Kimberly

A humanoid rodent's (sometimes also known as Kimberly) collection of content

Ralph experiencing what it's like to be an average human in our current world

A newly created human now named Ralph

- Featherless biped

- With broad flat nails

- Who can feel empathy

Goodbye!

Welcome to my tent

What is a tent officially?

A collapsible shelter of fabric (such as nylon or canvas) stretched and sustained by poles and used for camping outdoors or as a temporary building

What is a tent according to me?

A fragile shelter with at least 1 opening that uses something more sturdy as a foundation that only has a thin barrier between the inside and outside. A thin border between what’s in and what’s out. A fickle idea of safety.

My issue with the official definition.

The other idea only fits certain particular types of tents as it’s too specific. It certainly doesn’t cover all types of tents. Who of us hasn’t at some point been introduced to the image of a piece of fabric draped over a rope tied to 2 trees? Certainly that’s a tent too even if it doesn’t have poles. Or what about tents made of plastic?

Who are my kin?

Some humans

Pets

Plants

Locations

Time

Galaxy

The world

Studying is learning but learning is not necessarily studying. Studying is an intentionally dedicated learning process in which one learns. One can learn without studying.

What about me, what do I want and need? What are my thoughts?

Hidey holes. Sitting space. Natural light and air flow. But no draft. Room for animals, both pets and wild with respect to their needs and wants, plants, stable temperature. Space for light but room for privacy. Using colours to set moods and make things pleasant to experience. A want for connection with the world outside but only when given consent, not forced. Preference of contact with plants higher up instead of on the ground.

Tent-y thoughts

Have different sections with fabrics of different colours. When the light shine on it it will illuminate things in the colour of the fabric giving a magical sense of the world. Doing so gives me an excuse to force myself to observe the world and connect with it over staying inside of my own mind. Seeing things in a different way from how you usually expect or know them makes you re-discover things you already were familiar with.

Different colours and different hues will carry different associations with them and these will cause different moods as well.

Instead of using poles we use plants to keep the tent standing up. Trees and other plants with big tall sturdy frames will function as poles while hanging plants are used to connect them. In order to let these and other plants live in the tent the upper part of the tent has to be transparent. This also gives us the ability to not get completely closed off from the world entirely.

By doing this the center area will be like our usual world while the other sections near the side are like entering a different alternate more magical version of our world. By having it be less like how we expect it to be it will be less ‘mature’ in the sense that it is how it is supposed to be and that’s how adults should be as well. It’ll be more childlike and playful which are traits that can bring us closer to our animal kin.

Red – romance, warmth, closeness, passion, energetic
Orange – happiness, youth, social
Yellow – life, light
Green – nature, birth, rejuvenation, life
Blue – magic, mystery, unknown, rest
Purple – also magic, mystery and wonder

Red – Workout room
Orange – Work spot
Yellow – Kitchen
Green – Meditation
Blue – Entertainment
Purple – Washing room, Sleep quarters

Tent activity
Walk through the tent and reconnect with ordinary things in a new way. Rediscover ways to live your life and watch how externally created mood can influence your internal mood.

Goodbye!

Notes from the zoom class

Craftings vs craftmanship

One is considered for woman, the other for man
One is a silly little thing some people do, the other is REAL WORK

The Womans Work and Creations Pipeline

You can't do this -> You can do this but only how we want you to do it -> We're now going to take what you did as we decided it now has value but we're going to completely disconect you from it because fuck you

Goodbye!

Thoughts for project

The theory assignment consists of piece of writing that engages with at
least three of the texts that were discussed in the lectures, reading sessions, or workshops. You may also select sources from the recommended
literature that was provided with some sessions. If you want to substitute
one of the three sources with a self-chosen source you should consult the
tutors beforehand. You may of course consult an unlimited number of external sources in addition to the course literature, but this is not required.
The written assignment should answer the following question:
What does Spilling More Than Human T mean to you?
You may engage with this question in one of a number of ways:
1. An essay, in which you argue your case for a particular practice as
Spilling T.
2. A(n) (comparitive) analysis of one or more examples of Spilling More Than
Human T from art or (popular) culture.
3. A story about a fictional/fantastical occurrence of Spilling T (which is,
albeit fictional, nevertheless clearly and recognizably related to the theoretical ideas and concepts from the course readings).
4. An exercise in creative writing in which you Spill T, accompanied by a
preface and/or postscript in which you explain how your creative writing
piece emerged from your reading of the course literature.

Part 1: Archiving (10%)
Throughout the course you will curate an archive of documents of morethan-human ways of being, knowing, and becoming-together. The archive forms both the repository and the representation of the research
that you do throughout this course. The documents that you gather
together can be textual, visual, sound recordings, etc. They can consist
of a combination between “found” materials (books, articles, works of
art, found objects, etc.) and materials which you have produced yourself
(notes, original writing, documentation of experiences and events, recordings, etc.). Like any archive, your more-than-human archive should
have a recognizable organizing principle enabling yourself and others to
search the materials and explore relationships between sources.

Part 2: Anarchiving (40%)
The anarchive embodies the traces of research-process events. Your
anarchive is the materialized surplus-value of a live(d) collaborative encounter in which you enable, invite or enact be/coming-together to allow
for the emergence of more-than-human social, political, artistic and/or
scientific practices. The goal of this live event, encounter or practice can
relate to any, multiple, or all of the following:
1. Making kin: exploring ways of “kin generating kin” as a way to “makewith – become-with, compose-with – the earth-bound” (Haraway,
2016: 102-103).
2. Spilling T: weaving and tracing informal networks of knowledge.
3. Staying with the trouble: deep explorations of art as thinking-with
materials, spaces, disciplines, and significant human and non-human
others.
4. Neurodiversity: material and experiential interventions in neuronormative spaces and institutions of art, science, and sociality

NB1:
The archive contains the documented and documentable traces of this
event, encounter, or practice, and the anarchive is the event, encounter, or practice itself, with all of its tentacular connections to the big and
small worlds with which it inter- and intra-acts.

NB2:
While more-than-human anarchival eventizing is by necessity a collaborative practice, the project does not have to entail a collaboration with
classmates in groups. Making kin with bacterial co-creators, activating
knowledges of non-human companion animals, artificially intelligent
co-writers: collaborations such as these are encouraged and allowed.

Disect myself. Find ways to re-discover certain aspects about myself surrounding autism and reframe them.

Kin = relations

My way of making kin with others

How do I communicate?

My griefing process when losing Pucca

Speak in a shared language
Tone driven

Ferrets - Very physical

Feel each others minor movements
Movement = Communication

Humans - Only seems to work online

Different connection, deeper.

If not online, there is no deep connection. But irl interaction can make online relationship stronger

Touch by human = Burning skin

Touch by animal = Connecting, pleasing

Skin touch = bad

Touch with something in between = alright

This practice was more-than-bullshit