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How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
At some point, Grisman implied that in the music he envisioned, the role I would eventually end up filling would be that of the keyboard player. He explained how the guitar was the only instrument that could lend a chord voice to the music in the same way that an acoustic piano is the chord voice of a modern jazz ensemble. To this day, even as I grow as a guitar player, that's what I'm after. I get cues from keyboard players of how they back up solos. That's the way I use the guitar. That growth process, for me, will never stop.
Still Inside
Tim Stafford
The affirmation of dignity is equally important: There’s a difference between inclusion and pity. The sinners damned to eternal torment in Dante’s Inferno thank the narrator for his pity. He swoons at their agony, but his intensity of feeling does nothing to change their position, which is structurally inferior. They are trapped in hell and he can leave for heaven. A demand for inclusion, on the other hand, is a claim to joint-ownership on the basis of equal dignity: I am just as worthy of heaven as you.
How to Build a Society for All to Enjoy - Issue 107
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