travis holland @travisaholland@mastodon.social
internet, tv, film teaching and research.
Went back again tonight, over 6 months later, even weirder. Familiar but not.
Tonight I returned for a visit to the area I grew up, after my longest ever absence. It's a place I always missed if I'd been gone even a few days, aching for the landscape and trees. Tonight, I noticed small things that had changed - a new section of kerb and gutter, a blooming housing development, repainted road markings.
Tonight, it felt different. I no longer live here, and I don't feel the connection I've always felt. Now it doesn't feel like home.
Picked up a Norwegian hitchhiker, she came home with us for a shower and to charge her phone before travelling on.
She sat on the deck with us and ate breakfast. Neither of my daughters recognised the hand gesture for hitchhiking, it was like she was teaching them Esperanto.
As I drove her to her next corner she told me her story and I told her mine.
We all miss the grace of hitchhiking in our culture.
Tonight I returned for a visit to the area I grew up, after my longest ever absence. It's a place I always missed if I'd been gone even a few days, aching for the landscape and trees. Tonight, I noticed small things that had changed - a new section of kerb and gutter, a blooming housing development, repainted road markings.
Tonight, it felt different. I no longer live here, and I don't feel the connection I've always felt. Now it doesn't feel like home.
And with that, the flight lands. Off to rural Victoria somewhere to learn about compassionate leadership, a bit late.
Things happen. Life happens. I wonder where the pale woman went, whose unwellness took out a whole plane and all the plans made with it.
Getting back to this point, thinking about the majority female students in undergrad classes in our degree, and the majority women PhDs I supervise, and the majority female casual teachers in our program patching together bits of part time work to survive, and the one male full time hire from our PhD student group ... none of it is enough. I think we don't address this because at the local level we can't see it as either structural or personal. @fgraver @Tdorey @Readywriting @actualham
@katebowles @u2764 @Tdorey @travisaholland The key takeaway, here, for any attempt to arrive at a theory of Internet "spaces", even if only as strawman, is that any such theory must surely be grounded in a theory of media spaces or places, generally, from drawing and paintings to print and television.
No matter how ubiquitous the vernacular of Internet "spaces", the phenomenology, IMHO, is at best a speciation of that for the genera of media, as such, not an exceptionalism.
@katebowles @Tdorey @u2764 @travisaholland Nice.
Compare Lawlor's synthesis, in Implications of Immanence, of Derrida's "moment of blindness" with Foucault's "miniscule hiatus".
Granted, Lawlor might more properly be said to be pointing toward a dislocation in time, rather than a doubling of place, but nonetheless, both contemplations of media grapple with a decoupling of subject-of-media from subject-in-relation-to-media.
@beadsland @u2764 @Tdorey The theory that helps here is placemaking. Space isn't what's "out there", the passive backdrop to our agency. Even more so, place is social, co-constructed, relational. So it's what we make together. And then there's the path we make together, by walking it.
I was just thinking abt differences in what the word 'scale' inflects when talking about meatspace & when talking about social media; caught myself musing about the weird thing we've been telling undergraduates this semester: that on the web information moves very fast—& yes, relatively true. but there's also a way of thinking about information as very slow? in meatspace 'slow' can be perceived in terms of silence, gaps in conversation. online that same affect can be amplified by microblogging?
I'm not yet any more certain of what to say on Mastodon, or in a way I don't say it on Twitter. But, here's one thing. My PhD thesis has been accepted, and it is in no small part thanks to the gentle, thoughtful, sometimes forceful prodding of @katebowles through both my undergrad and PhD life. I got sick during my first year of the PhD, and having Kate's advice, experience, and comparing of notes helped so much.
:bird: something is wrong and Twitter should do something to fix it
:elephant: something is wrong and oh I guess we need to work through this complex problem and come up with a solution as a community that works for us and if other people prefer something different they can do that too
#Mastodon update: Digest e-mails that summarize mentions you got after having been away for more than 20 days
