Freier Fall
“the ordering principle of all these worlds was the colonization of the individual, the family, the streets, the village, the city, the library, the intellectual and the sky”
fazil and hawar moradi
Freier Fall means free fall in english. In Newtonian physics, free fall is any motion of a body where gravity is the only force acting upon it. But it can also be translated as “the case of the free” which is a reference to the perspectives of freedom. The concept of modernity, enlightenment and development are concepts that the so-called West defines as the norm and thus dominates any other form of being. The diversity of thinking and seeing is not only taken and dissolved by colonial occupation, but also when, in the case of immigration, the demand for integration requires adaptation to patterns of thinking that demand a brutal cut with previous knowledge. Any thinking alien to the Western standard is domesticated and controlled. Successful integration here means a loss of self-perception and thus a distortion of the self-image.
