The Shape of Stories: How Myths Move Through Bodies and Worlds
The Emerald
The Pulse of Universal and Specific Vision
The force that drives human ritual and stories is a pulse of consolidating and tearing apart, deeply shaped by colonialism, racism, and class divide. Postcolonial thought can become its own universalizing tool, leading to ritualized tearing apart. Academics should remember that their findings and proclamations are simply little waves along the larger pulse, and what is consolidated into certainty will be torn apart later. Both a universal vision and a specific vision hold value, but the danger lies in ignoring specificity or commonality. The human organism can hold space for both, like the structure of breathing and the architecture of the heart's expansion and contraction in a seamless flow between one and many, journey and return.
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