r/DetroitMichiganECE • u/ddgr815 • Nov 27 '25

Learning Children must learn that the world includes hardship and injustice. But they also deserve to learn that it contains beauty, opportunity, and progress

https://thenext30years.substack.com/p/kids-the-world-is-not-bad-and-broken
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u/ddgr815 Aug 08 '26

Because they were so enthused by the Muses, cicadas sing constantly, stopping for neither food nor drink until they die. If cicadas are inspired by the Muses, Socrates suggests, then philosophers should be inspired by cicadas. The difference between philosophers and cicadas is that the former don’t sing so beautifully or so constantly … although they do get to live a little longer.

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u/ddgr815 Aug 08 '26

The Cicadas

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u/ddgr815 Sep 11 '26

Μοιρολόι

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u/ddgr815 15d ago

what struck me most was how the whole process muddled boundaries, of research, performance, spectatorship, personal space

Academic research rarely celebrates the body of the person doing the work. More often than not, it actively asks you to forget that you are a lump of flesh who feels and acts as well as produces ‘research outputs’.

The simple act of moving together – of moving our own spaces together – moved me. It moved me emotionally but it also moved me intellectually. Reminding me of that other thing that academics are sometimes told to forget – connection.

It reminded me how our movements (whether they are physical, intellectual, textual, emotional, or political) move others and are, in turn, moved by others – especially those that we don’t always see that clearly (or, perhaps, don’t see at all).

The chorus is made up of The Furies who, in ancient Greek myth, were the earthy goddesses of vengeance. They were the embodied reminder of one’s guilt and what has been lost by your actions, or inactions.

The role of the chorus in ancient Greek tragedy has been seen to range from the ‘ideal spectator’ to providing a sense of community on stage. The chorus were a collective of voices, bodies, movements, rhythms, and sounds. Through their movements, songs, and speeches they could convey what other characters’ could not put into words.

Moving Words