1. (roaming) Glissant, Édouard. Poetics of relation. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997); Betsy Wing’s translator notes
2 + 3. ( wandering) + ( locomotive) Hartman, Saidiya. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019)
4 + 5. ( ecosystem)+ (interspecies pedagogy)Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass. United States: Milkweed Editions, 2013.
6. ( feral curiosity) Kenan, Randall and Octavia Butler. An Interview With Octavia E. Butler. Callaloo (1991)
7. ( “primitive hypertext”)Butler, Octavia, and Samuel Delany. “Octavia Butler Samuel Delany.” Science Fiction-Media in Transition, August 29, 1998.
8. ( leisure time)
Marx, Karl. Capital: Volume I. United Kingdom: Penguin Books Limited, 2004.
9. ( environment as a “third teacher”)
Butler, Octavia, and Samuel Delany. “Octavia Butler Samuel Delany.” Science Fiction-Media in Transition, August 29, 1998.
10. ( leaky sensory gating)
Zabelina, Darya L., Daniel O’Leary, Narun Pornpattananangkul, Robin Nusslock, and Mark Beeman. 2015. "Creativity and Sensory Gating Indexed by the P50: Selective Versus Leaky Sensory Gating in Divergent Thinkers and Creative Achievers." Neuropsychologia 69: 77–84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.01.034.
“Sensory gating is the ability to filter intrusive sensory information, which is a specific and elementary form of pre-attentive information processing (Braff & Geyer, 1990). Sensory gating may protect higher cognitive function from flooding by irrelevant sensory information (Venables, 1964).”
Kéri, Szabolcs. 2015. "Dopamine and the Creative Mind: Individual Differences in Creativity Are Predicted by Interactions between Dopamine Genes DAT and COMT." Neuropsychologia 67: 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.01.023.
“Overall results suggest that leaky sensory gating may help people integrate ideas that are outside of focus of attention, leading to creativity in the real world; whereas divergent thinking, measured by divergent thinking tests which emphasize numerous responses within a limited time, may require selective sensory processing more than previously thought. [...]
Leaky attention is akin to reduced latent inhibition, or a reduced ability to screen or inhibit from conscious awareness stimuli previously experienced as irrelevant (Lubow, 1973). Reduced latent inhibition may enhance creativity by enlarging the range of unfiltered stimuli available in conscious awareness, thereby increasing the possibility that novel and useful combinations of stimuli will be synthesized (Carson et al., 2003). Therefore leaky attention may underlie both costs and benefits of creative cognition; noise and other environmental stimuli can serve as distractors for creative people, and lead them to make errors on some tasks. At the same time, leaky attention may help people integrate ideas that are outside the focus of attention into their current information processing, leading to creative thinking.
11. ( Sankofa)
Stockton University. n.d. "About Sankofa." Stockton University. Accessed November 28, 2024. https://www.stockton.edu/sankofa/about.html.
“Sankofa (SAHN-koh-fah) – A Twi word from the Akan Tribe of Ghana that loosely translates to, “go back and get it.” Its literal translation comes from the Akan proverb, "Se wo were fi na wosan kofa a yenkyiri," meaning, "It is not taboo to go back for what you forgot (or left behind)." Sankofa is a phrase that encourages learning from the past to inform the future, reaching back to move forward, and lifting as we climb.”
12. ( Lineage)
Citation as deep lineage storytelling.