Category Archives: epistemology
Chanting on facebook
There is a chanting in my inner mind
I hear it
but what are those words
on the tip of my tongue
as I try to chant along
I know them
but I do
not
there is a chanting that I know very well
but
how could I
I never did learn them
I cannot say them
I cannot see them
through the blur
the haze
of my present knowledges
the merging [...]
Examining Spindle technology – success at last
I found really good instructions on how to use the top spindle from youtube and finally got the hang of it. Of course I dont look very expert – but the job gets done.
Am currently using twisted.etsy.com ’s rodney colorway roving that I got way back in spring of 2008 and am practicing handspun yarn. [...]
nostalgia for the rural?
who’d a thunk it – my writing with neices leads me back to mapping roots and routes …
“my nostalgia for the rural is so unexplained by my actual life experiences…or on second thoughts maybe not unexplainable at all… while some may locate my yearning/nostalgia in roots in kakaraparru – it may be that the [...]
Framing the Loom…
So now I am at ICA – up at 4 am thinking of how to frame the loom.
I guess I used it to “rupture” the idea of “virtual” “global” and “technology” in my precon presentation and my OU presentation – but now I have to put forth what S and Sh have articulated with [...]
hmm
interesting how even this most recent article took me back to theorizing pvt and public through postcolonial feminist lenses – and I really wasnt looking to directly go there…
and of course the ubiquitous tension/dialectic of accountability to and oppression within community v individualization and illusions of liberation….
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rad meets MGandhi
Note: This is not meant to be a perfect “seamless” experience of being in secondlife – but rather it is meant to show the breaks and ruptures…This is one version – I will have more with more ruptures inserted…layered…
shifting the lens…
When you ACTUALLY truly shift the lens of benefit to look at issues of sustainable livelihoods, accessible democratic practices and sharing of resources with future generations…… THEN what would we think of a progress? I keep thinking of the senior citizen who asked about why we were not improving our (US) railways – and why we always [...]
Everyday 3D Lives: Digital Embodiment, Performativity and Globalization
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Title: Everyday 3D Lives: Digital Embodiment, Performativity and Globalization
Editor : Radhika Gajjala
[ http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik ]
In the recent past, there has been much talk of “web 2.0 “ and “web 3D” as new media. Educators and researchers all over the world are debating the pros and cons of such environments. [...]
copyrighting… fiber, dye, loomed fabric, quilt or scarf?
anyway – am working on copyright issues to do with images in the edited collection – while I crochet – and got to wondering about the layers of creation and the individual nature of copyright….
again.
Ganesh Chathurthi Greetings to all
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