[오늘의 한문장] 흰 : The Elegy of Whiteness

그렇게 날카로운 시간의 모서리—시시각각 갱신되는 투명한 벼랑의 가장자리에서 우리는 앞으로 나아간다. 살아온 만큼의 시간 끝에 아슬아슬하게 한 발을 디디고, 의지가 개입할 겨를 없이, 서슴없이 남은 한 발을 허공으로 내딛는다. 특별히 우리가 용감해서가 아니라 그것밖엔 방법이 없기 때문에. 지금 이 순간도 그 위태로움을 나는 느낀다. 아직 살아보지 않은 시간 속으로, 쓰지 않은 책 속으로 무모하게 걸어들어간다.

-알라딘 eBook <흰 : The Elegy of Whiteness> (한강 지음) 중에서 - P9

The best way to resist a mono...

The best way to resist a monolithic institution or corporation is not with a monolithic movement but with multiplicity itself.(Ch.18) - P99

The answer to most either/or questions is both; the best response to a paradox is to embrace both sides instead of cutting off one or the other for the sake of coherence. - P96

It can be the small in opposition to the big: Arundhati Roy writes of "the dismantling of the Big—big bombs, big dams, big ideologies, big contradictions, big heroes, big mistakes. Perhaps it will be the Century of the Small."(Ch.18) - P99

So this other globalization, the globalization of communication and of ideas, can be the antithesis of the homogenization and consolidation brought by the spread of chains and brands and corporations. - P99

Decentralization and direct democracy could, in one definition, be this politic in which people are producers, possessed of power and vision, in an unfinished world. - P100

Thus, remembering the past became the grounds to make change in the present.
Thus, culture becomes politics.
In the end, the day did not commemorate the start of an era but marked in some subtle way the beginning of its end.(Ch.19) - P101

Spain had planted the idea of the quincentennial of Columbus’s arrival, but indigenous-rights activists would reshape it into an antithesis of Spain’s agenda. - P102

Columbus Day became an occasion to rethink the past, and rethinking the past opened the way to a different future. - P102

The quincentennial became an opportunity to restate what Columbus’s arrival had meant—invasion, colonialism, genocide—and what it had been met with—"Five hundred years of resistance" was the catch-phrase. - P103

From being a dying race, the indigenous peoples of the Americas have become a growing force. - P105

On April 1, 1999, the Inuit got their homeland
back. They won from the Canadian government their own autono- mously governed province, Nunavut, a huge tract of far northeastern land three times the size of Texas, ten times the size of Britain, a fifth of all Canada. - P105

This resurgence also demonstrates the sidelong ways of change: from an argument in Geneva to a land mass in northern Canada, from a critique of the past to a new path into the future, from ideas and words to land and power. This is how history is made, out of such unlikely materials, and of hope.(Ch.19) - P106

This won’t yield any rapid results, but like polar ice, the old alignments are falling apart, and this time the breakup is liberatory, a birth into the utter unknown of a brave new world. - P108

"The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think,"
said Virginia Woolf in the midst of the First World War, a war in which millions of young men died horribly.
They died, but not everything did.
Woolf committed suicide during the next war, but before that she created a body of work of extraordinary beauty and power, power put to use by women to liberate themselves in the years after Woolf was gone, beauty still setting minds on fire. - P108

Someday all this may be ruins over which pelicans will fly, but for now it is a place where history is still unfolding. Today is also the day of creation. - P114

결국 경청하는 인간은 시간을 관통하여 듣고 말합니다....

결국 경청하는 인간은 시간을 관통하여 듣고 말합니다. 이에 비해 인공지능 챗봇은 분절된 시간 중 자기 몫의 자리에 텍스트를 채워 넣습니다. 어떤 면에서 면대면 대화는 함께 시간을 촘촘히 엮는 일이고 인간과 인공지능 챗봇과의 대화는 분절된 세계를 배치하는 일인지도 모르겠습니다. - <인공지능은나의읽기쓰기를어떻게바꿀까>, 김성우 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/b619a4c1825e4174 - P138

철학자 비트겐슈타인이 단어의 의미를 사전적 정의로 생각하던 통념을 깨고 "단어의 의미는 그 사용이다"라고 말했을 때 언어에 대한 우리의 이해가 일대 전환을 맞았던 것처럼 말이죠. - <인공지능은나의읽기쓰기를어떻게바꿀까>, 김성우 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/b619a4c1825e4174 - P142

거대언어모델은 과거의 데이터에 기반하여 언어를 기가 막히게 배열하는 이해를, 인간은 과거의 데이터가 보여 주는 압도적 경향성에도 불구하고 가능한 언어를 새롭게 주조하는 이해를 보여 주는 것입니다. - <인공지능은나의읽기쓰기를어떻게바꿀까>, 김성우 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/b619a4c1825e4174 - P142

[오늘의 한문장] 흰 : The Elegy of Whiteness

시간의 감각이 날카로울 때가 있다. 몸이 아플 때 특히 그렇다. 열네 살 무렵 시작된 편두통은 예고 없이 위경련과 함께 찾아와 일상을 정지시킨다. 해오던 일을 모두 멈추고 통증을 견디는 동안, 한 방울씩 떨어져내리는 시간은 면도날을 뭉쳐 만든 구슬들 같다. 손끝이 스치면 피가 흐를 것 같다. 숨을 들이쉬며 한순간씩 더 살아내고 있다는 사실이 또렷하게 느껴진다. 일상으로 돌아온 뒤까지도 그 감각은 여전히 그 자리에 숨죽여 서서 나를 기다린다.

-알라딘 eBook <흰 : The Elegy of Whiteness> (한강 지음) 중에서 - P9

That arrival of the millenniu...

That arrival of the millennium I tried to delineate could be told another way, as the departure of the binaries and oppositions by which we used to imagine the world. - P83

The end of the Soviet Bloc meant that capitalism and communism no longer defined a world of difference or a political standoff that had long been described as east versus west. - P83

The Zapatistas came along five years later with a politic that was neither capitalist nor communist, but implicitly positioned them together as means of displacing power from the individual, the community, the local. - P83

Gender, once imagined as a pair of definitive opposites, has been reimagined as a spectrum of anatomies, affinities, and attractions. - P83

Another binary that has become outdated is right and left. - P83

The term "leftist" carries with it a baggage of socialism, utopianism, and sometimes authoritarianism that no longer delimits (and never quite did) what radicals and revolutionaries might be. - P84

As the Republicans move from what might be conventionally thought of as right-wing to something a little more totalitarian, as the New Labour administration finds a low point in the middle for what used to be the party of the left, there are dissenters on both sides. - P84

there are far more than two political positions, and the old terminology only blinds us. - P84

Of course, all activism nowadays is indebted to the other versions of what the sixties was, from the highly visible civil rights movement to the many grassroots activists who are still active. - P85

What gets called the left has often had as its principal hallmark being right, a sectarian righteousness that is also dissipating to make room for some spectacular new tactics, movements, and coalitions. - P85

The purple WRANGLER t-shirts for sale behind the bar spelled out the acronym—Western Ranchers Against No Good Leftist Environmentalist Radical Shitheads. - P86

The wise-use and private property–rights movements, like the militias, have done a much better job of reaching out to rural communities than progressives and environmentalists have. - P86

"The way you win people over to your side is try to present the information from some perspective they’re familiar with." - P89

But what makes him remarkable is this making of connections not just between issues but between sides. - P90

The question, then, is not so much how to create the world as how to keep alive that moment of creation, how to realize that Coyote world in which creation never ends and people participate in the power of being creators, a world whose hopefulness lies in its unfinishedness, its openness to improvisation and participation. The revolutionary days I have been outlining are days in which hope is no longer fixed on the future: it becomes an electrifying force in the present.(Ch.17) - P95