3/2/07, in class:
Key terms:
aperture/opening
meaning
truth
exclusions/inclusions
aperture/closure
plural/singular
authority
How is something legitimized or validated?
How can these issues be negotiated in the open letter/a studio practice?
Reading in the context of a meaning, this reader, at this time.
Topics and issues - separately and at the same time.
To unsettle the equation between meaning and truth. To have a more nuanced definition? if more fluid rather than congealed/solid/fixed? if were not aligned into one?
hold onto the intervals, gaps and spaces between these distinctions.
Sources:
p.41
plural and singular
decentralize
authority
p.47
meaning/significance
illumination/interpretation
contextualize/subjectify
Framing:
p.49-50
what gets excised?
historically? by medium? by authority/ruling?
How do you give meaning to something? What does it mean to give meaning? What is the context?
A myth lived as a reality.
A subject of knowledge, a subject of meaning?
The documentary impulse of the open letter.
Be mindful of the inclusions/exclusions, aperture/closure.
