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When we talk about the abolition of binarism, we鈥檙e mostly talking about gender. But it has also been shown and discussed that non-binarism - in theory and in action - has implications far beyond these considerations: ontological, economic, logical and linguistic, amongst others. Some questions that would take us back / forward are (1) What does belief look like in a non-binary world? Since it might no longer be about adhering to an ideology, one could believe in a lot of things. Atheism could no longer be a negative (鈥渘on鈥� -believer) but an openness to a multitude of faiths (2) What would sexuality look like if we were no longer identified and categorized according to gender? (3) Are debt and overdraft made obsolete in a universe where value itself is non-binary, where the + and the - are abolished? (4) But also, what does birth and death look like if we live non-binary existences?
On the website www.dictionary.com the definition of YESN鈥橳 that can be found reads as follow: 鈥淵esn鈥檛 is a negative used to express dissent or an unwillingness to do something. It is another (or better) way of saying 鈥渘o鈥�.鈥� Maybe this definition should be complicated: it is in fact a no camouflaged as a yes. A refusal that masquerades as affirmation. In the development of a non-binary vocabulary, 芦yesn鈥檛禄 would have a special place. In the very forms they employ, the artists presented in YESN鈥橳 both practice what is called a politics of refusal, while paradoxically being here.
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When we talk about the abolition of binarism, we鈥檙e mostly talking about gender. But it has also been shown and discussed that non-binarism - in theory and in action - has implications far beyond these considerations: ontological, economic, logical and linguistic, amongst others. Some questions that would take us back / forward are (1) What does belief look like in a non-binary world? Since it might no longer be about adhering to an ideology, one could believe in a lot of things. Atheism could no longer be a negative (鈥渘on鈥� -believer) but an openness to a multitude of faiths (2) What would sexuality look like if we were no longer identified and categorized according to gender? (3) Are debt and overdraft made obsolete in a universe where value itself is non-binary, where the + and the - are abolished? (4) But also, what does birth and death look like if we live non-binary existences?
On the website www.dictionary.com the definition of YESN鈥橳 that can be found reads as follow: 鈥淵esn鈥檛 is a negative used to express dissent or an unwillingness to do something. It is another (or better) way of saying 鈥渘o鈥�.鈥� Maybe this definition should be complicated: it is in fact a no camouflaged as a yes. A refusal that masquerades as affirmation. In the development of a non-binary vocabulary, 芦yesn鈥檛禄 would have a special place. In the very forms they employ, the artists presented in YESN鈥橳 both practice what is called a politics of refusal, while paradoxically being here.
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