Is the space that you have created too 'safe' is this what you are feeling??. I commented on your Rory Stewart interview when you shared it this week. I mentioned Rory being a 'centrist dad' and perhaps Iain McGilchrist's position comes from a similar place in his agreement with a lot of Rorys points,,,,,,quite safe and pragmatic. Does the tenor of Matter with Things however suggest that more radical discourses and practices could be enacted??
Some sanctuary and possibilities along the lines of what Bayo Akomolafe and Tyson Yunkaporta are speaking of and offering.(You did mention Bayo in your brilliant Meta modern essay.)
Brian Massumi and Erin Manning are potentially exploring the praxis of these new enquiries and sentiments too with their Sense Lab, exploring out of Montreal.
I can't help but come back to what happened in your role as stand in for David Fuller at the end of Rebel Wisdom and your choice of quoting Churchill and what unfolded as a result. There was something there for me of the fool and trickster and of the presence of absence that needed to be held heard and ritualised in that space and maybe because it wasn't, it came through in your comic attempt at situating the words in their correct context over and over again........all in that liminal space of endings and beginnings?!
I think Bayo Akomolafe would have loved your place and offering in that particular unfolding. Bayo for the next Realisation festival in 2024 say I.
Another example of how elites gather in aristocratic environments in order to signal progressive status by displaying care, to conveniently minimise the complexities of minority experiences, and to set the rules around what is or isn’t acceptable discourse. It also functions to keep outsiders out unless they can play the game on the same terms, and by extension adopt the same values as the elites (which can be changed and controlled to maintain the status quo).
Had the best time attending. Thank you for hosting this wonderful experience!
Is the space that you have created too 'safe' is this what you are feeling??. I commented on your Rory Stewart interview when you shared it this week. I mentioned Rory being a 'centrist dad' and perhaps Iain McGilchrist's position comes from a similar place in his agreement with a lot of Rorys points,,,,,,quite safe and pragmatic. Does the tenor of Matter with Things however suggest that more radical discourses and practices could be enacted??
Some sanctuary and possibilities along the lines of what Bayo Akomolafe and Tyson Yunkaporta are speaking of and offering.(You did mention Bayo in your brilliant Meta modern essay.)
Brian Massumi and Erin Manning are potentially exploring the praxis of these new enquiries and sentiments too with their Sense Lab, exploring out of Montreal.
I can't help but come back to what happened in your role as stand in for David Fuller at the end of Rebel Wisdom and your choice of quoting Churchill and what unfolded as a result. There was something there for me of the fool and trickster and of the presence of absence that needed to be held heard and ritualised in that space and maybe because it wasn't, it came through in your comic attempt at situating the words in their correct context over and over again........all in that liminal space of endings and beginnings?!
I think Bayo Akomolafe would have loved your place and offering in that particular unfolding. Bayo for the next Realisation festival in 2024 say I.
Another example of how elites gather in aristocratic environments in order to signal progressive status by displaying care, to conveniently minimise the complexities of minority experiences, and to set the rules around what is or isn’t acceptable discourse. It also functions to keep outsiders out unless they can play the game on the same terms, and by extension adopt the same values as the elites (which can be changed and controlled to maintain the status quo).