User:₳(ɤ)ɠɭaḯa/T H E S I S O U T L I N E

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Introduction

Why do I investigate this? Is there any urgency and broader question behind this?

I think that in the introduction I should address explicitly the topic and start drawing the connections with the key terms I will incorporate in the thesis as well as in the project like bureaucracy, border, immaterial (border), document, educational bureaucratic apparatus. I would also provide the reader with my motivation for researching this. Maybe placing the research into a larger context and explaining the reason why I zoomed in wdka. At this point maybe it would be fruitful to talk about my positioning and why did I chose to do a situated research, why is it important to my practice? Also maybe the introduction is the place and the time to talk about the relation of the thesis with the project since they are weaved together and in a inseparable way with each other.

A key question and a starting point. I could What it means to be documented and what inefficiently documented? (maybe I can refer at this point to the recording of this woman’s speech at the demonstration in Amsterdam – to transcribe this recording, maybe I can use this as an entry or a starting point structuring my interest/argument in relation to my previous practice)

...

My voice has not be heard

Today I want to emphasize

We will keep fighting

for lgbtq rights

for migrants rights

(applause)

I always say

nobody leaves home

unless home is dangerous

Nobody leaves home unless home …

How many Palestinians do we have in the building ?

We may not be in Palestine

We are very angry with the wall (or war created)

by the Western world

We are very angry

...

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Chapter 1

BUREAUCRATIC APPARATUS AS IMMATERIAL BORDER

I think that this chapter is going to be a bit more theoretical and will attempt to create the territory or background for a future discussion or to justify myself about my initial assumption. I will try to explore these notions that are listed underneath and I ll try to find some (inter)connections and overlaps.

• What is my interest in the notion of border and what is actually a border?

• What is bureaucracy and how bureaucracy can constitute an immaterial border?

• What it means to be documented and what inefficiently documented?

• The tyranny of transparency and the supposed neutrality of the form (maybe this fits better to the last chapter) Talking about the bureaucratic aesthetic and the potential behaviour/readings that (re)produces. Bureaucracy as an (hidden) infrastructure.

• How even an educational institution/a fine art school can reflect a government’s /state’s rules on migration policies, control, security etc

• Corporization of education and new established bureaucratic rituals ( At some point I think is important to clarify the use of ritual. From a post-marxist perspective ritual could be this practice through which an ideology structure is established and naturalized )

keywords of this chapter that need development: border (materiality/immateriality), bureaucracy (as an immaterial border), educational bureaucracy, infrastructure, reflect, documented

Chapter 2

THE CASE OF WDKA – what does it mean to open the archive of the administration of an educational institution

* I am wondering if I need a form that should allow me to have access to the administrative documents of the course. How Leslie and I can be covered in case this research is published?

What is an archive

In this chapter i would like to unfold my field research process and present some of the results the concentrated material. Maybe I could bridge or give a theoretical context regarding the archive and the counter-archive. How archive can function as a space of appearance or create a testimony? In order to justify my project.

* Also, how you can make publics by opening the archive. What is the relation with the receivers/witnesses ?

The manipulation of the material

This would involve me looking through the documents of the archive in the course director's office. A detailed explanation of the steps I have been through by opening the archive ,

diving into documents, from 2002 till 2022, the scanning process, what i kept and what did i discard, putting them together in a folder, classifying them (what do i keep and what do i discard , what i want to highlight having in the back of my head the QUESTION and how the classification can produce a different knowledge or an insight). Here maybe in the classification comes also my positioning. The way I order/organise/categorize the produced knowledge is a position.

Now about the content of the reasearch

What are my observations, what are my notes/comments/comparisons/changes i notice

how these changes are relatable to my initial assumption about the bordering nature of bureaucracy in relation to the transformation of the institution and the migration policies? is this question answered opened or my investigation is completely irrelevant?

How you structure an argument using a variety of input?

How this material is combined with the information i got from the interviews with COIA administrator, the course coordinator, the IND or government legislation can construct a testimony or a hint or a small window to answer or just to open a conversation about the invisible – visible apparatus of educational bureaucracy.

Chapter 3

BUREAUCRATIC FORM/DOCUMENT AS AN INTERFACE OF VIOLENCE AND VULNERABILITY. THE INTIMATE STORY.

Starting again with some theory regarding the bureaucratic aesthetic regarding graphic design, potential beheauviours etc. Possibly in this chapter i would like to unpack the “nature” of the document as the minimum object/unit of the bureaucracy apparatus, to talk a bit about the structure/language/graphic design of document or highlight invisible/visible elements of bureaucracy.

*Caps Lock – the designer as engineer

*Writing Machines – Materialising the metaphor

The bureaucratic form/document as an interface of conflict/discourse (with the intimate story)

Bureaucratic dramaturgies and how you can find (or loose) yourself in them.

The main question of this chapter might be in relation to the the vulnerability of the individual behind bureaucracy. Coming again to the first chapter assumption on how bureaucracy constitutes an immaterial but still a border.

What it means to put a document in a different context, or to annotate a document or to place next to the document a small personal story. What friction or conflict or dissonance/paraphony is created there?

How a document literature /language constructs an identity, classifies, categories or fragments the person. How a piece of paper in a folder in a drawer in a in a room , in a building can become the barrier or the master. The story of (dis-mis-counter) placement.

How we perceive a bureaucratic document and how this document corresponds or is in conflict with the personal story. How the document de-humanises. How behind every bureaucracy there is hidden violence and how you reveal or talk about it.

I would like to collect some personal small stories/experiences of my peers regarding the bureaucratic obstacle (probably xpub or lens based or piet people). The bureaucratic language/text in relation to the personal gaze over this (bureaucratic)text. The personal story or experience that disrupts the continuity of the form. How a structured form can become a (plain) text and an entry for an ongoing discourse. Interviews or annotations or stories or filled misfunctional forms and how people (piet zwart community or basically students) correspond/manoeuvre/hack/mis-read/destroy/mis-use/fake/mess with a (given) form/a document. !! there is a danger in there. if you reveal the manoeuvres or the hacks, the authorities can always make their security systems better and stronger

Bureaucratic form/document as an interface of conflict/discourse

key-words of this chapter: vulnerability, personal gaze over the bureaucratic text, story, disrupts continuity, interface of conflict, document, de-humanise

CONCLUSION

I can talk about my research experience and how somebody can contribute to this archive. How this can be become an ongoing project? A ongoing deposit of marginalized knowledge about wdka