to this screeching (e.g. as one can see in the actions Mwazulu Diyabanza does in Museums (Gimlet)). We need to question who owns, who tells stories, defines, has power, whose voices are being heard? To decolonize we must recognize that power structures are still active. We must question the sounds from the past without denying they exist, but by reshaping how we perceive them and making sure they are not repeated, by making sure they are not echoes.
Sources:
Decolonising Knowledge: What Is Decolonisation? Rolando Vázquez Melken. 2021.
Gimlet. I Want To Report A Theft.
“I still have a distance screeching.”
“I think you got distance screeching.”
“These theories are distance screeched. *”
*However, colonial power structures should be labeled as such as clear as possible. The proposed term should be seen more as an additional visualization.
Where you procure a small cellular device place it in a condom and insert it into your lover on vibrate. Then during the day.....make some calls at random.
Wait a sec before we leave work gotta give my girl a long distance Orgasm.
Asshole who won't teleport to you.
You know who you are.
"My long distance partner keeps telling me to buy a apple teleporter." (You should.)
Being a dick from a distance, is what Zooming into a meeting gives you. Basically being able to say things to your co-workers that you would never say to their face.
Dude, did Jim just call me that? Seriously?
Nah, that douche is on Pacific time, he's just being a dick from a distance.
The greatest discord on the planet
Bro this distance discord is DOPEEEE
Staying six feet apart to stop the spread of an illness.
Please use social distancing while inside the 99 cents store.
When you're in a bar and the guy that's had 7 drinks too many comes in your direction and you step back to give him 6 feet.
Guy: *stammers* "Can I number get your.."
Woman: "Social distancing! Give me 6 feet."