{"id":16036,"date":"2023-12-26T09:28:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T09:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/a-babel-of-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2023-12-26T09:28:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T09:28:43","slug":"a-babel-of-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/a-babel-of-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"A Babel of Thoughts: Creon, Antigone and Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-16033\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/e71e92d69d56115b8627b999db376ec6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In each new outbreak of conflict in the world, there are different sets of structures of feeling at work, that is to say ways of thinking about issues whereby one\u2019s hopes and fears and likes and animosities colour one\u2019s thoughts. They draw on experience and on imaginings, sometimes productively, sometimes counter-productively\u00a0\u2013 even frighteningly so, in other people\u2019s opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Beow is attached a downloadable pdf with my essay and new poem, \u201cA Babel of Thoughts\u201d. It is an attempt at getting inside the heads and hearts of a variety of people\u2019s structures of feeling, as revealed in testimonies spoken on TV or written in the press, or given directly to me, or gleaned from forays into the pages of literature, all in the context of the appalling Israel\/Gaza catastrophe. This is, I know, no substitute for political analysis. It is, rather, a complement to such an analysis, justifying \u2013 and being justified by \u2013 the point made in this website\u2019s title, <strong>Culture Matters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CREON_ANTIGONE__MANDELA.pdf\" alt=\"CREON, ANTIGONE &#038; MANDELA.pdf\">CREON, ANTIGONE &#038; MANDELA.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In each new outbreak of conflict in the world, there are different sets of structures of feeling at work, that is to say ways of thinking about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":16033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}