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> cheese cellar as archive | edible epistemologies

"The knowing involved in making a cake is ‘contained’ not simply ‘in my head’ but in my hands, my wrists, my eyes and nose as well. The phrase ‘bodily knowledge’ is not a metaphor. It is an acknowledgement of the fact that I know things literally with my body, that I, ‘as’ my hands, know when the bread dough is sufficiently kneaded, and I ‘as’ my nose know when the pie is done." - Lisa Heldke

> no archive will restore you | julietta singh reading in progress

antonio gramsci suggests we are an "infinite history of traces without an inventory (paraphrased, singh) therefore - "it is imperative at the outset to compile such an inventory."

debt is "it's own hellish kind of archive." (singh)

one issue with personal/indie websites is discoverability (do we mind?) - but folk search engines might be the answer to accessing a completely different kind of internet culture:

> folk search engines

observation & self-policing

key texts > foucault's theory of panopticism (dicipline & punish) after bentham's panopticon ; margaret attwood "you are a woman with a man inside watching a woman"

note: foucault mentions men 'of substance' and not of subtance as a qualifier for performance of tasks within a policing system

"constant discernment between normal and abnormal"

"[he] who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribes in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection."