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IN THEORY: A NOTEBOOK ARCHIVE31/1/2015
Those efforts resulted in my book,Tropic Tendencies .
As expected, I came up with a definition or rhetoric that I thought would sustain me for the years it would take to finish the project: Caribbean rhetoric builds on the sense of the familiar (doxa) in order to underscore shared interests and shared benefits that are probable in a given situation, meanings that have been acquired through experience and cataloged as a living archive of knowledge and expression that can then be activated, revised, and applied for particular consequences. All are based on a fundamental desire to be a part of the world and improve the quality of life while here (Tropic Tendencies, 7). In retrospect, a fairly simple definition. Reflection, we come to learn, is also an invitation to confess certain truths (at least, as you've come to understand them). For me, the confession is that over time, I’ve realized how easy it is to take things for granted–not only of the things I do through habit, but also the more important things. I’ve taken for granted the fact that all the texts I produce have meaning in terms of conception, methodology, and practice. I don’t know why I’ve let that fact slide, especially when knowing, and acting on what is known, is at the heart of my work and of my conception of what we do as vernacular practitioners of everyday life. I want to invite you to revisit the latter parts of the path I took to get to it. The book didn’t just happen–couldn’t just happen. In a way, I'm suggesting that these early articulations–the semi-literate scribblings in four notebooks–ought not be relegated to the nether regions of untapped memory, dry-rotting in the mind like an unkept artifact. Who owns knowledge, really? Are these ideas mine alone? Or, are they yours, as well? @drbrowne
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