From 9c0d6f29e6f9ddd38b2c2af449eef0e77899c113 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tamsin woo Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 16:14:54 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] preliminary-materials --- ethically-questionable-citation-practices.gmi | 1 + preliminary-materials.gmi | 21 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+) create mode 100644 preliminary-materials.gmi diff --git a/ethically-questionable-citation-practices.gmi b/ethically-questionable-citation-practices.gmi index 00fbb00..abb08ac 100644 --- a/ethically-questionable-citation-practices.gmi +++ b/ethically-questionable-citation-practices.gmi @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ i don't expect that i will reproduce substantial portions of texts here unless t => https://feministkilljoys.com/2013/09/11/making-feminist-points/ Making Feminist Points — Sara Ahmed => https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/english_pubs/62/ Citational Practices as a Site of Resistance and Radical Pedagogy — Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq & Jordan Frith +=> preliminary-materials.gmi preliminary materials; more on 〈ethically questionable citation practices〉 --- diff --git a/preliminary-materials.gmi b/preliminary-materials.gmi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c3a1f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/preliminary-materials.gmi @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +# preliminary materials; more on 〈ethically questionable citation practices〉 + +=> gemini://gemini.estradiol.cloud/~rumblestrips/journal/2024/2024-04-09-citation.gmi citation and/in context of gemini + +> It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories. + +i mean mostly to set aside (not to say, “forget”) hypertext theory. that gemtext is hypertext is hard to ignore. there is enough provision for linking that spatial metaphors have salience. it's possible to build forking paths and the reader's orientation among them, mediated by the client, matters. + +but hypertext has a history. the memex is—explicitly—a machine of war. + +the style (or technique) i want to develop seeks to put the matter of “thinking with” at the forefront. i shy away from calling it a method since the methodology is self-consciously exploratory and emergent, born out of thinking carefully about thinking fabulously. rejecting 〈ethical citation practices〉, pointedly embracing 〈questionable〉ones as a matter of style, enables selective memory about the paths we were told to follow. + +this is a restructuring of intellectual debt. + +i want to play in the mud of plagiarism so that some paths become obscured by the wallow, and to leave my hands dirty. in some sense, i'm more interested in appropriation than citation. + +other ties i want to tie thoroughly. here, there's an element of aide-memoire; of marking new paths. but this is not a zettelkasten. the thing i want to /do/ with writing and citing in gemspace is to build new discursive infrastructures that, when reproduced, make new alliances. at least for myself. again it's appropriation, inflected differently this time, i'm trying to achieve. + +--- + +=> index.gmi ~tamsin