Untitled, from One to Nothing by Irina Rozovsky.
“All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. This is why they insist upon their identity being recognized, insist upon their continuity — their links with their dead and the unborn.
If the ‘return’ to religion is in part a protest against the heartlessness of the materialist systems, the resurgence of a nationalism is in part a protest against the anonymity of those systems, their reduction of everything and everybody to statistics and ephemerality.“
— John Berger, “The Soul and The Operator”, in Keeping A Rendezvous, from Selected Essays