=Where are we in the structure of the class?
• last week was the end of experience set 1: Humans questioning everything, including Human; All the rest that exists too
• today begins set 2: Protest Now! Action, Activist Research & Scholarship, How to do it
• NOTICE! WORKSHOP 1! 9 MARCH! PAPER & HANDOUT DUE!
YOU AND CLASS BUDDY SHOULD BE MEETING REGULARLY OUTSIDE CLASS.
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PLAYING AS YOU COME INTO CLASS:
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Kirksey & The ABCs of Multispecies Studies VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYbCpNflAyU
Streamed live on Sep 22, 2014
"Alphabets have been used to make sense of disparate fragments of discourses by philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes. They capture emergent concepts that are not fully formed, but that start to take on order within alphabetic logics.
"In codifying the ABCs of Multispecies Studies we are reaching out to our swarm of creative collaborators--poachers who are prepared to trespass within the lexicon of others, as well as authors who have coined their own concepts.
"Alphabets typically involve a search for roots, which is perhaps why encyclopedias arose as a genre alongside disciplines that produced origin myths. In the domains of high art and in early enterprises of colonial anthropology, intellectuals gave prestige to originals and origins. In their recent refusals to conform to diachronic standards of validity, however, both artists and anthropologists have turned away from genealogical projects and practices that require an established pedigree.
"The Multispecies Salon is creating a kind of alphabet that reaches to the biological as well as etymological–containing both roots and rhizomes. Authors of the Multispecies ABCs will move beyond the domain of ethnography, to bring in key morphemes from geography, ecology, archaeology, history, queer theory, and allied intellectual traditions. Letters will represent more than one word. A is for Animal as well for Anthropos; B is for Becoming and for Buzz; C is for Care and Charisma. Rather than privilege our favorite literal organisms, we will only accept critter keywords if they have serious figural potential, like P for Parasite."
Website: http://www.multispecies-salon.org/events/
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EXPERIENCE SET 2:
Protest Now! Scholar-Arts-Activist Projects
• MAJOR READING: Kirksey. 2015. Emergent Ecologies. Duke.
Thursday 2 March: hope
• READ 2/3 Kirsey in any order you like
• ALWAYS LOOK FOR TRANSMEDIA! ALWAYS BRING IN TO SHARE!
>>BEFORE BREAK:
1) Attendance Portraits: Eva will take charge of these now.
2) SHARED READING: first & last chap paragraphs around the roomA BICYCLE TOUR AROUND EMERGENT ECOLOGIES.
[image source: https://byronbayadventuretours.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Mountain_Biking_Byron_Bay_1.jpg ]
3) PICK: random page & page you read for today
4) TEAM: teach both pages to the class
>>AFTER BREAK:
1) What form should your papers take next time?
possibilities to reshape for our purposes:
• business model: "three components to reporting project status:
=Overall: We need to see the overall project health. As managers, we want to be able to detect a project in trouble. We also want to help make that determination sometimes. You might not know everything we know despite our best efforts to communicate. Your project might not be as healthy as you think it is.
=Milestones: Your project has major accomplishments which must be completed by specific dates. We managers want to see which milestones are complete, which ones are in progress, and which ones are coming up next. This allows us to analyse the schedule and decide to either feel comfortable with it or challenge it.
=Issues: Your project also probably has one or more obstacles to completion which have been discovered. We'd like to see brief details about each issue so that we can make a decision about whether or not to step in and help if necessary."
>https://www.projectsmart.co.uk/how-to-report-status-on-a-project.php
• College Project Report
"The goal of writing a professonal report is, simply, to describe what is happening or what has happened. To do so, you should break the project activity into several parts or body sections: three to five is common, but more sometimes may be needed. The parts or body sections vary, depending on your workplace and project: for example, your report may be broken down by steps, times, physical locations, individual coordinators of different parts of it, types of activities, results, or by whatever other divisions are required, useful, and comprehensive. Each section should be detailed and, in many work situations, a good report uses lists, charts, illustrations, or other graphic methods to better communicate simply, clearly, and obviously. "
>http://www.tc.umn.edu/~jewel001/CollegeWriting/WRITEWORK/WORKPLACE/BusReport/default.htm
• From Kickstarter's blog: ideas for Project Updates:
"It's pretty much a given that a successful Kickstarter campaign includes a great project description, outreach plan and a solid community of backers. Of equal importance are the updates that creators send their backers. Project updates don’t just appear on each project page, they’re also delivered directly to backers’ inboxes, and can be a powerful tool for engaging backers and motivating them to share a project. Think of project updates as a window into a project’s development, featuring images, video and the ongoing story of the project. (Tip: We also consider a project’s updates when choosing whether or not to feature it or make it a Project We Love.) There’s no magic to the right number or frequency of updates; we recommend posting consistently and often, and to start brainstorming and even drafting updates before you launch. Fun fact: Creators on Kickstarter send about 6,000 updates a week. Here’s a list of fifty ideas for inspiration!"
> https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/50-updates-to-keep-up-with-your-backers
• progress reports for scholarly research projects:
"The report should be presented largely as a substantiated argument rather than as a straight description:
=Personal information such as name, registration and contact information
=How the research question(s), problems(s), etc with which the research is concerned, have been developed or refined...
=How the research methodology is being developed and why it is appropriate.
=How appropriate data is being collected which is convincing for its purpose.
=How the literature is being used.
=How any constraints are being handled.
=How subjectivity, where relevant, is being handled.
=Progress to date.
=Problems or potential problems to be flagged up.
=General reflections. These should be relevant, not just padding, and the nature of what is required is likely to vary considerably from one discipline to another.
=A plan for the next phase of the work."
>http://www.postgradresources.info/student-resources04-reports.htm
2) Why a handout? what roles do visuals play?
[image source: http://www.equalitiestoolkit.com/sites/default/files/Forum_analysis_recommends.jpg
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4) Class buddies, collaboration
NEXT CLASS:
Thursday 9 March: multispecies
• READ: finish up Kirsey &
• DUE: <WORKSHOP 1>: ACTION! Status paper & handout & logbook2 & attendance;
hand all in end of class in hard copy and also send to kk gmail electronically
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