ON verran, mostly
Notes On Verran (my favorite of the readings):
Place is the knowledge about land. Modern knowledge Latour's translation and puritfication as scientific ways of knowing, regulative power. natives, the land, science can be known about. "true knowledge" is sought after, mediated by numbers. numerical equivalence to space.
Versus Aboriginal groups who own land by being with it. time network of places, hubs, broadlands between. differentiated space.
"performative epistemic mode" to engage shared imaginary of ownership, located in practice.
I find that my interactions with a place are so far removed from the land, disconnected to earth. Perhaps it's because buildings and spaces are created with mathematical understandings of space. One of the few times that I feel like my idea of a man-made place is connected to the earth is when I'm in a building with a view of the ocean or mountains. This is why I like the Verran article. Place for the Aborigines reflects the land and has a grounding to it. Whereas moderns create places by leveling and creating the numerical equivalence to land.
Sidenote:
Turnbull's roll of trickster "adding disorder to order", "experience of what is not permitted", performer of knowledge making. This is a good mythological reference for thinking about interdisciplinary praxis.