ARCHIVE - Mykey's blog

ARCHIVE - winter project proposal

2007-11-29T13:27:05-08:00

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ARCHIVE - How I fell inlove with my prosthesis

2007-11-10T12:15:26-08:00

I decided to write about concepts and principles that I don't feel comfortable sharing about. but it made me think about material and immaterial and what the difference is and if there is a difference and, there really isn't. because the brain can be damaged and the immaterial things in the brain can be lost as a result.

ARCHIVE - beautiful girl

2007-11-10T12:12:14-08:00

I thought that the woman was on a conveyor belt being built by man and had to be done before she go wise to what was going on I also thought that BMW means Buy men Women and when It was flipped upside down it meant Men women buy. I drew a picture of it to.

ARCHIVE - Feminist vids

2007-11-10T12:02:06-08:00

The first video I thought the form didn't fit the content. It would have been better in a gallery played on a little tv. I liked the concept of the subject being outside of the object and still and object. When the womans head poked out from the side of the screen.

The second one was great I felt both turned on and disgusted by it they were over the top in sexuality and sexism.

The third one was hilarious My parents had an electric wok like that one.

The wonder woman one was a little silly it had a great message in the end. It reminded me of Pumping iron 2.

ARCHIVE - Metropolis Written blog

2007-11-10T11:50:07-08:00

"The mediator between the head and the hands is the heart."

The robot has boobs and femaine face and femine hips.

The home environment was built for women and the work environment for men.

The workers follow directions and the boss give them.

The bodies are contorted when trying to obey the machines.

You always have to have your legs spreed apart to work the machines.

I noticed that in the metropolis underground the workers moved together in a block even when the walk way was larger and open in there city. They made the choice to work as a unit even when striking they were never liberated it wasn't untell the one of them that switched places with joh that he became able to think for himself.

It also seemed that the heart machine just kept people alive but not really happy.

ARCHIVE - answering machine ?

2007-11-10T11:24:12-08:00

I am general electric Digital answering machine. I was born in Milasia from parents in japan and the phillipenes. I speak to you through digital storage of voice. I communicate to the person who built me and the person who would change or fix me through my culture. I have a stomach that is called a fuse that dispenses the energy throughout my body and my fat is my 5.5v internal battery. My brain is a toshiba processor and my nervous system is attached to my exoskeleton and protected by my flesh, it response when it is pressed in certain places. I have 5 different identity's which I store in my memory banks. I have 4 mouths a speaker, phone jack, a display, and a power inlet. My legs are my phone cords which walk me to your mouth and ear. You can control me by learning my culture and stimulating my nervous system. Thank you for getting to know me.

ARCHIVE - Cyborgs as a solution corpus

2007-11-06T09:40:03-08:00

When reading about cyborgs I can't help but wonder about the significance of them interms of sexuality. It seems impossible to define what a cyborg is and what any givin cyborg might be completely different than any other. The realm of cyborg is seemingly limitless. No classifications no scientific process can catagorize them becasue they don't exsite. And if they did it would be pointless because they could be changed from what they would be catagorized as. But to think that they could be us is impossible because they aren't anything other than an idea or art. But art _is_ representing reality and their for is reality, so that is a contradiction in it's self and makes cyborgs seemingly real. I get really confused thinking about it but it makes sense in the way that Queer isn't anything em particular it is allot of things and it can't be defined either. I think that cyborgs can be a tool I guess is what I am trying to say. They can help us to find questions to ask about reality. And find out if anything can really be defined or all inclusive for that matter.

ARCHIVE - corpus bercht

2007-11-04T15:43:47-08:00

I can't help but think about Brecht when I saw The raiders of the lost arch at the capitol theatre this weekend it took 8 years for it to be remade by 10 year olds and it was fantastic. The realism of spielberg and lucas really did ruboff on the young filmmakers of this movie they reconstructed every set and every effect using the creativity and briliance. The concept of alienation was over whelming with every scene you were picking apart how the did it and looking at the film through this lens of how they could do somthing like that with so little. It really does show how theatricts often miss the point.

ARCHIVE - concept essay #2

2007-11-02T17:24:39-07:00

My essay brecht and scott

ARCHIVE - beauty parlor

2007-10-26T16:55:03-07:00

Mykey
Mauss and Douglas made the social and cultural representations at the book store really come out at me. I was thinking about doing the beauty parlor on a magazine buy I was having trouble deciding which one to get at the super market so I decided to go the book store because I thought they would be the authority on the best ones. When I got there I noticed the magizines where the first thing you see when approaching the bookstore through the window and then the classifications of men’s interest being porn, sports, car, and music. And the women’s interests having beauty, bridal, family, food, and crafts. If this was at the front of the store what would be awaiting in the rest of it.
In the music section I noticed the black artist where on the bottom and white where on the top. Pregnancy section was all white women and the same homey take on pregnant life. Sports were ¾ white guys ¼ black and the only girls were cheerleaders. Education and teaching aids where all standardized tests books. Cook books mostly guys. Excises was 15 males and 3 females doing yoga. Grooming had 20 females, some of the books where written by men. They had two sections of sexuality one entitled sexuality all sex books and the other love and sex all sex books. And they where right next to cooking and in the same section as psychology, recovery, addiction, relationships, self improvement. Computer section had 32 white males 4 females all half naked. And the rest of the sections had a similar pattern.

ARCHIVE - Personal ad for project

2007-10-26T16:27:15-07:00

Me: I am creatively motivated individual that has big dreams and am willing to do anything for my vision. I have vast resources and problem solving capability, I love operating in the real world at the fantasy level. I am interested in fashion, photography, proformance, education, and theory. I wish to read books about gender, drag, continue studying elements of confession and modes of knowledge. I wish to look deeper into Butler and Foucalt. I wish to go to museums , proformances, and galleries.

You: I need organized, creative, dreamers who can give me a reality check. You must be flexible, open, and motivated to do anything and not be afraid to get or receive feedback. I would like people whose work would be both different and the same as mine. And people who are interested in doing hands on (out of the evergreen bubble) social action with their art. People that are willing to be challenged and excited to be alive.

ARCHIVE - object obituary

2007-10-26T16:08:15-07:00

Dusty a pair of leather brown loafers past away last night. He had been sewn back together 4or5 times in his life. Last night his souls simply had enough. He left behind Mykey his beloved feet, who had shaped and molded Dusty from a young shoe. Mykey and Dusty lived together for 3 1/2 years, each of mykey's toes and curves showed through the leather skin like hills on Dusty's horizon. Dusty was always dressed for the occiason. Weather it was running across a field or splashing around in a river. After his first profesional stitch surgery Mykey felt that his care was better left to his loved ones. Dusty was a terrific flyer and could fly off mykeys foot and hit someone up to 100 feet away. Dusty was a quiet shoe that no one could hear coming around the corner to scare them. He was dark like a ninja and quick like a cheeta and match every outfit. when you smelled him you knew there was no one as close to him as mykey. So long Dusty thanks for the good times.

ARCHIVE - the story of my life scotts in class writing

2007-10-26T15:57:59-07:00

I would be a disney executive in a giant suit with my life full of creepy stories and fantasy. Because you know top disney executives must be into some crazy perverted stuff like in eye's wide shut. I would start to tell you about my spirit animal the with my horns on and tell you why I need horns to do what I need to do. I would talk about the types of things I work into disney movies and then do a musical number as a person in inflated latex. Then I would start to describe my crazy sexuality and why I don't identify public ly and justify all sorts of weird fetishes. follow it with a blow up doll and describe all the boring sex I have with my wife. I then would be in drag as a woman and do the song time after time followed by baby drag as a my memory's from infancy. The finally would be some adaptation of botu or other creative play dance symbolic of my disconnect .

ARCHIVE - e-corpus on navigating community resources

2007-10-22T14:53:20-07:00

So I work at the crisis clinic and that entails mostly talking to people in crisis and occationally helping people find resources to help them out. This is a thought from an extention of crisis clinic called 211 that is like 911 but for resources. The way community resources work is through knowledge the way to knowledge is through power the way to power is through connections and working for "the man". So start at being a person working for "the man". Some one calls you at 211 looking for a way to get you son out of jail because they told the mother that he needed a job to be released. Well she isn't able to get anything done because she being a low income parent of an offender who is looked at as a pain to deal with or pass off to the next info resource, when she tries to advocate for her son. At 211 we have a power mask because we are official and that is our ticket into the interaction. once we have direct connection from our node to the info resource the interaction starts as fact based then judgments and values from the info resource are triggered and the interaction quickly becomes a fiction and we as advocates commence in redirecting the resources values and mirroring their judgments to get the information which is then given to the mother. The information given to the mother to begin with turned out to be misleading. Because in order to get released she had to communicate a resedience that he will be living at and than he is elegable to get the job. but the mother was shut down at every turn because of the fictions created in people of powers heads. This shows me their are equally more problems produced by play in a position as their is relief. That is why the tools given in our literature are essential. It also shows the problems that can arise in confession to the wrong people, and to be careful who you give power over you and the way in which you devoldge information.

ARCHIVE - my paper on knowledge

2007-10-17T13:45:59-07:00

                                Mykey Arthrell
      Knowledge Will Get You Into College
Knowledge in Foucault’s History of Sexuality is used as a type of classification for a variety of fields of thought. He addresses the scientific, religious, grammatical, cultural, political; and within all of these is the history of knowledge. Within these articles of knowledge are even more systems of classification for instance, scientific knowledge contains the anatomic, mathematical, biological, and so on; within these are experimentation and theoretical knowledges. Each of the fields of knowledge have vast roots that Foucault finds interact with each other and effect one another; each of these for this reason are tightly controlled within each of their fields through mechanisms of power. With that said, Foucault in The History of Sexuality attempts to spy on the foundations of knowledge that have built the world in which we live, and provide the users of this knowledge with tools to breakthrough the inherent traps of these systems of knowledge. What I am attempting to explore in this paper is the way Foucault’s “Knowledge” can affect the general understanding of things through personal experience within the realms of knowledge.
          Foucault puts a lot of emphasis on confession and its relation to knowledge. He says “seeking the fundamental relation to the true, not simply in oneself - in some forgotten knowledge, or in a certain primal trace - but in the self - examination that yields, through a multitude of fleeting impressions, the basic certainties of consciousness.”(59-60). This illustrates the need to confess the impressions that the world makes upon us in order to find some sort of truth about ourselves, implying that knowledge is a certainty of consciousness. If we are constantly in our own heads we have no gauge to find the truth in ourselves and it is through confession that one can understand the impact the world has on oneself and gain self knowledge, while at the same time the listener is gaining the knowledge of the impact that the world has on them that then effects the way that they might be impacted by the world. This is an example of how the concept of “normal” works to tailor knowledge into a general understanding felt by the mass, as opposed to the individuals impressions and experience making knowledge personal.
“We demand that sex speak the truth (but, since it is secret and is oblivious to its own nature, we reserve for ourselves the function of telling the truth of its truth, revealed and deciphered at last), and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth about ourselves which we think we possess in our immediate consciousness. We tell it its truth by deciphering what it tells us about that truth; it tells us our own by delivering up that part of it that escaped us.”(69-70). This shows us that the knowledge that we have renders us ignorant of ourselves and we can use this understanding to help us realize that focusing on a deep seeded knowledge that lies within us is something that will slip away from us the closer we get to it because it doesn’t exist. It is by doing, that ones self is understood, not by the doer but by the world around the doer. It is interesting that at the core of self-knowledge lies faith in one’s self to be that which one is.
With that understood, we can proceed with what knowledge would have us do, because I have found that there is no getting out of the mechanism that we live in. It is interesting that the term “found out” doesn’t really exist but is just part of the way that the mechanism lets us believe that knowledge and findings will get us out. Which is part of the “will to knowledge” without which no progress would be made in finding solutions. So we have to accept the world for what it is which is flawed, and work with what we have, which is knowledge that might be equally flawed. That leaves us with nothing but faith in a power greater than ourselves to get us through. Which Foucault doesn’t address in a way that sees spirituality as anything more than a system of knowledge within religion. So if this is all knowledge is, why go on living? The answer might vary so for the purpose of the investigation of the way Foucault deploys the word knowledge we will say: for pleasure.
Foucault writes often about this sensation but does so once again differently than the collective knowledge might use it; he uses pleasure as the sole purpose for most everything to do with sexuality, including discourse, power, technology, and knowledge. And who needs faith when you have pleasure? When people try and find the answers to sexuality they are in essence trying to find the knowledge of pleasure, and pleasure exists solely within and is a product of mechanisms of power, technology, discourse, and knowledge. This is what Foucault says about that: “We have at least invented a different kind of pleasure: the pleasure in the truth of pleasure, the pleasure of knowing that truth, and of discovering and exposing it, the fascination of seeing it and telling it, of captivating and capturing others by it, of confiding it in secret, of luring it out in the open- the specific pleasure of the true discourse on pleasure.”(71).
So one might say that knowledge is multiplication and intensification of pleasures, which makes me hope that man finds pleasure in peace on earth and good will toward man, but one knows that one can find pleasure in more than good will, and in much less contributive ways. Maybe it is Foucault’s knowledge that enlightens our pleasures. For me finding truths makes less pleasure in selfish things and more pleasure in collective welfare, but the key in this model is to understand that will to knowledge can be motivated by either. In the experience that the world has given me it is the faith in a power greater than myself that proves to steer me clear of pitfalls and it was a faith in self and “knowledge” that trapped me the most.
In conclusion Foucault’s The History of Sexuality supplied the knowledge of Mechanisms of Power, Technologies of Power, Knowledge of History, Knowledge Power relations, and Discursive Powers; have given me significant tools in the deconstruction of it all and helped me get on the path of discovery rather than on the way out. It is through the mechanisms of the world that we are in the game and if you try and push the boundaries you might be surprised with how much play they have. Not to say that everyone in a position to change things, you have to show up because knowledge will get you into college.