GCOP200 - First thoughts

Trying to detect a deviation iin the pattern. Rigid routine rules that must be followed help to identify these deviations.

Archiving the everyday
Rules
Routine
Organisation

CRITERIA?
What is my criteria of documentation? What resonates in the most satisfying way?

Removing distractions, excuses -> Control. Controlling pleasure + deviation.

(Perhaps porridge is fuelling my inefficiencies)

I've always been this way. but now it's out of fear. A need to control - not for pleasure. For fear of losing control.

"At this level of argument the everyday represents an impossibly evasive terrain: to attend to it is to lose it, or as Blanchet writes: 'We cannot help but miss it if we seek it through knowledge, for it belongs to a region where there is still nothing to know.' But this should not be taken to suggest that the Everyday is completely unyielding to forms of representation (description or theory); rather it is to suggest that certain forms of discourse are not adequate to their objects and at times fail to accommodate them at all."
                                    Highmore- Everyday Life + Cultural Theory. (THE EVERYDAY)
(Johnstone, S (2008) The Everyday. London: Whitechapel

“The other side of this is that there might well be forms of representation that are more appropriate, more adequate, for attending to the everyday.”

-          Adequacy

-          Appropriateness

-          Accuracy

-          Efficiency

-          Essentiality

“If, for example, the everyday is seen as a ‘flow’, then any attempt to arrest it, to apprehend it, to scrutinise it, will be problematic.”

But to map it is just to acknowledge.
Continuous... Ineffectual? Yes, no? Who cares?
A nod to the everyday.

“Simply by extracting some elements from the continuum of the everyday, attention would have transformed the most characteristic aspect of everyday life: its ceaseless-ness.”

So you can’t pin it down. But mapping + documenting it in its ceaseless-ness isn’t pinning it down. It’s the opposite, especially in my context -
Detecting the ever-changing nature of my everyday.
- Attempting to track that, maybe, + understand patterns. But not really efine. I think.
(Am I an observer, or am I interfering? Which is it better to be? What is the significance of being one or the other?)