Category Commentary
As a teacher I feel like I’m really floundering around in this studio at the moment. I’ve realised that the Offenburg collaboration is interesting, and provocative in all sorts of ways (around ownership, authorship, collaboration, and what Timothy Morton calls… Continue Reading →
Just wanted to follow up after our crit session with Paul Ritchard and Sophie Langley. I was talking with both of them yesterday (in a posthumanism research group – the whacky things we do) and they raised again with me… Continue Reading →
From Offenburg arrives: While groping to define, provisionally and partly, what a particular concept may mean, we gain insight into what it can do. It is in the grouping that the valuable work lies. […] The grouping is a collective… Continue Reading →
Nora wonders about the sort of mesh work her dog is in and makes. Note though, a mesh does not have a centre so your dog (or anything else) is not, cannot, be at its centre. This I find very… Continue Reading →
An interesting view of innovation and risk: This story has been so widely repeated as to become a cliche. It’s also inaccurate. Contrary to popular belief, entrepreneurs typically make terrible innovators. Left to its own devices, the private sector is… Continue Reading →
In amongst the difficult language is a restating of my comment about what matters is bringing things into new relations (btw he’s talking about concept albums): From the perspective of a process-relational* ecocultural aesthetic, the best art is that which… Continue Reading →
Oh, this is elegant and this, in particular “A determination to be the change”. To use a cliché, sometimes you’re the hammer, sometimes the nail. What is it for you to leave here to become mainly hammer? Then there’s “I… Continue Reading →
Louis picks up on my ‘insane’ comment. I can be blunt (harsh, abrupt, direct) can’t I? Pain in the arse too I imagine. I described Louis’ comment as ‘insane’ because in a world of change that you have been gifted… Continue Reading →
We are now in a better position to name that other way to promote human health and happiness: to raise the status of the materiality of which we are composed. Each human is a heterogeneous compound of wonderfully vibrant, dangerously… Continue Reading →
Quiet Gatherings
Mel wins best photo. Great part of Victoria. Sam has another good bullet list from the studio. Nora has a list to worry about. Ben writes about his reflective learning graph. Remember, sharp change in any line = a qualitative… Continue Reading →