Good Bye Humanism

So in affect. So there’s a very big element of non humanism in it, which I also want to move away from. So move away from the human centric approach to contextualizing the world. And affect theory specifically, investigates the fact that non human things have as much capacity as humans to effect because they are humans are not the center of the world. And then this ties into fashion again, because beyond just the ideological values that we attach to fashion, its potential to affect us is really immense. I guess we can deal with fashion on a bunch of different dimensions, we can deal with the idle ideological dimension, but also with the material dimension. And then as I hypothesize, anyway, there’s even a metaphysical dimension there that also has an affect on us.

And then when we discuss affect, of course, we also have to look at agency. Affect is culturally mediated. So that’s the only way we can make sense of the world. And we do the same thing with agency, we assign or ascribe humanistic values or human characteristics to the idea of agency. And in the human centric experience of the world, only humans have the capacity to have agency. And it’s something that we have in our language. We say,  we become empowered, or we can choose. And this all has to do with our notions of what agency is, which is in human’s mind is a human centric experience. But humans are not the only thing or the only rational beings in this society or in this life. And we are not the only beings that can even exercise intentional agency. And what we have to realize about agency is agency is very complex, but it’s collectively distributed and it’s more than human and anything that exist have agency it has the potential to have an affect, or even an effect on our lives. So just by existing, something is automatically imbued with agency. And then when you also talk about agency, you have to look at the inta relationships between things, and how things have a knock on effect on each other. And this is something that I would I would like to explore more, agency as well as an affect, because there is a scientific and psychological element. And, of course, a philosophical element to it, all of which I really enjoy researching about.

So for my mode of research or my methodology, I once again relied on artletics, I actually have a few projects in the pipeline, none of none, some of them came to fruition, but some of them have not come to fruition yet. One thing that I would like to work on, as I did mention, before that I would like to publish a pillow book. But since I’m not a big fan of paper os a medium for publishing, I’ve decided to publish everything I do in a textile format. And when I actually do get the opportunity, I hope, to run some of the workshops I’ve been, like envisioning, or I’ve been working on or developing, I would like to capture people’s reactions from the workshop in a textile format.

So I might ask them to say what color was the most vivid while you were doing these movements, or which body part became activated. And then on pieces of clothing, I actually want them to make impressions. And it could be something with ink, it could be with markers. It could be in a variety of other ways. So like imprinting once again, an identity, or a narrative or a story onto clothing. And then also in the coming weeks, I will start printing some of the stuff that I’ve already written on pieces of textile. I’ve been writing a lot, maybe more than what is necessary, so I’ll have to curate and edit some of that as well. I actually a lot of the secrets that I’ve been collecting from my previous performances I’ve already prepared to be sewn into clothing. I just unfortunately haven’t gotten around to it yet, but it will form part of my thesis. Or what I will hand in towards completing my thesis.