Ellie, earrings, a walnut. Isobel’s title is productive, we want to specify, not generalise. Louis has a map of some lines, Jack, every elegantly notes that perhaps there is a sociality between things (indeed, how do we think things might be social?) Yolanda uses this to think about her relation to a minced beef cutlet. Forgetting all the relations that preceded the cutlet (grass, pasture, various applied chemicals to ensure health, transport, butchering, cooking) and after. When does it begin? End? I’d suggest there isn’t an end, it ends when you say it does because you say it does (because you’ve run out of time, words, film, reasons). Cameo is thinking about bigger things, not sure if typo, but human’s are not the centre of everything. Taras too picks up on the importance of being specific in describing these relations between things. Nora, usefully, reminds us that thoughts need to become actions, doings, to be things in the world. Jialu has a good drawing, I particularly like the tree. What are the relations between us and trees (and here generalisation becomes useful because all human life, and almost all (there’s only a tiny fraction that isn’t) biological life, is premised on the ability of plants to turn sunlight into stored, consumable energy.
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Ellie, earrings, a walnut. Isobel’s title is productive, we want to specify, not generalise. Louis has a map of some lines, Jack, every elegantly notes that perhaps there is a sociality between things (indeed, how do we think things might be social?) Yolanda uses this to think about her relation to a minced beef cutlet. Forgetting all the relations that preceded the cutlet (grass, pasture, various applied chemicals to ensure health, transport, butchering, cooking) and after. When does it begin? End? I’d suggest there isn’t an end, it ends when you say it does because you say it does (because you’ve run out of time, words, film, reasons). Cameo is thinking about bigger things, not sure if typo, but human’s are not the centre of everything. Taras too picks up on the importance of being specific in describing these relations between things. Nora, usefully, reminds us that thoughts need to become actions, doings, to be things in the world. Jialu has a good drawing, I particularly like the tree. What are the relations between us and trees (and here generalisation becomes useful because all human life, and almost all (there’s only a tiny fraction that isn’t) biological life, is premised on the ability of plants to turn sunlight into stored, consumable energy.
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Adrian Miles
Adrian Miles is a Senior Lecturer in New Media and currently the Program Director of the Bachelor of Media and Communication Honours research studio at RMIT, in Melbourne, Australia. He has also been a senior new media researcher in the InterMedia Lab at the University of Bergen, Norway. His academic research on hypertext and networked interactive video has been widely published and his applied digital projects have been exhibited internationally. Adrian's research interests include hypertext and hypermedia, appropriate pedagogies for new media education, digital video poetics, and the use of Deleuzean philosophy in the context of digital poetics. He was the first or second person in the world to videoblog.
March 5, 2017
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