Do words sometimes betray you, leaving you a stranger in your own land? Words can be brutal, frustrating, and exhausting. Consider terrorism, civilization, and even peace, family, and security. Words can also be bridges to new forms of experience and openings for alliance. This book explores the political trajectories of words through pictures, excerpts, stories and exegesis about the politics of the present global situation. Scholars, artists, activists and poets have joined forces to offer alternative etymologies, ...
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Do words sometimes betray you, leaving you a stranger in your own land? Words can be brutal, frustrating, and exhausting. Consider terrorism, civilization, and even peace, family, and security. Words can also be bridges to new forms of experience and openings for alliance. This book explores the political trajectories of words through pictures, excerpts, stories and exegesis about the politics of the present global situation. Scholars, artists, activists and poets have joined forces to offer alternative etymologies, genealogies, fragments of everyday life, and glimpses of social history as a form of defence and defiance in an escalating war on words. - from the introduction. Words are provided by a stellar cast, including Lain Boal, Angela Davis, Mike Davis, Jonathan Fox, Lisbeth Haas, Sven Lindquist, Helene Moglen, Goenawan Mohamad, Adrienne Rich, Alix Kates Shulman, Yasushi Uchiyamada and dozens more.
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