2. WHAT IS A LINE OF FLIGHT?
Martin Wood and Sally Brown (2009) write:
"A line of flight is essentially a movement of
creativity, a practical act or a way of living
that wards off or inhibits the formation of
„centres‟ and stable powers in favour of
continuous variation and free action."
fromhere.
3. “Lines of flight are
everywhere. They
constitute the
available means of
escape from the
forces of
repression and
stratification. Even
the most intense
strata are riddled
with lines of flight.”
– Miguel Rojas-
Sotelo
4. FROM JOSH LERNER
Lines of flight are creative and liberatory
escapes from the
standardization, oppression, and
stratification of society. Lines of flight, big
or small, are available to us at any time
and can lead in any direction. They are
instances of thinking and acting ‘outside
of the box’, with a greater understanding
of what the box is, how it works, and how
we can break it open and perhaps
5. "A line of flight is a line of becoming that
brings the system to yet another level of
complexity by virtueof the new
knowledge, new concepts, new meanings.‟
Inna Semetsky*.
Not by breadth along: Imagining a self-
organised classroom. Complicity, 2005.
6. A HYPOTHESIS I’M THINKING ABOUT…
Transmediation, the use of multiple
symbol systems, provides an occasion
for the formation of a line of flight through
the spaces created as one moves
between or among symbol systems.