"As an activist on the left, I long assumed that my role consisted entirely of raising awareness, sounding alarms, and deploying arguments. It took me years to realize that I needed to help build and defend spaces in which listening could happen, too."
— Astra Taylor, "Right to Listen" in Remake the World (Haymarket Books, 2021) p163.
#listening #architecture #democracy
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1635-remake-the-world