Together with Purpose
Valeria Iavtouhovitsh, Brown University
Together with Purpose.What might have been termed 'revolution' divulged as hollow corporate rhetoric. 'Together with purpose, moving forward as one' recalls 'Just be yourself', etc. –phrases so latent in the social consciousness, whose value is questionable and whose meaning is shallow, yet whose power is irrevocable. Tropes of movement, solidarity, progress, and fulfilling a promise lined atop a deep stagnation. Out of this emerges, for some, a sense of despair and vapidity. There where joy, progress and revolution are churned out as 'hot words', one may sense only an empty promise.