User:Queenfeline/catch a brainstorm

CRUSHING AS A TOOL FOR RESEARCH: Listen to your impulses and intuition while approaching a certain topic. Take thinking-feeling and embracing the not-yet-knowing seriously. Temporarily postpone the search for words. Trust your fascinations. Become a gatherer. Sourround yourself with your crushes in material and spirit. Make fan folders for all of your crushes. Feed them. Let the stuff that inspires you talk back to you.

Implicate yourself in your work and your points of critique. Vulnerability is a powerful tool. Allow yourself to crush and crush again.

Unravel the presumed linearity of articulating an idea first, then experimenting, then producing results.

Imagine yourself as part of an organic entity of dynamic directions, movements, associations, expressions and positions. Visualize your process backwards. Work parallel on all ends (writing, reading, designing, making). Let visual material inform your words, let words become strategies for visual gestures.

Crushing is recommended for all areas of research <333

Project proposal: 1500 Words, kinda like a PMOMM used as a guide for the project part

Thesis: 7000-8000 Words,

Reclaiming language User:Queenfeline/Words We Inherit, Words We Invent

How are feminist values encoded—or silenced—through language and publishing formats?

How do feminist movements use language to resist, redefine, or reclaim power?

How are definitions and glossaries sites of epistemic control—and how can they be reclaimed for feminist ends? Who defines meaning, and who gets to speak?

How can a glossary be used as a feminist publishing method?

How are certain voices marginalized or excluded from meaning-making? What happens if definitions are open to multiple interpretations, narratives, or contradictions?

Can glossaries be performative, open-ended, or generative rather than fixed? What happens if definitions are open to multiple interpretations, narratives, or contradictions?

– Make my own feminist glossary – with the possibility for people to contribute to it in order to hear voices that mostly stay unheard.

Why make it online and with that global? Different people all around the world make different experiences and in order to practice intersectionality it is important to also hear voices which widen your understanding of what it means to behave feministic in this day and age.

A glossary is traditionally linear, authoritative, closed. But what if it was open-ended, networked, affective, or contradictory — like lived experience? Can definitions reflect lived experience, not just academic consensus? What happens to a glossary if we abandon objectivity and embrace subjectivity?

It is to nice to read literature on language and feminism from 30/40 years ago and see that a little bit has changed since then. Some examples don't work anymore cause the word has been actively reclaimed. (Bitches wear furs. well hell yes they do!) On the other side it is crazy that we have come only this small way and there is still a big big need for feminism and still a long way to go till equality.

Deborah Cameron asks herself in her 1985 published book "Feminism and Linguistic Theory" why she writes another book on this topic and if there is not enough literature on this topic. Meanwhile I'm sitting here 40 years later and asking myself the same question haha so im taking that as a sign not not ask myself that anymore and just do it. If i find it necessary there will be other people who thing so too. AND, very important to ask, would a man ask himself that question? Richtig, Nein! Also machen wir das auch nicht!

Oh something that clicked just now: Some women are a bit afraid of feminism, because it is a fight and that sounds so harsh and aggressive and they don't want to be associated with it. Which makes so much senseeee! Of course they don't want that cause society tells women to be loving and caring and not angry and strongly opinionated. They tell women that self sacrifice is normal and a good thing. So standing up for oneself and taking on 'male' attributes, such as powerful and strong and fighting, feels uncomfortable. and thats exactly what the patriarchy wants so women don't get comfortable rebelling against the system that holds them small.

"Catch a brainstorm"

– Wikimedia Photo Archive
–ASCII Art font generator
– How to git workshop with michael

– Michaels git workshop

– How do we consider practise, not just product?

– Philosophie und grafische Experimente

– Website: philosophische fragen auf die man antworten kann mit grafischen formen ?!

Music as a language

– What (even) is language?

– What is in it that we think we understand?

– What does it even mean to understand?

– What are the objects of understanding, what is there to understand?

– notation = language?

– if so, what are we reading and understanding in that?

"Voice is a medium for collective practise"– Let's talk about unspeakable things

Words shape our world.

Language can also change our world – feminist language (go read glossary of undisciplined design!)

– tattoo flipbook weiterarbeiten?

– generell: Wie können grafische elemente (per zufall) entstehen?

collective – collaborative

read as many books as possible!!!

As CSS works with language – how is it similar to poetry?

– find books about coding as language

A definition of definition

– alsways come up with new ways to describe/define the words to define the defined

"To fall quickly and in large amounts"cascading

Zine – Wörter als Grafiken/Grafen

Annotation zine

– layout all the pages round a table

– give everyone a pencil and let them annotate every page

Keyboard Zine

– write the same thing on different language keyboards and note the positions grafically

Websites

– with js i guess... when type a random character it takes it and displays it a random number of times and with random fontsizes (and fonts?)

– type a caracter this displays a form in a randomized size on a randomized place on the viewport, different keys do different forms – maus hinterlässt eine spur

– poem generator... take the email subjects?! and then make 4 or 5 lines - with filling words?

RE: Poetry

what happens to the web, if the content gets analog and then back into the web?

– Fragmentation

– pinplotting on the special paper a zine?

– Verschiedene Arten von Zeiterfassung/-darstellung hier

Why and how do we feel connected through the internet?
human interaction – the www as a tool for (feminist) connection

Feedback

Where am I standing? Who am I speaking to? Find my voice, put my feed on the ground (or acknowledge that they are already somewhere on a ground) and speak with my voice! Pin-pointing more.

To < p > or not to < p >

to declare something dead is must've been alive first.

– when we say a link is "dead", we're using a metaphor that implies the link once had life — it functioned, led somewhere, served a purpose. This language hints at a deeper intuition many people share: that the web feels alive in some way. Not in a biological sense, of course but there is a lot of organismic terms when it comes to the web – it grows, decays, evolves, gets "sick" (with malware), and even dies in parts (dead links, defunct sites). So while the web isn't alive like humans, it behaves in ways that resemble life: changing, reacting, replicating.

Digital decay – digital memory

Digital Memory and the Archive – Wolfgang Ernst (2012) – A more philosophical, media-archaeological look at how digital systems remember and forget, including how data "lives" and "dies."

Zombie Media – Garnet Hertz & Jussi Parikka (2012) – A media art theory essay about technologies that won’t die—obsolete but lingering in digital ecosystems. Parallels ideas of digital haunting and undead links.

Digitales Objektgedächnis

That "internet of things" thing

https://www.wolfgang-wahlster.de/wp-content/uploads/tN15_English.pdf – Digital Product Memory:Embedded Systems Keep a Diary

THE ROLE OF DIGITAL MEDIA IN THE FORMATION OF TRANSNATIONAL MEMORIES ON DISAPPEARANCES

fragile internet

Zeitlichkeit

Is time something we live through or something that lives through us?

Eine Sammlung ( is in itself time related already)

(Falt)plakat – Fotos of decay

Filmstreifen

Kalender

Texts – philosophical (only?), crystals, spacetime, gps, Datumsgrenze and timezones

Heidegger, Sein und Zeit

Elias, Über die Zeit

Hawkins, A brief history of time

Raphaell, Crystal Enlightment

Zeichnungen

poetic coding language

Whose Time Is It?

Things are not meant to last.

– open spell book is a website project on feminist literatur