I realize now that there is three books that I have not talked at all in this journal.
Insectopedia: I genuinely told all my friend about that book. No one bought it. I guess they were not interested by insects. Or maybe they just do not trust my judgement.
Society of the dead: I loved it. But still unsure whether, or how, I can use that book in the future.
Moore: I do not know why, I can’t even figure out why this should be interesting. I guess I did not understand what was the point.
When I look back right now at the beginning of this course, I realize how lost I was. Moore might have been right to use sedimentation as a way to analyze a given place. There is no other way around. Small layers are added on each other, one after the other. Together, it produces something: a meaning, a flash. Maybe that’s what it is all about: augmenting.
Top 5 and Top ten were all over the news recently. Correspondingly, I will give you here my personal top three of the more interesting and intriguing concepts I have been acquainted to in the last months.
3. becoming with. Haraway’s becoming with has been pretty powerful to explain how subjects come to interact and evolve with each other. Even though I find her book a bit human-centered for a multispecies, I realize that her work has paved the way for novel ways of approaching convoluted relations between things and human.
2. augmentation and sedimentation. I just like metaphors. And these two represents some kind of reality that is interestingly depicted in Ochoa and Moore.
1. assemblage. this one is really intriguing. I believe that assemblage is one of these concepts that the meaning is easy to grasp while bearing at the same time complex philosophical ideas. during my phd, i would like to get a better understanding of what are the philosophical foundations of assemblage.
