1. 3) Survival and Creativity
1.1. to bring out queerness of use requires more than affirmation/post-it-note/statement: it requires world dismantling effort;
1.2. QUEER USE: as finding use for what has been designated of not use or that its potential of use has not been exhausted
1.2.1. not about distancing from use but to inhabit all its parts even those yet to come or those that are already here but like hidden curricula escape description and made evident by critical work/ queer uses
1.2.1.1. purpose is to make use of other uses
1.2.1.2. challenging functionalisms as it tilts too far into fatalism; for in for some is treated as before
1.2.2. respond to problem of instrumentalism not by rejecting useful knowlegde but by calling for knowledge usefull to others
1.2.3. require to cultivate capacities to undertand knowledge that cannot be communicated but exists nonethe less
1.3. quuer method attends to what may be deemed useless: ELIZABETH FREEMAN" point may be to trail behind"
1.4. finding affecection for what is discarded
1.4.1. also relegates it to frames of knowledging
1.4.1.1. world is often described by those who are already accommodated.
1.4.1.2. when those who have not been accommodated describe the world , new descriptions of the world may emerge
1.4.2. so going undetected leves more room to roam
1.4.3. but not being slected means not being supported
1.5. GArland Thompson ()p.224) on creative use: in not being accomadated, not haveing rosouces of support- you acquire resources and skills in negotiating a world that is not built for you, making use of what you have becahse you do not have what it is assumed you need,.
1.5.1. JUGAAD
1.5.2. you create something that would otherwise not be there
1.5.3. RESTRICTION becomes a possibility an opening
1.5.4. MISFITTING can be genrative because it involves friction, when things are at odd, action happens, divits and dots are important for something other to happen, opposing forces create tangential possibiolites
1.5.5. shattering and breakdown as revelations of who we are in relation to those broken bodies (p.226, bottom of the page about the broken cup)
1.5.6. Broken as QUEER KIN: queer way of wokruing is to start not anew but with exisitng conditions that are inconvinient
2. Conclusion: Queer Use
2.1. Implications of queerness of use
2.2. how we can resist the ways use forecloses queer horizons and employ queer use to scratch at the walls of hegemony.
2.3. However, we should avoid seeing queer use in simply how it can be useful to us; rather, “Queer use can be offered as an ethics of finitude, an appreciation of the wrinkle or the scratch, expressions of time on the surfaces of bodies and things, loving what does not, and will not, last” (p. 226)
3. 2) Queer Vandalism
3.1. Understood as causing damage and oftentimes also as intending to cause damage .
3.2. carving a path of survival of self "not following something as destroying something" p.209
3.3. use of the word FAMILY can be perceived as a vandalism of what families are revered to be but through queer reuse of FAMILY happens the extension of possibilities of what else family could be
3.3.1. inconveniencing / being a killjoy as the work required to push against the containers of norms, maybe to make holes and create opening so queerness can flow through.
3.3.2. obstructions or disruptions may attend to causes of problems: being in spaces not meant for it bring to attention the cause of disruption .what is not only allowed but what is disallowed.
3.3.3. to occupy spaces in a different way opens the discourse to wonder why there are no spaces , or why some spaces may be required ... they evoke intended purposes through which we may re-examine histories and intentions associated with a particular use: with the hope of its usability being queered for survival
3.4. QUEER USE: in reusing old words for how we assemble we widen their range of uses
3.4.1. widening of use may be causes as a response due to the restrictions of use: related to desirability
3.4.2. more entries are seen as devaluing : for example: scarcity drives up value
3.4.2.1. institutions benefit from blocking access to some to maintain its status
3.4.2.2. QUEER USE is to block the institution from blocking users : to become NONREPRODUCTIVE AGENTS
3.4.2.2.1. crafting new knowledge = not reproducing a line , to cite differently
3.4.3. queer reuse: implicated with maintenance of existing paths and thereby a saturation of its cartography
3.4.3.1. discrediting legacy = discrediting justifications for works arising from said legacy
3.5. Speaking out:= "leaky pipes: drip, drip"
3.5.1. installation called Langjökull, Snæfellsjökull, Solheimajökull, artist Katie Paterson created three records out of glacier ice and then played them until they melted. The progression of the warbling watery sounds and liquefying flux were documented on film to create, in song, what would become the only physical record of these glaciers’ former existence.
3.5.2. How may vandalism/ disruption/ destruction of objects/ machines/ instruments change the potential within them? take for example the story of the Astrolabe starting out as a sphere model of the celestials and by some way being flattened givig rise to other , more, new posibilties.
3.5.3. opposite of that is polishing existing norms... rendering what could be instrumental to mere furniture... something we may prop ourselves on to for comfort
3.5.3.1. but comfort for whom???
3.5.3.2. can maintenance cause erasure of paths not maintained? how does maintenance of new , normalize its queer use recreating the problems before it? How is the prepared guitar a deviant ?
3.5.3.3. "we do not want to polish away the scratches; they are testimony.217
4. 1) Refusing instructions
4.1. to survive a restriction: is to refuse instruction:
4.1.1. instruction : describes intended use; lays out a path, a method
4.1.2. what happens when instructuions are refused? deviancy, creatvity, newness, fun, queerness, perversness: deviate from straight path the "right path"
4.1.3. instructions assigned by signposts : literal and figure of speech: tell you what to do and what facilities to use: USE INSTRUCTIONS
4.1.3.1. Assigning BEING as constant: associated with using same paths and doors, not veering off the used/tried/tested/known/exploited/utilized path
4.1.3.1.1. Biology as a tool: assumed to be about what is fixed and immutable
4.1.3.1.2. bio sex as door->we learn how biology can function as technology :
4.1.3.1.3. doors : offers convenient way to pass materials