Canan “Ja’anan” Marasligil

32 - may our life be vibrations

Canan “Ja’anan” Marasligil
32 - may our life be vibrations

Issue thirty-two of The Attention Span Newsletter was published on 11 December 2024

Every month, I take the time to reflect and offer a glimpse of how I see and feel the world through the lens of culture, art, translation, poetry and literature.

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Writer, Literary Translator, Artist based in Amsterdam.

Canan (she/they) publishes a newsletter and podcast titled The Attention Span, taking the time to reflect, to analyse and to imagine our societies through writing, art and culture.

Canan “Ja’anan” Marasligil

31 - all the seconds towards love

What a world have we been building, since I sent the last issue of this newsletter last summer. It was issue 30, on Humility and Imagination. I feel none of these two words are part of our mainstream discourses, and it worries me. So here I am. Trying to do my part, attempting to contribute to a narrative of connection and most importantly, trying not to get distracted by voices carrying nothing else but void —from news headlines, algorithms to incompetent politicians.

I promised I would return with new thoughts, reflections, spaces for imagination…

READ ON

Canan “Ja’anan” Marasligil
31 - all the seconds towards love