ripped from context

  • a theme arising in multiple places
  • the violence of denying people their full context
  • eg in huge topics like slavery, forced departure and asylum seeking, in invasion and colonialism and residential schools and forced adoptions and assimilation and stolen museum artifacts
  • even in more ambiguous or less huge ways like bad journalism or cultural appropriation and misquoting and data mismanagement and misinformation
  • and makes me wonder about image and sound and remix and reuse, when should things not be recirculated in partial form, when is it disrespectful to use ‘found’ things