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The Machine has seven dividers. The eight dividers are titled, and these are the constraints. For the machine to function each of these dividers must perform it’s own task within the format of a short talk, that reads in print as approximately one paragraph.
[How do you use writing?]


The Dividing titles are:
I use writing a plotting device, I have a heavily research based practice, which involves reading, I use what I call ‘plug’ words’; Often these plugs words or terms are ones which have stuck with me for a couple of weeks or month. The current plug term I am working with began from “animal husbandry” has transmuted into “matter husbandry.”  I use them as ‘plugs or clots of information, as in plugs can be pulled out of a bath tub, a hairy, greasy clump.


'''1) The Fatberg'''
I re-read in order to revitalise work. I have a lot of ‘plug’ documents which sit dormant… I come back to them and work into them. These ‘plug documents’ consist, terms I enjoy, have a sense of word-play, terms I find via twitter, they are always short bursts of information, terms I hear on the radio (actively trying to move away from listening to too much BBC radio 4); the written word must be typed and placed into one of these documents. Recently I have been writing on Post-it notes and stick them into notebooks; they are modular and movable.
'''2) The Lovers'''
Most of my works start with a diagram which plot the point I want to get to.
'''3) The Doldrum waste Islands'''
'''4) The Topiary'''
'''5) The Husbandry'''
'''6) The Disposal System'''
'''7) The Emblem'''
'''8) The Martyr'''
     
Each divider introduces a short talk upon the title each narrated in a different voice, with a different stance. This will map out a congregation of voices and the constellations within of the logic of Matter Husbandry.


I realise I write in a middle aged male voice.  A lot of my work has involved difficult men, which means I read as a middle-aged man. I use outmoded terminology, (...for instance, ‘olfactory’).  The owner of this voice is totally self-satisfied [patrician, pompous, verbose]. This may be because writing comes easily and I assume people will ‘get it’.  My research has been into hobbyists. I have invented my own idiosyncratic mode of address. Have an anthropological interest in the hobbyist.
[Why not outsource the reading to a middle-aged man? Also, consider the hobbyist’s relation to power, Steve recalls his own family's hobbies and suggests they disguise a relation to the British class system and empire. The hobbyist, traditionally, also has a relation to labour, in industrial society it was a way of stepping out of the discourse of labour.]


'''A short talk on The Fatberg'''
Because I feel I have created a persona I feel I need to address it, own it(corrects self and changes word to utilise) and utilise it using a female voice.
I have realised in the past week, there is such strength in the written word, [maybe you over privilege the written word]


The voice//the gender: The Amateur/Enthusiast//Male
I would like to have more of a harness on what I write.


What: The fatberg is a term devised to explain a phenomenologically large blockage of congealed lump fat, Sanitary items, wet wipes and other objects people fuckwittingly flush or pour down drains and toilets.
C reads-[ it is very ‘ruminative’, ]


Why:
Nana’s seminar = texts written by women, ‘the repulsive woman’,... I want to read and perform, because excitement is in the writing and I don’t give enough attention to the presentation. Should be more equally divided.


How:
[A set of tools and instruction.]


 
[Steve’s task for you= write more about this in very clear, journalistic tone, none of your arcane or flowery mode of address. See Orwell’s Politics and the English Language (on Methods page of wiki). Although they betray a prejudice for 'economical' prose, Orwell’s strictures are useful to use as a writing machine.]
'''A short talk on The Lovers'''
 
The voice//the gender: The author// female
 
What: The Lovers are a potential for mankind and matter, but also, the lovers are the becoming and the become, who use the word partner- the worst term to use for your lover at a party.
 
Why:
 
How:
 
'''A short talk on The Doldrum Waste Islands'''
 
The voice//the gender: The only survivor//ambiguous
 
What: The Doldrums Islands are an accumulation of manmade debris and non-biodegradable rubbish that have found each other in the slack tides of the doldrums (an area of ocean on the Equator, affected by the Inter-Tropical convergence zone), been bound together by plants sprouting from bird droppings to form a new ecosystem for survival…a floating island.
 
Why:
 
How:
 
'''A short talk on Topiary'''
 
The voice//the gender: The sensual//female or ambiguous
What: Topiary is a term to describe the horticultural practice of training shrubs and trains to retain clearly defined or ornamental shapes. It is a committed incessant fight, which will make your garden smell like constantly stunted growth.
 
Why:
 
How:
 
'''A short talk on Husbandry:'''
 
The voice//the gender: The factual / ambiguous
 
What: Husbandry means the management and conservation of resources, to care and to cultivate, The antonym of husbandry is wastefulness.
 
 
Why:
 
How:
 
 
 
'''A short talk on Disposal Systems:'''
The voice//the gender: The mythic//female
 
What:
 
Why:
 
How:
 
 
'''A short talk on Emblems:'''
 
The voice//the gender: The middle-aged academic//male
 
What:
 
Why:
 
How:
 
 
'''A short talk on The Martyr:'''
 
 
The voice//the gender: the story teller//female
 
What:
 
Why:
 
How:

Latest revision as of 00:01, 28 January 2017

[How do you use writing?]

I use writing a plotting device, I have a heavily research based practice, which involves reading, I use what I call ‘plug’ words’; Often these plugs words or terms are ones which have stuck with me for a couple of weeks or month. The current plug term I am working with began from “animal husbandry” has transmuted into “matter husbandry.” I use them as ‘plugs or clots of information, as in plugs can be pulled out of a bath tub, a hairy, greasy clump.

I re-read in order to revitalise work. I have a lot of ‘plug’ documents which sit dormant… I come back to them and work into them. These ‘plug documents’ consist, terms I enjoy, have a sense of word-play, terms I find via twitter, they are always short bursts of information, terms I hear on the radio (actively trying to move away from listening to too much BBC radio 4); the written word must be typed and placed into one of these documents. Recently I have been writing on Post-it notes and stick them into notebooks; they are modular and movable. Most of my works start with a diagram which plot the point I want to get to.

I realise I write in a middle aged male voice. A lot of my work has involved difficult men, which means I read as a middle-aged man. I use outmoded terminology, (...for instance, ‘olfactory’). The owner of this voice is totally self-satisfied [patrician, pompous, verbose]. This may be because writing comes easily and I assume people will ‘get it’. My research has been into hobbyists. I have invented my own idiosyncratic mode of address. Have an anthropological interest in the hobbyist. [Why not outsource the reading to a middle-aged man? Also, consider the hobbyist’s relation to power, Steve recalls his own family's hobbies and suggests they disguise a relation to the British class system and empire. The hobbyist, traditionally, also has a relation to labour, in industrial society it was a way of stepping out of the discourse of labour.]

Because I feel I have created a persona I feel I need to address it, own it(corrects self and changes word to utilise) and utilise it using a female voice. I have realised in the past week, there is such strength in the written word, [maybe you over privilege the written word]

I would like to have more of a harness on what I write.

C reads-[ it is very ‘ruminative’, ]

Nana’s seminar = texts written by women, ‘the repulsive woman’,... I want to read and perform, because excitement is in the writing and I don’t give enough attention to the presentation. Should be more equally divided.

[A set of tools and instruction.]

[Steve’s task for you= write more about this in very clear, journalistic tone, none of your arcane or flowery mode of address. See Orwell’s Politics and the English Language (on Methods page of wiki). Although they betray a prejudice for 'economical' prose, Orwell’s strictures are useful to use as a writing machine.]