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Queering Damage
A methodology for queering damage. 
A methododology for partial reparation … or not.
A methododology for holding damage.
A methododology or not

[quote DFS]

Queering Damage
Queering Damage invites us to wonder together about the potential of microbial, animal, plant, mineral, cosmological technoscience, to situate ourselves in these mundane and alluring scenes, to consider these labours and imagine a collective life otherwise. It asks us to ponder the possibilities and limitations of informatics and to take seriously the affective forces of nonhuman animals and machines. 
How might we extend queer theories that concern personal injury, into more-than-human ensembles, in order to consider the damages shared by humans and nonhumans?
How can we generate ways that take us beyond reparative narratives or benevolent utopianism towards more-than-human life?

Warnings

Queering Damage is an operative analytic that :

• Provides a framework to write accounts of damages AND a framework to write accounts of damage after (queer) reparations , or not... 
• These accounts demand attention to the deep entanglements or implicancies [add a ref earlier up to DFS] of damage, particulary to the effects and affects. It attends to consequences that may happen, have happened, might happen again.
• The implicancies are considered with a recognition of their entanglement with space time and beings .
• Human and nonhumans are recognis ed as agencies within the operations, yet are held as elements of each other .
• The operations consider how so-called bodies might emerge as so-called humans . T hese becomings are not not pre-determined by historical conditions, however there are open to interventions, undoings, unmakings.
• Although a gencies are noted , Queering Damage recognises that the ir capacities are interruptable, and not stable. 
• In particular this analytic allows to include further damages at the point of repair or reparation (not to be exclud ed from the account). 
• It considers the interventions that make transitions between conditions happen, whether reparative or not. There is a need to recognise that movement between conditions is not unidirectional but that these transitions might cause harms and damages themselves. Although reversal is possible it is not ahistorical.

The framework operates upon the damages through:

• a series of questions , through which orientations might shift and a complex account of damages can be generated .
• notations of the effects and affects on human, nonhuman, inhuman and fictions
• operations can also be use d to imagine the possible undoings or interventions on a condition such as love, protect et c. e tc.
• The analytic develops an ethics from damages rather than from so-called individual body boundaries, but whilst keeping the damages of lived experience firmly present. 

Queering Damage

operation n: Attunement
open the room, break the flow, get into the flow, feel the ground, attune to the environment, find the courage, feel the urgency,

operation n: Situation
damage: to widen the notion of damage and identify its conditions and surrounding. Pain, suffering, injury, uselessness, unrevoerability, unreparability, homophobia, racism, ageism, ableims, specism, classism, exclusions, inclusions,
queering: non-identitary, non-essentialist, non-fixed lives → trans*feminist approaches // intersectional, not-only-human, antinormative, affirmative, (partial) reparation: perhaps that we can have some partial hopes to repair some damages but not others, or to live with damage in ways that give comfort and care. A basic gesture of trying to organize a togetherness that counts.
queering methodologies: how can we, as Octavia Butler might say, 'uphold a politics of queer survival'? 
analytics (discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data): a post-positive move. It is urgent to reclaim analytics in non profit experiments. Reclaim analytics as the practice of cutting complexity together apart[1]. Take on both the injuries caused by analytics and also to take on how we might invent/generate/build on an analytics for trans*feminist work that stays with damage.
https://queeringdamage.hangar.org/index.php/OPERATION_0

operation n: Bringing damages
Bring one or two experiences of "damage" in the broadest sense. They don't have to be personally experienced injuries: they can be observed damages or collective ones. It can be bodily damage, community damage, environmental damage, personal injury, historical damage, public damage, fictitious damage, cultural damage, file damage, structural damage, naturalized damage, computer damage, urban damage, transgenerational damage, geopolitical damage... etc. 
https://queeringdamage.hangar.org/index.php/OPERATION_1
operation n: Interviewing the damage
    • What is going on here?
    • Which are the agencies implied (alive or not, human or not, powerful or powerless)?
    • Wheres (spatiality / situatedness / displacements / distribution)?
    • Whens (temporality / durability / existing / extinct / repeated)?
    • Semiotic-materialities: what signs and matters are at work in this ensemble?
    • Your entanglement with the scene
    • Can a pattern be identified here? To what extent is this damage structural, or singular?
you might want to limit the time you want to spend with the interviewing-the-damage process beforehand.

operation n: Incomplete reading, bibliographic resistance
https://queeringdamage.hangar.org/index.php/READER
operation n: Subculturing
seriously test the (im)possibilities of being with a slime mold, spirit, stone, tree, ...
operation n: Analysis

1. Define your field of interest. Cut apart and together an area of urgency. Set the scene, through naming the fields
    ᘒ  ፨ ᚼ ⚘  ◊  ᗶ 
2. Declare your AE, Entangled Agents (myth, technology, ...).
Æ = pH+pNH+pIH+pF
    ^ + Æ (DAMAGE) 
3. Divide by the axioms of αe (ethics) and αK (Kapital): [dividing as a second cutting? Is this also a cutting apart together?]
    αe
    [formula]
    αK
4. Where/when: Define the spacetime conditioning: (ephemeral, eternal, cyclic, linear, continuous, eventual, historical present, memory, extincted, dreamed, extended, distributed, dissoluted, dispersed, concentrated, catalized, centrifugal, centripetal, located, situated, regional, local, global, reachable, micro, meso, macro…)
    ʃT
5. Talking about relations. Analyze and notate the Æ through a consideration of its Variable Relations (Ω repair, Δ damage, a affects, E effects, © creative force, ≠ difference)
    ∫ = ^ + ∬ / (xΩ , xΔ, xa, x∃, x©, x≠)
6. Apply at least one Generative Operation for your analysis, to see what it would do. Queering operations. These are tricky, they require you to take responsibility. Define their scale:
    >>+i+*+#+"+♥+↺+♙+♞+↺+✵+⚕
7. declare your QÆ = qH+qNH+qIH+qF+qd, declare the reconfigured entanglement:
    (tΩ , tΔ, ta, t∃, t©, t≠)
8. Divide by the axioms of αe (ethics) and αK (Kapital)
    αe
    [the rest of the formula goes here]
    αK
9. Name the other end of the equation:
      QÆ (QUEERING DAMAGE OR N)

indicators
H – Human
NH – Non human
IH – Inhuman
F – Fantasies/Imaginaries
generative operations (potentials for queering; modes of intervention):
>> remediate
^ scale timespace to n
i integrate
* multiply
# speculate
" renarrate
♥ love
↺ protest
♙ resist
♞ reclaim
↻ invent
✵ flip
⚕ celebrate

variable relations (a declaration of the relations in your scene of damage that you are you attending to):
Ω repair
Δ damage
a affects
∃ effects
© creative force
≠ difference
axioms
αe axiom of ethics (survival, caretaking, respect, responsability)
αK Kapital (accumulation, acquisition, growth)
fields
ᘒ On the experience and process of damage and pain, partial reparation, loss/disposession
፨ On queer politics and methodologies, contestation, affirmation
ᚼ On contesting anthronormativities
⚘ On bioeconomies, lively capital, accumulation
◊ On computation, analytics, bioinfotech
ᗶ On political fictions, poethics, figurations &/or wild fantasies, opportunities


Glossary

agencies
anthronormativities
poethics
technoscience
trans*feminist
disposession
entanglements
spacetime conditioning
implicancies only to be known through its implications. See: 'Deep implicancies' (Denise Ferreira Da Silva)
bioeconomies

Demonstrations

[something from version 1]


http://etherbox.local/images/Queerformula_SlimeMud.JPG
Constant. Giampilieri mudslide analysis. Alchorisma, Hasselt (2018)

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Constant. Training trees, Alchorisma, Hasselt (2018)

http://etherbox.local/images/formula.png
Constant. Alchorisma, Hasselt (2018)


http://etherbox.local/images/constallationsQD2.jpeg

Constallations. Paris-Brussels, 2019


http://etherbox.local/images/constallationsQD1.jpeg

Constallations. Paris-Brussels, 2019



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Queering Damage -- Barcelona, October 2018 https://queeringdamage.hangar.org
Alchorisma – Hasselt, December 2018 http://constantvzw.org/site/-Alchorisma,217-.html
Constallations -- Paris-Brussels, 2019 https://constallations.hotglue.me/?QueerAnalytics
Collective Conditions -- Brussels, 2019 http://constantvzw.org/site/-Collective-Conditions,220-.html

Cite as: Queering Damage. Queering Damage Manual. Constant; Brussels (2019)