Context: Written in 2015 during the Syrian War and just after the November 2015 Paris attacks.
Style: Affective Writing
Fields: Politics, Praxis, Affect, Memory
Author: Dr. Francesca Ferrando
IF I DIE..
All day I am hearing military planes passing over our home in Queens, New York City (US). How can I write or think when the sound of war is so close.. Then I read about the two Moroccan cousins behind the Parisian attacks. She blew herself after saying: "He is not my boyfriend". Many memories of my youth in Italy, many friends from Morocco: they were kind, and wise, and wild, and had to live in a society in which biases against them were way too common. Then I remembered being in Paris after the revolt in the banlieue, feeling the tension in the air. This situation does not come out of the blue, it has been building for decades until it exploded. The answer is not violence, is not war. This is the ghost of anger, and it will come back again if we do not look at the whole picture..
IF DESTINY BRINGS ME TO A LOCATION WHERE SOMEONE PLACES A BOMB AND I DIE, PLEASE DO NOT USE MY NAME TO KILL OTHER PEOPLE, I DO NOT WANT ANY REVENGE. INSTEAD, KEEP BUILDING PEACE, DIALOGUE AND UNDERSTANDING. DO NOT LET ANYONE DOWN, TREAT EVERYONE WITH RESPECT. THIS IS MY WISH. THANKS.
I send my love to my French family, my Italian family, my European family, my American family, my Moroccan family, my Arab family, my Persian family, my Jewish family, my Hindu family, my Buddhist family, my Chinese family, my Earth family.. We are all wise people in wise places. We just need to start again. We need to trust again. We need to mourn together all these deaths in Syria, France, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, USA, Europe etc. We need to connect, to talk, to feel truly sorry that we let our species get to this point. No life is more important than others. Each human being has to be respected, each culture, each country. Only this way we can build trust, peace and our posthuman futures. Violence leads towards more violence, in a spiral with no survivors. We need to build trust, hope and empathy. All the great books of the past say that, all religions say that, all wise philosophers say that. We are wise and compassionate beings. Let's start.
TOGETHER. WITH HOPE. WITH TRUST. LET'S START. NOW, LET'S GET READY AND START.. THIS IS: OUR POSTHUMAN FUTURE.
Style: Affective Writing
Fields: Politics, Praxis, Affect, Memory
Author: Dr. Francesca Ferrando
IF I DIE..
All day I am hearing military planes passing over our home in Queens, New York City (US). How can I write or think when the sound of war is so close.. Then I read about the two Moroccan cousins behind the Parisian attacks. She blew herself after saying: "He is not my boyfriend". Many memories of my youth in Italy, many friends from Morocco: they were kind, and wise, and wild, and had to live in a society in which biases against them were way too common. Then I remembered being in Paris after the revolt in the banlieue, feeling the tension in the air. This situation does not come out of the blue, it has been building for decades until it exploded. The answer is not violence, is not war. This is the ghost of anger, and it will come back again if we do not look at the whole picture..
IF DESTINY BRINGS ME TO A LOCATION WHERE SOMEONE PLACES A BOMB AND I DIE, PLEASE DO NOT USE MY NAME TO KILL OTHER PEOPLE, I DO NOT WANT ANY REVENGE. INSTEAD, KEEP BUILDING PEACE, DIALOGUE AND UNDERSTANDING. DO NOT LET ANYONE DOWN, TREAT EVERYONE WITH RESPECT. THIS IS MY WISH. THANKS.
I send my love to my French family, my Italian family, my European family, my American family, my Moroccan family, my Arab family, my Persian family, my Jewish family, my Hindu family, my Buddhist family, my Chinese family, my Earth family.. We are all wise people in wise places. We just need to start again. We need to trust again. We need to mourn together all these deaths in Syria, France, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, USA, Europe etc. We need to connect, to talk, to feel truly sorry that we let our species get to this point. No life is more important than others. Each human being has to be respected, each culture, each country. Only this way we can build trust, peace and our posthuman futures. Violence leads towards more violence, in a spiral with no survivors. We need to build trust, hope and empathy. All the great books of the past say that, all religions say that, all wise philosophers say that. We are wise and compassionate beings. Let's start.
TOGETHER. WITH HOPE. WITH TRUST. LET'S START. NOW, LET'S GET READY AND START.. THIS IS: OUR POSTHUMAN FUTURE.
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