Taking Note (As in Note-Taking) Can Change Oneself and the World
Mary Cappello:
We come into the world handled, carried, and it is hoped, caressed, passed from hand to hand to hand, and gaze to gaze, a life-giving relay that yields in time a painstaking and laborious self-configuration arrived at via endless forms of representation, all of them historically grounded and political imbued; we learn, if you will, to see, and by extension, to know, think, and feel. Imagine having the audacity to try to alter characteristic modes of perception and discourse by way of your notational art …, convinced that this is where political change begins.
Lecture, p. 73