Full Circle Associates

Ethnography, Operations and Objectual Practice
Tim Plowman, Cheskin

OK, I hit my outsider wall. Tim's language is over my head in a way that prevents me from live blogging, plus he is reading a paper directly, and is under time pressure, so his pace and phrasing, along with my lack of familiarity of his vocabulary, provides an beautiful example of why sometimes I can live blog almost verbatim and when I can't. I can't bridge the gap between his pictures and his narrative. I don't know enough to draw meaning.

I also can't get to the point of feeling he is speaking to me, or anyone else, because of his reading of a paper, vs. talking out to the room. Every once in a while he breaks from the text and looks up, adds a clarification.

I realized how much of my engagement is predicated on the speaker's engagement with his or her audience. Good learning for me for future presentations.

I can't now because my brain cannot fill in the gaps between the words I hear and type. I don't have enough context to make sense in my own brain, let alone have that "sense" flow out from my fingers. So I'm going to just listen for this one.

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