casey boyle

I know I can be dense and confusing, but if you work through me, you’ll get to an insightfully creamy center.

I think there is a lot of potential in find/replace, and it’s related to my discussion of glitch in art and software, seeing glitch as potential rather than flaw and this potential creates new relationships with regards to mediation: “A metastable orientation is a manner of engaging rhetorical practice that includes but is irreducible to what we can consciously know, see, or anticipate. As the examples described before show, we expand our critical orientations from which we look at or through mediation by also interacting with files, through interfaces, on operating systems, and against hardware (and all other relational combinations therein)” (Me 27).

Let me help you get to my creamy, insightful center because in my prepositional play I am enacting a metastable orientation/perspective and promoting the power of find/replace rhetorical practices which often occur through one set of relationships, affirmed or agreed upon, based on assumptions and repeated practices, where thoughts are guided by a stability of “giants” or prescribed rhetorical lenses and ideas. I’m for disruption of what appears stable by imagining different relationships between objects, subjects, and mediation and my thinking is even connected to equity, in imagining and acknowledging different relationships, their combinations, and inventing new ones, though we may not know the ethic in the results because such find/replace play is uncertain and find/replace “opens the door” to thinking in terms of equity, to understanding that “All men [and women] are created equal” is a myth in so many ways (e.g. biological, cultural, social, economic, etc.) but that in order to create justice one needs empathy, to consider equality and equity simultaneously.