The notion of scaling linked different things: a persistent problem when we discuss about care, but also a problematic that makes all of the discourse possible. How do we include those who are not included? (Connected many topics: passage, care)
Every lecture is an expansion, ability to formulate things as a group and understanding the problem. It can be viewed from the perspective of scale: the topic expands, there’s a build-up process, and then afterward becomes focused again in more private conversations. And these focused conversations can continue over the course of serveral days. The attention span expands and contracts.
Assistants: the conversation started with more abstract notions of proximity and criticality, of devotion but then shifted to a more grounded, deeply engaged aspects of acting under the conditions of necessity. Need to understand different aspects of the notion of assistants.
How different is intercessor from the mediator? Mediator is someone who is actively invited to participate, intercessor is a passive and potentially even incognizant party invoked by the active party. Lashon hara in Judaism (if you made them talk about you, you end up in the bad book too – not only the person talking ant the person listening to it but also the person being talked about.
Hanging out in someone’s dream, convoke someone into your dream. You are involved in a process that you don’t necessarily know about.
The discussion around authorship were as if in a cloud of dust of conversations that revolved around but did not home in on the notion of author.
How we communicate, how we become fruitful in different roles for each other. Starting from getting a chance to become a scribe and observe things from a certain detachment.
When you read something as a peformance and it is not intended (Oxana’s lecture as a performance). Companions becoming mediators of the argument and getting acknowledged. Letting things pass through.
Collectively producing a conversation what it means to act collectively. How much does a collective depend on communicating that it’s a collective beyond being a meeting?
Is It is enough to be here or convince oneself to contribute? – A continuation of practice from the pandemic time when there was more time.