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1. Re: yasmin phoenicians and pirates: overcoming touch
deprivation pharmakon and provokaon (YASMIN DISCUSSIONS)
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Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 09:18:24 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Yasmin_discussions] yasmin phoenicians and pirates:
overcoming touch deprivation pharmakon and provokaon
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Dear Frieder
> I am afraid, that takes away a lot from the situation of the little
> research center.
>
it's really a choice. And it has its pros and cons. In a small organisation
you have more freedom and agility, and you don't necessarily have to adhere
to the rankings and mad quantities (for example of students and
publications each year). You have a say in what you choose to do.
On the other hand there's more risk involved, and you have to be really
active: there's no big organization that will back you up, or to provide
the prestige or reputation. You will always be the odd one, or the one who
really has to fight to get the point across.
But there's space for everyone. If the Internet taught us anything is that
there is space both for Amazon and for niche boutiques. That is if
boutiques manage to generate narratives and imaginaries that allow people
to find them.
Me and my wife abandoned universities like 6 years ago, and opened this
"little research center".
Even if we're really small (there's 15 of us, plus several people who go
back and forth) we partner with other larger universities and
organizations, we work with the EU Commissions and governments etc: we do
all the things which other research centers do. But being smaller, we can
discuss and choose.
We publish. We have institutional and strategic communication.
We have students, internships, masters. Many times, we hire (or work with)
the people we taught something to.
Soon, we will have an hotel, where we will live (some permanently, some
temporarily), research, experiment, teach, learn, eat, invite, leave from,
arrive at, etc
In a way, we're more similar to what Donna Haraway would call a new type of
kinship. Which is a nice thing to explore as a research center.
And we have a model for it (we're completing the documentation right now
(for now there's this:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YUwoq5yLXcHlC5YBelflJQhUZ0cvsU49/view?usp=sharing
), so that it's also replicable, evolvable etc
This is also a nice thing to explore on Yasmin: how to organize ourselves.
Hope you explore with us!
kind wishes
Salvatore
(note: what address should we use in the Yasmin-phoenix transition? I saw
that it is currently defaulting to forwarding to both addresses, as well to
personal addresses. I will do this last one like this, and maybe from the
next one I will only use the discussions address?)
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*Human Ecosystems Relazioni* - https://www.he-r.it/
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