Yarns

The above clusterfuck of string and paper represent my attempt to visually articulate the interconnectedness of my project. It was, as far as I can tell, a good idea that floundered in implimentation. In my mind's eye, I can see the ways in which Taussig's use of the concepts of discourse and otherness are developed (to a large degree) from Said, who of course learned a great deal from Foucault. Or how the forms of community organization described in Desai's book are developed from the global growth of slums that Davis describes. So I drew stickfigures and taped them to a foam board, and then tacked on color coded yarn to represent different types of interconnectedness.

But the goddamn board couldn't fit that much yarn. The spirit was willing, but the yarn was weak. Now that that travesty is completed, get ready for some discussion of South African grassroots politics.