JOURNAL ENTRY 02/03/2021 While reading the text for theory class (the Contemporary): Pulse of the Archive Stoler

I stumbled across the term 'epistemic habits' to describe the practic of trying to study 'common sense' through the epistomology within archives,
and it is a nice term.

I feel the term 'habits' describes beautifully why some people believe that the world/humans/humanity/society never changes. Because it never changes permanently. Just like changing the habit of smoking sometimes (seemingly) succeeds permanently, sometimes succeeds temporarily, and sometimes flat-out fails, maybe the same goes for changing 'epistemic habits' like specific forms of racism or sexism. And maybe just like with smoking, it takes constant vigilence not to fall back into old (epistemic) habits?

'a move from archive-as-source to archive-as-subject.' (pg 15)

For my artistic research, going into care, insurance men, and the perspective on work/labour/(un)productivity from a surplus human, does not seem that interesting to me (right now),
whereas research into master-narratives as a foundation of art-making does.

But rebranding my subjects of my actual practice to work through these topics without applying them to the concrete subjects I'd like to apply them onto does also not seem that interesting to me.

(Added note 04/03/2021: I just spoke with Anik for AR. We discussed not wanting to intelectualize my practice at this moment, and she suggested I could choose to see my research and my practice as parallel, free things. She also suggested I could allow myself some more freedom in my research, to just follow what interests me and inspires me at that moment, so for example watching all the movies made by a specific director, just because I want to.)