I’m studying ecolinguistics at the moment and feel that it is genuinely improving my mind. If anyone is interested I recommend reading the work of Dr Arran Stibbe, “Ecolingustics: Langauge, Ecology and the Stories We Live By”.

Humanitarian aid should be given out like medicine. In times of such dire need, you don’t ask questions about who the recipient is.

An entertainment correspondent who only covers how the industry has been co-opted in service of neoliberal economics.

Will maybe not watch Adolescence. Don’t wanna train brain to recognise serious social issues as entertainment. Also is it really the panacea to social ills folk want it to be? Post office fictional show was great but workers are still waiting for money etc

Not sure yet but may not watch Adolescence. Am a’feared of training the greedy dopamine brain receptors in my brain to receive serious social issues as entertainment. It can’t be good. The post office scandal fiction was a good show but…

I’m studying ecolinguistics at the moment and feel that it is genuinely improving my mind. If anyone is interested I recommend reading the work of Dr Arran Stibbe, “Ecolingustics: Langauge, Ecology and the Stories We Live By”.

Alternatively the lack of a word can impact too. In Irish we don’t have a word for “to own”. The equivalent phrase to “I own it” is “is liomsa e” which translates directly as “It is with me”. A more transitory relationship with stuff is implied which is a challenge to consumerist mindset.

Language forces our attention in certain directions. By having more words for natural phenomena eg Eskimo’s have 50 words for snow, it forces one to pay attention to the differences between types of snow. That is attention that could have gone elsewhere to less ecological nouns eg types of products

Language can be structured in a way that hinders us from thinking ecologically. Ecolinguistics has the goal of mapping how this happens and offering new framings/metaphors that can rewire our brains to make us see nature better. I’ll give an example…

Very taken with the work of ecolinguists. I think it’s ground zero for undoing the malaise of climate ambivalence.

His appetite for play is substantial

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I asked chatgpt to do ecolinguistic analysis on the irish proclamation and it was mostly good but accused the Irish rebels of “othering” the British