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
Get the distance screechingmug. To have failed as the "fail whale" has.
"Hark... in the distance... the fail whale!"
"dude, you're just harking in the distance all over the place"
"dude, you're just harking in the distance all over the place"
by dannyjeffers October 11, 2008
Get the harking in the distancemug. SOCIAL MEDIA:
Not clicking emojis, 'likes' or reply, on the ill considered comments of the angry, uneducated, self absorbed people you discover are in your social circle (especially during a time of crisis).
Not clicking emojis, 'likes' or reply, on the ill considered comments of the angry, uneducated, self absorbed people you discover are in your social circle (especially during a time of crisis).
YOU: "I don't understand all this stock piling, I mean it's ridiculous and so selfish..........I better take 3 please (I have an
elderly mother / my wife told me to get 3 / I only eat wholemeal / what do you mean only 2)"
ME: Social Distancing
elderly mother / my wife told me to get 3 / I only eat wholemeal / what do you mean only 2)"
ME: Social Distancing
by Salop Sense March 20, 2020
Get the Social Distancingmug. by Sexy Billy October 25, 2017
Get the distance discordmug. by SmegheadRimmer July 15, 2020
Get the Social Distance Warriormug. by The real alix August 3, 2023
Get the Distance Climbmug. When you significant other has a remote clit stimulator placed inside of her, and you remind her that you’re thinking of her.
by James Gresham November 19, 2023
Get the long distance remindermug.