人算不如天算
I was asked to make a blog for the NYU IMA Low Res graduate program. (I started with no tangible experience in interaction design.) Math is nature’s poetry, and these are just diary entries.
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I was asked to make a blog for the NYU IMA Low Res graduate program. (I started with no tangible experience in interaction design.) Math is nature’s poetry, and these are just diary entries.
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WHAT: IMALR-GT-201
"Dogs are not about oneself. Indeed, that is the beauty of dogs."
Haraway argues that cross-species companion relationships with dogs can teach us something powerful about "significant otherness." We are all subjects who "are training each other in acts of communication we barely understand." This relationship argues a more holistic view on mutual co-evolution.
I can get behind the notion that relationships within companion species are constantly shifting into new states of becoming. It takes at least two to be a companion "species." Haraway’s acknowledgment of this allows us to view relationships through non-binary distinctions and to view nature and culture not as disparate entities, but as two sides of the same coin.
However! I can see many tail-wagging questions that could be/should be raised against Haraway's CSM (especially questions about whether dog training is ever not a demonstration of human dominance/patriarchal relationships), but I'm also not sure if this is the point we should fixate on. (Depending on her intention? Which I can’t quite discern...) But maybe in a system that is perpetually evolving, it's not necessary for Haraway to have answers. (For some reason, we’re talking about it, aren't we?)
Though I think her writing style uses too many words when less would've sufficed, I can appreciate that she wishes to raise profound questions by drawing seemingly absurd connections... I'll flirt with it.
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That being said, I'm unsure if this reading impacted how I'm approaching my topic of kinship-blood. (Maybe it showed me how not to write?) I've always believed that we mutually evolve with all the "things" around us- species or not. We are all kin to each other. (I do value that Haraway used the word "species" to be more inclusive- probably a better designation than "things.")
"I'm sure our genomes are more alike than they should be. There must be some molecular record of our touch in the codes of living that will leave traces in the world."
We could go further than the human-canine relationship. If you subscribe to the Big Bang theory, the entire universe existed as an initial singularity. Everything is kin to everything.
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Updates on Project 01.
Couple thoughts on my Project 01 form. I’m currently leaning into guides that I’ve found helpful. I’m highly passionate about contradictions; for example, disconnecting to reconnect, structured word vomit, and chaotic zen.
Hopefully, whoever comes across this guide can leave with a more grounded (or less, depending on how you view it?) perspective on love, through the lens of blood on a cellular level. Might sound too abstract right now. Probably need to just start making.
Here are some broad scopes I’m considering (sans creative component):
An inspiration of mine is The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. I would say that this text is equivalent to creative rehab. Here, I encountered the term “shadow creative” for the first time, which described perfectly how I felt (feel?). Though I’m not aiming to make a 272 page publication, I would love to be able to provide a similar feeling, through some sort of creative guide that allows people a moment to create, enter, and silently sit within a safe room in their minds.
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Additional note. Margaret is fantastic. She has been nothing short of a magical addition to our “species.” I will be spending some time over the next couple days to deep dive into all the resources she shared with me.