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2025 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Abstract [en]
We would like to invite everyone to reverberate between sense
and nonsense through walking and getting lost together in the city, or a part of
the city. Taking the inspiration from Frederic Gros’ argument that walking is a
thinking/inquiry method which allows us to experience “suspensive freedom”
(Gros, 2014: 15)—a thinking space free from regularities and daily norms, this
workshop aims to re-evaluate and re-maps the boundaries between sense and
nonsense.
The walk is also expected to activate the “wandering mindset” (Smith, 2016: 11)
wherein a person enters “a complete immersion in the current situation, a
willingness to be open to whatever comes up, whatever you find in front of you at
the moment.” To further facilitate the wandering and reverberation between sense
and nonsense, several verbal quotes from literary texts related to the setting of
the arena are used to stimulate the senses with overlapping logic and information,
leading into the overload of spatial cognition (see Nikolajeva, 2024).
Standing in and vibrating between sense and nonsense, the participants are
expected to map their entanglement and confusion using creative process, involving
spontaneous creation of artworks in nature and the use of mapping technology to
further blur the boundaries between sense and nonsense, between analog and
digital, and between objective and subjective spatial understanding.
National Category
Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Arts
Research subject
Urban studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-79405 (URN)
Conference
17th International Deleuze & Guattari Studies Camp and Conference Pedagogies of Philosophy: Nonsense, and…and…and joy June 2025, Stockholm
2025-09-112025-09-112025-09-16Bibliographically approved