Ella Song

on the atlas — 6

• Curius / Onboarding2621 savers
• writing is an inherently dignified human activity1 savers
• Diagnosis as Self-Understanding & Self-Alienation2 savers
• Food consumption, habitus and the embodiment of social change: Making class and doing gender in urban Vietnam - Judith Ehlert, 20211 savers
• Exclusive: Inside Trump’s First 100 days | TIME1 savers
• Burhan Sönmez Asks the Question "Who Owns a Book?" - PEN America1 savers

highlights — 6

• 70 years worth of data.

  Curius / Onboarding

• When the term was coined in twentieth-century social theory, it was, Hanson suggests, “a genuine advance in modern human self-understanding.” It helped people become conscious of how they could, through their behaviors, construct new selfs and new societies. But the colloquial use of performativity “doesn’t describe our freedom to remake our shared life, it reveals our falseness and our shame.”

  writing is an inherently dignified human activity

• Scientific research so far suggests that most psychiatric symptoms are continuous and dimensional in nature. There is no natural point at which everyday misery ends and clinical symptoms begin. The boundaries we draw are pragmatic, based on considerations of distress, impairment, maladaptivity, and harm.

  Diagnosis as Self-Understanding & Self-Alienation

• The historically ingrained gender habitus means women perform femininity through self-improvement and care for others (West & Zimmerman, 1987). Given the growing food options, body services and the corresponding diversification of the food and body industries, navigating these new food and health systems while setting them in relation to culturally sedimented norms becomes increasingly complex and contradictory – and it is women manoeuvring these complexities and contradictions on a daily basis. I have shown how body work experts reproduce gender norms. At the same time, there were subtle aven…

  Food consumption, habitus and the embodiment of social change: Making class and doing gender in urban Vietnam - Judith Ehlert, 2021

• Toward the end of the interview, TIME asks Trump whether he agrees with John Adams, a founder whose portrait he has framed in gold on his wall, who said the American republic was “a government of laws, not of men.” The President pauses to think it through. “I wouldn’t agree with it 100%,” he says. “We are a government where men are involved in the process of law, and ideally, you’re going to have honest men like me.”

  Exclusive: Inside Trump’s First 100 days | TIME

• Do they really need to hear our advice? Real advice is the life we ​​make and the practices we develop. Do it yourself and let people see and decide.

  Burhan Sönmez Asks the Question "Who Owns a Book?" - PEN America