Fred Moten -> 1:04 >>>
'To demand that an image or thing convoy people problems, that's a lot to ask of an image or a thing. '
Darby English essay - 'Good Fences' in 'Take it or leave it: institution, image, ideology'
Ellegood, Anne, author; Burton, Johanna, author; Hammer Museum
Fred Moten//Refusing Subjectivities via Herman Melville's Judge-uncle
England has changed. These days it's difficult to tell who's from around here and who's not. Who belongs and who's a stranger. It's disturbing. It doesn't feel right. Three months ago, in early June, I moved out here to this new development of Stoneleigh. None of the old villagers seem comfortable with the term 'new developement'. They simply call Stoneleigh the 'new houses on the hill'.
Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore, 2004
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0512/03-shouse.php
Feeling, Emotion, Affect by Eric Shouse
Developers especially value certainty. They need to know
and trust the plan they are delivering. They need to know
that if they propose something that delivers this plan that
it will be given planning permission without fuss or delay.
Because Cranbrook is so big there will inevitably be more
than one developer involved. All developers need the
certainty that what they build forms part of the same vision
and plan for Cranbrook. They need to be confident that all
parts work together for mutual benefit and that what they
build now will improve their ability to sell in the future.
From Keller Easterling: Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space, 2014
p.91-93
Disposition is an extra diagnostic tool for assessing undisclosed capacity or political bearing in infrastructure space.
A contemplation of disposition also summons Michel Foucault's theories about a social and political "apparatus" or "system of relations" that he called 'dispositif'. For Foucault a 'dispositif' was a "a thoroughly heterogeneous ensemble consisting of discourses, institutions, architectural forms, regulatory decisions, laws, administrative measures, scientific statements, philosophical, moral and philanthropic propositions - in short, THE SAID AS MUCH AS THE UNSAID. [MK capitals]
The designer of disposition in infrastructure space is a performer. Active form supplements the aesthetics of object form while addressing THE POLITICS OF DISCREPANCY in extrastatecraft. [MK capitals]
Just as the powers that be in infrastructure space are usually offering persuasive stories that are decoupled from what their organizations are actually doing, performers are accustomed to the idea that action is a carrier of information that may be discrepant from the stated text.
The action, not to be confused with movement or choreography, is the real carrier of information, meaning, and change, and it may be entirely disconnected from the text.
This could be interesting to use as a bases for exploration of THE POLITICS OF DISCREPANCY through workshops with actors/performers in devising and developing a script...
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