Teju Cole — Sitting Together in the Dark

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Writer and photographer Teju Cole says he is “intrigued by the continuity of places, by the singing line that connects them all.” He attends to the border, overlap and interplay of things — from Brahms and Baldwin to daily technologies like Google. To delve into his mind and his multiple arts is to meet this world with creative raw materials for enduring truth and quiet hope. Teju Cole is a photography critic for The New York Times and the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard. His books are Blind Spot, a book of photography and writing; a collection of essays, Known and Strange Things; and two novels: Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

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0:00.0	You may have noticed that in our credits and on the new on being website,
0:04.0	we are acknowledging the land on which we work and live.
0:07.8	About 12 miles away from our studio in Minneapolis,
0:11.3	the Minnesota River joins the Mississippi River at a place called
0:15.0	Badote in the Dakota language.
0:17.7	One translation of Badote is where two waters come together.
0:22.1	The Badote where the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers concur
0:25.6	is in a specially sacred site, the center of the world to the Dakota people.
0:30.8	Badote carries a complicated and layered history.
0:34.4	In the many hundreds of years that the Dakota people have been on this land
0:38.4	and in the several hundred years since European settlers colonized it
0:42.2	and made it the state of Minnesota.
0:44.5	The on being project pays tribute to Dakota people
0:47.9	as well as all of the other Native American tribes who now call Minnesota home.
0:53.2	We invite you to consider the land on which you live
0:56.0	and the confluence of legacies that bring you to stand where you are.
1:00.3	To learn more about our ongoing process at on being
1:03.6	of critical reflection and conversation about this,
1:06.6	you can visit onbeing.org slash land acknowledgement.
1:12.0	Support for on being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute,
1:15.6	helping build the spiritual foundation for a loving world.
1:19.0	Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love
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