(~10:00) "The context determines the meaning of the content."

Thus reframing is very powerful as you recontextualize the past, and therefore see it in a whole new light; the meaning of the past changed.

By asking what you have learned from the past, you become anti-fragile and flexible, as you turn the past into something useful; an asset.

"The past happens for us, not to us."

"How you frame the past influences your expectations for the future."

"You can't disconnect your view of the future from your experience in the present."

"You can't have meaning in the present without hope & purpose in the future."

One of the powerful things about journaling is that you can control the past; reframe it. What is the meaning of the past gets determined by both the present and the future.

Hardy recommends to often (even daily) reflect on the past and notice how different you are now compared to then. What you have achieved, what is possible now that was not possible then, etc.

What did I learn today?

(~4:00) We interpret reality in a (cognitive) schema. Reality exists only in the mind. We cannot view reality objectively because it is intertwined with perception and cognition (see also John Boyd's OODA loop).

Sidenote; because of this, time is also holistic; in our schema, the past, present, and future are basically all-existent at once.

Watch this video for much interesting information about journaling.

Journaling is all about agency

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Kwiek, M. (2021). The Globalization of Science: The Increasing Power of Individual Scientists. MetaArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/gj4aq

A pertinent video which could be annotated in multiple ways by addressing the agency of accessories as a form of empowerment for drag people in a new subjectivity.

Some guiding questions raised by your topic and your in-class presentation:

1. How will you convey defamiliarization by using the psychoanalytic of Freud through the point of view of the objects?

2. Do you think about incorporating comparative analysis of drag's objects used in performances?

3. In your scholarly sources, will you allude to how posthuman drags can reassert their role in society in an "embodied" way?

As you mentioned in your presentation, I would say that the idea that accessories can become a state of becoming into a cyborg figure (machine aesthetic) could be explored in relation to a vitalist materialist approach to a certain extent.