It’s interesting to see Harvard University initiate this project on the craft basis of knowledge. This video offers a preview of “cutting” as a way of understanding how we make a world, deconstructing our philosophical concepts into material processes. This reflects many of the Garland articles that see culture as a manual phenomenon, such as Lisa Hilli’s latest essay on Embodied history.
Source: Cutting 2017-2018 — Minding Making
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