belonging

Spectres of Marx /  by Justin Harrison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q

Hamlet -”Time is out of joint”
Really useful video investigating Derrida’s concept of the Spectral. I’ve come back to this a couple of times. The idea of time manifesting in a non liar way creates space for reconsidering passage. And therefor the passage and place of transformation.

In looking to land on a specific line of enquiry for the research paper, I find this interesting. It sits well with the liminal and belonging. Expressions of the outsider and questioning who is on the inside, and how are these locations decided? Agreed upon and policed?

 

Coding of Space /  by Justin Harrison

Image my own

In thinking about the Summer school - ‘Rivers the Jugular veins of Empire’:
The coded language used in the past and now is key. E.g ‘Exploring party’ or ‘Civilising Mission’- this is not correct or transparent, but something else - more sinister, treacherous and obfuscating. Perhaps more accurate would be ‘Murderous pillaging of assets’ and ‘A mission to aggressively encode a people in preparation to enter the financial machine of empire’.

Then the concept of space: Ownership, occupation and outworking.

Can Space be described as occupying 3/ possibly more realms:

1.Physical space
2.Temporal space
3.Conceptual space.

How can/should this space be occupied in light of what we know and what has been learnt from history. (All history)

Other unorganised thoughts:
Space: giving/using space in film - temporal, spatial, conceptual?

Relationship of belonging to/in space. 

Again the idea of belonging is one that I find challenging and multifaceted.

Historical ref of Belonging: set against empire and obstacles overcome to this point.

Cultures erased by colonialism in name of ‘civilisation’ were/are subject to an aggressive recoding to financial production.

An aggressive re-coding to financial production.