object-to-think-with
the culmination of critical "making"
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a conceptual revenant of earlier speculativeimaginaries about the capacities for technology, and a disciplinaryinterloper, straddling the domains of scholarly and artistic practice
love the use of interloper to break through discourses - and mess the lines or art, creative work and scholarship and academia
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My aim withcritical making was to abstract the construction of gender and therebydestabilize its meaning.
goal
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stultifying procedure of masculinity habituated by the‘anthropological machine’ of the Victorian era
loss of enthusiasm
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reductio ad absurdum
logic: an argument to show or attempt to show that an established claim can be argued by using the opposite scenario
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epistemology ofgender depends beyond any single repetition or representation on thescreen
truths surrounding masculinity
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human flesh becomes aninterface for the console to communicate its control.
blurring boundaries with human and machine again
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semiotic agnosticism
relating to systems, signs - philosophical view of existence where you just don't know, it unknowable
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8 x 8pixel LED screen that is instructed to light up one pixel for everyrepetition (in this case, a bicep curl) and to continue appending onepixel for every repetition until the screen is filled
i also find this comical because after 'working out' you are illuminated by a screen of light - almost heavenly aura
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o give its wearer ashock each time they complete the motion of a bicep curl.
comical
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ideal male, according to Bankier,could be developed only through the development of muscles,
just following social norms and expectations of acculturation
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hailed through discursive formations
love the use of the verb Hail - to welcome, support, approve - reminds me of Hail Hitler - doesn't mean its right but we are doing it
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of physical culture discursively formed and positioned genderaccording to techniques of media production echoed howcontemporary maker cultures have discursively positioned genderaccording to technological production.
gendered technology culture -making it a male field
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ontologies
categories/ concepts
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praxis
practice/custom
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critical making, technology affords modes ofontological and epistemological critiques.
yes - lets start a new discourse, lets question truths, and lets have a new way of looking
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a methodology of critical mediaproduction that critically engages with the ways technology designsmeaning and frames the very discourse in which intervention might bearticulated and construed
a new approach, a different approach and interactive approach
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The aim of tacticalmedia is to provoke resistance to power through strategies likeprocedural rhetoric
Agency
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Victorian scientists
would love to just mention Queen Victoria - at the time the longest running monarch of all time - is a Women - think this may have had implications o how men had that extra push to assert themselves in society - there was no King - Albert was neve in that role, and died halfway through her reign
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idiosyncratic deployment of technology contributed toradical revisions of sexual and gender identities at this time
yes -really the height of toxic masculinity
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I tinkered with the idea ofbuilding a device that would approximate the intent of Bankier’sinvention in such a way as to critique the very object I wasresearching.
she shows her creative and playful side to see boths sides of the argument
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milieu
a person's social environment
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unambiguously emancipatory.
liberation/freedom - that is only open to one interpretation
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Apollo’
Greek god, son of Zeus, one of the 12 Olympians
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Inaddition to adding physical vigor, electricity augmented the discourseof manhood, particularly inventions which made novel use ofelectricity and which signalled ingenuity and scientific progress.
the culmination of what he wanted to do
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identifying oneself as a learned man of science
sure, I'd like to put myself in the same category as Darwin too - interesting how one man's masculine drive to obtain this could all be foundational on a lie
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nervous circle is actuated by electrical agency
ok, so now we begin to understand the Frankenstein reference - if its all about electricity that keeps us going - than why can't we simply re-electrocute it to bring it back to life?
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nervous system as a “bio-telegraph” system
so blurring lines with science, the body, technology -an intermeshing
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the vital principle of the universe
Electricity - the new marvel of scientific discovery - look how we depend on it today...
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Critically Unmaking a Culture of Masculinity
'Unmaking' is a play on words - as we discuss making masculinity, making a device, and then discursively unmaking our perception of it.
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r “unlocking the secrets of vitality”
love this - and how it is warped in the discussion to come
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his identity as a man
he was not ok with who he was, the culturally created bodybuilder masculine man - he wanted, needed more
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Bankier nonetheless felt compelled to exaggerate hisqualifications further by claiming to have invented an electrical devicefor building muscle.
may have been insecure, may not have had a life outside of the public sphere, or just wanted so badly to be successful that he didn't mind lying - wow, can that apply to today's world
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credulity of his audience in believing that it both existedand worked, further indicative of the importance placed on technologyand electricity in this time.
well, lets give some of the credit to the time period - the lack of access and mobility of information was also partly why the ruse was successful
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means by which their bodies could achieve the physical powernecessary to meet the modern era’s public and private physicaldemands”
he wanted to be popular, accepted, successful, famous by following the social guidelines of the time
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the importance placed at the turn of the century on human invention,technological innovation and technical mastery over phenomena likethe body and electricity.
coming out the industrial revolution, success was measured by invention - so Bankier knows how to assert his dominance in society not just technologically, but also by the fact that he is in fact the ideal male specimen of what is considered masculine. His invention, innovation, and his ability to conquer electricity can only offer success!
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what the device represented inits social and cultural context
as I just fore-mentioned
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Bankier appends a note which reads, inpart: “In reply to many enquiries from all over the world, respectingmy electrical developer, I here inform future applicants that I havedecided not to put it on the market”
he made his claim, he justified himself, he asserted his masculinity, and he took hold of the most important scientific marvel of the time, electricity - does it really matter that it was all a ruse?
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creation-as-research approach
love critical making defined this way
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Bankier’s invention became a helpful way ofunderstanding the critical importance placed on making in lateVictorian culture, and the gender dynamics that inventor identitieshelped to enforce
Masculinity in terms of enlightenment thinking and Victorian era politics is so important to understand - it was men who were to the scientists making epistemological claims, it was men directing the discourse, it was men who had the 'upper-hand' in society - white, land owning, money holding men.
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“a ‘critical’ activity[...] that provides both the possibility to intervene substantively insystems of authority and power and that offers an important site forreflecting on how such power is constituted by infrastructures,institutions, communities, and practices
how do we create agency, how do we act, what can we do to question, protest, respond to infrastructures like toxic masculinity - through critical making/activity
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cholarship engageswith the construction of digital objects-to-think-with.
love this, and love the implications of making learning multi-dimensional
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build a working device thatmodelled the function of Bankier’s device
I love how she takes on this hands-on making of Bankier's device - as she discusses later this experience opens the mind to new ways of learning and learning about the artifact itself - brilliant
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hands-on research withdigital ephemera
that type of digital media that only exists for a short time, and them become invisible or disappears
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In this rhetoric, men are expected to take an active role in thephysical production of masculine bodies.
in the art of persuasion - men need to actively participate - do the physical work, write the book, be on the trading card, make a machine
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The technological function of the body is maximised, fine-tuned as an implement for constructing and communicatingmasculinity
what this article aims at - how to discuss and deconstruct through 'making' that which is masculinity
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power, energy, and control
Again, Foucault and even Marxist ideology, where everything is a about power and control - who has it, who wants it, how can you obtain it - and here Energy is added to that list
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body is discursively positioned as anapparatus for signalling masculinity
yes, a Foucauldian approach to looking at the discourses that surround masculinity and the male body
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ale cinema superhero
yes, of course, who doesn't want to look like or want to have Thor - like Apollo earlier - he is a Viking god
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digitally manicured images of men
We are not even seeing what a realistic masculine, well-formed man should look like from an ideal standpoint - we are seeing a digitally manipulated image, in an ideal studio, with transformative make-up, clothing, and accessories.
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the language is so repetitive as to recirculate every few years
the discourse surrounding masculinity is the same, just re-circulates
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While the ways we perform masculinity through physical culture mayhave changed since Bankier’s personalized account of his musculardevelopment, the discourse and its emphasis on technique remainunchanged in principle.
We do the same thing today, just from a different approach, same end result. The physical culture of the male body has the same expectations, is exploited through media, and sets an unrealistic example.
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Bankier’s inventionis of a piece and a pace with the integration of technological devicesintended to facilitate techniques of muscular development
Bankier is doing what is expected at the time to promote his masculinity, promote his authority within the bodybuilding community, and affirming himself within the scientific community - as will be discussed later.
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The book emerges within a broader context of the physical culturemovement of the late nineteenth century,
1837-1870 toxic masculinity culture
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“as a mere muscle developer it stands a longway ahead of any other so-called developing-machine
A little self-promotion, bragging, self-supporting to flatter his masculinity
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t its efficiency in drivingrheumatism awa
here is the restorative function, that will not be discussed any further within the piece.
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1900 book,Ideal Physical Culture
120 years ago - situate yourself in that historical period
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