Epistemicide Part 3: Who Got Erased And How to Recover What Was Lost
What happens when stories, songs, and structures are rewritten or erased altogether? In this final part of our Epistemicide series, we trace the loss of knowledge across the arts, architecture, music, literature, and language. But this isn’t just about mourning the erased. It’s about recovering what was lost, resisting with curiosity, and building a culture of memory and imagination. From banned books to folk art to fast food buildings, nothing is too niche, too “lowbrow.” And it's never too late to learn or to remember.
What the Eff is a Philomath... Everything we Should Be
A timeless archetype — the Philomath. But who is a Philomath, and why should we aspire to embody this spirit of perpetual learning? Derived from the Greek words "philos" (loving) and "mathēma" (learning), a Philomath is not merely a seeker of knowledge but a lover of wisdom in all its forms. They explore the interconnectedness of ideas across disciplines, seeing learning as a lifelong adventure.
A Philomath doesn't need permission to learn and neither do we! Through the love of learning we can learn to navigate our fast-changing world with creativity, resilience, and a deeper understanding of ourselves and everything around us.
We’re taught to believe knowledge builds upward, layer by layer, always advancing to a pinnacle. Could this towering cathedral of “universal” knowledge have been built on the ruins of erased worlds? In this first post of our four-part Epistemicide series, we dig into the deliberate destruction of diverse knowledge systems, from Mayan codices to women’s oral histories, and we ask: Who gets to be a knower? And who gets forgotten? Why and what can we do?
Epistemicide Part 3: Who Got Erased And How to Recover What Was Lost
What happens when stories, songs, and structures are rewritten or erased altogether? In this final part of our Epistemicide series, we trace the loss of knowledge across the arts, architecture, music, literature, and language. But this isn’t just about mourning the erased. It’s about recovering what was lost, resisting with curiosity, and building a culture of memory and imagination. From banned books to folk art to fast food buildings, nothing is too niche, too “lowbrow.” And it's never too late to learn or to remember.
We’re taught to believe knowledge builds upward, layer by layer, always advancing to a pinnacle. Could this towering cathedral of “universal” knowledge have been built on the ruins of erased worlds? In this first post of our four-part Epistemicide series, we dig into the deliberate destruction of diverse knowledge systems, from Mayan codices to women’s oral histories, and we ask: Who gets to be a knower? And who gets forgotten? Why and what can we do?
What the Eff is a Philomath... Everything we Should Be
A timeless archetype — the Philomath. But who is a Philomath, and why should we aspire to embody this spirit of perpetual learning? Derived from the Greek words "philos" (loving) and "mathēma" (learning), a Philomath is not merely a seeker of knowledge but a lover of wisdom in all its forms. They explore the interconnectedness of ideas across disciplines, seeing learning as a lifelong adventure.
A Philomath doesn't need permission to learn and neither do we! Through the love of learning we can learn to navigate our fast-changing world with creativity, resilience, and a deeper understanding of ourselves and everything around us.
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