eg, which sources could be helpful in the following intersections of theories and praxis
Notes for Inigo Wilkins, Andrew Osborne: Catalysing Dissent
Notes on William E. Connolly. The ‘’New Materialsm’ and the fragility of things
Contains notes on Notes on William E. Connolly. The ‘New Materialsm’ and the fragility of things. From Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 2013
Notes on Stuart Hall, Encoding, Decoding
Contains notes on the S. Hall, Encoding, Decoding from: The Cultural Studies Reader, Edited by Simon During, London, NY: Routledge. PP 90-103
Notes from the Introduction to Realism, Materialism, Art; Sternberg Press 2015
Contains notes on the introduction to the book. Authors: Christoph Cox, Jenny Jaskey, and Suhail Malik
Notes for Deep time (+ a conversation with Doreen Mende)
Contains notes on Achille Mbembe - Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive, and the scribbles from Doreen Mende's talk.
Theory seminar: Prometheanism (Bassam El Baroni)
Notes for theory seminar with Bassam El Baroni on 19 November 2015 in Jakarta - contains scans of my notes and sketches.
Notes: The Idiot Paradigm, Matthew Poole
Source: RMA
[Idiotes] deliberately withdrew from the status of metropolitan citizen to become cosmopolitan-figures without familiar topological or spatiotemporal grounds, or at least figures t~at presented the illusion of and allusion to such groundlessness.
P. 207 - It is important to note that all idiotae, self-declared or not, are apolitical figures without agency to engage in politics, without a polis, and specifically without a civic connection.
Three concepts of rhetoric: "logos" = rational appeal, "pathos" = emotional appeal, and "ethos" = ethical appeal
Townley Vase, 1773 - the idiotes is a heroic fool representing chaotic, irrational, random action intended to break the conventions of the polis.
p.210 - Most significantly of all, the idiotes is the archetypal puer aeternus, the eternal child. So the idiotes is half-devil/half-savior, the threat of destruction and the promise of creation held synthesised within it. The idiotes is fundamentally immature, incompatible with the public sphere as it can never be pubes, adult.
P. 211 - Such a state [of an eternal child] characterizes contemporary art today, which is distinguished by the paradigm of paradigm-less-ness, or a paradigm that permits the endless proliferation of disconnected paradigms.
p.212 - In order to challenge this apolitical hegemony, a non-idealist materialist critique of the quasi-syntagmatic ethico-economic conditions of art needs to supersede the self-limiting and confining illusions/allusions of freedom that are both the principal currency and the constraining embodied web like structures of art today.
Notes from De Duve, When Form Has Become Attitude
LP. 21 - creativity= ability to perceive + imagination (gestalt). Allows art to be taught, not only the technical skill
Pedagogues: Froebel, Montessori, Decroly. School reformers, Rudolf Steiner, John Dewey. Great modern theorists of art: Herbert Read, E.H.Gombrich, Rudolf Arnheim.
- p.22 The difference between talent and creativity is that the former is unequally distributed and the latter universally.
- p.23 - the difference between metier and medium is that the former has a historical existence and the latter a transhistorical existence.
- p.24 - the difference between imitation and invention goes without saying. Whereas imitation reproduces, invention produces; whereas imitation generates sameness, invention generates otherness; whereas imitation seeks continuity, invention seeks novelty.