Lauren Berlant writing of potentiality, and the sense of its cut-short incompleteness, turns again around the question of optimism, remarking that the “act of ideation itself embodies the form of optimism”.
I can do that - but it seems easier to point to the playlist, which is a fairly good index of what’s in the earbuds, and on repeat. Besides the mixtape posts, I mean. But just let me add this track, which requires more than one click to get to:
Michael Christie, of Eurhythmania, passes on the passion quilt baton. This being: Post a picture or make/take/create your own that captures what YOU are most passionate for students to learn about. Give your picture a short title. Title your blog post “Meme: Passion Quilt.” Link back to the blog entry which tagged you. Include links to 5 (or more) educators.
Behind the mirror. First word of caution for authors: check every text, every fragment, and every line to see if the central motif presents itself clearly enough. Whoever wants to express something, is so carried away that they are driven along, without reflecting on such. One is too close to the intention, “in thought”, and forgets to say, what one wants to say.
Sometimes people just need to go. Exit. This is Pip Starr’s documentary made during and around Woomera2002, which is where I met him - sweet, gentle, passionate, shy. More of his work here, and speaking about his most recent project here. His funeral is today, in Melbourne. Much of his work turned around the stark questions of escape and its confinements, life, death - from that on Woomera to his more recent project on the Carteret Islands. And the world is not a better place in this moment, it feels narrower, the sense of escape more difficult. Suicide will do that.
The second part of the edu-factory contribution will emerge soon - or, more likely, it will percolate some and emerge in the form it’s been meaning to. In the meantime, and not unrelated, I’ve been meandering around questions of precariousness, in this case while and about flying.