nanopolitics handbook - Minor Compositions

sense, touch and hold, of hearts that sigh, cry and laugh, and minds trying toconceptualise and render some of this for others to hold on to.Meanwhile it’s not just a book about holding hands, but also about otherways of grasping, affecting and feeling: you can travel quite a way throughyour body and relations to others, if you go through the texts and exerciseshere.Try this one for a warm up, as a way of travelling through your senses:Feel that book in your hands and test its weight for a second, compare it to theweight of other objects (coffee cup, keys, etc). See how many different kinds ofsounds you can make with this book – flicking pages, knocking on the cover,sliding it against surfaces, etc. Give it a smell. Perfume it, perhaps. Feel its surfacewith your tongue. Zoom your eyes from its pages into the distance, shiftit into your blind spot, look at a page and let the letters blur.Later on, you may want to read an exercise instruction to each other withsome friends, bring an exercise proposal to your group, or put the book downon your kitchen counter and bake the polenta cake that gave us energy whileworking on the next text. If you’re reading a pdf, play with the materiality ofyour computer a bit. And of course, always remember to breathe deeply...nanopolitics.noblogs.org15