Comments on: gratitude and magic /2018/10/14/gratitude-and-magic/ Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:28:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: John McCreery /2018/10/14/gratitude-and-magic/comment-page-1/#comment-1436 Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:28:24 +0000 https://anthrodendum.org/?p=1692#comment-1436 Zoe, your enthusiasm for Kim Tallbear’s work has had an impact. Yesterday I downloaded the Kindle edition of Native American DNA. Have just begun reading, but it’s fascinating.

]]> By: Eli Thorkelson /2018/10/14/gratitude-and-magic/comment-page-1/#comment-1370 Tue, 16 Oct 2018 20:12:14 +0000 https://anthrodendum.org/?p=1692#comment-1370 I just wanted to say, and I apologize in advance for the probably inadequate comment, that I really appreciate and in turn feel grateful for this post. This year I have really come to rely on your ability to make sense of our unfolding historical moment as I struggle (like a lot of people) to make sense of the increasingly awful “fraying and fracturing and synaptic overload,” of these moments full of potential and also full of depressingly lethal waves of reaction. It’s an odd gift to the internet that you found the time to write up something that keeps being so real and manages to dodge the traps of despair & panoptimism.

I also really relate to this image of blogging overload, and I wanted to send a small solidarity message on that front. I’ve kept a blog around since 2007, but the truth is that months go by without feeling like I need to write anything, and while I used to get something out of the discussion in the comments, now all the discussion has shifted to other social media platforms. But — and again I think I first learned this thought from you, on Twitter! — I really believe none of us owes anything to the anonymous internet public. So I hope you can keep blogging without feeling sucked into the awful expectations about free labor and timeliness that somehow circulate these days. Sending solidarities in the contradictions.

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