References
Situated Knowledges By Donna Harraway
Who has a body?
We don't want to represent the world.
We don't want one body
Universality is reductionism
Prosthesis and not objectivity
All vision has an embodied nature
The body is an agent not a resource
How to see from below?
Vision requires instruments of vision
Who can and who cannot?
How to see?
Where to see from?
What limits to vision?
What to see for?'
What other sensory powers do we wish to cultivate besides vision?
Location is about vulnerability
Situated knowledges are about communities and not about individuals
Sex as an object of biological knowledge
Situated knowledges require that the object of knowledge is an actor or agent
Conversation vs discovery
Bodies as objects of knowledge are material-semiotic, generative nodes
keywords
subjugated knowledges
location
embodiment
partial perspective
politics of vision
fantastic imaginings
local knowledges
Counter-sexual Manifesto by Paul B. Preciado
Introducing the dildo as an apparatus for deconstructing gender and sexual difference, approaching critically the "biological truths" that frame living bodies. Genitals are considered as biopolitical technology. Sex is read as a technology. The book is constructed through a manifesto, three counter-sexual exercises for generating dildos, theories around how the technology of the dildo can subvert the naturalisation of heteronosexuality, the genealogy of sex toys, the historicity of the western standardisation of gender, the fabrication of living bodies through technologies and a series of counter-sexual reading exercises.
Shell Song by Everest Pipkin
A website that host the vocal and textual narration of a trans man, who gave his voice to Librivox before his transition. His voice through copyright policy got later used for AI training. This narration is an entaglement of thoughts around his own voice dysphoria journey, the materiality of a living body's voice, its restoration as a body capture, the politics of AI voice sampling around standardising gender - binary frequencies, the framing of "pleasant" voices and establishing low wages or forced labor for its creation.
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/shell_song
Animacies by Mel Y. Chen
Animacy is a linguistic term that is connected with liveliness, agency, awareness, mobility. It is cast out as a spell to human and non-human bodies and objects, creating categories of value among them. What is animate and inanimate is constantly under negotiation. Animacy hierarchies are biopolitically produced by notions of citizenship, race, sex, ability and sexuality.
- Animacy is understood as quality of agency, awareness, mobility, liveness
- Language has the alchemical power to animate depending on citizenship, race, sex , ability, sexuality hierarchies.
- "Animacies interrogates how the fragile division between animate and inanimate-that is beyond human and animal- is relentlessly produced and policed and maps important political consequences of that distinction.
- "Western tradition does not generally recognise a "continuum of animacy" through the living, the dead and objects.
- This book is inserting non-human bodies and inanimate objects into the realm of biopolitics.
Pleasure Activism by maree brown
Pleasure activism is about "making the revolution irresistible". About embodying social change through pleasure. Pleasure activism learns from somatics, a perception of body, mind and spirit as united, a collective practice of understanding trauma and pain. Erotic is connected to political and community care is central to activism. The book is consisted of interviews and texts around the author's pleasure activism lineage, poetry and artworks around radical sex, a chronicle of sexual experiences and pleasure as a political practice.
On sonic art + Red bird by Trevor Wishart
https://www.soundohm.com/product/red-bird-a-political-pris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lekLl7o8yrc
Deep listening by Pauline Oliveros
"What is Deep Listening? This question is answered in the process of practicing listening with the understanding that the complex wave forms continuously transmitted to the auditory cortex from the outside world by the ear require active engagement with attention. Prompted by experience and learning, listening takes place voluntarily. Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening. The ear is constantly gathering and transmitting information—however attention to the auditory cortex can be tuned out. Very little of the information transmitted to the brain by the sense organs is perceived at a conscious level. Reactions can take place without consciousness."
This track may contain politics by Hannes Liechti
From the author, page 10
" In this book, I argue that analysis of the culture of sampling is
one possible way to access particular narratives of this world.
The inclusion of external music, environmental noises, or found media
material brings the world into popular music tracks in a condensed
form. Timothy Taylor (2001, 139) describes sampling as providing
“aural glimpses of the social.” Every process of sampling represents
a complex net of contexts, meanings, choices, creative decisions,
and musical strategies. In-depth analysis of such processes and
their socio-cultural ramifications means revealing and interpreting
this net as far as possible."
Why has a particular sound been sampled?
This book focuses on electronic musical tracks that contain political sampling material
Lara Sarkisian - Kenats
https://soundcloud.com/larasarkissian/kenats?in=evolution-fan/sets/warm-water
Moro - Libres
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Kk97Sf0tW3YpUhNTBuZGr
sampling with political intent
Sampling with political intent
One Pig from Mathew Herbert--> processed sounds from a pig's life to criticise globalised food industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOyllh4UG-U&list=OLAK5uy_mV2FXXq-jjLswh4ErmxpuRt8utltd3uIE
Apotome project by Kyam Allami
https://khyamallami.com/Apotome-Khyam-Allami-x-Counterpoint