→What’s my content？

+ Previously, it was about a mundane object that shaped my everyday space. I wrote various definitions of it based on my personal experiences.

→What caught my attention the most from the previous practice?

+ It is a shift in my thinking about everydayness.

Previously, it was a vague term that I regarded as something trivial and transparent. By “transparent,” I mean that I didn’t fully realise that the everydayness involves a kind of submissive acceptance of information from those who constructed it.

(→What caused the shift? 

+ After seeing a ‘no entry’ line hanging from the trees in a park during the pandemic, the abrupt change in everyday space reversed my thoughts.) 

→ How do I define everydayness now? 

+ Now I think it as a much more tangible and fragile dynamic. It takes up the majority of social consciousness. As stated in The Everyday and Everydayness, our everyday can be seen as “a set of functions which connect and join together systems that might appear to be distinct.” 

→ How can I expand that definition on everydayness through a publishing practice? 

→ What’s my purpose of publishing?

+ To engage audience to actively reconsider everyday objects/things.

→ Why do I use writing/text-based experiments to reconfigure the meaning or definition of everyday objects?

+ When I write about the definitions or experiences of a mundane object, I see it as an individual act of actively exploring and engaging with it within the semantic field. 

+ I see the noun or category of an object as a symbol within a semantic field, which compresses and simplifies our consciousness of that object. 

+ I want to stretch these compressed nouns, encouraging my readers to perceive and experience an everyday object in a slightly different way.

→ Does it have to be text? 

+ not necessarily?

→ What do I mean by reconfigure an everyday object? 

+ Everyday objects are symbolised within the semantic field, reflecting a power relationship of individuals submissively accepting information. 

To challenge the pre-existing semantic system of everyday objects is a way to resist that habitual mode of thinking and perception, while also questioning the established power relations. Cognition is should be an active process, and I aim to convey this idea in a relaxed, accessible way.

+ For example, when encountering a barrier on the road, it is often perceived by our brain as a signal to detour, directing our behavior. What I want to do is to view such an object not just as a functional signal or directive, but as a point of focus that can be observed and examined.

→ How can I provoke an active reading experience while publishing something that focuses on mundane objects?