tumpower in the single perspective
“What also appears to be of crucial importance in the para-archive is the singular perspective and specific standpoint from which it is formed.” (Smolicki, 2017)
“Unhinging God’s Eye"
"…the device’s historical association with ideas of perfect, disembodied, objective vision. The camera obscura was believed to give the viewer “a vantage point onto the world analogous to the eye of God” (Crary, 1990, p.48)” ⤴️ (Smolicki, 2017) - portability affords diverse singular usage - if this ‘objective’ third viewpoint is becoming part of all-seeing, portable/transferable knowledges make you part of an all-knowing - emergent consciousness in these assemblages?
- micro-archives “successively and obstinately evolving and accumulating parallel to these individuals’ everyday lives” ⤴️
- these practises “deeply entangled in their every-day lives (or even, to some extent, choreographing its flow)” [⤴️](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k3s6n3xrr7mn72q5d780dwmz
- “the chance to create more subjective representations of the world,” ⤴️
- “give posterity a particular, singular perspective onto a given moment” ⤴️
- “powerful personal significance.” ⤴️
- “this auxiliary layer of everyday life (or “second layer,” as de Certeau had it) where para- archiving takes place might also be seen as a space where subjecthood is constructed.” ⤴️
- memories are inherently single perspective, so should be authored
in the everyday
Section titled “in the everyday”- “it is never autonomous, as it is never entirely dependent.” ⤴️
- “Flows of everyday life are seldom entirely conditioned by a pervasive disciplinary strategy; they are unique projects emerging from particular ways of operating” ⤴️