It's a metaphor the author builds on from this point on. I believe Hamilton the Musical would have used The Room where it Happened, though this has more of a "buzz" of potential energy vs...
White accounts of emancipation are often fundamentally twisted, skewed by rank sentimentalism, rendering slaveholders and the enslaved as something closer to coworkers. But to say only that leaves us in a negative space. The people in those rooms were people, individuals. The rooms themselves were electric, full of possibility. Even if that possibility was to be crushed by something—the weight of history or narrative itself—does not mean that we should walk right past them, empower chronology so completely that we erase the might-have-beens and the sometimes-weres. Dominant narratives can erase pockets of resistance. And the capacity of a single policy shift to turn a master into a strange neighbor cannot be overstated, unless we are the ones overstating, for our own reasons. Which is why I want us to linger in these electric rooms, to think about their possibility.
It's a metaphor the author builds on from this point on. I believe Hamilton the Musical would have used The Room where it Happened, though this has more of a "buzz" of potential energy vs accomplishment
I agree, great article. The author did clarify that "electric room" meant, but I don't think its a known reference. Here is the quote from the article where he explains it in some fashion:...
I agree, great article. The author did clarify that "electric room" meant, but I don't think its a known reference.
Here is the quote from the article where he explains it in some fashion:
"Homer’s work is an electric room, a space charged with how little we can say with confidence about what is happening without resorting to our overdetermined understandings, our fatalistic readings. We can only know what might have been in this room at the broadest of strokes, the most general level."
Interesting article. I found the title and use of “electric room” mysterious. Is it a reference to something?
It's a metaphor the author builds on from this point on. I believe Hamilton the Musical would have used The Room where it Happened, though this has more of a "buzz" of potential energy vs accomplishment
I agree, great article. The author did clarify that "electric room" meant, but I don't think its a known reference.
Here is the quote from the article where he explains it in some fashion:
"Homer’s work is an electric room, a space charged with how little we can say with confidence about what is happening without resorting to our overdetermined understandings, our fatalistic readings. We can only know what might have been in this room at the broadest of strokes, the most general level."