Daily Archives: November 8, 2014

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Reasoneon // Make it New(s)

  By GHink • November 8, 2014

 

      » Reminder: start “net­work wit­ness” focus (indi­vid­ual con­cern — social prob­lem) & tasks (blog­ging)

 
 
Stage III   Assem­blage Tes­ti­mony
Project: “MemeMo­r­ial”

 
M 10-Nov   Read/discuss: E.M.   Chp 3 “The Call (Abject Mon­u­ments)” (pp. 57–81)

 

      Focus/topics: “Rea­so­neon” (logic) in MemeMo­r­ial — tes­ti­mo­nial
      » Discuss/Activity: “Inter­net as liv­ing mon­u­ment”; medi­ated wit­ness & tes­ti­mony

 
 
 
W 12-Nov   Read/discuss: E.M.   Chp 4. “Trans­ver­sal (Into Cyber­space)” (pp. 83–111)

 

    • Key top­ics: Assem­blage → Fig­ure (relays)
      » Dis­cuss: “cog­ni­tive map­ping” (re: Exer­cise 4 & MEmo­r­ial?)
      — “expe­ri­ence of image iden­tity” indi­vid­ual and col­lec­tive
      // “the opti­cal unconscious”

    • toward project:   emblem, “impresa,” “con­cetto”   (expe­ri­enced image testimony)

 
 
 
» Weekly Blog Work:   “net­work wit­ness”   update (page or post/category)

 
 
 
F 14-Nov   Inde­pen­dent Project Work (see email):

    topic (refine); net­work wit­ness (update); class­mate comment

 
 
Due S 15-Nov (see email)   Exer­cise 4: “Cog­ni­tive Map­ping” (rela­tion to issue/topic) — Instruc­tions Page
 
 
 
» PSA: CU Alter­na­tive Breaks Appli­ca­tion (due 18-Nov)
 
 

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Witness

  By GHink • November 8, 2014

 

Win­dow / Glass / Screen (monitor/monitoring)

 

 

    » (Method) in MEmo­r­ial: imag­ing “fore­grounds the need for a poet­ics of using the vis­i­ble to write the invis­i­ble” (111)
    cf. “the opti­cal uncon­scious” (103−05)
    & “image cat­e­gory” of mate­r­ial sig­ni­fiers (in “wreck­work”); exam­ples (52−3)
    → “The goal of Traf­fic Sphere” [prototype/proposal] “is to make high­way fatal­i­ties per­cep­ti­ble, think­able, rec­og­nizble as sac­ri­fice—
    to shift them from the pri­vate sphere of one-at-a-time indi­vid­ual, per­sonal loss to the pub­lic sphere of col­lec­tive val­ues.” (43)

 
 
 
» Net­work Wit­ness (blog tasks):
 

  • “Mon­i­tor the daily news” — and social network(s)? — to “find a report or story that trou­bles you or stings you in some way.
    Doc­u­ment the story and do some research on the back­ground of the prob­lem and the pol­icy issues related to it.” (65)

    • “gather details” — mate­r­ial sig­ni­fiers (as dis­cussed from Chp 2)

    • “The feel­ing aroused by this story con­sti­tutes the call to a con­sul­ta­tion on behalf of the Emer­A­gency” (Prob­lems B Us)

 
 

  • “start an archive of pic­tures and text [and other media] found on the Inter­net that could serve as a vocab­u­lary of stock rep­re­sen­ta­tions of your news event as a scene.” (71)

    • “the Inter­net is a col­lage engine.“
      “a sub­sti­tute image (pic­ture or text) works just as well as the actual one, since the point is gen­er­a­tive, to trig­ger or cue the atmos­phere or mood, not the empir­i­cal repro­duc­tion of a past real­ity.” (71)