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.
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.
“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.
by l;;;; December 10, 2023
Sta-um-ble distance : a unit of measure. The distance in which an inebriated individual can successfully navigate from a water hole (point a) to the location of residence or car. (Point b)
Ron: hey dude, you sure you want to keep drinking?
Jon: yeah brah, I'm within stumble distance to my apartment.
Jon: yeah brah, I'm within stumble distance to my apartment.
by BRAD*&)*&#)&# December 09, 2014
Someone you rarely hang out with: "Hey, want to have a zoom call tonight?"
You: "Sorry! I can't."
Someone you rarely hang out with: "Why not? It's not like you can go out."
You: "I know, but I'm practicing virtual social distancing."
You: "Sorry! I can't."
Someone you rarely hang out with: "Why not? It's not like you can go out."
You: "I know, but I'm practicing virtual social distancing."
by Little Walnut March 31, 2020
by SmegheadRimmer July 15, 2020
When an alcoholic beverage is poured from an extremely long distance into the mouth of a willing or unwilling participant.
by LDP Inventor June 19, 2013
Precautions that should be taken against incoming calls, messages and notifications by other people during pandemic.
by kiliczsh April 15, 2020
Overheard or participated in conversations and or scenarios relating to biosecurity measures in social distancing during to the corona virus outbreak to prevent passing or bio matter from one person to the next that are absurd in nature.
71 year old lady has a fall and goes face first into the concrete lined tar road.
Social distancing conversation:
Woman stands 3 meters away and says:
"Are you ok? I don't want to get to close because I don't know what you have".
Social distancing conversations:
"Stay five feet away from me" a lady screeched at me while holding a large walking stick to to both threaten me and measure the distance between us.
Darling, we are in an aisle in the pharmacy, and you're shitting bricks and ready to clout me with your walking stick because I asked if you were in line.
Social distancing conversation:
Woman stands 3 meters away and says:
"Are you ok? I don't want to get to close because I don't know what you have".
Social distancing conversations:
"Stay five feet away from me" a lady screeched at me while holding a large walking stick to to both threaten me and measure the distance between us.
Darling, we are in an aisle in the pharmacy, and you're shitting bricks and ready to clout me with your walking stick because I asked if you were in line.
by Rusty spork March 25, 2020