"An #UnjustLaw is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a #minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is #difference made #legal. By the same token, a #JustLaw is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is #sameness made legal." #MartinLutherKing Jr., Letter from #BirminghamJail, April 16, 1963. Image from interior of the Cannon Congressional Office Building, Washington, DC. #MLKDay

Sameness, Serpentine

Sameness turning
from friend into serpent
spreading itself across days:
Ouroboros
of months locked into circles
rivers eating rocks, canyons swallowing rivers, rocks filling canyons
into a flat surface of
interchangeable memory, seamless
new features sanded down by the same winds of their recent creation
slipping by, snaking
past all perception

~
(October 2021)

#poetry #writing #sameness #ouroboros

Sameness, Serpentine

Sameness turning
from friend into serpent
spreading itself across days:
Ouroboros
of months locked into circles
rivers eating rocks, canyons swallowing rivers, rocks filling canyons
into a flat surface of
interchangeable memory, seamless
new features sanded down by the same winds of their recent creation
slipping by, snaking
past all perception

~
(October 2021)

#poetry #writing #sameness #ouroboros

“The Concept of Equivalence in the Age of #Translation #Technology”
If recent theoretical developments in #translationstudies have gradually moved away from the concept of #equivalence, the ideas of #alignment, #parity and #sameness which underlie all #contemporary translation technology seem to go against the grain of these theoretical evolutions.

https://medium.com/@elton.uliana.17/the-concept-of-equivalence-in-the-age-of-translation-technology-310b39e13bc4