I lost my training of thought

In this animated contribution, Adva, Femke and Isabella perform loops over multiple modes of training. Their spell moves through drawings, texts and hyperlinks to ask: how to be responsible with that which disappears without a trace? If yes: allow magic to emerge.




This spell is made up of drawings, texts and hyperlinks and loops over multiple modes of training. The animated contribution asks: how to be responsible with that which disappears without a trace? 








Moving through a spell made up of drawings, texts and hyperlinks, Adva, Isabella and Femke loop over multiple modes of training. In this animated contribution, they ask: how to be responsible with that which disappears without a trace? 
If yes: allow magic to emerge.
If not: is the the fear of contaging others stronger than the desire to touch? 
If yes: keep your hands to yourself.





If not: keep your hands to yourself.
If yes: allow magic to emerge.

R E S P O N S E - A B I L I T Y



re-animate a loop 

I lost my training of thought

We will perform a loop.







+Training trees / training as tree



https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbox/radio/12.4/4_operations.ogg



PARALLEL READING / WATCHING


Kathryn Yusoff, Insensible worlds: Post-relational ethics, indeterminacy and the (k)nots of relating 
https://alchorisma.constantvzw.org/summercamp/documents/


Judith Butler, Judith Butler: on COVID-19, the politics of non-violence, necropolitics, and social inequality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3709&v=6Bnj7H7M_Ek&feature=emb_logo

re-opening reasonable amount of deaths we are willing to live with
general sanitization
necro-political plan: replacing world with economy

graphs telling what needs to be done to keep life going (?)
but graphs might be figures that kill

responsible: to go back to work (even if people lose their lives)

despensibility of lives in the interest of economy

work to secure wage = take risk

sanitized death = slow violence

do we recognize complicitly? not sovereign or is it ...

personal liberty vs mindless sociability = facilitating death of others
letting die = necro politics?

act of calculation as a violence. Calculation saves the calculator from death

Calculable and incalculable loss
Who's death counts

difference between taking life and letting die - linked by systemic racism

institute health care as a public good

modalities of violence produced by racism: fast and slow
monopolization of the world (and the idea of health) by economy

the virus plays a role: global, noone is immune
bodies respond to what it takes it in

depending on airI lost my training of thought

We will perform a loop.

vulnerability (ability to be harmed) and doing harm
dependency does not end with adulthood
impression

homosocial delights

breathing each other's air, sharing surfaces of the world.
touching on another

interdependence, also without consent
critique of individualism
vulnerability as portal to non-violence

so



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                                       I lost my training of thought

We will perform a loop.

I lost my training of thought

We will perform a loop.

Start.

It starts with training.
Stretch the right side of the body
stretch the left side of the body
expend the arms, let energy flow
bring elasticity into the wrists
curve spine
relax before continuing the training.

How to train a tree?
Wake up early, together with the sun.
Imagine you see the world from the eye of a bird.
From this perspective, detect any undisciplined trees.
Tie their branches horizontally to something ---
remember to bow your head to nature, and modestly thank it.

to protect a walnut in a 'eco friendly' way,
you spray it with a thin film of clay sourced from and processed in China
to the point that each of them is completely covered, and their smell is masked.
Husk flies would no longer recognise the walnuts and will refrain from laying their eggs
What is the difference between taking a life and preventing it from living?

                                   
How to relate to that which grows by our side?
that which is hiding from our perception, 
How to be responsible to that which disappears without trace?
                                   

Is the fear of contagion stronger than the desire to touch? → yes → keep your hands to yourself.
↓
no
↓
is the the fear of contaging others stronger than the desire to touch? → yes → keep your hands to yourself.
↓
if no: graft.


We are all witches.
 ... becoming witches ...
 
[play: generative operations]
redirect - go back to the loop

To cast a spell and to spell a word are actually the same thing.
A spell is the bringing together of elements that in themselves dont have agency, but being put together in specific order and methodologies, they allow magic to emerge.
Spelling a word is the same as making magic. By bringing separate letters in in specific order and methodologies, meaning emerges.

R E S P O N S E - A B I L I T Y

quote " "
The insensible is neither sense nor nonsense; it is between — as agitator, contagion, and never as presence as such—only as force or motivation oscillating between the material and virtual, inhuman and human, organic and nonorganic, time and the untimely. Registering the work of the insensible might offer the possibility of thinking forms of cohabitation in a crowded world.
en quote ""

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As an eco-friendly method to protect walnuts from intrusion undesired by their growers/planters/exploiters, every year in xxxwalnut trees are sprayed with a thin film of clay sourced from the local soil. By masking the scent of the riping fruit/nut with a 'geste de barriere', butterflies are not anymore recognizing the nut/fruit for what it is and will refrain from laying their eggs. Is there any difference between taking a life and letting it die?

LOOP



The emergence of a spell.

To cast a spell and to spell a word are actually the same thing.
A spell is the bringing together of elements that in themselves dont have agency, but being put together in specific order and methodologies, they allow magic to emerge.
Spelling a word is the same as making magic. By bringing separate letters in in specific order and methodologies, meaning emerge.

R E S P O N S E - A B I L I T Y

Relate.

Flip.

Recognize.

Shake.

Confuse.

Calibrate. [or: Graft]

quote “ “
end quote " "

Same movement, different sensibilities.
Different worlds, different imaginaries.
Different relations, different bodies.
Different movement, same relations.

responses



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The paradox that to care is to keep at distance from each other 

is the fear of death is stronger than the desire to touch?

Spray clay to keep protected from intrusion 
wear a mask to keep protected from intrusion

proximity and intimacy are not the same thing

we are all under some kind of social engineering 

where training ends and the thing you were trained for becomes an automated reality. 

modest


As an eco-friendly method to protect walnuts from intrusion undesired by their growers/planters/exploiters, 
every year in xxxwalnut trees are sprayed with a thin film of clay sourced from mines in 
the walnuts are then completely masked and covered, so their scentBy masking the scent of the riping fruit/nut with a 'geste de barriere', insects are not anymore recognizing the nut/fruit for what it is and will refrain from laying their eggs. Is there any difference between taking a life and letting it die?

The white barrier not only repels pests, it causes irritation, confusion, and is an obstacle for feeding and egg-laying. 

barriere minerale
kaolin
la mouche du brou = walnut husk fly