{"id":5957,"date":"2015-12-20T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T15:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=5957"},"modified":"2015-12-20T17:21:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T16:21:53","slug":"and-returning-to-the-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/and-returning-to-the-course\/","title":{"rendered":"And returning to the course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the &#8220;Drawing with a chainsaw&#8221; course went well. Together with the course participants we worked through the weekend and produced some big prints. It&#8217;s fun to work on such a large scale, but quite exhausting to ink full sized plywood sheets.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/130180203\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apart from DWACS the rest of spring, summer and fall has passed by like so many blurry trees seen from a tram window. I don&#8217;t know what happened, but it feels as though I spaced out for a while. I&#8217;ve been trying to learn some chemistry, I have my first steady job ever, and this winter is supposed to be dedicated to biology and some electronics projects.<\/p>\n<p>I took a course called <em>biology for philosophers<\/em> at the uni &#8211; I love how higher education is free in this country &#8211; and have been dillentanting my way through biology books, trying to learn how to use the microscope and do stains and PCR and such. I&#8217;m learning a lot but not producing much &#8211; I lack a context in which to work, and since I don&#8217;t have an inner auteur which needs expressing there isn&#8217;t an impulse to create stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe part of my apathy is the political climate of Sweden. The third largest political party in Sweden is a racist one, and they&#8217;ve gotten free reigns to set the framework of public discourse for the past years. A while back I complained that instead of dealing with issues of global solidarity, women rights and global warming, we&#8217;ve now set the clock back far enough that we&#8217;re facing the reemergence of fascism. It&#8217;s utterly depressing and I don&#8217;t know what to do about it. I guess what I ought <em>not<\/em> to do is just whine\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the &#8220;Drawing with a chainsaw&#8221; course went well. Together with the course participants we worked through the weekend and produced some big prints. It&#8217;s fun to work on such a large scale, but quite exhausting to ink full sized plywood sheets. Apart from DWACS the rest of spring, summer and fall has passed by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/and-returning-to-the-course\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And returning to the course<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[546,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5957"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5965,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957\/revisions\/5965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}