"MAKING DO"


 

"MAKING DO": Uses and Tactics

 Sixth week (Friday, 1 November, 2024) 

CONSOLIDATION WEEK



Consolidation week was a great opportunity for me to catch up on my studies. Also, I had to work on my artifact in workshop, completing it for the next week.

 

As our weekly reading, we students were supposed to read  "MAKING DO": Uses and Tactics by Jane Rendell. 

The most important part of the text was the notion of Strategies and tactics. Here is the summary of what I could gather by reading this text. 

The type of operations and the role of spaces distinguishes Strategies and tactics, that is, when operations take place, strategies produce or impose these spaces, while tactics can only use, manipulate the spaces.

Instructions for use
Thus operational schemas have to be clarified, which means ways of operating, walking, reading, producing, speaking, etc, like something that in other fields is shown for example in literature ways of writing.

Use, or consumption
Jane Rendell argues that television viewers, supermarket customers, newspaper readers, etc are a pure receiver or the mirror of colonizing organizations whose products do not provide the consumers with any opportunities to show their existence. On the other hand, a child can signs his existence on their schoolbook by scrawling or daubing on them. He continues that Popularization or Degradation of a culture is the revenge that utilizing tactics can take on the power that dominates production. 

Strategies and tactics
Strategy which is the calculated action done by power dynamics occurs when a powerful entity can be isolated. It considers a place to make a base or territory for itself so that it can have a relation with surrounding area composed of targets or threats (customers, competitors, enemies, etc.), as the typical attitude of military, politics, and modern science.
By contrast with a strategy, a tactic is a calculated action without a base in which it can plan raids, or build up its own position. In fact Tactic is a maneuver within the enemy's territory. the space of tactic is imposed on it and organized by a foreign power.
In general Jane Rendell considers a tactic as an art of the weak, with possibility of trickery and mobility. Although a tactic operates without power and a place, a strategy is based on power and a place.
Also, the author mentions that tactics do not conform to  the condition of a place.

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