How can I participate?
The Rhizome of Babel functions as a compendium of audio responses to the following prompt: “Tell us a story about the first time you realized that your mother tongue could communicate something that other languages could not.”
Participants are invited to respond to the prompt in their mother tongues as a way of contributing to a living archive of these languages. The aim here, however, is to keep these languages alive by continuing to breathe life into them and recognizing that which makes them unique and by virtue of which we can experience and understand language differently.
Re-assembled in the digital environment, each response contributes to an evolving story characterized by polyvocality – a form of pluralism of expression that in its disordered nature remains open to new circuits of meaning making.
We are continuing to collect audio responses to this prompt and would welcome your contributions.
How can I participate?
The Rhizome of Babel functions as a compendium of audio responses to the following prompt: “Tell us a story about the first time you realized that your mother tongue could communicate something that other languages could not.”
Participants are invited to respond to the prompt in their mother tongues as a way of contributing to a living archive of these languages. The aim here, however, is to keep these languages alive by continuing to breathe life into them and recognizing that which makes them unique and by virtue of which we can experience and understand language differently.
Re-assembled in the digital environment, each response contributes to an evolving story characterized by polyvocality – a form of pluralism of expression that in its disordered nature remains open to new circuits of meaning making.
We are continuing to collect audio responses to this prompt and would welcome your contributions.