Patterns: sense

Making sense (of ethnography)

The philosopher must be sufficiently perverse to play the game of truth and error badly: this perversity, which operates in paradoxes, allows him to escape the grasp of categories. But aside from this, he must be sufficiently ‘ill-humored’ to persist in his confrontation with stupidity, to remain motionless to the point of stupefaction in order

Habitually spaced

What does it mean to live in a space?  And what do we do once we have recognized that the choices we make are not, after all, entirely our own?  Are we left floating in a haze of it-doesn’t-matter?  Are we left to choose between boundless freedom and the imprisonment of law?  The choice between

Cyborg Foucault

Figurations are “partial visions” which “provide a sufficiently open space into which to project the possibility of as yet unchartable change” (Bammer). Figurations are “performative images that can be inhabited” (Haraway).  They serve a purpose, and they are playful. Synchronicity is co-happening, co-occurrence, co-articulation, co-operation.  Synchronicity is “temporally significant occurrences of acausal events” (Jung).  Synchronicity