[...]ion of neoliberal ="trms">agency)
="prgrph">-performing the ="trms">affective venture and glamour labor, characteristic of the cultural industries today, (="trms">embodying the) hypermediated brand intrusion and suffusion
="prgrph">-using your own self-consciously branded personae to stand out in a ="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluttered field of visual noise
“famous for being famous” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">fable of “that which captures our gaze, does not capture our respect”
="prgrph">-fame is built out of ="trms">material human bodies moving through physical space, engaging and ="trms">interacting with other ="trms">material human bodies. it is forged in a ="trms">social somewhere.
...photographed on the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right sidewalks at the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right times by the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right photographers
="prgrph">-persistent logic of image accumulation and circulation
="prgrph">-photographer’s exceptional status='lgc'>: the ‘decisive moment
="prgrph">-making yourself into a street style sensation through sheer force of will
='strcls'>***practice of distinction='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> you have to make it appear that other people are more ="trms">interested in you than you are in them)
...take someone’s photo, post it online, appropriate their ="trms">social capital, then ditch them and move on (a game played throughout the ="trms">fashion industry) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- constant and well-managed visibility
(the misleading idea of) “style ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to be picked out of a crowd” ='lgc'>[style, that little something extra as vague and indeterminate as Weberian charisma that most people simply do not possess='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-the ="trms">fashion photographer's eye='lgc'>: the ="trms">affective ="trms">instrument through which the photographers feels what she sees (intuitive, ="trms">embodied, automatic, as a style radar)
street style star ='lgc'><='lgc'>== the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right people like you
="prgrph">-what is new in new moment of public viewing='qstn'>? can we have a public moment (exhibition, etc.) and concider glamor and ="trms">fashion and ="trms">modernity coinciding with ="trms">technology and digital platforms='qstn'>?
(for me still the inner thoughts and public life are not b="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lured, ='thdf'>that is why i cannot post so quick online)



why use design as a template for reworking ethnography='qstn'>?
='strcls'>*the design process is generally oriented toward transforming (or cooking) “raw” information into “useful knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge,” a guided mutation of “mere ideas” into “workable concepts” or a “feasible design” that then becomes an “object” (in all possible meanings of the term) in the ="trms">world='strcls'>*
design='lgc'>: ="trms">techniques for “working out” and “working through”


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a balance between structure and flexibility
="lstsrd">1. active deconstruction='lgc'>: (to arrive at collaboratively, of the work's otherwise obscured underlying com="trms">position) to focus on='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•ethnographic ="trms">specifics
="lsts lst1">•theoretical frameworks
="lsts lst1">•(="trms">writing) style
="lsts lst1">•how arguments are constructed
="lsts lst1">•
="lstsrd">2. projection='lgc'>: (to engage a bit more ="trms">seriously in speculative, comparative, and synthetic thinking)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">sorting activity, posting on the wall
="lsts lst1">•identify ="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusters of concepts that could form new and potentially unexpected ="trms">categories
="lsts lst1">•to select a few of the ="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusters that you feel (individually and collectively) are useful for generating possible new avenues for speculation
="lsts lst1">•
="lstsrd">3. reconstruction='lgc'>: (dedicated to innovation)
to develop a “rapid prototype” for a new ethnographic/research form, ="trms">method, or mode, using the ="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusters of concepts they had identified as ="trms">interesting and useful for speculation
="lsts lst1">•thinking about possibilities for how (ethnographic/research) ="trms">material can be analyzed, argued, collected, or ="trms">presented, and needed to be something other than a ="trms">verbal description
="lsts lst1">•using  pechakucha ="trms">presentation style (20 slides, 20 seconds each, a constraint intended to keep the students on their toes and to prevent dwelling on any single point for too long)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">presentation could tell us as much about how the group worked as much as what they ="trms">specifically worked on

developing various ways in which stakeholders (traditionally have little or no part in the production of ethnography/research='lgc'>: ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers, informants, the public) can be brought into the process of ="trms">crafting and meaningfully manipulating research/ethnographic ="trms">materials

slider ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to “mix” and “remix” (ethnographic) ="trms">data
to fit their ="trms">contingencies
to leave open ="trms">agendas that might be brought to the ="trms">data
to create an infrastructure that allows to experience first-hand the theoretical constructs one uses in text

https://ethnocharrette.wordpress.com/
='at'>#research group workshop ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading, charrette ="trms">method
take Nicholas ="ppl">Shapiro's “Attuning to the Chemosphere”

="lsts lst1">•to redesign pedagogical practices for training rese="trms"nttrm="search">archers
="lsts lst1">•collaborative initiatives in which research designs could be analyzed, experimented with, and transformed.


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“may all your problems be ="trms">technical” (said by Jim Gray oft-quoted U.S. computer ="trms">scientist)
='lgc'>=/= understanding what to build, for whom, for what purposes, and how their usage of the ="trms">technologies will evolve over time

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many artists today work within the regime of the stereotype, manipulating mass-cultural imagery ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> hidden ideological ="trms">agendas are exposed ='lgc'>[="trms">supposedly='lgc'>]
(artist's view='lgc'>:) “stereotype='lgc'> = something arbitrarily imposed upon the ="trms">social field” therefore something relatively easy to depose ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- they can't be more wronge='lgc'>]
(artist's self-grandious fantasy is that) “they pose a threat to those in power”

juxtapose
superimpose
="trms">interpose
='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
expose
oppose
depose

an artist like Kruger ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">gesture (and not action) ='lgc'>--="ppl">Owens='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*stereotype's transformation of action into ="trms">gesture='strcls'>*

="trms">positionality inscribed in ="trms">language by the personal pronouns ‘I/we’ and ‘you’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> manifesting the subject ="trms">positions of partners in a conversation
(the third-person pronoun is a ‘non-person’ designating an objective existence, and not a subject ="trms">position)

="prgrph">-="trms">linguistic class of deixis='lgc'>: here, now, this, that ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> carnal discourse='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-="trms">linguistic class of deictic='lgc'>: I, you ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> directly to the addressee='lgc'>: acquires body, weight, gravity='lgc'>]

she addresses ‘me’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> double address ='lgc'>: oscillate between the personal and the impersonal ='lgc'>~ in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion ='and'>& ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to welcome...

personal pronouns ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> ‘shifter’ ='lgc'>==allow='lgc'>='lgc'>==> speakers to ='strcls'>***shift from ="trms">code to message='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>~ from the abstract to the concrete)

(for ="ppl">Barthes='lgc'>:) operation of messages of the mass media='lgc'>: ='strcls'>***to personalize all information, to make every utterance a direct challenge, not directed at the entire mass of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers, but at each ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader in particular='strcls'>*** ='at'>@constantvzw streaming hypothesis
(‘The ="trms">Fashion ="trms">System’)

(a too common) artistic strategy='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*contradictory construction of the viewing subject by the stereotype='strcls'>*
(a too common) artistic address='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*struggle over the control and ="trms">positioning of the body in political and ideological terms='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in which stereotype plays a decisive role ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Laura='lgc'>]

(='qstn'>?do you want me to be your)
worshiper
citizen
="trms">consumer
producer

(for ="frds scrmbld">Foad, and for most contemporary artists='lgc'>:) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]stereotype='lgc'>: an ="trms">instrument of subjection, to produce ideological subjects that can be smoothly inserted into existing institutions of government, economy, and sexual identity
“stereotype='lgc'> = to disavow ="trms">agency”
(="ppl">Owens on Kruger)

images of the nonproductive body
stereotype of action='lgc'>: worker, rebel ='lgc'>--emphasising='lgc'>='lgc'>--> body's institutionalization='lgc'>: factory, family

for ="frds scrmbld">Laura, in fascist media regime='lgc'>: ‘the body is dismantled as a locus of practice and reassembled as a discontinuous series of ="trms">gestures and poses ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “body='lgc'> = ="trms">semiotic field” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*body inscribed into the register of discourse='strcls'>*

='lgc'>[artistic common views:='lgc'>]
(stereotype uses) deterrence, ='lgc'>[="trms">according to ="ppl">Baudrillard:='lgc'>] dissuasion, promoting passivity, receptivity, inactivity, docile bodies ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- i challenged this in my master thesis on shyness and passivity in performance art='lgc'>]
stereotype replaces ='strcls'>*physical violence='strcls'>* with ='strcls'>*="trms">semiotic coercion='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>that is why it is often seen in art the use of direct physical contact to counter that idea)

stereotype ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">rhetoric of intimidation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it poses a threat to the artist ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the artist bears witness to the state of affairs ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> signify threat to the audience ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">gesture (regarded as threat) ='lgc'>~ ='strcls'>*apo="trms">trope='strcls'>* (a ="trms">gesture performed with the express purpose of intimidating the enemy into sub="trms">mission, ='at'>#omen, apotropaic, averting the evil eye, to turn away harm, ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mithridatic) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> artwork is thus engineered to produce an immediate subjection, (by reiterating a stereotype) imprint the stereotype directly on the viewer's ="trms">imagination ='lgc'>+ (th[...]