#cambrdige

[suryani76-blog]

DGMeetsPresidents#Cambrdige#periode2018-2019 (at Cambridge City Square)

[lorenzomuscoso]

King's College - ph #lorenzomuscoso #cambrdige #england #stephenhawking #university #school #instagood #landscape #science #architecture #beautiful #students #colors #summer #magic #sony #sonyalpha #kinscollege #art #fineart

[drmacoffee]

Soundchecking with Ben Haenow! #cambrdige #junction #benhaenow #soundcheck (at Cambridge Junction)

[annimovsisyan]

Decolonising Knowledge and The Question of The Archive

“Furthermore, Western epistemic traditions are traditions that claim detachment of the known from the knower. They rest on a division between mind and world, or between reason and nature, as an ontological a priori...”

“This hegemonic notion of knowledge production has generated discursive scientific practices and has set up interpretive frames that make it difficult to think outside of these frames. But this is not all. This hegemonic tradition has not only become hegemonic. It also actively represses anything that actually is articulated, thought and envisioned from outside of these frames. For these reasons, the emerging consensus is that our institutions must undergo a process of decolonization both of knowledge and of the university as an institution. The task before us is to give content to this call – which requires that we be clear about what we are talking about.”

“And the term “other selves” is open-ended enough to include, in this Age of the Anthropocene, all sorts of living species and objects, including the biosphere itself.   “[Ngugi, as opposed to Fanon,] believes that decolonization is not an end point. It is the beginning of an entirely new struggle. It is a struggle over what is to be taught...”

“Decolonizing (à la Ngugi) is not about closing the door to European or other traditions. It is about defining clearly what the centre is.”

“Recent scholarship on the many versions of black internationalism and its intersections with various other forms of internationalisms could help in rethinking the spatial politics of decolonization in so far as true decolonization, as Dubois intimated  in 1919, necessarily centers on “the destiny of humankind” and not of one race, color or ethos.”

“By pluriversity, many understand a process of knowledge production that is open to epistemic diversity. It is a process that does not necessarily abandon the notion of universal knowledge for humanity, but which embraces it via a horizontal strategy of openness to dialogue among different epistemic traditions.”

https://africaisacountry.atavist.com/decolonizing-knowledge-and-the-question-of-the-archive

[metal-will-rust]

the trip to cambridge was so adorable and we met some really cool people and played mafia games until half four in the morning and just about managed to drag ourselves to the lectures but it was actually so good

[officialdylanmoore]

Anyone from the Boston area know of any relatively cheap but nice apartment living near Cambridge?  Honestly just looking into options for my future there. Looking at lofts primarily. Thank you :)

[cambridgeaddictions]

A Spot of Tea

I journeyed once again to Granchester to have some afternoon tea. 

It was a really cute tea place. I was expecting a tea room with lots of tables and waiters, but it was just an open space with some tables and lounge chairs and you just buy your tea and plop yourself down at a table. 

The place we went to was called The Orchard. According to their pamphlet, "The Orchard - a corner of England where time stands still as the outside world rushes by," and it's true, I did feel away from the busy outside world and more relaxed in the isolated area. Plus, we were having tea with all the old ladies and gentlemen.

The Orchard was first planted in 1868 and became a tea garden when a bunch of Cambridge students asked the owner of Orchard House if she would serve them tea underneath the blossoming fruit trees rather than, as was usual, on the front lawn of the house. They unknowingly started a great Cambridge tradition. 

On summer evenings, it hosts a series of performances including Shakespeare and Mozart (I'm definitely going to one of these). "The Orchard is now here to stay, the scene is set and the hands of Time have been turned back. Come and take afternoon tea beneath the boughs of the apples trees. the Orchard is now over 100 years old, and...it will always remain."

There are also a lot of famous people who often frequently or used to frequently go to The Orchard, including Maynard Keynes, Stephen Hawking, Crick and Watson, Virginia Woolf, Slyvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Stephen Fry, and Hugh Laurie. 

I got myself a pot of Early Grey and a fruit scone with clotted cream and apricot jam:

Clotted cream is absolutely delicious, but it's definitely just another amazing way to eat fat:

An elderly lady taking a nap and her friend reading a book:

The Orchard:

the fruit:

It takes a good 50-60 minutes to walk to the tea garden but it's definitely worth. I think I'll come journey back sometime next week for another pot of tea