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As Marilyn Strathern (2006) observes, key here has been the conceptual transformation of the university into a “knowledge producer”. With “knowledge” reconceptualised as “information”, this has led to growing demands for “expertise”. In this framework, academics are a group of “experts” waiting to be deployed – primarily by government and industry – to meet the needs of “society” (now inserted as an interlocutor, albeit sometimes via the rubric of the “taxpayer”). Thus, intellectual thought, now transformed into “expert knowledge”, must be publicly relevant, with academics incessantly exhorted…
Authorship in the post-academic, post-human age - Allegra Labbut she is hesitant to state clearly how online dating fits into her scheme. Whatever comes next, she is likely to have concerns that it, like all the previous manifestations of dating, will be a barrier to real emotional connection instead of a conduit to it. Dating teaches women to make themselves desirable, rather than how to desire. It reflects the impulses of the economy, not of our hearts. And yet, as flawed as dating can be, it works; people find each other in the marketplace.
Labor of Love by Moira Weigel review – how dating has changed | Society books | The Guardian“The ways people date change with the economy,” Weigel writes in her introduction. “You could even say dating is the form that courtship takes in a society where it takes place in a free market.” You could, but I don’t know why you would.
Labor of Love by Moira Weigel review – how dating has changed | Society books | The Guardian“personality” was not a commonly used term until the 1910s and 20s
Labor of Love by Moira Weigel review – how dating has changed | Society books | The GuardianIn the 30s, those same college kids spent less, but dated even more, as collecting dates became the only kind of conspicuous consumption they could afford, a type of romance Weigel calls “Rating and Dating”. This eventually gave way to “The Steadies” of the 50s and 60s, when young people paired off with one another, a reflection of the abundance of the postwar boom, when there was enough for everyone. Late in the 60s came free love, a “deregulation of the dating market”, followed by taste-obsessed yuppies, who mirrored an increasingly niche consumer-oriented economy. Our current era is defined…
Labor of Love by Moira Weigel review – how dating has changed | Society books | The GuardianMoira Weigel’s Labor of Love, a historical survey of dating in the 20th century, advances the common-sense argument that dating feels like work because it is work, and, like work, it is subject to market forces.
Labor of Love by Moira Weigel review – how dating has changed | Society books | The GuardianIt is the tender and thoughtful collection of goods for your kin, and a moment for reunion, for celebration, and for introspection around those goods.
On Gathering - Mindy SeuClassifying traditional craft as different from modern design deems the histories and practices of design from many cultures inferior.
What Does It Mean to Decolonize Design? – Eye on Design“Colonization” is rooted in indigenous peoples’ experiences of oppression—specifically, the seizure of native resources, as well as the embedding of Western ideology into society. The word “decolonization” was originally used to describe the withdrawal of a state from a former colony. Now, decolonization has come to represent a whole host of ideas: It’s an acknowledgement that in the West, society has been built upon the colonization of other nations, that we exist within a system of privilege and oppression, and that a lot of the culture we’ve come to see as ours has actually been appropriate…
What Does It Mean to Decolonize Design? – Eye on Designsocietal movements come not from singular authors but emerge as dissolved collections, making it impossible to know where one thing begins or ends. To survive, we gather not only from what’s around us, but from among us.
On Gathering - Mindy Seu“It’s not about perfection. It’s all about the gesture.”
On Gathering - Mindy Seu“the conscious bringing together of people for a reason,” is to create a “sense of belonging.”
On Gathering - Mindy Seu“temporary alternative worlds,” in The Art of Gathering (2018)
On Gathering - Mindy SeuWhen we keep our microphones off and stage our conversations as a singular broadcast between hosts and viewers, we lose moments for participation.
On Gathering - Mindy SeuPerhaps gathering stories is radical because it refuses to give the gatherer all of the credit.
On Gathering - Mindy SeuOral histories, like publications, bind people. After a conversation, all parties maintain ownership of what transpired, and they continue to hold ties to one another. This form of storytelling is not predetermined, but develops through its unfolding.
On Gathering - Mindy SeuMemory work of this sort is also a form of activism. Whose memories are saved and retold to future generations?
On Gathering - Mindy SeuStories are entrusted to storytellers by the elders. But these storytellers are not meant to repeat the narrative verbatim; they are expected to understand these stories and, through them, reflect on what the community needs to hear at any given moment. This temporal gathering, both in and around a story, acknowledges the personal subjectivities always inherent in retelling. Only multi-authorship truly exists.
On Gathering - Mindy Seustorytelling from a decentralized perspective
On Gathering - Mindy Seu“If history is written by the victors, then the future will be written by the vectors,”
On Gathering - Mindy Seucitational networks; who you read allows you to catch similar sentiments
On Gathering - Mindy SeuIn a public conversation, Legacy and I discussed the idea that an essay anthology or digital index, in their presentations of new histories, might serve as maps. 13 By aggregating nodes and markers, hard research and scattered facts, these containers might surface suppressed voices among the connections they draw, as introduced by Saidiya Hartman’s notion of “critical fabulation.” History written by the victors offers glimpses of marginalized figures, for whom we need to “fabulate” stories to “strain against the limits of the archive” and “represent lives… through the process of narration.” 14…
On Gathering - Mindy SeuI logged hundreds of hours of phone calls and emails, which led to web rings, hypertext trails, and screenshots of the Wayback Machine and Rhizome’s Webrecorder.
On Gathering - Mindy SeuThe index holds examples of hackerspaces, digital-rights activist groups, DIWO (Do-It-With-Others) organizations, DIY (Do-It-Yourself) teledildonics manuals, bio-hacktivists, data dominatrixes, and open-source estrogen pioneers.
On Gathering - Mindy SeuIt is the tender and thoughtful collection of goods for your kin, and a moment for reunion, for celebration, and for introspection around those goods.
On Gathering - Mindy Seu