Caroline Daish

What is the soul?

How does the soul relate to the self,

a) historically (post-Christian Modern Era, Romanticism) ?

b) in the contemporary context (Individualism, mediatized reality, neo religions, ecology and nostalgia)?

Is the concept of the soul still relevant? Can it be salvaged? Is there still room for something intangible, or ineffable about the mind? What remains of what was once considered the seat of the deepest human emotions ? Has science and modern psychology dispelled all of these old ghosts, or do we still care for a degree of unknown related to the self at its extremities.

What are the tangible manifestations of the soul?

What part does suffering play in the connection between the soul and body?

What happens when the internal world surpasses the external reality, in cases such as madness, alienation, subjugation, melancholia?

What are other possible metaphors to materialize the invisible part of the self? For instance, can the intangible be measured, compared, evaluated ? What is its weight against the material world?

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Research, in art is a noisy research

don't know -- Caroline Daish -- Wed 5 Oct 2011 -- 0 reactions
"For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there."
Contemporary Art Museum St Louis
September 11, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Organised by Anthony Huberman

"Research, in art is a noisy research, where explanations are necessarily flimsy, provisional and always subject to change."

John Keat's negative capability (the ability to tolerate and even enjoy the experience of confusion or doubt.) pg 21

The aim of science is not things themselves but the relations between things; outside those relation there is no knowable reality. Poincaré Science and Hypothesis (1905) pg 25

Alfred Jarry developed his Science of Imaginary Solutions or 'pataphysics. pg 50

For Bataille, nonknowledge is the passion for not-knowing, a type of knowledge that allows us to appreciate, enjoy and know the world. pg 52

Inserting themselves into literature's tradition of tragic-comic pairs struggling to understand the world- Bouvard and Pécuchet, Rosencrantz and Gildenstern, Vladimir and Estragon, Peter Fischli and David Weiss…pg 76

What is now known as the 'Reggio Emilia Method' sees children as little researchers who strive to understand the world, making their own theories to explain it. A teacher's responsibility is to guide their natural curiosity rather than replace it with a knowledge that is foreign to them, Each child has a particular theory in a particular language, making a school into a place of a hundred theories in a hundred languages. pg 80

Austrian philosopher, Ivan Illich sought to expose the dangers of modern industrialization and its effects on education, medicine, energy, transpiration and economic development. Unlike Freire, Illich believed in capitalism and rather than pronouncing its failure warned of its perversions. pg 82

Ranciere 'the student of the ignorant master learns what his master does not know, since… he does not learn his master's knowledge'. pg 84

It is not always easy to be confronted with situations that invalidate entrenched patterns of understanding. The value of this confrontation is directly proportionate to our ability to convert the crisis of insecurity into the fertile potential of change. Diedrich Kramer, things we don't understand curated by Roger M Buergel and Ruth Noack. pg 88

"Research, in art is a noisy research, where explanations are necessarily flimsy, provisional and always subject to change." pg 101

Michel Foucault noted that " curiosity evokes 'concern', it evokes the care one takes for what exists and could exist; a readiness to find strange and singular what surrounds us."

… artists should act on the certainties of heir intuition and claim that truth lies in experience, no matter how incomplete it may be. They would, with Paul Feyerabend, assume an anarchistic knowledge and proceed against method, allowing accidental encounters and personal idiosyncrasies to guide their discoveries. pg 146

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visual ethnography -- Caroline Daish -- Tue 24 May 2011 -- 0 reactions

EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHY

Anette Baldauf & Aras Ozgun

Rits Film School Jan 2011

Scientific documentation

Scientific discipline in part of sociology

TRUTH and documentaries & ethnography

1) Borat to Foucault (Borat’s other interview? date service and Neil Armstrong?)

2) Birth of orginal ethnography – colonization

3) Ethnography applied – visual ethnography

4) Experiemntal Ethnographic films 60’s- 80’s, 80’s- today, post colonization. What is reality? What is truth?

5) The Power of The Faux

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Caroline Daish -- Wed 4 May 2011 -- 0 reactions

The quote below is from Franco Berardi’s book The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy (Semiotext(e)2009)

“The soul is the clinamen^* of the body. It is how it falls, and what makes it fall in with other bodies. The soul is its gravity. This tendency for certain bodies to fall in with other is what constitutes a world.

The soul does not lie beneath the skin. It is the angle of this swerve and what then holds these bodies together. It spaces bodies, rather than hiding within them; it is among them, their consistency, the affinity they have for one another. It is what they share in common: neither form, nor some thing, but a rhythm, a certain way of vibrating, a resonance. Frequency, tuning or tone.”

^*Clinamen is the Latin name Lucretius gave to the unpredictable swerve of atoms, in the atomistic doctrine of Epicurus.

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