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Aesthetic Evangelists - Jeremy Griffith

Ideas
1) I love the idea of cherishing the process of collaboration as opposed to simply working toward an end product. I can become so obsessed with career advancement that I forget what a great joy it is to really get down in the trenches with your work and let the symbiosis exist between you and your collaborators/the communities you are engaging with.

2) The idea of defining community fascinates me as well...I've never thought about what an assortment of communities I've been a part of and continue to be a part of. And how that will inform the communities I try to engage with.

3) Dedeaux's work fascinates me. The subtleties of how someone so seemingly well-intentioned could produce something so potentially damaging to the community they claim to be wanting to help.



Questions
1) What does the author think is a responsible way to a make art about a community? When you do not see them as inferior and something to be improved upon.

2) Since the author rejects the "transcendant value of property," what does the author value?

3) Is it ever possible to escape social, political, ethnic, religious, etc. bias entirely?

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