Supercollider Colloquium Panels Prep

Courses

My own preparation for choosing what presentations I want to prioritize.

Strikethroughs are proposals I could not find.

  1. Abstract
  2. Contents of thesis – body of artwork, written paper, exhibition. (format, medium, formal+aesthetic considerations, presentation/exhibition setting).
  3. Research questions.
  4. Project objectives.
  5. Theoretical/critical background and framework. (Key terminologies, concepts, related artistic+bibliographic references).
  6. Research methodologies. (methodology, methods, media, rational re: questions and interdisciplinary framework).
  7. Resources+facilities.
  8. Potential challenges and limitations.
  9. Significance of project. (field of study, goals, place of work in field).
  10. Other issues
  11. Bibliography

9:00 AM

1a

Karly McCloskey (IAMD) Chimera: Queering the Myth of the One

Primary Advisor: Judith Doyle

  • Research Questions: In what ways can organic materials inform the Speculative Fabulation world-building process? How can speculative writing provide a lens to the natural world in its damaged contemporary condition? How can I address truths through the imagination?
  • Resources: The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Tsing. Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (editor Anna Tsing). Ursula K. Le Guin, Donna Haraway, Margaret McFall-Ngai, Karen Barad. Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa. Queer Phenomenology Sara Ahmed.
  • Framework+mediums: Speculative Fabulation(Donna Haraway), contamination as collaboration, chimera: multiple organisms in one form. Research as ceremony (Sean Wilson). Speculative fabulation poetry book from perspective of chimera. Animation/filmmaking, photography, drawings.

Interested bib:

Barad, Karen. What is the Measure of Nothingness: Infinity, Virtuality, Justice. Hatje Cantz, 2012.
Bellacasa, Maria Puig de la. Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Tsing, Anna, et al. Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Tsing, Anna. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press, 2015.
Tuck, Eve, and C. Ree. “A Glossary of Haunting.” Handbook of Autoethnography, edited by Stacey Holman Jones, et al. Left Coast Press, Inc., 2013, pp. 639-658.
Wilson, Shawn. Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods. Fernwood Pub., 2008

Bradbury, Ray. The Martian Chronicles. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2012.
Butler, Octavia. Dawn. Warner Books, 1997.
Guin, Ursula K. Le. The Left Hand of Darkness. Penguin Books, 2000.
Ovid. Metamorphoses. Translated by Charles Martin, W.W. Norton, 2010.

Duran, Franci. “It Matters What.” Vimeo, uploaded by Franci Duran, 2019. https://vimeo.com/318309832
Haraway, Donna. “Speculative Fabulation.” Youtube, uploaded by Pill Me Druggin’ You, 1 September 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1atjLfbNxE.

Kelley, Mike, and John C. Welchman. Foul Perfection: Essays and Criticism. MIT Press, 2003.
Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Translated by Leon S. Roudiez. Columbia University Press, 1982.

1b

Sebastian Pines (IAMD) Penning the Ghosts of Ourselves: An Exploration Into Spectral Play

Primary advisor:

  • Research questions: How can game design use affect theory to create an introspective emotional experience through play and evoke an embodied experience of memory? How can the creation of artifacts of play through gameplay become pieces of hauntological media? What is the hauntological potential of autobiography in the creation of spectral selves through guided writing as well as meditations on trauma and lost futures?
  • Framework+Mediums: Hauntology – Michał Krzykawski’s analysis of Jacques Derrida, Affect Theory, Phenomenology – Gaston Bachelard. Queer Game Design. Feminist Autobiography as Research – Informed and applied through my lens as a queer feminist. Creation as Research – Iterative Design. Analogue game text w/ illustrations. Single-player autobiographical journalling role-playing game that has players connecting their bodies to the structure of a haunted house, using their emotions and memories to populate the house with spectres.

Interested bib:

Davis, Colin. “E´tat Pre´sent: Hauntology, Spectres and Phantoms.” French Studies, vol. LIX, no. 3, 2005, pp 373 – 379.
Kemper, Jonaya. “Wyrding the Self.” What We Do When We Play? , edited by Eleanor Saitta, Johanna Koljonen, Jukka Särkijärvi, Anne Serup Grove, Pauliina Männistö, & Mia Makkonen. Solmukohta, 2020.
Krzykawski, Michał. “J’accepte: Jacques Derrida’s Cryptic Love by Unsealed Writing.” AVANT, vol VIII, no 2, 2017, pp 39-50.

9:55am

2a

Elyse Longair (IAMD) In Defense of the Simple Image (2020 Vision)

Primary Advisor: Julian Jason Haladyn

  • Research questions: In our hyper-saturated post-produced world, what is the function of the simple image? Can fragmented images of the past, constructed through collage, question our notions of time and shape our thinking of the future?
  • Framework+Mediums: Collage as methodology, sampling and remix, archive, appropriaton. Busch and Klanaten, Levine. “In Defense of The Poor Image,” Martha Rosler’s compositions, Max Ernst materiality of collage, Gerhard Richter’s Atlas. 50 images, science-fiction collage, electro-acoustic soundtrack.

Interested bib:

Candy, S. (2010). The Futures of Everyday Life: Politics and the Design of Experiential Scenarios. Retrieved from
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305280378_The_Futures_of_Everyday_Life_Politics_and_the_Design_of_Experiential_Scenarios
Evans, David (ed.). Appropriation. Whitechapel, London; Cambridge, Mass;, 2009.
Steyerl, Hito. “In Defense of the Poor Image.” E-Flux, no.10,2009, pp.1-9. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/

Busch, Dennis, and Robert Klanten. The Age of Collage: Contemporary Collage in Modern Art. Gestalten, Berlin, 2016.
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh. “Gerhard Richter’s ‘Atlas’: The Anomic Archive.” October , vol. 88, 1999, pp. 117–145. JSTOR , www.jstor.org/stable/779227. Accessed 10 Aug. 2020.
Elizegi, Rebeka, and Blanca Ortiga. Collage by Women 50 Essential Contemporary Artists. Promopress, 2019.

2b

Nina Bakan (CCP) Making Kin in Collaboration: Subverting Alterity Through Art as Social Practice

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10:55am

3a

Jenna Chasse (CCP) realfucking–fuckingreal

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Nadine Valcin (DF) Our Home and Haunted Land: A Meditation on Space and Public Memory

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1:10pm

4a

Nicole Melnicky (IAMD) My Imaginary Queer Utopia: A Manifesto

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  • Research questions: What does an imaginary Queer Utopia look like? How does the feminine body politic shape queer utopia? How does the metaphorical phoenix allow us to rise up from our unjust LGTBQ2S+ pasts, histories and politics; to enact better and more liberated ways of living, in world that is free? How does queer time, place, and space allow us to discover and define our identities? How does the queer body move through phenomenological space towards future paradigms?
  • Framework+Mediums: autoethnographic writing, camp/kitsch/pride, Susan Sontag, Sara Ahmed, Artists: Saya Woolfalk, Nick Cave, Jeffrey Gibson, Jade Yumang, Athi-Patra Ruga, Lady Gaga, Betsey Johnson. Haruki Murakami. Garment creation+design.

Interested bib:

Ahmed, Sara. Living a Feminist Life. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
Ahmed, Sara. Willful Subjects. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014
Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
Berlant, Lauren. Desire / Love. Brooklyn: Punctum Books, 2012.
Berlant, Lauren. Edelman, Lee. Sex, or The Unbearable. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014
Freeman, Elizabeth. Beside You in Time: Sense Methods & Queer Socialbilities in the American 19th Century. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
Halberstam, Judith. The Queer Art of Failure. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
Leibovitz, Annie. Sontag, Susan. Women. New York: Random House, 1999.
Sontag, Susan. Notes on “Camp.” London: Penguin Modern, 1964.
Tongson, Karen. Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries. New York: New York University Press, 2011.


Alexander Rondeau (CCP) From the Bush: QT2S Cultural Production in Northeastern Ontario

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2:55pm

5a

Shunrong Cao (IAMD) Diagnosing yourself: A Celebration of Stolen Memories and Forgotten Daydreams

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  • Research questions: how to build connections between the audiences and visualizations using cognitive engagement? how to use art and technology to unpack an immersive and interactive space for social dreaming and influence people’s experience of living? How can we use cognitive engagement to build connections between the audiences (/participants) and the visualizations? How can art and technology together unpack an immersive and interactive space for social dreaming and influence people’s experience of living? How can sculptural devices and digital interfaces to detect and translate the invisible biological signals into visualizations in an effective way?
  • Framework+Mediums: Info Visualization, Cognitive Science, Immersive and Interactive System, Magic-Realism and Social Dreaming. Practice based research, research through creation. Case studies Miwa Matreyek, Charlotte Davies, Chris Milk. Prototyping. interactive installation that projects viewer’s body as visualization w/ layers and responds to viewer input (finger pressure, breath, heart rate). Fiction narratives.

Interested bib:

Zlatev, J. (2012). Cognitive semiotics: An emerging field for the transdisciplinary study of meaning. Public Journal of Semiotics, 4 (1), 2–24.
Oulasvirta, A., Kurvinen, E. & Kankainen, T. (2003, July). Understanding contexts by being there: case studies in bodystorming. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 7 (2), 125–134.
Mika, Satomi and Hannah, Perner-Wilson. How to get what you want (website https://www.kobakant.at/DIY/ ).
Huhtamo, Erkki. Seven ways of misunderstanding interactive art. 2008, [Online; accessed Dec 2018].
Maria-Elena, Angulo. Magic Realism: Social Context and Discourse. Routledge. October 24, 2018.
Anthony, Dunne and Fiona, Raby. Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming. MIT, 2014.
Judith, Halberstam. “Dude, Where’s My Phallus? Forgetting, Losing, Looping”. The Queer Art of Failure. Duke University Press, 2011.
Sara, Ahmed. “The Orient and Other Others”. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Duke University Press, 2006.

5b

Lilian Leung (DF) Future Through Memory: Virtual Storytelling in Chinatown

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9:55am

8a

Noa Billick (IAMD) THIS PAPER IS MADE OF BOOKS: The Extendible Nature of Books, Humour, and Narratives

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  • Research questions: How does the artist, as form of book, make existence more extendable? Am I a book? Is anything I make a book because I say it is? What are the limits of a book – are there limits at all? How does the book object act as symbol and archive? How is the print book object culturally important – would we care if they disappeared? Are books a symbol of memory? What’s so funny about a book?
  • Framework+Mediums: … discover the difference between intentional and messy archival practices; display and “tie-up” loose-ends, fragments, and unfinished things; frame, with the help of books, the togetherness of sentimentality and memory. affect theory, archive theory, narrative theory, humour. Study/practice of reading/making books. Balance, care, mend, storytelling, archive, memory, collecting, sentimentality, humour, book, affect, symbol, extension.

Interested bib:

Aldama, Frederick Luis, Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts. University of Texas Press, 2010.
Barad, Karen, et al. What is the Measure of Nothingness?: Infinity, Virtuality, Justice. vol. no. 99.;no. 099;, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2012.
Bellacasa, María Puig de La. Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds. University of Minnesota Press., 2017.

Farrelly, Liz, Zines, 1st Edition. Booth-Clibborn, 2001.
Klanten, Robert, Adeline Mollard, and Matthias Hubner, Behind the Zines: Self-Publishing Culture. Gestalten Verlag, 2011.

Adamson, Glenn, The Invention Of Craft. Berg Publishers, 2013.

Derrida, Jacques. Arhive Fever : a Freudian Impression. Translated by Eric Prenowitz, The
University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Singh, Julietta. No Archive Will Restore You. Punctum books, Earth, Milky Way, 2018.

Books, Lark, Masters: Book Arts: Major Works by Leading Artists. Lark Crafts, 2011.
Castleman, Riva, and Museum of Modern Art, A Century of Artists Books. New York, Museum
of Modern Art, 1994.
Drucker, Johanna, The Century of Artists’ Books, 2nd ed. New York: Granary Books, 2004.
Pryor, Mark, The Book Artist. Amherst, Seventh Street Books, 2019.
Salamony, Sandra, and Peter and Donna Thomas, 1,000 Artists’ Books: A Showcase of Fine
Hand-Bound Structures. Quarry Books, 2012.

Grosswiler, Paul, The Method Is the Message: Rethinking McLuhan Through Critical Theory. Montréal, Black Rose Books, 1998.
McLuhan, Marshall, Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews. MIT Press, 2005.


Ivana Radman-Livaja (IAMD) Exploring Narratives Among Interspecific and Anthropocentric Tendencies

Primary Advisor: Jason Baerg

  • Research questions:How can book design be used to create a narrative and dialogue about the consequences of the Anthropocene? How can we create a stronger relationship with ourselves and the land by understanding the full extent of our normalized, negative actions?
  • Framework+Mediums: past/present, natural/artificial. Singh (mastery – human dominance over others), Puig de la Bellacasa (care pos/neg), Tsing et al (Ghosts, ruined landscapes), Yates (multispecies).

Interested bib:

Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter: a Political Ecology of Things. Duke University Press, 2010.
Desnos, Rebecca. Plants Are Magic. Vol. 1, Rebecca Desnos, 2017.
Franklin, Kate, and Caroline Till. Radical Matter: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable Future. Thames & Hudson, 2018.
Halberstam, Judith. The Queer Art of Failure. Duke University Press, 2011.
Haraway, Donna Jeanne. Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, 2016.
Logan, Jason. Make Ink: A Forager’s Guide to Natural Inkmaking. Abrams, 2018.
Puig de la Bellacasa, María. Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds. University of Minnesota Press., 2017.
Singh, Julietta. No Archive Will Restore You. Punctum Books, 2018.
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. The Mushroom at the End of the World: on the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press, 2015
Wilson, Shawn. Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods. Fernwood Publishing, 2008.
Yanagi, Soetsu. The Beauty of Everyday Things. Penguin Books, 2018.
Yates, Julian. Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast: a Multispecies Impression. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.


Deborah Barnett (IAMD) Leaf Love Leaves Love

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10:55 am

9b

Aisulu Baibolova (IAMD) The Post-Soviet: Mankurt’s Way Home

Primary Advisor:Immony Mèn, S) Peter Morin

  • Research questions:Can lived experiences be used as counter to existing and/or former policies within colonial systems? In what ways did the Soviet Union change Indigenous Central Asian peoples’ cultures and perspectives? What does it mean to reflect that in my work? Can a mankurt come back to their roots and finally remember their past and what will it take? What does it mean to remember the past?
  • Framework+Mediums: Postcolonial critique of soviet approach to indigenous peoples in central asia, modernization, ethnic nationalism. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan formerly known as Frunze, Kirghizia (Central Asia), ghosts of Soviet Past. Chinghiz Aitmatov’s novel The Day Lasts Longer Than A Hundred Years (Mankurt, person who has lost touch with background and kinship). Immersive tech, ar/vr. speculate, contextualize. Displacement, colonial structures, transnationalism. Glen Coulthard: Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recongition, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Other Asias, Can the Subaltern Speak? Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s Decolonizing Methodologies. Artists: Lisa Reihana, Talant Ogobayev, Gulnur Mukazhanova, Asel Kadyrkhanova, Said Atabekov, Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev, Slavs and Tatars (art collective), Lab C (Kyrgyzstan research space, urban history etc).

Interested bib:

Coulthard, Glen Sean, and Taiaiake Alfred. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. University of Minnesota Press, 2014. Accessed August 12, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt9qh3cv.
Madina Tlostanova. 2012. Postsocialist ≠ postcolonial? On post- Soviet imaginary and global coloniality, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 48:2, 130-142, DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2012.658244
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai, 1950. Decolonizing Methodologies : Research and Indigenous Peoples. London ; New York : Dunedin : New York : Zed Books ; University of Otago Press ; distributed in the USA exclusively by St Martin’s Press, 1999.
Tuck, Eve and K. Wayne Yang. 2012. Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, vol.1, no. 1, , pp. 1-40.


Priya Bandodkar (DF) Activating Indofuturism: Applying a lens adapted from Afro-and-Indigenous Futurism

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1:10pm

10a

Leeay Aikawa (IAMD) Still small voice – in search for Authenticity

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10b

Rebecca Casalino (CCP) “Proud Deviants and Queer Multiples”

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Natalie Chuck (IAMD) The Politics of Intimate Space

Primary Advisor: Maria-Belen Ordonez, S) Kathy Kiloh

  • Research questions: How do tropes in American romcom films from the mid-to-late 20th century assert heteronormative standards and expectations of real-world intimate attachments? Is storytelling through invisible bodies, in this case playwriting and audio recital, an effective way to communicate alternative forms of intimacy? How do techniques from fictionalized ordinary encounters, such as those presented in romantic comedy narratives, elicit embedded reflexive responses about intimacy from an audience? How can these techniques be subverted and recycled to address intimacy between non-heteronormative and non-white bodies?
  • Framework+Mediums: explore fictionalized forms of intimacy in the urban setting of Toronto, critiquing the ways that Western media’s representations over the last fifty years have created a mold for the concepts of love and intimacy. 6 audio episodes (play-script w/ short digial animation) narrating ex of intimate relationships, narration influenced by romcom and softcore porn tropes. Aim to subvert normative tropes. Kipnis (desire), Gandolfo (transgression), Berlant (attachments). Released online, staggered, live listen-ins via zoom. Storytelling, scrip writing, vignetttes, auto-ethnography.

Bellacasa, M. P. (2017). Matters of care: Speculative ethics in more than human worlds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Berlant, L. G. (2012). Cruel optimism . Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Berlant, L., & Warner, M. (1998). Sex in Public. Critical Inquiry, 24 (2), 547-566.
Ferens, D., & Sikora, T. (2016). Ugly Bodies: Queer Perspectives on Illness, Disability and Aging. InterAlia, 11 .
Gandolfo, D. (2009). The City at Its Limits.
Halberstam, J. (2011). The Queer art of failure . Durham: Duke University Press.
Kipnis, L. (2004). Against love: A polemic . New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House.
Kipnis, L. (2014). Men: Notes from an ongoing investigation . New York: Picador.
Stewart, K. (2007). Ordinary Affects . Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Tuck, E. (2009). Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities. Harvard Educational Review, 79 (3), 409-428.

1:55pm

11b

Matana Geraghty (IAMD) The Need to Convey Experience

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Generated reading list:

Anthony, Dunne and Fiona, Raby. Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming. MIT, 2014.
Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
Barad, Karen, et al. What is the Measure of Nothingness?: Infinity, Virtuality, Justice. vol. no. 99.;no. 099;, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2012.
Bellacasa, María Puig de La. Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds. University of Minnesota Press., 2017.
Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
Desnos, Rebecca. Plants Are Magic. Vol. 1, Rebecca Desnos, 2017.
Farrelly, Liz, Zines, 1st Edition. Booth-Clibborn, 2001.
Ferens, D., & Sikora, T. (2016). Ugly Bodies: Queer Perspectives on Illness, Disability and Aging. InterAlia, 11 .
Franklin, Kate, and Caroline Till. Radical Matter: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable Future. Thames & Hudson, 2018.
Kelley, Mike, and John C. Welchman. Foul Perfection: Essays and Criticism. MIT Press, 2003.
Kipnis, L. (2004). Against love: A polemic . New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House.
Kipnis, L. (2014). Men: Notes from an ongoing investigation . New York: Picador.
Klanten, Robert, Adeline Mollard, and Matthias Hubner, Behind the Zines: Self-Publishing Culture. Gestalten Verlag, 2011.
Halberstam, Judith. The Queer Art of Failure. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
Haraway, Donna Jeanne. Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, 2016.
Stewart, K. (2007). Ordinary Affects . Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. The Mushroom at the End of the World: on the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press, 2015
Yates, Julian. Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast: a Multispecies Impression. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

Readings for Week 2, Contemporary Research Methods

Courses, CRM

Creation-as-Research: Critical Making in Complex Environments

21/09/20 1:34 PM start time :

Chapman, O. & Sawchuk, K. (2015). Creation-as-Research: Critical Making inComplex Environments. RACAR : Revue d’art canadienne / Canadian Art Review, 40 (1),49–52. https://doi.org/10.7202/1032753ar

READING NOTES (H3)

  • creation as research
    • “ontological question of what constitutes research in order to make space for creative material and process-focused outcomes”
    • critical making, creation-as-research, practice-led research, digital humanities
    • Garnet Hertz – “how hands-on productive work—making—can supplement and extend critical reflection on technology and society” (open source hardware movements)
    • Tim Ingold – Making – “pays attention to what the world has to tell us”
    • Massumi/Manning – act of making – “places value on relational qualities instigated through making and highlights how unexpected and even unknowable its outcomes can be”
  • creation is not necessarily art, aesthetics part of every day life
  • critical disabilities studies, process of using technology as art participation to highlight inaccessibility grows beyond anticipated visions (megafone, mapping inaccessibility to collaborative-performance-resistance), reverberations
    • sense-based scholarship, making performance, staging events, holding workshops, crafting, (-ing, doing) as tools for learning about abilism

INTERESTING CITATIONS AND DEFINITIONS (H3)

Wittgenstein,

mobile media lab (mml),

Samuel Thulin, Griselda Pollock,

Media archaeolgy – https://alisonreikoloader.wordpress.com

Garnet Hertz, “Critical Making,” 2012, http://www.conceptlab.
com/criticalmaking. See also Matt Ratto, “Critical Making:
Conceptual and Material Studies in Technology and Social Life,”
The Information Society 27 (2011): 252–60.

Erin Manning and Brian Massumi, Thought in the Act: Passages in
the Ecology of Experience (Minneapolis, 2014).

An Encuentro, “part academic conference, part performance festival,”
is organized every two years by the Hemispheric Institute
of Performance and Politics. For Encuentro 2014, see http://www.
concordia.ca/events/conferences/encuentro-en.html.

For more information on the Performing Disability/Enabling
Performance working group at Encuentro 2014, see The Disability
Performance Working Group, “Work Group Statement,”
12 September 2014, http://mia.mobilities.ca/encuentro/workgroup-
statement/. Participants, in no particular order, included
Tamar Tembeck, Yvonne Schmidt, Carola Garcia, Janet Gibson,
Margaret Ames, Ashley McAskill, Danielle Peers, Faye Ginsberg,
Lindsay Eales, Kelsie Acton, Koby Rogers Hall, Maria Schirmer,
Heather Vrana, Véro Leduc, Laurence Parent, Jennifer Jimenez,
Stephen Sillett, Baraka de Soleil, and Eduardo Farajado.

POST-READ (H3)


Doing as a tool for scholarship, learning about the world by creating reverberations.

21/09/20 2:00 PM end time

Week 2 Reading, Critical Theory Seminar (3)

Courses, CTS

Deleuze and Massumi – Recording posted by Maria Belen
Ordonez

sound recording under 17 mins, less than 2 minute clip, share connections of deleuze, massumi, manning.

20/09/20 9:00 PM

Notes

  • percepts – sensations that become autonomous, affects – sensations that overwhelm (becomings)
  • ontology – nature of being human
    • affect / percept etc is a non-human ontology of being.
    • ontogeny – alternative to ontology, always emerging organism
  • minelli clip – awful is the affect, aesthetics is a percept
  • “deleuze conceptualizes body via percept concept affect,” make up ideas
  • Massumi – the body of discursive site as occupied much of critical theory… sensing body has not been granted same theoretical focus
  • movement makes body without form (incorporeal)
  • movements, forming what the body feels, results in change, unpredictability.
  • “movement and sensation as a process before signification.”
    • process=change, not essence but modification, not binarisms but passing into
  • ontology = being, ontogeny = development(movement, becoming)
  • sociality (before individual or collective), Erin Manning, no distinction between cultural and natural, natural cultural continuum.
  • critical method – is not enough to critique- productivist approach, affirmative methods, not outside of own debunking and critiques, affect and sensations come with joy.

discursively – philosophy : marked by a method of resolving complex expressions into simpler or more basic ones : marked by analytical reasoning https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/discursive

body as discursive site: location where discourse takes place … position from where discourse is situated

incorporeal: : not corporeal : having no material body or form https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incorporeal

corporeal – having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corporeal

20/09/20 10:00 PM

Week 2 Reading, Critical Theory Seminar (2)

Courses, CTS

The Conditions of the Question: What Is Philosophy? Gilles Deleuze

18/09/20 3:40 PM start time

Deleuze, Gilles The Conditions of the Question: What Is Philosophy? In Critical Inquiry; Spring 1991; 17, 3; pg. 471-478

PRE-READ (SCAN)

When does a person ask about philosophy? Question requires trust, vulnerability, between friends. Like us, concepts need friends, and for evolution of philosophy, their friend must be diverse. A philosopher must be a friend to his creations (concepts). “The question of philosophy is […] the single point where the concept and creation are linked together.” The concept is not a representation, or knowledge, but a reality. It is self-positing. Encyclopedia, pedagogy, commercialization, the third age is a disaster of thought regardless of social benefits. (83 words, paraphase).

QUESTIONS

Aiming for a quick(er) read using reading strategies. Check end notes, first+last para, topic sentences, getting gist of it. On second read I want to take notes on the things I am interested in and have questions about, with only the quotes that grip me, the details that jump for me (paraphase), and jots of my own thoughts/questions. (30 mins).

After scan, I am interested in concepts being described as friends and the relationship of community supports impacts this thinking. I am also interested the way philosophy posits itself in relation to other disciplines, especially as a very old discipline in comparison to very new (and insecure) ones like creative research. The ideas I am reading about today are exciting and tap into things I feel like I understand on an intuitive level, I am interested in how these ideas are made accessible, how they are taken out of academia and used in “low-brow” creations.

READING NOTES

  • (Published 1991) Deleuze – prof of philosophy, University of Paris, Capitalism and Schizophrenia / Anti-Oedipus 1983 + A Thousand Plateaus 1987, Cinema / The Movement-Image 1986 + The Time-Image 1989, The Logic of Sense 1990, Expressionism in Spinoza 1990.
  • transitions from friend to enemy, trust to mistrust
  • friend = intimacy, or = potentiality?
  • “infinite sharing and patience” (Blanchot, L’Amitie 1971)
  • “art brings spiritual entities into existance”
  • “….must begin by fabricating and creating [concepts], positing them and making them convincing to those who have recourse to them.” (nietzche).
  • “[philosophy] is neither contemplation, nor reflection, nor communication,” these are tools that are universal in all disciplines.
  • philosophy has a desire to dominate disciplines
  • Aristotle’s substance, Descartes’ cogito, Leibniz’s monad, Kant’s condition, Schelling’s potency, Bergon’s duree
  • philosophy is enduring—sociology, epistemology, linguistics, psychoanalysis, logical analysis, computer science, advertising, marketing—try to use “concept” but faith and trust philosophy endures in creating concepts
  • hegel – concept – figures of creation, moments of self-positing, not related to general or abstract, stretch philosophy into other disciplines because it took on common tools.
  • post kant- encyclopedia, subjectivity – pedagogy, analyse conditions

INTERESTING CITATIONS AND DEFINITIONS

Maurice Blanchot

POST-READ

Talking about a philosopher’s relationship with concepts as friends (either in intimacy or honouring potentialisty) didn’t really include a kind of jovial friendship type relationship but more of a responsibility. When talking about friends on a greater scale, involving others, I don’t know if I got friends of friends as much as rivals, a combating of ownership rather than appreciation of concept from different angles. I guess that there are concepts that go round the world and interact with everybody and are free to, and the philosopher does not feel jealously in this because the philosopher has trust and faith that the relationship that is had (friend/creator) is unshaken although not untested. I guess it’s such a difficult thing to look deeply at ones self (as a discipline) that it comes off as cagey. Compare this to a younger creative research discipline actively bringing in ideas from other disciplines (musemology in artefacts) to give shape to itself. Although I guess much of this writing about disciplines is a defense.

18/09/20 4:46 PM end time

Week 2 Reading, Critical Theory Seminar (1)

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Gilles Deleuze’s alphabet book: I for Idea


L’Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze (“Gilles Deleuze’s alphabet book”) is a French television program produced by Pierre-André Boutang in 1988–1989, consisting of an eight-hour series of interviews between Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCYJea9RaMQ&feature=youtu.be
18/09/20 2:00 PM start time

READING NOTES (H3)

  • Deleuze’s Idea
    • idea over everything – having idea is celebration – different kinds/forms of ideas:
  • concept / percept / affect
    • philosophical concept, pictoral(illustrative) percept, musical affect
    • concept: new way of thought / twists thought
    • percept: web of perceptions+sensations that exist independently of artist / twists nerve
    • affect: becomings that overflow and spill past those that experience them / twists being

INTERESTING CITATIONS AND DEFINITIONS

exegesis (+commentary): critical explanation or interpertation of

POST-READ

Can different areas work with different kinds of ideas? Grasping at affect … I think affect the bit before sensing, like embodied emapthy, there but not known, in motion not in position.
Deleuze is very difficult I am glad to have a cohort to struggle through with, and faculty to lead me around it.

18/09/20 3:12 PM end time

W+L W/ Jessica Wyman

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Grad Study Strategies

Reading Strategies

  • read beginning+end = good snapshot of reading
  • looking for content, structure, theoretical framework
    • how are arguments made
    • what are the nuggets of it
    • looking for gist of it
    • create space to ask questions
    • identify what you do not get
    • writing summary at end of text helps w/ info retention
  • handwriting is better for retaining info
  • give yourself a time limit so you do not take 4 hours to read a text (although some texts are just difficult)
    • better to skim than to deeply read small part
    • option: read every other paragraph
    • see if there are “steps” described in text that summaries how the writer will go through points
  • do not write huge amounts of notes while reading, find ways to distinguish (visually) between quotes, paraphrasing, own thoughts
    • ex – quotes with “quotations” or highlighting in text, paraphrase with (parenthesis), own thoughts with star…
    • // look up more strategies for this to make notes easier to search
  • keep in mind your future self and try to make discovery / finding old info easier for thesis

Discussion / Facilitation Strategies

  • strategies for nervousness
    • prepare powerpoint so no one is looking at your face
    • can cover camera with sticky, or cover view or own self (on screen) with sticky so you dont have to look at yourself
    • prepare before discussion
  • 10 minute time describes your presentation, discussion is unlikely to be 10 minutes
  • it is not illegal to look up other sources of information to give context, it is ok to talk about them in your discussion
  • things you might include: bio of author, how text fits into academia/what discipline, how text fits in with other texts
  • ask why is this text the first text of the class, why here and now, will it be easier or harder than other texts, how does this orient us in critical theory
  • ask questions, share what you did not understand and ask the class to discuss/help figure it out
  • use facilitation to find space to talk about the text

Internet search for humanities grad studies strategies

  • sq3r – survey text, form questions (ex from headings), read review recite
  • after reading text – what are main points? is it important to record them? (will you need it later?) Summarize in own words to help retain information.
    • titles of chapters/subsections help
    • think of pre-reading, reading, review
    • scan titles/headings/subheadings/topic sentences/graphics to prioritize info
    • do not skip preface it containts important info about author context, voice, objectives
    • for larger texts keep own table of contents to help with review
    • take note of what author provides at end ex: bibliography, glossary, key terms, index, appendices
    • take note of boldface and italicized word/phrases
    • questions – what will prof ask? what will come up in discussions? make connections to associations + what you have already learned
  • during lecture – take notes using shorthand and keywords.
  • after lecture – read notes and see if they make sense, if they don’t/you have questions, ask colleague or prof while it’s fresh.

Further Research

  • common strategies for distinguishing paraphrase, quotes, own thoughts
  • how to make powerpoints and share screen for Teams

Affect Theory Conference: Worldings, Tensions, Futures // Massumi

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Interview with Massumi

  • writing process starts when research becomes overwhelming
  • writing is used to hold onto complexity without expressing it, writing from another perspective (ie another person writing in response) teases out some of the complexity
  • writing in long periods, remember to eat and walk
  • essay works with “conceptual impossibility,” to bring positivity to difficult texts. outline based on subsection titles, use outline to imagie connections. outlines become unreadable, “invocation of ideas.” writing often does not feel like his own, it is unrecognizable. this is a positive surprise.
  • best writers use rhythm of words + meaning, allow idiosyncrasies w/ economy of expression and not quirks, academics that see themselves as essayists.
  • desire to make reading enjoyable, recall rhythm of speech by variation of length of sentences/use of words with different roots/use of technical and every day words, variation of tone from serious to silly. not composed for speech.
  • writing is successful when it enables reader to see things in the world that would otherwise be unremarkable. new thoughts as gifts and invitations, not obligations.
  • cultural studies “sets out to encounter differences,”… “has to grapple with vacillation between the shareable and unsharable, the understandable and unimaginable”
  • advice: instead of writing personally, it is most interesting when something compelling in the world can express itself through you.
  • thinks of original writing as a kind of translation process. (background as translator).
  • affect is before emotion, feeling, perception. participation is before affect.
  • his writing does not clarify but it accumulates and complexifies. is the synaesthesia-effect(sentences have shape, motion, linkage/leakage, directonality) of reading his writing intentional? …thinks/feeling of writing as kinesthetic, conceptual directions that when brought together and taken apart will carry memory / change of having come together. enjoys point in essays when ideas fall into each other in dense mass of renewing even when feeling exhausted. pushing past this difficult point is energizing, though may not be for reader (though hopefully for some).

Massumi, Brian. Writing Space: Interviews. Affect Theory: Worldings/Tensions/Futures Conference Website. 2002/2015 http://wtfaffect.com/brian-massumi/

Further Reading/Watching (From the Conference):

Lisa Blackman and Heather Love, “Queer Science and the Ethics of Description,” Affect Theory Conference: Worldings, Tensions, Futures (plenary session 1), on Thursday, October 15, 2015 from 10:30 to 12:00pm at the Ware Center, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart, “The Hundreds,” Affect Theory Conference: Worldings, Tensions, Futures (plenary session 3), on Friday, October 16, 2015 from 3:20 to 4:50pm at the Ware Center, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Steven Shaviro, Brian Massumi, Erin Manning, “Affecting Others Otherwise,” Affect Theory Conference: Worldings, Tensions, Futures (plenary session 7), on Saturday, October 17, 2015 from 8:45 to 11:00pm at the Ware Center, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Never have plasmodial slime molds been so entertaining or so controversial. Steven Shaviro offered a humorous and provocative venture into speculative realism. He challenged the dogmas of analytical philosophy by extending the question of mind and mentality, proposing a shift from consciousness to sentience. Responsive to their environment, able to make choices, appearing to have emotional tones observable by the rhythmic pulsing of their cytoplasm plasmodial slime molds, Shaviro claims, offer evidence of cognition without brains. Shaviro suggests therefore that sentience rather than human consciousness should be the guiding principle of posthuman analysis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x0lNP9TKuM (40:15 mins)

Erin Manning focused on her work with emerging authors, thinkers, and scholars who are also autistic, for example Lucy Blackman In her work Blackman describes a sense of “carrying the feeling,” in which the felt experience has an emergent relation which incorporates the environment. Manning suggests, that this non-normative experience of relationality might offer insights into how the lines and limits of subjectivity are defined. The boundaries of experience, what the human is, and can be, is often constructed by neurotypically inflected limits, creating a “neurotypical myth.” Thus a politics of neurotypicality emerges. Autistic scholars and artists suggest a feeling of multiplicity that is not so fixed, a “hyper-relationality,” claims Manning, which offers a widening of the field of experience and therefore of the scope of the human.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=l2iElXKgeF8&feature=emb_logo (39:13 mins) // Erin Manning Interview: http://wtfaffect.com/erin-manning-interview/

The “datafication of the 21st century” makes us porous and multiple, and therefore what, asks Patricia Clough, has become of the human subject and psychoanalysis? Datafication leads to “a displacement of consciousness as a hub of experiencing meaning,” reconfiguring sensory fields to create a “society of microsensibilities.” Clough claims, since our modern psyche comes into being in a nonhuman environment it creates a “thingself,” meaning we must consider a “nonhuman unconscious of dissociated selves.” Indeed, Clough claims, the sociopolitical trauma of this time creates a new type of wound which requires us to rethink the death drive in the light of this quintessential 21st century relational form. For Clough this is no longer the human or the conscious self, but rather relations of media – the “it:it” relationship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH9S2Cw59OM&feature=emb_logo (40:15 mins) // Steven Shivario Interview: http://wtfaffect.com/steven-shaviro/
Artists and Affect Theorists working together:

Kay Gordon “Neurons / Deterritorializing” + Tony Sampson “The Assemblage Brain: Sense Making in Neuroculture” https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=19&v=u7lOQ-AFXvA&feature=emb_logo (4:30 mins)

Maya Pindyck “Becoming-Animal” + Donovan Schaefer “Affect Theory is an Animalism”
Visual essay, interesting art + experience w/ blurring.
Further Reading:

Capacious: The Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry

Body & Society, Cultural Studies, Critical Inquiry, Subjectivities

Massumi, the Bleed

Reading for Week 2, Critical Theory Seminar

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Title

L’Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze (“Gilles Deleuze’s alphabet book”) is a French television program produced by Pierre-André Boutang in 1988–1989, consisting of an eight-hour series of interviews between Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet.

L’Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze: I for Idea (Duration 15:50)

Massumi, Brian. “Introduction: Concrete Is as Concrete Doesn’t” pp. 1-21 In Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002.

10/09/20 11:15 AM

Massumi, Brian. “Introduction: Concrete Is as Concrete Doesn’t” pp. 1-21 In Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002.

PRE-READ SUMMARY:

This essay explores the relationship between sciences and the humanities. Makes arguments for how a concept’s context as a “scientific concept,” rather than semantic content, creates creative tension, continual motion and enables rearticulation of affects when used in the humanities. It also makes an argument for the title of the book (In Parables for the Virtual: Movement, affect, sensation), outlining scientific concepts and applying them to humanities.

QUESTIONS:

What is meant by movement, affect, sensation? What is the “why” of doing things in a discipline called, do sciences have to do it? What does “affect” mean in this context? Why is this (and similar) readings the first readings for these courses?

READING NOTES:

  • Cultural theory, introduction to exploring implications of body(movement/sensation)-change. Previously cultural theory looked at movement/sensation, this makes argument that body/change is what is central. Literality of movement, “naive realism/naive subjectivism,” culture was in gap between matter and systematic change, mediation. Everyday not a place of revolt but resistance/subversion, “reading,” “decoding,” counter to power. “Discursive” body makes sense, but doesn’t “sense.” Sensation is redudant or destructive because it is unmediated.
  • Science and humanities. A concept can be seperated from system of connections and put into new/open environment. Concepts are connectible to other concepts, concept is defined not by content but by connections between it and other concepts, how it flows into other concepts. When a concept is removed from context it retains its connectibility to other concepts. It maintains relations of motion and rest, affect. Scientific concepts carry scientific affects. This carrying of affect produces conceptual struggle and creative tension.
  • Positionality model. The body, extrinsic: positionality, systematic structurings, used to ground practices of resistance, signifying subject formation, coding, positioning on grid, spectrum ex male vs female, body corresponds to “site” on grid and overlapping terms from pairs. Link body-sites to “geography” of culture. “Is the body as linked to particular subject position anything more than a local emobodiment of ideology? What about potential for change?” Positionality subtracts movement. Postioning a determinig first, movement a problematic second. Normative progressions (adult to child) coded in, body definition. Movement is subordinate to positions it connects. displacement not transformation. Matter (body) is only present indirectly, mediated. No presence of matter, movement, body, sensation.
    • This project is a response to these issues, attempt to make qualities of material experience (sensing) culturally-theoreticlly thinkable w/o naive realism, subjectivism, or contradicting postructural theories of experience and power. Challenge of finding semiotics to build on accomplisments of theory and cultural studies, attempt to discover vocabulary from existing sources.
    • “In motion, a body is an immediate, unfolding relation to its own nonpresent potential to vary.” Deleuze, relation is real but abstract. Alterntive to positionality grid, does not prexist and not related to mediation. Ideology is mediating, real-abstract not ideological. Abstract means, never present in position, only ever in passing. Transitional immediacy of a real relation of a body to its own indeterminancy / openness to an else-where other than where it is, in any here and now). Charge of indeterminancy is always carried by body.
    • Project is not about concreteness, but accepting paradox of incorpreal dimension of the body. Of it, but not it (concrete is as concrete doesn’t).
    • Real-material-but-incorpreal is to body (positioned thing) as energy is to matter. Energy and matter mutually converted modes of same reality. Incorpreal phase-shift of body, but always accompanying.
  • Deleuze – problem w/ dominant models in cultural theory is not too abstract to grasp concreteness of real, but not abstract to grasp the real incorpreality of the concrete.
  • Henri Bergson – zeno’s paradox – continuity of movement is of an order of reality other than the measurable space object crossed. Points of position appear retrospectively. Space itself is a restrospective construct, when think of space as measurable, as possible positions that objects may occupy, we are stopping in thought at those positions, thinking away continuity of movements, looking at only one dimension of reality. A thing is when it isn’t doing.
  • Bergson (Bergansonian revolution) – fluidity – issues 1) if interested in change, distinction between extensive and intensive over literal and figural. Extensive is the retrospective from endpoint, intensive is the movement that enables the retrospective. (???) Leibniz – all the predicates that can be of a stated thing are of its nature. If so nature changes at slightest move, concept of nature concerns modifcation not essence. 2) emphasis on process before signification or coding, true and real but stop-operations. Sphere of applicability of models is limited, issue is to demarcate sphere of applicaility, limitations revives wonder. 3) Position is secondary to movement and dervied from it. The problem is to explain the wonder that there can be stasis given primacy of process. 4) positionality is an emergent quality of movement. Statis and motion is not binary, modes by which realities pass into one another (passing into, emerging). Requires logi that is abstract enough to grasp coincidence of thing’s immediacy to its own variation. 5) process concepts must be ontogenic, equal to emergence. 6) If movement is primary in relation to position, then process of indeterminancy is primary in relation to social determinism (change and freeze-framing go together, inseperable). This is a statement of ontological priority rather than time sequence. The constitute the field of emergence while positionings are what emerge. In field of emergence indeterminacy (change) has ontological priority over determinism (freeze frame), therefore comes “before” but not necessarily “first” in time sequence. 7) Gilbert Simondon, difference between social determination and sociality. No seperation between social and presocial, between culture and “raw” nature or experience. There is a becoming of culture and social of which determinate forms of culture and socialability is the result. The challenge is to think of this process as formation, for which you need a notion of taking-form, the field of emergence. Not presocial, but open-endedly social, social prior-to positioning individuals on a grid. Dimension of emergence is prior to distinction between individual and collective and any model of their interaction. Not assuming interaction entails finding concept for interaction-in-the-making, ie relation. 8) Possible vs potential, possibility is retrospective from potential’s unfolding. Possibility feeds back, but potential only feeds forward. Possibility is a variation implicit in (coding) what a thing can be, potential is the immanence(process) of a thing to its still indeterminant variation. Implication is a code word, immanence is process. 9) The distinction between potential and possibility is a; distinction between conditions of emergence and re-conditionings of the emerged is a; distinction between becoming and the normative operations that set the parameters of history (the possible interactions of determinate individuals and groups). History is ontogenetically different from becoming. Conditions of emergence change, emergence emerges, changing changes. If history has a becoming from which it is ontogenetically different then becoming has a history. (feedback). 10) Backformation of a path is not only a restrospection but a “retroduction,” a production, by feedback, of new movements. Space is a retroduction by means of standardization of measurement, before measurement there was air and ground but not space as we know it. Air is not empty and ground is not stable, measurement stops the movement in thought, making space understood as a grid of determinate positions. It emptys air of weather and makes ground foundation for technological change. Not simply cultural construction but a becoming-cultural of nature. Natural and cultural feed forward and back into one another, requiring nature-culture continuum. Nature and culture are in mutual movement into and through each other. Difficult to sustain distinction between artifact and thing, body and object, thought and matter. These relay in reciprocal becomings, ally in process, are tinged in event. 11) natural law, the normative self-regulation of nature, and naturalization of cultural laws makes a problem of being onesided, concept of habit helps. Habit is an acquired automatic self-regulation. Resides in flesh/matter, is acquired therefore cultural, is automatic therefore natural. Difference between law and habit and distributing in nature-culture continuum is promising direction of inquiry. (related to empiricism). 12) Ian Hacking – codings, gender, race, orientation are “interactive kinds,” logical categories that feed back to transform the reality they describe. Bracketing of nature of process misses becoming of culture, misses continuum of feedback/feedforward by which movements capture and convert each other. The world is a condition of constant qualitative growth. William James, reality snowballs… Productivism vs constritionism vs inventionism vs evolution… constructiveist evolutionism? evolutionary constructivism? 13) Thinking of producitivism requires allowance for own logical efforts feeding back and adding to reality even in small way, accept activities dedicated to thought and writing are inventive. Critiques of critical thinking for considering itself as being descriptive and justifying, not complicit, without unmediated processual involvement, justifably oppositional. Emergence field requires less negative critique and more affirmative methods, techiniques that embrace own inventiveness and acceptance of making additions to reality. Feels haughty, as an academic writer, to suggest academic writing is inventing but the impact of the additions to reality are so minor it would be silly to make a big deal about it. Even enjoying writing is adding positive experience to the world. Consider how much you want to critique and debunk versus how much you want to affirm, augment, and foster. Consider timing and proportion. 14) Vague concepts, and concepts of vagueness, are a good time. 15) Using paradox as if it were a well-formed logical operator is a good way to put vagueness in play (ex incorpreality of body), if done right the paradox becomes a well-formed logical operator.
    • Above 15 points are some of the directions that intergrating movement gets going.
  • Sensation presents a direclty disjunctive self-coinciding. Sensation is always doubled by the feeling of having a feeling, self referential not self reflexive. Resonation, interference pattern, like an echo. Best word for a complicating immediacy of self relation is intensity.
    • In body, “walls” for an echo are the sensory surfaces, the intensity is experience. The in-betweeness filled by experience (intensity) is the incorporeal dimension of the body. Conversion of the materiality of the body into an event, a relay between corporeal and incorporeal dimensions, not yet a subject but the conditions for the emergence of a subject, a “self-“. Consiture distributing self-reflexivity, self-referential, self-relation along nature-culture continuum.
    • Leibniz, feeling of having a feeling, “perception of perception,” consider memory, sensation, and perception occuring w/o characters (properties), w/o determinate form or content. Memory without content as pure pastness, as in, the condition of emergence for determinate memory. Pure tendency, futureness, pure futurity.
    • Feedback and feedforward, or recursivity, in addition to converting distance into intensity, folds the dimensions of time into each other. The field of emergence of expereince thought of as space-time continuum, as an ontogenetic dimension prior to the separating-out of space and time (same approach as with nature-culture). Linear time, like position-gridded space, would be emergent qualities of the event of the world’s self relating.
    • Leibniz allusion to tendency, Spinoza link between movement and sensation. Spinoza defines body in terms of relations of movement and rest, referring to body’s capacity to enter relations of movement and rest. Power (potential) to affect or be affective. Issue after sensation, perception, memory, is affect. Spinozist problematic of affect, weave together conepts of movement, tendency, intensity, in what sense the body coincides with its own transitions(relation between movement and rest) and transitioning with its potential. Variation in intensity is felt, the feeling of transition by nature stretches between phases of a continuing movement.
    • William James… if incorpreal materialism is an empiricism it is summed up by formula: the felt reality of relation. Feeling of relation may not be large enough to register consiously, may be “small perception” or microperception… nonconcious. Whereas feeling of the relation may be to small to enter perception (infraempirical) the relation it registers is too large to fit into a perception since it envelops a multiplicity of potential variations (superempircal). Actualization affectively joins the infraempircal to the superempirical.
    • Affect, sensation, perception, movement, intensity, tendency, habit, law, chaos, recursion, relation, immanence, the “feedback of higher forms.” Emergence, becoming, history, space, time, space-time, space and time as emergences. Nature-culture, matter, feeling, matter feeling. Even, capture, possible, potential, power.
    • Ch. 1, The Autonomy of Affect, follows engagement with work of Deleuze, Guattari, and Deleuze/Guattari, back to their inspirations, Bergson, Spinoza, Simodon. In essay “Too-Blue: Color-Patch for and Expanded Empiricism,” incorpreal materialism meets up with radical empiricism. Then William James, A.N. Whitehead and Isabelle Stengers.
  • Constant reconstellation of concepts differences in their casting when they make repeat apperances is that Massumi is trying to seriously demonstrate that writing in the humanities can be affirmative or inventive, which requires experimentation. If there are methods of writing in institional humanities considered experimental then they would be inventing/reinventing concepts and connections between concepts. In experimenting 1) dont apply concepts or systems of connection, this changes the material it is being applied to not the concept 2) aim is to add “more to the world” not “more of the same,” maintain focus on invention not mastery and control. 3) avoid application with exemplary method: Giorgio Agamben ” it holds for all cases of the same type, and, at the same time, is included in tese. It is one singularity among others, which, however, stands for each of them and serves for all.” Example is not general (system of concepts) nor particular (material that the system is applied). Exemplification activates detail, every detail is essential, each detail is like another example embedded in it, a microexample. 4) accept risk of deviancy, invite it, take joy in digressions. If you know where you will end up when you begin, nothing has happened in the meantime. Allow yourself to surprise yourself. Examples requires using inattention as a tool, get lost in flow. Be willing to affirm your own stupidity. 5) goal is not negating systems but to set systems in motion. Find concepts in other disciplines, apply them to examples in a different system of concepts, allow the concept to deviate even if violently, and reconncet it to other concepts from other system until a new system starts to form. repeat. follow the growth. let them be buds. they are problems for your readers to explore, this is a gift for research and experimentation. if it is compelling, it is a creative contagion.
    • Massumi uses scientific and mathematical models / systems of concepts, science as a discipline thinks this is wrong. Good. Advocate for taking from science but maintaining scientific affect to create conceptual struggle and creative tension. Advocate for making the humanities continually renegotiate relations with sciences and rearticulate what affects they (humanities) can transmit and answer what is unique about humanities.
    • In Parables for the Virutal: Movement, affect, sensation. Logical form of the example: parable, real but abstract: virtual, an insensibile body is a truly continuous body: paradox of dynamic unity and sensation. Virtual recede from becoming creates a void.

INTERESTING CITATIONS AND DEFINITIONS

Suggested reading:  Deleuze, Gilles. The Conditions of the Question: What Is Philosophy? In Critical Inquiry; Spring 1991; 17, 3; pg. 471-478

People: Scylla, Charybdis, Saussarian, CS Peirce, Foucault (incopreal materialism), Henri Bergson (Zeno’s paradox), solidify (3), Leibniz, Gilbert Simondon, Spinoza, William James, A.N. Whitehead, Isabelle Stengers.

Definitions: coextensiveness, incorpreal, ontological, Bergansonian revolution, ontogenic, field of emergence, immance,nature-culture continuum, elide, empiricism,

POST-READ

This took me a long time I am tired and my butt is tired. It feels like eating spaghetti you can only eat with your hands but you’re polite so you start with a fork and spoon (even though you never eat spaghetti with a spoon you see people doing it in a restaurant sometime) and then you’re in the midst of the Bergsonian Revolution and you look up and realize its all over your face and the noodles are all between your fingers and not only is it more fun, not only does it taste better, but you feel like you’ve joined a secret club, no napkins necessary. Like, okay cool you passed the test, here’s whats really going on. You thought you’d sneak through by looking at the back entrance? Nah that’s just a trap for the scientists, to make them think we think they’re snooty, you’re cool though I’ll tell you how to get real fucked up.

10/08/20 3:31 PM