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"Maybe that’s why so few people write, and why a few people feel compelled to write. Every kind of pain is aversive to most humans, but addictive to a handful of them. Writers are addicted to the particular kind of pain you feel when you’re at a loss for words, and to the relief that comes from finding them." 👀👇 #wanderr #experimentalhistory #writing

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/28-slightly-rude-notes-on-writing#footnote-1-162370468

Adam Mastroianni with another banger via Experimental History.

Personally I love how the word "slop" is being used here, like a spiritual successor to "spam" but contentified.

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-slop-school-of-internet-success?publication_id=656797&post_id=140533562

#ExperimentalHistory #slop

This is why #ExperimentalHistory is my favourite #Substack

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/there-are-no-statistics-in-the-kingdom

Couldn't attend the Making Historical Dress Network's workshops in September? Never fear, you can now watch the recordings online!

Workshop One - Replicas, Reconstructions, and Recreations: Defining Terms of Historical Remaking
📽️ https://makinghistoricaldress.dmu.ac.uk/Workshop-One.html

Workshop Two - Translating Making Knowledge: Communicating Embodied Experience
📽️ https://makinghistoricaldress.dmu.ac.uk/Workshop-Two.html

#DressHistory #FashionHistory #MaterialCulture #HistoricalSewing #ExperimentalHistory #EmbodiedTurn #Histodons @histodons @historikerinnen

Leo el análisis sobre el fraude en la psicología pop que hace Adam Mastroiani en #ExperimentalHistory:
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/im-so-sorry-for-psychologys-loss?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
en referencia a casos como los de Ariely, Gino, Stapel...
"Apparently is possible to reach the stratosphere of scientific achievement, to publish over and over again in “high impact” journals, to rack up tens of thousands of citations, and for none of it to matter."

I'm really looking forward to this (free) online symposium on February 2, organised by the Centre for Design History at the University of Brighton / Techne Doctoral Training Partnership:

✂️ Thinking through Making

"What can historians and theorists of design and dress learn from the practices of making? How can we know fashion and clothing better, as a system and a set of practices, through pattern and stitch?"

(It's actually a two-part event, part one is the online symposium, part two is an in-person workshop on Feb. 8.)

#DressHistory #FashionHistory #DesignHistory #EmbodiedTurn #Histodons #MaterialCulture #ExperimentalHistory #LivingHistory #HistoricalSewing

I’m one of those people who has to try hard not to over-analyse everything. Therapy has helped a bit, but I still can’t help reflecting on conversations I’ve had with people outside my family. Why did that conversation go so well? Why was another one boring? Did I talk too much? That sort of thing. Which is why I found this article about ‘conversational doorknobs’ and improvisational comedy fascinating. For me, learning take-and-take suggested a solution not just to songs about Spiderman, but to a scientific mystery. I was in graduate school at the time, running studies aimed at answering the question, “Do conversations end when people want them to?” I watched a stupefying number of conversations unfold, some of them blooming into beautiful repartee (one pair of participants exchanged numbers afterward), others collapsing into awkward silences. Why did some conversations unfurl and others wilt? One answer, I realized, may be the clash of take-and-take vs. give-and-take. Givers think that conversations unfold as a series of invitations; takers think conversations unfold as a series of declarations. When giver meets giver or taker meets taker, all is well. When giver meets taker, however, giver gives, taker takes, and giver gets resentful (“Why won’t he ask me a single question?”) while taker has a lovely time (“She must really think I’m interesting!”) or gets annoyed (“My job is so boring, why does she keep asking me about it?”). It’s easy to assume that givers are virtuous and takers are villainous, but that’s giver propaganda. Conversations, like improv scenes, start to sink if they sit still. Takers can paddle for both sides, relieving their partners of the duty to generate the next thing. It’s easy to remember how lonely it feels when a taker refuses to cede the spotlight to you, but easy to forget how lovely it feels when you don’t want the spotlight and a taker lets you recline on the mezzanine while they fill the stage. When you’re tired or shy or anxious or bored, there’s nothing better than hopping on the back of a conversational motorcycle, wrapping your arms around your partner’s waist, and holding on for dear life while they rocket you to somewhere new. There’s people I interact with on a semi-regular basis for which I, like other people, am just a convenient person to talk at. It can be entertaining for a while, but can get […]

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2022/08/27/conversational-affordances/

#ExperimentalHistory

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