1 hr 23 min
Mirene Arsanios and Celina Su: What kind of language are we left with? Invitation to the Species
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- Society & Culture
The conversation you’re about to hear, “What kind of language are we left with” was held between Mirene Arsanios and Celina Su, and recorded in February 2021.
With Mirene and Celina, both “motherless mothers without mother tongues,” we discuss the lineages of their languages, liminal subjectivities and the impossibility of “we” in light of differentially distributed access to resources. Together we consider how our social relations are being rewritten and disrupted in a time of ongoing crisis and disaster. We talk about alternative economies, how zoom killed the classroom. We contend with loneliness and the limits of the nuclear family, and what it means to be part of an amorphous, and constantly changing collective.
Following our conversation, you’ll also hear readings by Mirene and Celina from their own work. From Mirene you’ll hear an excerpt from Notes on Mother Tongues, published with Ugly Duckling Presse in 2020, and “A Collage in Progress” by Celina, also published in 2020, and which can be found in full at thepoetryfoundation.org.
The conversation you’re about to hear, “What kind of language are we left with” was held between Mirene Arsanios and Celina Su, and recorded in February 2021.
With Mirene and Celina, both “motherless mothers without mother tongues,” we discuss the lineages of their languages, liminal subjectivities and the impossibility of “we” in light of differentially distributed access to resources. Together we consider how our social relations are being rewritten and disrupted in a time of ongoing crisis and disaster. We talk about alternative economies, how zoom killed the classroom. We contend with loneliness and the limits of the nuclear family, and what it means to be part of an amorphous, and constantly changing collective.
Following our conversation, you’ll also hear readings by Mirene and Celina from their own work. From Mirene you’ll hear an excerpt from Notes on Mother Tongues, published with Ugly Duckling Presse in 2020, and “A Collage in Progress” by Celina, also published in 2020, and which can be found in full at thepoetryfoundation.org.
1 hr 23 min