I want to come to a point that you make in the book about our need to move beyond what you call old fashioned notions of collective identity. I can mak how you're thinking about all o these issues is alway, sod ofa entangled in these these questions around. It might sound contradictory to ask for individuality andt advocate for individuality when this very near liberal approach of we are all individuals,. We'll all make our way through this world successfully. And that this lack of solidarity leads to, i would say, most of the problems we are facing in to day's world. But if we use individuality as a training to see complexity and multi facitness and ambiguity, and if we
Language is expressive, a way of opening doors or a tool for creating new dialogue. But a tool so powerful can also take us to unforeseen or unintended places. It can create narratives that become fixed, unhelpful, or exclusionary. Kübra Gümüsay is a writer and activist focusing on social justice and public discourse. Her new book is Speaking and Being, which looks at the power of words, asking whether language creates freeing new spaces or plays a part in walling them off. Our host for the discussion is Danielle Sands, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway University in London, where she works across disciplines bridging philosophy, literary studies and critical theory.
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