I could
have kept talking about our posters and the ideas around them all afternoon on
Thursday (but then, we all know what a nerd I am….). Good ideas there, and every one of the three, use and
extend the ideas we've been developing since January. Let's carry it on.
Look back at your notes from the Poster Presentations (if you need a reminder, you can find the raw, candid, unedited pics I took on Moodle, right at the top 'Poster Pictures'). Select an image, piece of text, idea, event (cookie-eating, re-acquainted with Juice Boxes), GMO-as-terrorist-threat, branding and so on. Then use a science-studies concept (like 'seeing devices, 'semantic contagion,' identity-formations, images as self-objects, paradigms (and their 'incommensurabilities'), public relations, and so on to extend and fine-tune the ideas in YOUR direction. You can agree and go, 'yes, and….' You can echo Cedric Daniels (more politely) and say 'this …. is bull shit' (but you'll need to say how and why—in detail). You aren't necessarily taking on the group or their ideas (you can), but finding a good concept to play with on your own. Carry on the discussion—in as interestingly dense linkings as you can get. Make something new out of what our colleagues gave us.
I'm currently focused on the 'public science' acted out on the cover of Time, in which our fear for the children (and the future) is placed in opposition to 'protestors' (note: not scientists, political theorists, agricultural activists or environmentalists) in yet another case of Ben's hated 'both sides of the issue' journalism. A crisis. A conflict. Sides being taken. Science Wars (Duh!). Yikes!, there's a field day here—theory and material.
Go for it. Make sure that we all find ourselves clearer on our common topics and ideas, and seeing things in the Poster Projects that we may have missed, and looking forward to next week with new ideas and questions.
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