Post Scriptum …
… to my Week 1 Lifestream Summary.
I went for a wordle representation of the beginnings of my lifestream because I feel it is still in its infancy, when it’s being shaped out of a mass of disorganised threads, scraps and traces left by me on the Web. I wove the word cloud with short statements signalling different moments of the first week formative phase: moments of panic when the computer crashed and when the pages loaded slowly but also moments of apprehension when I couldn’t get to grips with the whole concept of lifestreaming, analysing each link whether it was ‘postable’, feeling the ‘stick’ of assessment but wanting to be fair in choices as for me the course is about Learning, not passing.
When posting quotes from Hand (2008) on Tumblr, I started looking for images of ‘circulation’, ‘deterritorialisation’, ‘networks’ and while selecting the pictures the ideas started slowly milling around in my head, strengthened with time by visual associations. At night, the fermenting scraps of online activity built into new understandings and a few new connections were forged between the concepts. I’m still struggling with them but I wouldn’t have made this little step if it weren’t for the lifestream. What if I had a port built into my brain which would transmit my entangled thoughts into the lifestream, with a little sizzling sound here and there to document a small connection being temporarily secured?
Lifestream by Night