"The fact that something so fragile, so unbearably tender had survived, had been allowed to exist, was a miracle." Arundhati Roy, The God of small things. Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)
"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)
Jun 20, 2018
Jun 19, 2018
June
"After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?" Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989. The Remains of the Day. Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)
Jun 12, 2018
June
"Over time he had acquired the ability to blend into the background (...) It usually took strangers a while to notice him even when they were in the same room with him. It took them even longer to notice that he never spoke. Some never noticed at all" Arundhati Roy (2017). The God of small things.
Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)
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