Notes on Fugitivity

My diaries are messy. Unordered and undated. Thematically ranging from myth to Marrickville Road. Opening a new page between quotes from Andrew Brooks and Baba Stiltz I made a journal entry about the content of Sydney's Arena Board—the inspo for Framework #42. Later, I would lose track of what I had written and where I wrote it. Searching the pages I'd written throughout the year I ask myself: what here is relevant to 'refuse'? The complication was that it was all relevant. Despite my notes being nebulous I thumbed through the various themes at random to find that a thread ran through them; they were all tied together by their connection to refusal.

My submission to issue #42 is an attempt to recapture this experience, executing it in code via the website below. Paragraphs appear randomly, resisting the desire for fixity and coherence; accepting the unbound text. This process reminds me of an interview with Octavia Butler and Samuel Delaney, where Butler spoke of a similar phenomenon called primitive hypertext. Butler suggests that breaking up linearity allows for the chance circumstances in which complex and novel ideas can be communicated or synthesised.

https://harrisonrae.github.io/framework42/

The website is a site of documentation for my thoughts about what it means to resist legibility and its relationship with fugitivity. The display of my attempts at articulating this relationship serves as the foundation for me to consider what can sometimes be too complex for me. That to be unbound is to be infinite. To be infinite is to be illegible.