Oppression’s present conditions themselves point toward the way forward

Evidence

This is revolutionary thinking. It is an approach to activism and movement politics that points to everything that is wrong with our circumstances and says, Thank you for showing us the way forward! As Attention Activists, we embrace the full potential of the present, which unspools new worlds as we learn to turn it on its axis. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 278

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Oppression must be perceived as a transformable limiting situation, not a closed world. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 116; Identifying the causal chains of one’s oppression is itself freeing. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 506; Cognitive reappraisal of oppression rather than structural change is ethically problematic and demobilizing — Johanna Ray Vollhardt and Michelle Sinayobye Twali, Emotion-Based Reconciliation Requires…, 22 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Oppression must be perceived as a transformable limiting situation, not a closed world. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 116; Identifying the causal chains of one’s oppression is itself freeing. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 506; Cognitive reappraisal of oppression rather than structural change is ethically problematic and demobilizing — Johanna Ray Vollhardt and Michelle Sinayobye Twali, Emotion-Based Reconciliation Requires…, 22 (+1 more)