#virtual plane

[cleekleequlee]

Courses I'd like to teach

A recent realization from reading Deleuze is the value of the virtual (vs. the actual) on its own. If dreams, inspirations and passions are not evaluated against the golden rule of actualization but as "a nice thing to have existed", so many things will be worth doing.

Along this line, I've been thinking (dreaming) of a question: what are the courses I would like to teach in the future? This not to say I'm ready to teach them, but a time stamp of the things that inspires me and make me curious. So far I thought of:

Creative Academic Writing

I'm still very much in love with Tim Ingold's writing as affective text. Although not as literate in reading literature (I envy my boys so much for their education nowadays), I always love to read all sorts of books on writing (lol). Yesterday I flipped through Lauren Fournier's book on autotheory, and thinking of citation as part of the narrative opens up so many possibilities.

It's funny that humanities are openning up to new forms of writing, while design self-censor for ligitimacy as science. A quick search shows that this term "Creative Academic Writing" is already out there. Definitely something I would like to explore more

Philosophy and design, or philosophy of design

I'm envious of the small group of people in organizational studies who are into philosophy and found each other as a group. People like Robert Chia, Chris Steyaert and Daniel Hjorth and Robin Bolt are the reason why I feel the organizational studies/enterpreneurship studies are not boring (the latter two wrote a book using Romanticism literature as a basis of their "seduction and play" model of entrepreneurship!)

On the other hand, it seems the philosophy that is driving design is pretty much random, determined by a few people who stumbled by design and decided to stay. The impression of Tony Fry talking about Heidegger is so deep and dominating. On the other hand anthropologist picked up design as some hope, but does it help them to break from structualism on the theory level? I'm surprised I haven't encountered any design theorist talking seriously about design, Deleuze and process philosophy (I"m sure they touched on Bergson for being "creative", but on process and duration as being? Please suggest if you know).

6 years after I came to design, the question of "what is design" finally morphed into "how do we understand design? what is the philosophy behind?" Some progress I guess..

Hong Kong and ecomodernism design, or The Political Economy of Chinese Contemporary Design

Well... these topics are tricky... but just thinking from the angle of talking about something not universal but local, relevant here and now. There is always the material/embodied aspects of ideology, and these aspects are perfect bridges to talk to "normal people" who are not so acquainted with theory. My eyes are still not so well trained, but that's something to work on!

Entrepreneuring your life

Since I read so much about the unconventional understanding of entrepreneurship, and really think it should be a way of living rather than making money, I think this can be a poststructuralism 101 course. Also trying to think out of the box of faculty of design...

Co-becoming

Co-becoming, co-evolution, correspondance... so many terms, but what are they really about? What are the mechanisms? Where to work on apart from lip service? I'll probably also sneakily blend in some content about embodiment, eco psychology and care...

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Looking back at these "virtual" titles, they seem to tell something about the inspiration of my thesis. Dreams tell things, even day-dreams can be good material for psychoanalysis :)

What are your dream courses to teach?

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