Module Four: Answering
“To learn again, you really have to listen.”
-Robin Wall Kimmerer
“Perhaps, then, opacity might be an attendant term, one that hastens us to be humble in the pursuits of knowledge, to keep relation and reading open and to infuse our imaginaries with the unknown—not to domesticate or know, but to keep learning.”
“And Peter answered, ‘The Christ of God.’”
Module Four: Answering
In preparation for this week's material, please read, “Learning the Grammar of Animacy,” in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass. In addition, consider the following:
Talk by Robin Wall Kimmerer “Learning the Grammar of Animacy: subject and object” hosted by the Minneapolis Institute of Art
“Curious Entanglements” by Christina León
Interview with Christina León on the “Choose to be Curious” Podcast
What animates your answering?
What slows your answering?
How can resisting knowledge help you enter more deeply into what it means to answer?