Interrupting the everyday praxis of Davis station
Back in December, somebody with a Sharpie modified the historic timeline display at Davis Station to include "Native Americans, wholly mammoths." Christina J. Hodge, MA, PhD, RPA, senior curatorial assistant, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University and a research fellow in the Department of Archaeology, Boston University, places this act of consciousness-raising defiance in its proper milieu with a detailed post (complete with footnotes):
... My gaze tended to slide over the Davis timeline because it was static, familiar, of the background; dangerous and powerful qualities (Miller 2005:5). I did not engage actively with it until after it was graffitied. I acknowledge the graffiti authors for bringing my attention to the installation and for amending it. They inspired me to bring professional agendas more critically to bear on everyday praxis. Whether we recognize it or not, we all engage in a physically- and textually-mediated dialogues with the writing on the wall.
Via MetaBoston.
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The humor in this
The humor in this long-winded piece is so dry you'll need a glass of water halfway through.
At least, I'm guessing that's humor. The language is so dense it's often hard to tell.
Onion Worthy!
Is she trying to say something other than "I have an impressive vocabulary and gosh darn it, I'm gonna use it!"?
Maybe she should have a power point version:
Graffitti
I am grateful
Thank you for proactively
Thank you for proactively identifying the take-aways in this presentation. We'll include these bulletpoints in the handouts; all the other points will be tabled and taken offline.
Please go back to the original post
There is a great reply that, if I read it correctly, states that graffitied timelines are a time portal, a City on the Edge of Forever, as it were.