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March 1, 2022: “It's Our Fourth META-VERSARY, with Mr. RILEY JOHNDONELL!”

 

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THE META-VERSARY INTERVIEW: Mr. RILEY JOHNDONELL!




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THE INTERVIEW


R   I   L  E   Y      J   O   H   N   D   O   N   N   E  L  L

 

Founder of



 INTOYELLOW.ORG | UMEE.ORG | IG: Life_of_riley_

 

 

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R  I  L  E  Y     J  O  H  N  D  O  N  N  E  L  L

 



G. Riley Johndonnell (a.k.a. Uncle Riley) is a conceptual artist and social activist who explores Optimism as a spiritual practice and as an art ‘Ism’ (just as Cubism, Modernism, Minimalism are ‘isms’). He believes that Optimism is a movement of creatives with the shared intention of positively impacting Reality. His personal and public works instigate transformation and challenge our perception of what is good/bad, dark/light, positive/negative.

Johndonnell collaborated with Pantone Color Institute to create a signature color called International Optimism Yellow (‘INT-O Yellow’) as a platform for creatives to inspire more Optimism in the world. Over 1000 creatives, organizations and companies as well as two cities (Kingston, NY and Madison, NJ) have collaborated on INT-O Yellow. Johndonnell also co-founded UMEWE.org (‘you-me-we’) a social benefit company which creates tools and initiatives to ‘Turn Optimism Into Action’; each featuring ‘INT-O Yellow’ in some way.

INT-O Yellow has evolved to become a color for mental health awareness (just as Pink is to breast cancer, Red is to HIV, Blue is to autism); it’s a way to collaboratively shine a light on the stigma surrounding mental health issues.

Johndonnell creates civic works (under the alias “Uncle Riley”) in collaboration with the general public. Such works include daytime graffiti installations, interactive performances and videos, social media campaigns, the (P)optimism Shoppe, and more.

Johndonnell is also the co-founder of Surface magazine (an influential international design publication). He shifted from a career in luxury branding, fashion, design and lifestyle publishing to focus on social cause and fine art. After two decades between San Francisco and NYC, and one year on the road in a vintage RV, he relocated to the Hudson Valley where he works with communities, creatives, government and organizations to create positive social change through art and design.



 

 

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INTOYellow is a tool for people to be able to turn optimism into action.

To be able to convert something negative into something positive, or to explore optimism as an “ism”. It’s a color that I created to conceptualise that it’s meant to be the embodiment of optimism. It is something that I viewed that when I put it into the world, it starts to generate more great things.

Optimism as a movement, as well as a color for mental health awareness.

There is still a lot of stigma around mental health discussions. So as I started gifting this color to artists to work with, one of the threads coming up was that artists suffer more from mental health issues than other folks. In particular, there were issues of suicide, and the color started to resonate with artists for different reasons… it has unlocked an awareness; it has become something else.

What is Optimism?

It is defined as: hopefulness and confidence about the future or the successful outcome of something. When most people say optimism, you’ll hear it juxtaposed against pessimism, or you’ll hear optimistic is not realistic. A lot of neurological studies of what optimism is in the brain have shown that biologically we are meant to be optimistic.

So there is this inherent biological optimism, and then there is how we see and interact with the world. In my view, optimism isn’t the opposite of reality; it’s a perception, a filter. How you perceive things.

I believe that we can craft a brighter reality.

I have seen how you can make a positive impact. On a scientific level, the positive vibrations affect the molecular construction of things, so I believe in the idea of positive energy but I don’t believe that negative energy is necessarily bad. It is the yin and the yang, both are necessary part of the harmony and equilibrium of life.

There is a harmonious balance created by combining gray and yellow.

I do a lot of public work, and a lot of it is a actually a balance of grey and yellow. The gray actually makes the yellow and other colors vibrate. I call it void gray, or cloudy day and sunshine. Essentially it is about the intention and perception of creating something that has a positive impact. A positive vibration that can be regenerated.

Today I totally see the beauty that comes out of darkness, out of gray, out of melancholy. But I also know that this is just one aspect of our existence, and I want to feel all the feelings across the spectrum of my humanity.



Learn more at UMEWE.org

 

 

 

Get INTOyellow

 

Any color that matches Pantone 108 C is INTOYellow (FEDB00). It’s your intentional use of this special shade that completes the process.


 

 

People’s Picnic

(2017-Present)


Communal gatherings with food and events to feed Optimism and neighborly connection.




Artist: G. Riley Johndonnell (Uncle Riley)
Collaborators: Community Organizers, Restaurants, Businesses, Chefs, Farms and Community gardens, and Interfaith organizations, and more



Yellow picnic tables and happenings fuel community connection and create places to convene and commune through focus on positive communication. Initially conceived to brighten underserved neighborhoods with yellow picnic tables and complimentary buffet picnic, music and more, the concept has grown to include affluent communities as well. For the event, streets are blocked off for yellow community table dinner events as fundraisers for local mental health charities and services or simply to promote community connection and raise awareness of mental health.

The idea grew out of a previous artistic collaboration called Peace Officers (with the City of Kingston Police Department). During this project, the Chief of Police said, “I think we can brighten the city with more places to commune with one another.” People’s Picnic is the realization of that idea which was at the core of Peace Officers, a video installation where officers offered their input for how to brighten the community. As with many INTOyellow projects, inspiration collected through one leads to the creation of another. People’s Picnic is an example of how hearing people’s Optimism can fuel ever greater expressions of Optimism.



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Community Garden
(2017-Present)


 

Roaming flower murals made in collaboration with hundreds of community members of all ages.



Artist: G. Riley Johndonnell (Uncle Riley)
Collaborators: the Public


Community Garden is a public art project in which community members are invited to add drawings of flowers to small round yellow canvases. The canvases are then digitally enlarged into giant temporary “Community Garden” prints on materials like vinyl which then pop-up in unexpected locations in participating communities.

The enacting of Community Garden is an opportunity for people in a community who don’t typically interact with one other to share the same space in a creative process. This shared experience encourages intergenerational and interfaith connection with the resulting artwork becoming a beacon of inspiration that brightens the community and is adopted by local institutions.

Community Garden has happened in a variety of contexts including in Madison, NJ where it cycled through different faith communities including Catholic, Presbyterian, and Baptist congregations and in Kingston, NY where it united senior citizens with preschoolers and their work together was put on display at the Kingston Public Library.

In 2018, Community Garden brought together the in-patient psychiatric ward in collaboration with hospital doctors and staff at Health Alliance WMC in Westchester with the resulting 16 foot mural installed in the hospital foyer. Also in 2018, hundreds of Madison High School students created a version for the students of Parkland High School in memoriam for gun violence.

 

 

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Start Making


By using any paint, colored substrate or digital color which matches to the color, you and your creation are part of INTOyellow. Check out below for more information on how to start creating with INTOyellow.
 




A  B  O  U  T   U   M   E   W   E


The color becomes a movement.

 

UMEWE (you-me-we) IS AN OPTIMISTIC STORY OF AN ARTIST/ENTREPRENEUR/ACTIVIST AND A HEART-DRIVEN MARKETER/Collaborator/BRAND STRATEGIST WHO CAME TOGETHER TO CREATE a brighter reality.

After years of collective brand-building, innovation and creative design for luxury and consumer product goods life-style brands, Riley Johndonnell and Whitny Sobala found their paths converge on a common mission to leverage their ‘gifts’ for good.     

In their subsequent work together, as activists and consultants in the corporate, civic and government “happiness and wellness” space, they met many other Optimistic innovators and discovered a real need to create tangible tools to help turn Optimism into Action; giving themselves and others practical ways to make a brighter reality.

They started by asking themselves: What if Optimism was a color?  What if Optimism was a space?

Since then, UMEWE has...


READ MORE... .





G  E  T     S  O  C  I  A  L,    G  E  T    Y  E  L  L  O  W



  • https://www.facebook.com/intoyellow/

  • https://www.instagram.com/into_yellow/

  • https://www.instagram.com/_life_of_riley_/

  • https://twitter.com/into_yellow





FreedomWalker’s Sources, Citations, Credits, and Links





COFFEE & GREEN TEA COMBO

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THE SPRUCE

 

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  • Video: https://youtu.be/RI789HQPjnk
  • Video: https://youtu.be/SxJz45L87Zs






K-TOWN NEWS


  • The Daily Freeman
  • Kingston Happenings
  • Radiokingston.org
 
 

 
 
 

 




beetle's Sources, Citations, Credits, and Links




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(Re)Sources for “Meta on The Meta: Family (is a) Tree”



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  1. "What animals are thinking and feeling, and why it should matter | Carl Safina | TEDxMidAtlantic." TEDx Talks, Youtube. [16:27] July 13, 2016. Carl Safina takes us inside the lives and minds of animals around the world, witnessing their profound capacity for perception, thought and emotion, showing why the word "it" is often inappropriate as we discover "who" they really are. And yet, we are wiping out the very animals we should celebrate; we are the flood coming for Noah's Ark. Carl leaves us with a difficult question: Do we have what it takes to let life on earth survive?  Carl Safina’s work has been recognized with MacArthur, Pew, and Guggenheim Fellowships, and his writing has won the Lannan Literary Award and the John Burroughs, James Beard, and George Rabb medals. He has a PhD in ecology from Rutgers University. Safina is the inaugural endowed professor for nature and humanity at Stony Brook University, where he co-chairs the steering committee of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and is founding president of the not-for-profit Safina Center. He hosted the 10-part PBS series Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina. His writing appears in The New York Times, National Geographic, Audubon and other periodicals, and on the Web at National Geographic News and Views, Huffington Post, and CNN.com. Carl Safina’s writing shows how humanity is changing the natural world and what those changes mean for wildlife and for people.  This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wkdH_wluhw

 

 

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[Referenced / resourced, but not aired]

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  14. "What Is Intelligence? Where Does it Begin?" Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell, Youtube. [9:45] This video was made possible by a grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation.  Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources...  Humans are proud of a lot of things, from particle accelerators, to  poetry to pokemon. All of them made possible because of something humans value extremely highly: intelligence. July 12, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck4RGeoHFko&t
  15. "Emergence – How Stupid Things Become Smart Together." Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell, Youtube. [7:30] How can many stupid things combine to form smart things? How can proteins become living cells? How become lots of ants a colony? What is emergence?  This video was made possible by a donation by the Templeton World Charity Foundation. A huge thanks to them for their support and help over the last year! November 16, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16W7c0mb-rE
  16. "What Are You Doing With Your Life? The Tail End." Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell, Youtube. [9:35] Gain a new perspective on your life with our "Calendar & Timeline of Your Life Posters": kgs.link/N3Ksfqvp  Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources...  Wrapping your mind around your life is pretty hard, because you are up to your neck in it. It's like trying to understand the ocean while learning how to swim. On most days you are busy just keeping your head above water. So it is not easy to figure out what to do with your life and how to spend your time.  There are a million distractions. Your family, friends and romantic partners, boring work, and exciting projects. Video games to play and books to read. And then there is your couch that somebody needs to lie on. It’s easy to get lost. So let us take a step back and take a look at your life from the outside.   OUR CHANNELS ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ German Channel: https://kgs.link/youtubeDE  Spanish Channel: https://kgs.link/youtubeES    HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT US? ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ This is how we make our living and it would be a pleasure if you support us!  Get Merch designed with ❤ kgs.link/shop   Join the Patreon Bird Army 🐧  https://kgs.link/patreon. May 25, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXeJANDKwDc
  17. "Divine Command Theory: Crash Course Philosophy #33." Crash Course, Youtube. [9:01] As we venture into the world of ethics, there are a lot of different answers to the grounding problem for us to explore. One of the oldest and most popular is the divine command theory. But with age comes a long history of questions, too, such as the dilemma presented by Plato known as the Euthyphro Problem. October 31, 2016. https://youtu.be/wRHBwxC8b8I
  18. "Natural Law Theory: Crash Course Philosophy #34." Crash Course, Youtube. [9:38] Our exploration of ethical theories continues with another theistic answer to the grounding problem: natural law theory. Thomas Aquinas’s version of this theory says that we all seek out what’s known as the basic goods and argued that instinct and reason come together to point us to the natural law. There are, of course, objections to this theory – in particular, the is-ought problem advanced by David Hume. November 7, 2016. https://youtu.be/r_UfYY7aWKo
  19. "History of Law." Cecilia Jia, Youtube. [7:06]  A video for law. March 7, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1TN6h9WcaQ
  20. "Philosophy of Ethics and Morality - Introduction to Ethics (Moral Philosophy) - What is Ethics?" Thinking Deeply With Ben, Youtube. [13:45] May 3, 2021. The philosophy of ethics and morality explained:  How do you know if an action is moral or not? What is morality, and does it exist?  Where does moral knowledge come from? These are questions that concern themselves with Ethics.   Ethics, also called moral philosophy, is the branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior.  This video will serve as an easy-to-understand introduction to ethics and the three significant areas of study within ethics, which are:  metaethics, which deals with the foundations and nature of moral values, properties, and words, Normative ethics, which deals with systems of morality and questions how one ought to be and act morally, and Applied ethics which deals with what a person is obligated (or permitted) to do in specific situations, analyzing controversial present-day moral questions concerning abortion, euthanasia, animal rights, and more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvLRq5e67jQ
  21. "The History of Law, Order & Justice!: Hidden Histories." Archaeosoup, Youtube. [11:13] October 17, 2012. Welcome to Hidden Histories. In this series, we take a closer look at the world around us and explore the hidden depths of our shared history.  Today we take a closer look at the development of legal systems through time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxOZ7KUC1yk
  22. "Skepticism (David Hume)." Philosophy Vibe, Youtube. [8:10] March 5, 2018. Join George and John as they discuss and debate different Philosophical ideas. Today they will be looking into Skepticism, this is the idea that we can and should doubt all our knowledge.   All beliefs and knowledge about the world should be questioned and doubted, and in fact we should all approach the word as having no absolute certain knowledge of it.   Whilst this is a radical Philosophy George will look into the works of David Hume who supported this theory, and will focus on the Problem of Induction as a basis for Skeptic thought. John will then look into the criticisms of Skepticism and the two will see if this is a valid Philosophy to hold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHfLZzS57PE
  23. "Hume on Causation and Necessity." Daniel Bonevac, Youtube. [17:24] February 17, 2021. David Hume's critique of our conceptions of causation, necessary connection, and necessity in general. @Daniel Bonevac. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rvRPenl6Qk
  24. "Introduction to Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding." Then & Now, Youtube. [11:34] An introduction to the thought of David Hume through An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. The text is a more accessible interpretation of his earlier work, a Treatise of Human Nature (volume one). Hume was the third of the British Empiricists, taking the thought of Locke and Berkley to its limits and attempting a scientific theory of mind. He was both a naturalist and a skeptic, laying out what has become known as the problem of induction. He also woke Kant from his ‘dogmatic slumber'.  Then & Now is FAN-FUNDED! Support me on Patreon and pledge as little as $1 per video: http://patreon.com/user?u=3517018. May 12, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtd8kBtNC
  25. "PHILOSOPHY - David Hume." The School of Life, Youtube. [11:05] October 10, 2016. David Hume is one of Scotland’s greatest philosophers (Adam Smith is another, about whom we also have a film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejJRh...). His claim to greatness lies in his appreciation of ordinary experience, his descriptions of consciousness and his humane, tolerant approach to religious disputes.  If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide):  https://goo.gl/qjLLWt    FURTHER READING  “The 18th-century writer David Hume is one of the world’s great philosophical voices because he hit upon a key fact about human nature: that we are more influenced by our feelings than by reason. This is, at one level, possibly a great insult to our self-image, but Hume thought that if we could learn to deal well with this surprising fact, we could be (both individually and collectively) a great deal calmer and happier than if we denied it...”  You can read more on this and other topics on our blog TheBookofLife.org at this link: https://goo.gl/SuwPBi    MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE  Our website has classes, articles and products to help you think and grow: https://goo.gl/QcBQYY      Watch more films on PHILOSOPHY + CURRICULUM in our playlist:  http://bit.ly/TSOLphilosophy  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS52H_CqZLE
  26. "American Law: History and Origins." Study.com, Youtube. [5:02] December 31, 2013. Visit Study.com for thousands more videos like this one. You'll get full access to our interactive quizzes and transcripts and can find out how to use our videos to earn real college credit. YouTube hosts only the first few lessons in each course. The rest are at Study.com. Take the next step in your educational future and graduate with less debt and in less time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VnssEXV8FI
  27. "Four Notions to Remove | Thich Nhat Hanh (short teaching video)." Plum Village App, Youtube. [19:19] August 4, 2020. In this short teaching video from the Plum Village app https://plumvillage.app/ Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh talks about the four notions that we have to remove, a teaching from the Diamond Sutra.  Excerpt from: A Beginners Mind for a Beautiful Future | Dharma Talk, 2011-10-02 Magnolia Grove (https://youtu.be/g_F_cxM9d5Q)  ~~~ Find more similar short teachings on the FREE Plum Village app https://plumvillage.app/  Enjoy! 🙏 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6PJA33JvhI 
  28. "I Escaped the Trauma of Homelessness — Only To Face Your White Savior Complex." The Damage Report, Youtube. [15:00] February 12, 2022. Lori Yearwood discusses her article written for MotherJones called "I Escaped the Trauma of Homelessness—Only to Face Your White Savior Complex". She breaks it down with John Iadarola on The Damage Report. "This is the true story of what happened when all the trauma was supposed to be over, when I left my “home” on the park bench on the outskirts of Salt Lake City for the last time in 2017. People like to call this transitional period an “emergence,” lending a triumphal note to the narrative—the unhoused person escaping a disturbing chrysalis to become a fuller and better human, new-winged and free." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-DRjxjdrf8
        
 
 
 
 
 

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Articles, Bibliographies, Resources & Websites

 
  1. "Ethics Defined (a glossary)." McCombs School of Business – The University of Texas at Austin, Ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu. Productive discussions have a shared vocabulary. Many scholars contributed to this glossary to provide common ground for enlightened conversation in the realm of ethics and leadership.More than 50 animated two-minute videos define key ethics terms and behavioral ethics concepts. #EducateYourself. https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/glossary
  2. "Ethics." McCombs School of Business – The University of Texas at Austin, Ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu, accessed January 11, 2022. The term ethics often describes the investigation and analysis of moral principles and dilemmas. Traditionally, philosophers and religious scholars have studied ethics. More recently, scholars from various disciplines have entered the field, creating new approaches to the study of ethics such as behavioral ethics and applied ethics. https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/glossary/ethics
  3. "Morals." "Ethics." McCombs School of Business – The University of Texas at Austin, Ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu, accessed January 11, 2022. Morals are the prevailing standards of behavior that enable people to live cooperatively in groups. Moral refers to what societies sanction as right and acceptable. https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/glossary/morals
  4. "Ethics vs. Morals." Diffen.com, accessed January 11, 2022. Ethics and morals relate to “right” and “wrong” conduct. While they are sometimes used interchangeably, they are different: ethics refer to rules provided by an external source, e.g., codes of conduct in workplaces or principles in religions. Morals refer to an individual’s own principles regarding right and wrong. https://www.diffen.com/difference/Ethics_vs_Morals
  5. "What’s the Difference Between Morality and Ethics?" Cydney Grannan, Britannica.com. Generally, the terms ethics and morality are used interchangeably, although a few different communities (academic, legal, or religious, for example) will occasionally make a distinction. In fact, Britannica’s article on ethics considers the terms to be the same as moral philosophy. While understanding that most ethicists (that is, philosophers who study ethics) consider the terms interchangeable, let’s go ahead and dive into these distinctions. Accessed January 11, 2022. ttps://www.britannica.com/story/whats-the-difference-between-morality-and-ethics
  6. “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos. Accessed July 6, 2021. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/32952-if-you-wish-to-make-an-apple-pie-from-scratch
  7. "Robbers Cave Experiment." Theodore, Editor, Practicalpie.com. Did you read Lord of the Flies in middle school or high school? Even if you skimmed over the book, you might remember what it’s about. A group of boys find themselves stranded on a desert island without adult supervision. As they try to establish a society, they turn on each other in desperation, and things get brutal. Accessed December 5, 2021. https://practicalpie.com/robbers-cave-experiment
  8. "Open Education Sociology Dictionary: Thomas theorem." Sociologydictionary.com, accessed September 14, 2021.Definition of Thomas Theorem(noun) The theory that if we define something as real, or believe that something is real, it is real in its consequences. https://sociologydictionary.org/thomas-theorem/
  9. "Grice's Maxims." Sas.upenn.edu, accessed August 3, 2021. https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/dravling/grice.html
  10. "The View From Halfway Down (Poem)." Fandom.com, accessed June 20, 2021. The View From Halfway Down is a symbolic poem read by Secretariat in The View from Halfway Down, in Season 6. https://bojackhorseman.fandom.com/wiki/The_View_From_Halfway_Down_(Poem)
  11. "Wubba Lubba dub-dub." Wubba Lubba Dub-Dub is Rick's catchphrase, which he recurrently uses in the show, mostly in season one. He uses this phrase every time he's happy or makes a joke. It also means “I am in great pain.” Rickandmorty.fandom.com, accessed July 12, 2021. https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Wubba_Lubba_dub-dub
  12. "Deconstructive Criticism." Tatiana Tatum-Fisher, Wp.odi.edu. Deconstructive criticism follows the belief that objects have meaning because that it was it has been defined as through language.  Deconstruction uses the concept of binaries in which one object has been given a sort of privilege, the better appeal i.e. good/bad, love/hate, white/black, and  male/female.  In texts these binaries form the motif, or theme of a story. However the theory of deconstruction focuses on how the language of the text may appeal to one binary, but has signs that it favors the opposite, but not necessarily the privileged binary.  Using this concept theorists judge such texts to have “dismantled” themselves. Accessed August 29, 2021. https://sites.wp.odu.edu/tatum-fisherengl333/theory-1/ 
  13. "Deconstruction." Md Rajibul Hasan, Blogspot.com. Deconstruction is a philosophical movement and theory of literary criticism that questions traditional assumptions about certainty, identity, and truth; asserts that words can only refer to other words; and attempts to demonstrate how statements about any text subvert their own meanings: "In deconstruction, the critic claims there is no meaning to be found in the actual text, but only in the various, often mutually irreconcilable, 'virtual texts' constructed by readers in their search for meaning" (Rebecca Goldstein). April 12, 2010. https://allrfree.blogspot.com/2010/04/deconstruction.html
  14. "Deconstruction." Nasrullah Mambrol, Literariness.org. Deconstruction involves the close reading of texts in order to demonstrate that any given text has irreconcilably contradictory meanings, rather than being a unified, logical whole. As J. Hillis Miller, the preeminent American deconstructionist, has explained in an essay entitled Stevens’ Rock and Criticism as Cure (1976), “Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text, but a demonstration that it has already dismantled itself. Its apparently solid ground is no rock but thin air.” March 22, 2016. https://literariness.org/2016/03/22/deconstruction/
  15. "How to Deconstruct a Text." Editors-Authors, Wikihow.com. Deconstruction aims to disturb in order to discover. By deconstructing a text, you learn to read beyond a text's straightforward content and uncover new meanings and truths. Deconstruction has intellectual and political implications. Deconstructing a text is a common assignment given to students of literature, literary theory, film, communications, or postmodernist thought.Whenever deconstruction finds a nutshell—a secure axiom or a pithy maxim—the very idea is to crack it open and disturb this tranquility - John D Caputo. Last updated December 20, 2020. https://www.wikihow.com/Deconstruct-a-Text#References
  16. "How to Deconstruct a Text." Scott Neuffer, Penandthepad.com. Deconstruction is a philosophical movement spearheaded by French thinker Jacques Derrida and other critics during the 1960s. As a literary theory, it focuses on exposing cultural biases in all texts, whether a passage in a popular book or the flashing script of a television ad. Readers engaged in deconstruction analyze words and sentences to identify inherent biases and call into question commonplace interpretations of the text. While this may sound presumptuous or cynical on the front end, deconstruction isn’t about destroying meaning. Rather, it’s about undermining ingrained assumptions to view things in a new light.Oppose Prevailing WisdomThe first thing you’ll have to do is question the common meaning or prevailing theories of the text you're deconstructing. When deconstructing, you need to start from a place of critical opposition. The only assumption you can make is that the meaning of the text is unstable and what others have told you about it is based on their own assumptions. In other words, you need to be skeptical from the onset. If you’re deconstructing Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 18, which famously begins, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day,” you can’t assume the poet is talking about a woman or that a woman is inherently an apt object for summery figurative language. What if the speaker of the poem is gay or is being sarcastic about an ex-lover? Unhinge yourself from traditional interpretations and dig into the specifics of the text. Like a scientist on the fringe of discovery, look for evidence to support alternative views.Expose Cultural BiasPractitioners of the deconstructive method refer to cultural biases in texts in a number of lofty ways, calling them "binaries" and "hierarchical oppositions." To understand these interchangeable terms, remember that certain words and the concepts they represent are often privileged, or emphasized more, than their oppposite words and concepts -- rich over poor, male over female, enlightened over ignorant. For instance, if a poet personifies everything in nature -- the sun, the moon, the sea -- as being male, you might conclude that the text has a male bias. If a novelist portrays white European culture as “learned” and “sophisticated” in contrast to other cultures of the world, you might suspect a Western, Euro-centric bias in the text. It’s your job to root out these biases.Analyze Sentence StructureOne way to investigate underlying meaning of a text is to analyze sentence structure, specifically the arrangement of subject and object. Ask yourself if a person or thing represented as an object in the text makes it subordinate to the subject in some way. For instance, if a novel's male protagonist is always the initiator of action rather than the recipient -- “He took her to the store; he bought her earrings; he found some food she would like” -- the recurrent sentence structure may reinforce the protagonist’s power over the dependent character. Look for these patterns and determine if the points of view of other characters are limited to favor cultural bias.Play With Possible MeaningsAfter you’ve analyzed the text for biases, see if your discoveries support a new interpretation. While many associate deconstruction with destruction of meaning, the opposite is true. According to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, by assessing the biases of a given text -- the social and historical conventions that helped produce it -- you’ve opened up the words and sentences to an infinite amount of possible, if partial, readings. Returning to Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 18, the last couplet reads: “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” While many have interpreted these lines to convey the eternal power of poetry, the deconstructive reader might find more irony: In his overbearing wish to immortalize his beloved, the poet has betrayed not only the futility of love poetry but the entire chivalric tradition that values youth and beauty over maturity and wisdom. Accessed August 29, 2021. https://penandthepad.com/deconstruct-text-2122472.html
  17. "Ladder of Escape." Alma Royale, Wordpress.com. 'For the absurd man it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.' Albert Camus.August 13, 2015. https://ladderofescape.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/lucid-indifference/
  18. "Oxford Reference: Thomas Theorem." Oxfordreference.com, accessed September 14, 2021. A concept formulated by the American sociologist William Isaac Thomas (1863–1967) that ‘“*facts” do not have a uniform existence apart from the persons who observe and interpret them. Rather, the “real” facts are the ways in which different people come into and define situations’. Famously, as he and his research assistant and wife Dorothy Swaine Thomas (1899–1977) put it in 1928, ‘If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences’. Such a ‘subjective’ definition of the situation by a social actor, group, or subculture is what Merton came to call a self-fulfilling prophecy (as in cases of ‘mind over matter’). It is at the heart of symbolic interactionism. See also constructionism; frame of reference; framing; perspectivism. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803104247382
  19. "Oxford Reference: Self-fulfilling prophecy." Oxfordreference.com. A concept introduced into sociology by Robert Merton (see his Social Theory and Social Structure, 1957), and allied to William Isaac Thomas's earlier and famous theorem that ‘when people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences’. Merton suggests the self-fulfilling prophecy is an important and basic process in society, arguing that ‘in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evokes a new behaviour which makes the originally false conception come true. [It] perpetuates a reign of error’. See also self-destroying prophecy; unintended or unanticipated consequences. Accessed September 14, 2021. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100453294
  20. "I Escaped the Trauma of Homelessness—Only to Face Your White Savior Complex: But I am determined to become something other than your project." Lori Teresa Yearwood, Motherjones.com. January + February 2022. This is the true story of what happened when all the trauma was supposed to be over, when I left my “home” on the park bench on the outskirts of Salt Lake City for the last time in 2017. People like to call this transitional period an “emergence,” lending a triumphal note to the narrative—the unhoused person escaping a disturbing chrysalis to become a fuller and better human, new-winged and free.  But that’s not my story. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/01/homeless-escape-white-savior-complex-deserving-poor-reagan-gift/ 


 





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