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<p><span style="font-weight:700">RENDERING</span><br>
How, then, might the effect of interferences be marked while accounting for the apparatus of their production? In other words, how might knowledge generated through everyday spatial practices be rendered without being flattened, georeferenced, or vectorized? This page is an account of the form and formation of negative-spaces––the website which marks the effects of my deep mapping practice and constitutes the contents of what I will submit as my master's thesis in geography. In what follows, I articulate how making space for deep mapping renders theory as praxis. In doing so, I attend to the exclusions entailed in defining the form of my research output and rendering it intelligible to the sociotechnical system of institutional graduate publishing. The archival of negative-spaces within UBC's institutional repository will performatively render my research-creation output legible as an MA thesis.
<span style="background-color: #82ffd562">How, then, might the effect of interferences be marked while accounting for the apparatus of their production? In other words, how might knowledge generated through everyday spatial practices be rendered without being flattened, georeferenced, or vectorized?</span> This page is an account of the form and formation of negative-spaces––the website which marks the effects of my deep mapping practice and constitutes the contents of what I will submit as my master's thesis in geography. In what follows, I articulate how making space for deep mapping renders theory as praxis. In doing so, I attend to the exclusions entailed in defining the form of my research output and rendering it intelligible to the sociotechnical system of institutional graduate publishing. The archival of negative-spaces within UBC's institutional repository will performatively render my research-creation output legible as an MA thesis.
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<span style="font-size: 14px"><b>Site 2</b> Screenshot of the revisions to “Library:Circle/Uploading Electronic Theses and Dissertations made as of 18:20, 13 July 2023. A few of the additions, which can be viewed publicly by navigating to the history of the UBC Wiki page, are as follows: Your first file must contain your title page and preliminary pages, so this will always be a pdf file: ubc_gradyear_gradmonth_lastname_firstname_file1.pdf. When uploading multi-file theses, the PDF file containing your title page and preliminary pages must be the first-listed file in your submission. Subsequent file should then be submitted in order of importance as determined by your Committee. Read the full history log <a href="https://wiki.ubc.ca/index.php?title=Library:Circle/Uploading_Electronic_Theses_and_Dissertations&diff=760286&oldid=760285" target="_blank">here</a>.</span>
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Like transgression, interference at once articulates difference and effects the reconfiguration of boundaries by bringing what was previously unintelligible into focus. Interference is the superposition of different intelligibilities. The effects of interference, of 'differential intra-actions' (Barad 2007), are marked by diffraction patterns. As clarified in negative-spaces/interference.html, "A diffraction pattern does not map where differences appear, but rather maps where the <i>effects</i> of difference appear" (Haraway 1991, 70). Just as the difference between human and nonhuman, field and researcher do not preexist the boundary making practices by which they are rendered differentially intelligible, the boundary differentiating negative space from an intelligible form does not preexist interference but rather is illuminated as its effect. Interference, like<br><br>
Like transgression, interference at once articulates difference and effects the reconfiguration of boundaries by bringing what was previously unintelligible into focus. The effects of interference, of 'differential intra-actions' (Barad 2007), are marked by diffraction patterns. As clarified in negative-spaces/interference.html, "A diffraction pattern does not map where differences appear, but rather maps where the <i>effects</i> of difference appear" (Haraway 1991, 70). Just as the difference between human and nonhuman, field and researcher do not preexist the boundary making practices by which they are rendered differentially intelligible, the boundary differentiating negative space from an intelligible form does not preexist interference but rather is illuminated as its effect. Interference, like
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Transgression, then, is not related to the limit as black to white, the prohibited to the lawful, the outside to the inside, or as the open area of a building to its enclosed spaces. Rather, their relationship takes the form of a spiral which no simple infraction can exhaust. Perhaps it is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black in­tensity to the night it denies, which lights up the night from the inside, from top to bottom, and yet owes to the dark the stark clarity of its manifestation…. (Foucault 1977, 35)
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The boundary of an intelligible form is rendered articulate only in its crossing. Indeed, "it is likely that transgression has its entire space in the line it crosses" (Foucault 1977, 34). Because intelligibility is provisionally figured, what constitutes negative space is continuously shifting. No predetermined set of method(s) for interference will do. As an interference praxis, deep mapping relies on tactics rather than strategies. Whereas the system in authority deploys strategy to delimit and maintain the place of its positioning, "a tactic is a calculated action determined by the absence of a proper locus. No delimitation of an exteriority, then, provides it with the condition neces­sary for autonomy. The space of a tactic is the space of the other" (de Certeau 1984, 36-37). Operating from within negative spaces, "...a tactic boldly juxtaposes diverse elements in order suddenly to produce a flash shedding a different light on the language of a place…" (de Certeau 1984, 37-38).
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<p>Intelligibility is not a static state but the effect of boundary drawing practices; what constitutes negative space is therefore provisional, continuously figured and refigured in relation to the intelligible form. Writes Barad, "Boundary transgressions should be equated not with the dissolution of traversed boundaries (as some authors have suggested) but with the ongoing reconfiguring of boundaries" (Barad 2007, 245) About negative space - being there - its all the field - boundary re/figurations rather than dissolution de certeau "It is as though delimitation itself were the bridge that opens the inside to its other"<br>
Locating my thesis in negative-spaces brings to the fore forms of knowledge production and rendering spatial research public that are institutionally rendered outside the norm. And, in doing so, negative-spaces enacts an interference which redraws the definition of possibility. It's not one against another (opposition) but a Baradian 'intra-action' (Barad 2007) which reveals the limit through the transgressive act of proposing alternative framings. This is the work of reconfiguring boundaries. It is to the configuration and configured form of my thesis that I now turn.
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Intelligibility is not a static state but the effect of boundary drawing practices; what constitutes negative space is therefore provisional, continuously figured and refigured in relation to the intelligible form. Just as "The limit and transgression depend on each other for whatever density of being they possess" (Foucault 1977, 34), so do negative space and the intelligible form. Tactics are acts/instruments of interference which don't simply "juxtapose[] diverse elements" but superposition different intelligibilities––i.e., bring what was rendered unintelligible from negative space into that of the intelligible form. Such interference effects the articulation and reconfiguration of limits/boundaries. Writes Barad (2007), "Boundary transgressions should be equated not with the dissolution of traversed boundaries (as some authors have suggested) but with the ongoing reconfiguring of boundaries" (245). Locating my thesis in negative-spaces brings to the fore forms of knowledge production and rendering spatial research public that are institutionally rendered outside the norm. And, in doing so, negative-spaces enacts an interference which redraws the definition of possibility. It's not one against another (opposition) but a Baradian 'intra-action' which reveals the limit through the transgressive act of proposing alternative framings. This is the work of reconfiguring boundaries. It is to the configuration and configured form of my thesis that I now turn.
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December 2021<br> //cw suicide
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The city is hazy and so am I. I wake up late, spend till noon fighting the residual stupor of sleeping pills. Insomnia comes in waves; I pray it ebbs. I do five things at once without thinking: I wash the dishes while putting away glasses. I drop them. I sweep them up and the faucet is still running. I try to eat. Choke. I'm unable to swallow like my body is rejecting input. I'm out of breath, my senses dulled. I go for a walk and find myself lost in familiar places. I wander around listening to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nmHymgM7Y" target="_blank">You want it darker</i></a> on repeat. The mountains have disappeared and even downtown is fading away. I think I've opened myself so wide to feeling the city that when it's hazy so am I.
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apparatuses are not assemblages of humans and nonhumans; they are open-ended practices involving specific intra-actions of humans and nonhumans, where the differential constitution of human and nonhuman designate particular phenomena that are themselves implicated in the dynamics of intra-activity, including their enfolding and reconstitution in the reconfiguring of apparatuses. That is, human bodies, alike all other bodies, are not entities with inherent boundaries and properties but phenomena that acquire specific boundaries and properties through the open-ended dynamics of intra-activity. (Barad 2007, 172)</span> </p>-->
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Two images of field notes from the beginning of my thesis. In the first note I have circled in blue crayon: What is my data? The second note I wrote: Include fieldnotes (written, audio even) brainstorms, mind maps in MA Thesis -> emphasize in process - transparency of pedagogy. Justify -> MA is to learn to be a scholar - prep for PhD - reflecting on process - sharing - helpful & just as important as product.
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