Research Journal of doll_yoko

maybe it is neighbourly to share the fruits of some of the grunt labour we do as students...the typing up of notes from books .. in the hope that we can weave some of these notes from big brains and minor poets through our own writings ..or use them to generate new trains of thoughts and aesthetic experiments

in that spirit i hereby post the few quotes i got from latour today ..honestly i find his theory hard, but sometimes i think its ok to skate around theory, and interpret it in your own way ... he has a nice turn of phrase anyway...

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i have never done a detailed chapter breakdown

so all i have is this big-picture guide (which changes every year or so), and then the detailed chapter contents i do (and keep changing), as write up each chapter

i have posted a page of typical feedback from my principal supervisor -- sometimes he will email me 3 or 4 pages of typed notes ..othertimes ..if i am in sydney (where my uni is) we meet and he gives me hand written notes as marginalia on a print out of my chapter ..these seem legible when we talk thru them..but once i return to adelaide i realise i can't read his handwriting!

Here is part 2 of a chapter that is in 4 parts

Structure is not one of my strengths, so i am lucky that the structure of each of my 3 case study chapters was designed by 1 of my supervisors

i think it is pretty much a standard marxian approach to looking at a topic

first u have to identify the "antagonism" or motivation for the project

next u have to describe its platforms and processes

then u analyse how it is embedded in a specific culture or context

hello all

we once were 3, and now at armin's good suggestion, we are 4

welcome ms.static, sound artist and artist thinker, whom i first met (i think) in the desert in central australia, at dancer/choreographer Tess de Quincy's magical 2-3 week workshop Triple Alice (a great research model in fact and perhaps something of interest given armin's desire to do moe reseaerchy workshop events)

Occasionally we share bits of our writing in process here -- without even necessarily wanting others to read it -- because just the simple act of publishing in a safe space i think can push the writing a long a little, give it a bit of electro-magnetic wave energy!

The phenomenon of "peer to peer", or "P2P" file-sharing over the internet is a transglobal expression of techno-social relations. We could say the same about other popular domesticised forms of internet usage, such as email, searches, blogging and photo sharing. However, P2P is different, like the 'special' child who doesn't really fit in with the rest of the family.

Once a minor practice in places of privilege in the global North, internet-enabled file-sharing via peer-to-peer (P2P) systems has evolved into a vast, transglobal activity. Engaging millions of participants, P2P is decentralised, deeply networked, grass roots-driven, polycultural phenomenon growing exponentially. It appears uncontainable, as each wave of technological, legal and commercial measures designed to halt or divert it fail. Moreover, pressure exerted 'from above' by governments and multinational industry alliances becomes a productive force within geographically dispersed, globalised P2P networks and communities. Technical and social innovations are generated 'from below' in order to protect and expand “cultures of sharing,” or “piracy.” Paradoxically, these innovations become mainstreamed as they force corporations to adopt new business models in response to 'market' desires.

Writuals for Writing:

scents, sounds, objects - to help get into the zone

reading again armin's thought-provoking Waves - art of deconcealement text just now a paragraph towards the end reminded me of something i had to write recently, a blurb, for an oz art&tech publication. and ive had lindsay's spooky silurian image in my head for days. so i just did a quick cut up, for fun. it made me realise how i miss working with 2 friends --together we occasionally work/play under the banner of identity_runners, and its a fully open source methodology of sharing everything for everyone ..if i get a chance i'll post sumething about our method