Dmitri Shostakovich’s Eleventh Symphony, “The Year 1905.”
[I borrow the phrase “think with” from Donna Haraway, specifically in Staying With The Trouble, where it stands as something distinct from, and distinctly more collaborative than, “think about” or “think of.” Thinking-with positions us as points along a web of ideas, which are then both tools and sites of revolution. We think with ideas, but we also think alongside them. My favorite construction of Haraway’s is that “it matters what thoughts think thoughts.” That is, our intellectual frameworks inevitably direct our intellectual outcomes. I find it an increasingly urgent problem that the with-ness (if you will) of our ideas has been so compromised. Our premises have been reduced. What concepts, what vocabulary, what wonders, do we have available to think with? In what directions can we expand?]
Jessica Thinks 