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People who believe in conversion believe in intractable certainties; and with this comes the assumption that only certainties are dependable. People are only ever converted to something they believe they can depend on. Winnicott’s striking formulation at least allows us to wonder how dependence and uncertainty can go together: clearly, our dependence on uncertainty – our dependence on our scepticism – is going to be quite different to our dependence on what we take to be guaranteed (God, nature, the leader, the ideology, psychoanalysis, the mother, and so on).
On Wanting to Change
Adam Phillips
Expanding the
sites and constituencies in which we think with care contributes new modes
of attention and problematics. So rather than give up on care because it
is enlisted in purposes we might deplore, we need to have its meanings
debated, unpacked, and reenacted in an implicated way that responds to
this present.
Matters of Care
María Puig de la Bellacasa
Don’t ever forget these things: The nature of the world. My nature. How I relate to the world. What proportion of it I make up. That you are part of nature, and no one can prevent you from speaking and acting in harmony with it, always.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
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