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image_fields_aren_t_abstract [2026/08/25 20:53] – created neilwinterburnimage_fields_aren_t_abstract [2026/08/26 13:05] (current) neilwinterburn
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-Creating societies between ourselves+Creating societies between ourselves...
  
-Creating social scenes between ourselves +Creating social scenes between ourselves...
  
-Creating scenes between ourselves assembled from arrangements of fragmented images, overlapping at different scales, from 1:1 scale to parts of miniature social gatherings, living room walls, buildings, settlements, workplaces,  towns, city walls, cell walls, immune ststems, transport systems, battles and colonies.+... assembled from fragmented images, overlapping at different scales, from 1:1 scale to parts of miniature social gatherings, living room walls, buildings, settlements, workplaces,  towns, city walls, cell walls, immune ststems, transport systems, battles and colonies.
  
 Taking things that we have experienced in different times and places innour lives and arranging them in one space at one time.  Taking things that we have experienced in different times and places innour lives and arranging them in one space at one time. 
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 To drop off my self is to also drop off the society I have absorbed and now push out onto everyone else. To drop off my self is to also drop off the society I have absorbed and now push out onto everyone else.
  
-The aim isn't to create a timeless model of society but to bring these parts to the spaces between us in the scene we're exploring in the here and now to ask the following in relation to both the other images around it in the image field and to what is happening with the people close to them in the scene.  +The aim isn't to create a timeless model of society but to bring these parts from 'out there' to the spaces between us in the scene we're exploring in the here and now.  
-- what do you experience, feel, think..?+ 
 +to ask images whats happening around them in the image field and with the people close to them in the scene.  
 +- what do you sense, experience, feel, think..?
 - where do you want to be? - where do you want to be?
 - what might you say or do? - what might you say or do?
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 When I speak, most of the time im talking in a voice reaching out to 'foreign' others,  When I speak, most of the time im talking in a voice reaching out to 'foreign' others, 
 Speaking into the space of men competing to dominate by telling it how it is Speaking into the space of men competing to dominate by telling it how it is
-Speaking like a diplomatic ambassador, translating our needs into negotiation with foreign others. 
  
-Thinking of leos drawings of new types of competitive team games hes inventing and layers in machine learning algorithms.+Speaking like a diplomatic ambassador, translating our needs into negotiation with other societies.
  
  
 Thinking of the ways of speaking and holding ourselves we're (white men) trained to use for different situations, the tone of voice we use to.. Thinking of the ways of speaking and holding ourselves we're (white men) trained to use for different situations, the tone of voice we use to..
-Convince other groups of men in the pub or the group chat+ 
 +Convince other groups of men in the pub or the group chat
 Convince managers at work  Convince managers at work 
-Explain to a younger colleague how we should do something  +Explain to a younger colleague how we should do something  
-Convince laura what to do today +Convince our partners what to do today
  
  
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      - builders building homes and defences.      - builders building homes and defences.
      - cars and trains moving      - cars and trains moving
-     - superheroes helping fighting evil  +     - superheroes fighting baddies
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-As disgusting as it is i need to re-buy society of mind. I need to better understand the enemy i have internalised. Minsky is a monster but we white men need to own that, his description of ai as internalisation of capitalist beauracracy just hits the nail on the head of all that is oppressive to us and others about Patricial, colonial and capitalist mindsets.+
  
    
  
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