Jialu, steady as she goes. Habits. This is a big deal Isobel, as it turns out we have a lot of habits, we are a habitual species, if you like. Learning your habits is good. And then learning ways to change your habits, that is even better. It is not, it turns out, about will power, it is knowing how in your own case why some habits stick and others don’t.
Isobel (again) picks up on the interest in this studio on specifics and Lydia discusses the same in terms of relationality, the point to try to learn here is profoundly simple. If I did not have any relations to other things, what would I be? Similarly, she goes on to wonder about how relations change over time. Yes, but also they are all we are, in the moment too. And then Jialu, again, with an effort at materiality, relationality, agency. Impressive. These are things that will emerge over the course of the semester.
Being Specific and Other Varieites
Jialu, steady as she goes. Habits. This is a big deal Isobel, as it turns out we have a lot of habits, we are a habitual species, if you like. Learning your habits is good. And then learning ways to change your habits, that is even better. It is not, it turns out, about will power, it is knowing how in your own case why some habits stick and others don’t.
Isobel (again) picks up on the interest in this studio on specifics and Lydia discusses the same in terms of relationality, the point to try to learn here is profoundly simple. If I did not have any relations to other things, what would I be? Similarly, she goes on to wonder about how relations change over time. Yes, but also they are all we are, in the moment too. And then Jialu, again, with an effort at materiality, relationality, agency. Impressive. These are things that will emerge over the course of the semester.
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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 6, 2017
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