What would an inclusive census look like?
Thank you Nicoleta for the greatly informative and generative chats:
What would an inclusive census look like?
Random thoughts:
Speculative history/present/future
Re-imagined documents
Inclusion
Political, economical
Belonging
Emotional texture
Mood board
Away from topic to expressive
What experiment can I conduct to better understand topic
Journaling
Write a short story?
Interviews?
Jamesie, Nicoleta, Alison, David, Sophia, Maya, Alice, Duane, Alison, Sophia
Categorization as a social phenomenon
“Ed Ruscha” audio piece
Hybridity (Homi Bhabha)
Olivia Butler
Ethnography
Margaret Mead
Phrenology
Hal Foster: The Artist as Ethnographer?
Questions:
- Seen,unseen:
- Census
- “Naming”
- Race
- Colorism v Racism
- Desire
- Activity
- Location, geography, urban-rural (etc)
- Seen and unseen
- What isn’t there is an indication of being seen
- Multiple selves, multiple identities
- Labels inherited, defense mechanisms, aspirational
- Internalization, external
- Horizontal acknowledgement of difference
Hayden made some comments in the Local Data class that I find very helpful in my thinking through further ideas about making an inclusive and participatory census online:
- No, (data are) not always “better.” Data is representations of the real world. Civilization is built on traditions, traditions that are founded on embodied interactions , “being there,” and physical artifacts. The digital world has created so much data, representing our real world and traditions not how our history has become accustomed to. Data appropriate our history. It makes our traditions that shouldn’t be repeatable, repeatable. The data of the digital world doesn’t give people who are the subjects of the data a voice.
- Data appropriates history and destroys embodied memorialization
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