“(…) the whole world is crumbling and we can do more than ask for hope. And what if there is no hope? Do we just lie down and accept our fate? Or, a more dangerous question: what if there is hope? Are they ready to do what it takes? (…) she looked like one of those rare women who had earned the lines on her face. ‘They mean something else when they speak of hope’ (…) ‘Think about faith’ (…) ‘Not the religious kind.’ So I did”. Ece Temelkuran (2025). Together: a Manifesto Against a Heartless World. Foto Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC), July 2025.
"The person figured here is not an autonomous, rational actor but an unfolding, shifting biography of culturally and materially specific experiences, relations, and possibilities inflected by each next encounter (...) in uniquely particular ways." (Lucy Suchman, Human-machine reconfigurations: plans and situated actions, 2009, 281)
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“The will to touch reality” and all the “beings within it was as simple as the urge to breathe, and breathe together”. The Tree was right. “After all, one cannot hesitate when it comes to breathing. And one learns that breathing in difficult times is something that requires” other beings “to help you do it properly”. Ece Temelkuran (2025). Together: a Manifesto against a Heartless world.
Foto Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC), June 23, 2025.
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