the state of doubting
We researched doubt by doubting it. idea This is an example of how everything can be proposition something and therefore creating value is a decision you need to carefully consider.
All things can be important in this way of not knowing what you are looking for until you find it, and therefore doubt is possibly the most important tool. The next pages are a guide in the process of doubting. We did not make any assumptions and tried to include all usefull and useless moments. It was not the goal that was important but the way of getting there.
Bullshit is when somebody starts talking about something he has no knowledge about.
Never make work you do not believe in.
Unless it is bullshit.
We can read the same text and understand something completely different.
The irritation of doubt causes a struggle to attain a state of belief. Or: The object of reasoning is to find out, from consideration of what we already know, something else which we do not know.
Or: Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into a state of belief.
From: The Fixation of Belief Charles S. Pierce (November 1877)
Everything is connected; Uselessness and the unexpected can make you doubt You need doubt to find your belief You need belief for self-actualization The uselessness becomes useful The doubt becomes your belief Your belief becomes your need for self-actualization
Now I am aware of my doubts
Collection of doubts
14h39 Shall I call my grandparents now? Granny is ill but I don’t feel like it yet.
14h03 Do I use this ugly blue pen or will I search for a different one?
Human doubt
My belief
My belief
My belief
My beliefs
Digital doubting
3 hours later without doubts
Goal INTERNET
Inspiration
Design
Design Design
Design Design
Design
Design
Design
Unexpected
Why did we put this here?
ME
I just had a coffee with a friend and could not stop asking myself: Do I actually want to drink coffee with you?
Would you share your doubts with me?
Am I good enough?
Am I everything I want to be?
Working hard or enjoy?
Does she want to be with me?
What am I doing here?!
Does she like me?
Peirce
Everybody
Design
Internet
School
Thoughts
Bullshit
Expectations Linear
Witgenstein Movies
Connected
Culture Need
Laziness Talent Decartes
Order
Fascination Religion
Chaos Belief
Inspiration
Explanation Want
Uselessness
Self-actualization
Personal
Descisions
History
Private
Future
Society
Research
Doubt Nothing
Timeless
Language
Place
Art
Philosophy
Space
Intimate
Expected
Errors Approval
Taste
Truth
Unexpected Everything
Sense Trust Papers
Structure
Thoughts need to be private Thoughts are bullshit Thoughts are personal Thoughts are not the truth My online searches are my thoughts When my thoughts are not private, they can be seen as my truth But the truth is they are my doubts and only a search for my own believe Thoughts Internet Bullshit
Research
Personal
Doubt
Private Belief Truth
The web is an extension of the brain, it tells me more than I want to know but now I know. So it is already too late.
We zoom in and in and in and in and in and in and in and in and in and in and in and in and in and in and in and in and
Until the little things start to talk,
like the shadow of my kitchencabinet.
Until everything is Aa
Distraction
Even the letter
Aa
(say) AAAAAAAAAAAAA
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I do a lot of ineffective research. ‘Maybe it looks like I’m doing nothing, but I have been really busy.’
Musical object found at home #1
What I am calling poetry is often called content. But actually, unlike the snails, we carry our homes within us. Once I saw a cardinal and at the same day I heard a woodpecker.
Clearly we are beginning to get nowhere.
From: Lecture on Nothing John Cage
even order is chaos
ORDER
CHAOS
When do ideas become actions?
There was too much doubt to choose the best idea.
“I’m not sure if I still want to be a toothbrush”
After a talk with my tutor about my plan to make ‘doubtfull objects’, I was not even sure what an object was anymore.
These are our beliefs so far. But all beliefs are fluid and change over time by experiencing new things (...).
Kirsten van der Stelt Sue van Geijn 2014
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