Paratext Podcast

Heike Renée de Wit

This is the Paratext Podcast. My name is Heike Renée de Wit, I am a graphic designer and research master student in Gender Studies, from the Netherlands. In this audio space I want to explore the life and relations that surround textual objects, through reading, listening, investigating and speaking with and alongside writings that I enjoy and am meaningfully confused by. For other projects, feedback or further conversation, you can find me on instagram @heikerenee.

Season 1

  1. EPISODE 3

    Breath and Ae-qui-vocation

    The Paratext podcast investigates worlds with/in words. In these first three episodes I read to you notes I wrote during a course we put together in my Gender Studies master's programme in May-June of 2022, on the concepts of becoming and relationality and their indebtedness to Indigenous knowledges. For other projects, feedback or further conversation, you can find me on instagram www.instagram.com/heikerenee/. Notes [1] I would suggest that presently there is not a definite finitude to the Dutch colonisation, as it works through us in many ways known and yet unknown. Also the Netherlands is still in dubious asymmetrical interdependency with Aruba, Sint-Marten, Bonaire and Curaçao. For a rich resource of discussions and perspectives pertaining the Dutch colonial histories, see for example The Black Archives: https://www.theblackarchives.nl/. References Todd, Zoe. 2016. “An Indigenous Feminist’s Take on the Ontological Turn: ‘Ontology’ is Just Another Word for Colonialism.” Journal of Historical Sociology Vol. 29 No. 1 (March): 4–22. De la Candena, Marisol. 2015. “Mariano's Cosmopolitics: Between Lawyers and Ausangate” in Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds. Durham: Duke University Press, 91-116. Kimmerer, Robin. “Speaking of Nature: Finding language that affirms our kinship with the natural world.” Orion June 12, 2017. https://orionmagazine.org/article/speaking-of-nature/# [Accessed 21 June, 2022]. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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About

This is the Paratext Podcast. My name is Heike Renée de Wit, I am a graphic designer and research master student in Gender Studies, from the Netherlands. In this audio space I want to explore the life and relations that surround textual objects, through reading, listening, investigating and speaking with and alongside writings that I enjoy and am meaningfully confused by. For other projects, feedback or further conversation, you can find me on instagram @heikerenee.