I created the word ‘inter-membral’ as a way to break through the limiting boundaries of colonialist vocabulary. A conversation about “the refugee problem” set in the context of a country that delivers weaponry to aggressors to maintain exploitation that is beneficial to them, is an example of a conversation that can’t be held in a vacuum, but that needs to be discussed “intermembrally”.
“Precisely because they too are specimens of modern thought, the available critical tools cannot support an ethico-political intervention capable of undermining cultural difference’s capacity to produce an unbridgeable ethical divide.”- Denise Fereira da Silva
As the language these tools speak is created and pursued in and for a context of oppression, it is impossible to break out of them without changing our vocabulary.
And so I created a word that can signify that in a text or in an argument I am encompassing many truths and existants. As Da Silva says we; ´could image The World as a Plenum, an infinite composition in which each existant’s singularity is contingent upon its becoming one possible expression of all the other existants, with which it is entangled beyond space and time.´
If we can embody the belief that we are indeed connected to and entangled with all, we can start taking responsibility in our actions.
1 Da Silva, Denise Ferreira "On difference without separability", 2016
“Precisely because they too are specimens of modern thought, the available critical tools cannot support an ethico-political intervention capable of undermining cultural difference’s capacity to produce an unbridgeable ethical divide.”- Denise Fereira da Silva
As the language these tools speak is created and pursued in and for a context of oppression, it is impossible to break out of them without changing our vocabulary.
And so I created a word that can signify that in a text or in an argument I am encompassing many truths and existants. As Da Silva says we; ´could image The World as a Plenum, an infinite composition in which each existant’s singularity is contingent upon its becoming one possible expression of all the other existants, with which it is entangled beyond space and time.´
If we can embody the belief that we are indeed connected to and entangled with all, we can start taking responsibility in our actions.
1 Da Silva, Denise Ferreira "On difference without separability", 2016
In this text I will be speaking from an inter-membral, place, so keep this in consideration when encountering anecdotes, mythes, conversations, pictures, graphs and other, all is part of this story.
by cleadlady December 08, 2023
"lifes unfair man, I keep eating kale and drinking kombucha but I just wake up with hungunders."
"maybe you have all these hungunders because you are caving under the soulcrushing pressure of capitalism"
"maybe you have all these hungunders because you are caving under the soulcrushing pressure of capitalism"
by cleadlady October 11, 2023