Sunday, October 12, 2008
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Continue...
I've been studying trying to keep track of all my tasking, but I drift into the nothing. Odd. Just a few days ago I found it hard to contain myself from doing nothing, but when I'm busy and time is short my mind drifts to things deemed less important than the task at hand. Why do we want to stay busy, but can't? Why when we try not to do anything, is it so difficult? I guess this is why I'm studying.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Scrutiny of the Everyday
"Recongnizing that 'quotidiennete dissolves (into statistics, properties, data) when the everyday is made an object of scrutiny' he proposes that what connects the most redolent and suggestive attempts to acknowledge the everyday is the project-like status." by Johnstone (page20), who is paraphrasing Michael Sheringham.
Reading this sentence seems to clog up my blood flow in my brain. The everyday object of scrutiny I find to be interesting and kinda true. The idea of finding the everyday as something more then nothing is hard to wrap your mind around. Creating categories of data on the random everyday object seems impossible and unimportant, which may give a status not worthy of study. However, their is literature that shows something is at stake. The project-like status seems to grow onto the projects of attention, who Sheringham is interested in.
The trend that I'm seeing is the terming of the "everyday". Everyday is turning into a status that is beginning the process of being recognized as something worthy of scholarly study. I believe that learning about how we ignore our everyday, teaches us about ourselves. So, by scrutiny of the everyday we find why it matters.
Reading this sentence seems to clog up my blood flow in my brain. The everyday object of scrutiny I find to be interesting and kinda true. The idea of finding the everyday as something more then nothing is hard to wrap your mind around. Creating categories of data on the random everyday object seems impossible and unimportant, which may give a status not worthy of study. However, their is literature that shows something is at stake. The project-like status seems to grow onto the projects of attention, who Sheringham is interested in.
The trend that I'm seeing is the terming of the "everyday". Everyday is turning into a status that is beginning the process of being recognized as something worthy of scholarly study. I believe that learning about how we ignore our everyday, teaches us about ourselves. So, by scrutiny of the everyday we find why it matters.
Monday, October 6, 2008
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