Then 10 minutes, imagine and write what you think that novice would say back to you. Then write a 15 minute letter to a novice, or a researcher switching to your field as to what your piece of writing is about and why it is hugely important. Share it with a friend, you might also say why. If your thesis was a piece of music what music would it be? If your thesis was a piece of fruit what fruit would it be? If your thesis was a colour what colour would it be? (And it starts a lot like a Youthline feedback exercise i use in personal development groups so dont know why i had never applied it to my work in progress, but there you go- it takes intersections with others sometimes to see things can be done differently) Here's the exercise as shared by Gilly Bolton to Barbara Grant, The writing retreat I am on had a small exercise i thought i would share because it prompted some unusual thinking for me about my thesis. Many thanks to on twitter for providing the retweet that got me t/here. When we have never been human, what is to be done?: Interview with Donna Haraway. Nicholas Gane, interview with Donna Haraway. "women thinkers are made to seem derivative of male philosophers, who are often their contemporaries – made to be derivative and the same, when we are neither." We had better get it that this is a zone where we had better be the movers and the shakers, or we will be just victims. We had better get it that domination is not the only thing going on here. Never the only worlding operation going on, but one that we had better inhabit as more than a victim. It is a statement that we had better get it – this is a worlding operation. This is not some kind of blissed-out techno- bunny joy in information. It is not about having an implant, it is not about liking it. It is not an exhaustive description but it is a non-optional constitution of objects, of knowledge in operation. It is not that this is the only thing that we or anyone else is. Our systems are probabilistic information entities. This is about those objects that we non-optionally are. This is not about things being merely constructed in a relative sense. (To think of the world through connections)Īnd some more clarity on why a perspectives or relativistic position is not being argued in my thesis: I think we love each other’s work because that is what matters. With "Bruno Latour’s complaint about the stupidity of critical theorists is just doing critique once again."īruno and I are in relentless alignment, even as we give each other indigestion about some of the ways we do it. p581)Īnd now i find this same author cited on twitter and I just had to go chasing down another rabbit hole to find the article that referred to "not some kind of techno-bunny bliss".Īhhh the eloquence, fluffy dolphin syndrome has nothing on techno-bunny bliss.Īnd now I have a rebuttal to Latour's thinly veiled reference to Haraway Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. I cannot forget the moment as a phd student when my mouth fell open at reading an academic journal from 1988 that said "And like the god trick, this eye f#cks the world of masculinist extra-terrestrial projects for excremental second birthing. I live in fear of ever meeting my favourite writer, I might not live up to her expectation.Īnd she might not live up to mine, but i am in phd writer love.
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