Reaction to Starobinski
Starobinski believes that life can be reduced to nothing other then sensation, and sense. Much of which is not essential to life but rather accidents?
I'm fascinated by memory, much of my personal work has revolved around memories, and the way we recall them as the experience distances itself from our present moment.
Accordingly, all our intellectual actions and passions, our natural strive to create and manifest amounts to things which are essentially impossible to calculate outcomes or control results of prior to their manifestations. We are a function of our inability to communicate and simply compensate for the ambiguity by using sense.
As a result, Starobinski's thesis and ideas have really made me rethink the direction of my week project and possibly my final project for this class. I am fascinated by the variety of ways which species form their communication and needs with each other in indirect ways (via clothing, technology or use of the literal body).
Human beings are extremely complex and no where is this more apparent then in our relationships.
What humans gain through essentially trial and error is a sense that cannot be obtained in any other way, we are multilayered and complex beings which essentially live our life by intuitions and underlying currents which carry our themes, morals and sense.
A project Andrew did about two weeks ago in conjunction with current events in my life really got me thinking about how we communicate with each other and what we say and what we really want to say are sometimes two very different things.
I am interested in joining these ideas. The use of the iPod in Andrew's project got me thinking about other ways to use something so iconic and at this point much of the US population has. So I started to play with itunes and the sense of sound:
The Natural Selection of Us.
How does communication function in our relationships and what implications does fear play in love?
I find myself constantly censoring my feelings mostly as a result of vulnerability and fear. Often times I catch myself saying one thing when I feel completely different without thinking about the long term consequences.
Where does the boundary shift occur and how does it occur when we are no longer bound by verbal communication and what if there was a way to communicate without saying a thing?
I've started playing with the idea of using audio tracks in conjunction with 'text tracks' utilizing an iPod to tell some sort of multifaceted story about 'us'. What would a conversation look like if you could see the underlying thoughts and feelings which are lost in the moment or never communicated to the other person, what if there was a way to 'hear' both?