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Existing academic conventions rely on a linear citational framework that presumes knowledge must be mapped through sequential intellectual genealogy. This structure privileges Western theoretical lineages as the primary reference points, often demanding that non-Western scholars position their work within an inherited European intellectual tradition in order to be 'legible.' However, such expectations fail to account for alternative epistemologies in which knowledge is not tr

i lived in a house where the floors creaked with fear where the walls remembered every footstep that dared not misstep it smelled of old books and new insecurities of burned-out candles at tenure-track altars a house where ghosts were not studied but served haunted because nothing truly lives "almost there - but not quite" a phrase repeated like a ritual a demand for smoothness a punishment for difference a mirror reflecting the fear that something in the room cannot be made