Tell me something Susan Taubes said. Read me some Taubes.
If there is something to be healed, the brokenness is within the world. To ask for the eradication of brokenness as such is to wish the annihilation of the world. To heal the broken relations within the world, requires first that we acknowledge the reality of these relations (instead of fleeing into the imaginary) + then drawing from the tree of life, science, art, wisdom, cultivate + transform them. The powers of creation, of life are also the powers of destruction: every transformation passes through chaos.
That’s weapons grade Taubes. She’s, like, the heart of fucking darkness. Susan Taubes looked so cool. So chic. All intelligence and melancholy and attitude. And she was an émigré – a Mitteleuropean Jew. Whose family had gone through unbelievable suffering. And she killed herself. Fuck. The queen of cool.
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