@malarkeypalaver @daveowhite@tobias_revell@mattlingard @Andrew_Slttr @ualspark@UALTLE @tonyplcc @LpanesarLucy @obaddeley @paulglennon@ResearchLCC '...A lot happens to the concept of agency once nonhuman things are figured less as social constructions and more as actors, and once humans themselves are assessed not as autonoms but as vital materialities.' Jane Bennett (2010).
@malarkeypalaver @daveowhite@tobias_revell@mattlingard @Andrew_Slttr @ualspark@UALTLE @tonyplcc @LpanesarLucy @obaddeley @paulglennon@ResearchLCC 'While the smallest or simplest body or bit may indeed express a vital impetus, conatus or clinamen, an actant never really acts alone. Its efficacy or agency always depends on the collaboration, cooperation, or interactive interference of many bodies and forces...
@signsofrevolt@tobias_revell@UALTLE @malarkeypalaver @mattlingard @Andrew_Slttr @ualspark@daveowhite @tonyplcc @LpanesarLucy @obaddeley @paulglennon@ResearchLCC Perhaps the problem with art school type teaching is that it often forgets to articulate what and why it is; or to suggest how that might be more broadly relevant / applicable - particularly now, today... And, perhaps more vitally, in ‘accessible forms’...?
@malarkeypalaver @mattlingard @Andrew_Slttr @ualspark@UALTLE@daveowhite@tobias_revell @tonyplcc @LpanesarLucy @obaddeley @paulglennon@ResearchLCC I wouldn’t have been able to be at 2 of those 3 if they’d been in rooms - as perhaps many of those I met there. I sense that people felt able to share things in these environments we made: ‘negotiated’ environments. The terms we use to communicate might well be kept... fluid??
@malarkeypalaver @mattlingard @Andrew_Slttr @ualspark@UALTLE@daveowhite@tobias_revell @tonyplcc @LpanesarLucy @obaddeley @paulglennon@ResearchLCC I’m so fortunate to have been in three, very different, relevant, sessions today. In each one people shared difficult stories. We acknowledged pain. In each one people listened to others, and thereby learned. My opinions have been challenged; and again. I now need to share some.