For GIS track, see
http://etherbox.lan:9001/p/Thursday-07-12
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hat does it mean to be oriented?
A look at queer/feminist geographies
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ollowing Seda's proposal on using Orientations: Toward a Queer Phenomenology by Sara Ahmed as a starting point to
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iscuss the langage of displacement used for speaking about a sexuality. What does it says about mapping and geography.
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hink about a test map around the notion of space and sexuality
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hatever else related : pink tourism, cruising bodies, dyke marches and so on...
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If orientation is a matter of how we
reside in space, then sexual orientation might also be a matter of residence, of
how we inhabit spaces, and who or what we inhabit spaces with.
(...)
The starting point for orientation is the point from which the world
unfolds: the here of the body and the where of its dwelling.
(...)
The objects that we direct our attention toward
reveal the direction we have taken in life. If we face this way or that, then other
ORIENTATIONS
things, and indeed spaces, are relegated to the background; they are only ever
co-perceived.
(...)
Even when orientations seem to be about which way we are facing in the
present, they also point us toward the future. The hope of changing directions is
always that we do not know where some paths may take us: risking departure from
the straight and narrow, makes new futures possible, which might involve going
astray, getting lost, or even becoming queer.
— Sara Ahmed
This is the link to the article:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58ad660603596eec00ce71a3/t/58bec800b8a79b7c599de24a/1488898050432/Orientations+Toward+a+Queer+Phenomenology.pdf
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Where is gender ?
bodies and inhabitation of spaces
how and where to begin
point zero
here and there
tactile
where is the horizon ?
straight lines !
(my idea of paradise is a straight line to goal - Friedrich)
re-orientation
coming (out)
inhabiting the orientated body
pink tourism
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the lesbian curve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_rule
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Cartography / geography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_and_space
https://www.neighborhoodstoryproject.org/queer-cartography
Top cruising places in bruxelles
https://fr.yelp.be/search?find_desc=Gay+Cruising+Sites&find_loc=Bruxelles%2C+Bruxelles
https://en.yelp.be/search?find_desc=Gay+Cruising+Spots%2C+Parks&find_loc=Bruxelles
Hito Steyerl: In Free Fall - A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/24/67860/in-free-fall-a-thought-experiment-on-vertical-perspective/
Lesbian Curve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_rule
In his famous letter to the Louvain theologian Martin Dorp, Thomas More referenced it when reproving Dorp for his attack on Erasmus' In Praise of Folly: "You praise Adriaan for being unbiased, yet you seem to suggest he is no more unbiased than a Lesbian rule, a rule made out of lead which, as Aristotle reminds us, is not always unbiased, since it bends to fit uneven shapes.
DIS/ORIENTATION
becoming oblique
bodies situated in space and time
proximity - distance
inclination
directionnality
spatiality
(TO BE CONTINUED)