[...] men looking at the elephant='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-="trms">situatedness is ="trms">different than ‘="trms">positionality’='lgc'>: a way of ="trms">systematic error correction
="prgrph">-(resolving) ="trms">specificity of vision ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">scientific objectivity (is achievable)
="prgrph">-="ppl">="ppl">Haraway expresses her informed dissatisfaction with (the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical substrate that supports) ‘="trms">social constrctivism’ and ‘traditional realism’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re="trms">presentationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list belief in the power of the words to mirror preexisting ="trms">phenomena. they both believe that ="trms">scientific knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (in its re="trms">presentational formats='lgc'>: theoretical concepts, graphs, particle tracks, photographic images, etc.) mediates our access to the ="trms">material ="trms">world, whether it re="trms">presents “="trms">nature” or “objects” of ="trms">science both groups are subscribed to re="trms">presentationalism.
focus on the ="trms">nature and production of ="trms">scientific knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>--(shift to ="trms">science studies)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dynamics of the actual practice of ="trms">science ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> on ongoing pattern of ="trms">situated activity

="prgrph">-(dis="trms">embodied ="trms">scietific) objectivity='lgc'>: that only certain people are allowed to have no body (Gender, race, etc.) and that high ="trms">science in practice is not acting on text="trms">book objectivity at all.

absent referents, deferred signifieds, split subjects, and the endless play of signifier

="ppl">="ppl">Haraway is feeling nervous with two views on objectivity='lgc'>:
(1)the ‘="trms">social constructionist’ view on this='lgc'>: getting to know the ="trms">world ‘effectively’ by practicing the ="trms">sciences ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge-game (on an agonistic power field) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">science is ="trms">rhetoric ='lgc'>: artifacts and facts are parts of the powerful art of ="trms">rhetoric ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=  practice is persuasion. ='lgc'>{this view will use the nasty tools of ="trms">semiology and deconstruction to insist on the ="trms">rhetorical ="trms">nature of truth.='lgc'>} ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway calls this ‘The imagery of force fields’ (also an imagery of high-tech military fields and of automated academic battlefields) ='lgc'>{will to power='lgc'>} (for ="frds scrmbld">Luiza)
="trms">epistemological electroshock therapy
(feminists protecting their) sense of collective ="trms">historical subjectivity and ="trms">agency and our “="trms">embodied” accounts of the truth ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> these are just excuse not to learn
(2)Humanistic ="ppl">Marxism (structuring theory about the domination of ="trms">nature in the self-construction of man) (='lgc'>[young ="ppl">Marx, influenced by ="ppl">Feuerbach ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Hegelian idealism, saying that:='lgc'>] man's essential ="trms">nature is that of a free producer, freely reproducing their own conditions of life ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--however='lgc'>='lgc'>--> under capitalism individuals are alienated from their productive activity, etc.='lgc'>])

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “chance for life”

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> ="trms">science='lgc'>: Global ="trms">System, universal knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">translation, convertibility, mobility
of meanings, and universality

money in capitalism ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= reductionism in ="trms">science

...when we are talking about genes, ="trms">social classes, elementary particles, genders, races, or texts

='strcls'>*vision='lgc'>: a sensory ="trms">system that has been used leap out of the marked body ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a gaze from nowhere
="prgrph">-“Vision is always a ="trms">question of the power to see='lgc'>--and perhaps of the violence implicit in our visualizing practices”
="prgrph">-also, the visual ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor allows one to go beyond fixed appearances, which are only the end products. The ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor invites us to investigate the varied ="trms">apparatuses of visual production (in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding='lgc'>: the prosthetic ="trms">technologies ="trms">interfaced with our biological eyes and brains.)

unmarked body='lgc'>: the power to see and not be seen
objectivity in ="trms">scientific and ="trms">technological, late-industrial, militarized, racist, and male-dominant ="trms">societies

(she asks for='lgc'>:)
“So, I think my problem, and “our” problem, is how to have ="trms">simultaneously an account of radical ="trms">historical ="trms">contingency for all knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge claims and knowing subjects, a critical practice for recognizing our own “="trms">semiotic ="trms">technologies” for making meanings, and a no-nonsense commitment to faithful accounts of a “real” ="trms">world, one that can be partially shared and that is friendly to earthwide projects of ="trms">finite freedom, adequate ="trms">material abundance, modest meaning in suffering, and limited happiness.”

="ppl">="ppl">Haraway asks for an ="trms">embodied objectivity that is able of accommodating ='strcls'>*paradoxes='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges’
="prgrph">-what does she mean when she says “All components of the desire are paradoxical and d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous, and their combination is both contradictory and necessary.”

(="trms">instruments of visualization in multinationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, post="trms">modernist culture='lgc'>:) dis="trms">embodiment ='lgc'>: to distance to know
the visualizing ="trms">technologies (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my amazon project)

a ="trms">perverse vision that has produced ‘="trms">techno-="trms">monsters’ (what does she mean by that='qstn'>?)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> second birthing='qstn'>? transcendence='qstn'>?
='lgc'>[the frankenstein's ="trms">techno-="trms">monsters, is modeled after who='qstn'>? and who is modeled after it='qstn'>? wondrously, murderously walking around...='lgc'>]
(‘second-birthing’='lgc'>: one of the deadly ="trms">stories of killing='lgc'>: in the first-birthing we have merely birth to the earthly soil from the woman, and then the achievement of the tragically self-realized purpose of tragic consiousness, concretized and distilled by ="ppl">Sartre) “dire myths of self-birthing”... ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we must resist the ="trms">stories of guilt laden knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and consciousness

unrestricted vision
="trms">presented as utterly transparent

='strcls'>***particularity and ="trms">embodiment (of all vision) ='lgc'>[not necessarily organic='lgc'>]
usable and not innocent

“We need to learn in our bodies, endowed with primate color and stereoscopic vision, how to attach the objective to our theoretical and political scanners in order to name where we are and are not, in dimensions of mental and physical space we hardly know how to name.”

‘partial perspective’ (what does she mean='qstn'>?)
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> become answerable for what we learn how to see. (Helen ="ppl">Verran='lgc'>: accountability; ="ppl">Isabelle ="ppl">="ppl">Stengers='lgc'>: milieu thinking; ="ppl">="ppl">Latour='lgc'>: ground;)
(partial way of organizing ="trms">world)
unlocatable ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? ir="trms">responsible (knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge claims)
partial ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> possibility of webs of connections='lgc'>: solidarity in politics and shared conversations in ="trms">epistemology
="prgrph">-to un="trms">fold the problem of relativism='lgc'>: ‘the elephant parable’ promisses seeing equally and fully. “equality” of ="trms">positioning='lgc'>: relativism (another “god trick”) (!='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= single-vision, totalization) ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= partial locatable='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[mythic cartoon of p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">luralism='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[myth of exact knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges, dream of perfectly known, and politics of closure='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">positioning is at stake here

“all eyes, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding our own organic ones, are active perceptual ="trms">systems, building on ="trms">translations and ="trms">specific ways of seeing”

how to see ‘faithfully’... (what does she mean by that='qstn'>?)

appropriating the vision of the less powerful='lgc'>:
to see from the peripheries
to see from the depths

...this not unproblemat (why she uses double negation so often='qstn'>?)

“But how to see from below is a problem requiring at least as much ="trms">skill with bodies and ="trms">language, with the mediations of vision, as the ‘highest’ ="trms">techno="trms">scientific visualizations.”

“="trms">Science has been utopian and visionary from the start; that is one reason “we” need it.” (what does she mean='qstn'>?)
(“utopian,” “visionary,” other old ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors in ="trms">science)

“Passionate detachment” requires more than ‘acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged and self-critical’ partiality. (being acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged and self-critical is not enough!!! how deos she mean='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-‘perspective’ can never be known in advance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge potent for constructing ="trms">worlds less organized by axes/axis of domination
="prgrph">-One cannot “be” either a cell or molecule='lgc'>--or a woman, colonized person, laborer, and so on. ‘passionate detachment’ is about the impossibility of entertaining innocent “identity” politics ='lgc'>: seeing from their perspective in order to see well.
="prgrph">-problem with “="trms">positionality”='lgc'>: ='lgc'>{testimony from the ="trms">position of ‘oneself'='lgc'>} We are not immediately ="trms">present to ourselves and the self is assumed finished and whole simply there and o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal and its (grounding) knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is organized around the imagery of vision ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Self-knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge requires a ="trms">semiotic-="trms">material ="trms">technology to link meanings and bodies. ='strcls'>***Self-identity is a bad visual ="trms">system='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘="trms">positionality’ (meaning='lgc'>: ‘acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged and self-critical’ partiality) ='lgc'>[at best showing in which ways one is not unmarked='lgc'>] is therefore insufficient. ='lgc'>{Identity, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding self-identity, does not produce ="trms">science!='lgc'>}
="prgrph">-instead we need a ='strcls'>*split and contradictory self='strcls'>* (one who can ="trms">interrogate ="trms">positionings and be accountable) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~/='qstn'>?='lgc'>-> shath شطح (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= shar’ شرع, or even sharh شرح='qstn'>?), shathiat (شطحیات) in Tasavof (تصوف), rend رند, rendane رندانه='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-so, instead of “being” she proposes “splitting”='lgc'>: heterogeneous multiplicities that are ="trms">simultaneously salient and incapable of being squashed into iso="trms">morphic slots or cumulative ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> The knowing self is partial in all its guises, never finished, never whole, stitched together imperfectly ='lgc'>[that is what she means by ‘split'='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>  join with another (without claiming to ‘be’ another) ='lgc'>{if i am allowed i can map ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's “partiality” ="trms">onto ="ppl">Deleuze's “="trms">schizophrenia” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">Greek for “split brain”  (Jonathan ="ppl">="ppl">Crary, Suspensions of Perception, p.38) ="trms">According to Beuler, “The selectivity which normal attention exercises among the sensory impressions can be reduced to zero, so that almost anything is recorded that reaches the senses.” One reason for the admiration which ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari professed for the ="trms">schizophrenic must lie in this complete lack of inhibition (khod-dari خودداری).='lgc'>} (a confusion of voice and sight, rather than clear and distinct ideas) (='lgc'>[to discriminate message types:='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*to confuse ="trms">literal and ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical='strcls'>*, the ="trms">schizophrenic either does not know his ="trms">responses are ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical or cannot say so ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the breakdown of his ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">communicative ="trms">system ='lgc'>: does not know what kind of message a message is ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">schizophrenic looks for hidden meanings everywhere (assuming everything is ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical) or tend to accept every message as ="trms">literal) (="ppl">Lacan='lgc'>: ="trms">schizophrenia='lgc'>: breakdown in the signifying chain of ="trms">language ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> experience of pure ="trms">material signifiers ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- personal identity is the effect of the temporal unification of ="trms">past and future with one's ="trms">present, and that such an active temporal unification is itself a function of ="trms">language.='lgc'>])

subjectivity is multidimensional ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> vision is multidimensional

(an ="trms">instruments of vision='lgc'>:) optics ='lgc'>: politics of ="trms">positioning ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one ='thdf'>example of optical illusion='lgc'>: rationality (projected from nowhere comprehensivel)

(some perspective are more guilty ='lgc'>: master point of view)
No one ever accused the God of monotheism of objectivity, only of in="trms">difference. The god trick is self-identical, and we have mistaken that for creativity and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, omni="trms">science even. (self-identical ='lgc'>[having self identity='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=! creativity/knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge)

="trms">Technology='lgc'>: ="trms">skilled practices. (How to see='qstn'>? Where to see from='qstn'>? and so on.)

='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Sana, ‘observation’ and ‘="trms">technologies of ="trms">positioning’

="large lg70" stl="font-size:107%"> how to see='qstn'>?
the ="trms">science ="trms">question in military
the ="trms">science ="trms">question in colonialism
the ="trms">science ="trms">question in capitalism
the ="trms">science ="trms">question in feminism
...

master theory ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= webbed accounts
(what does she mean when she dichotomises theory and account='qstn'>?)
instead of (creating and mastering) ‘theory’ she proposes webbing ‘accounts’='strcls'>***
="prgrph">-‘webs’ can have the property of being ="trms">systematic
="trms">systematic='lgc'>: deep filaments and tenacious tendrils into time, space, and consciousness. ="trms">systems are dimensions of ="trms">world ="trms">history.

="large lg22" stl="font-size:109%">
="large lg26" stl="font-size:128%"> she sug="trms">gests to be accountable for (the intricacies of) visualization ="trms">technologies in which we are embedded that we will find ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors and means for understanding
and ="trms">intervening in the ='strcls'>*patterns of objectification='strcls'>* in the ="trms">world.
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> politics and ="trms">epistemologies of location, ="trms">positioning, and ="trms">situating
partiality ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= universality
='strcls'>*partiality='lgc'>: view from a body, always a complex, contradictory, ='strcls'>*structuring, and structured body='strcls'>* (what does she mean by ‘structuring and structured body’='qstn'>?)

='lgc'>--the ="trms">sciences and politics of ="trms">interpretation, ="trms">translation, stuttering, and the partly understood.

='strcls'>*Feminism='lgc'>: critical vision ='lgc'>==(consequent upon)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a critical ="trms">positioning in unhomogeneous gendered ="trms">social space.

location ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vulnerability ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> (full of limits and contra="trms">dictions)

“rational” knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>: to be free from ="trms">interpretation, to be free from being re="trms">presented ='lgc'>: to be fully self-contained (='lgc'>~ fully formalizable)
="prgrph">-no! let's make Rational Knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge a process of ongoing critical ="trms">interpretation among “fields” of ="trms">interpreters and de="trms">coders ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a power-sensitive conversation
="prgrph">-accountability and ="trms">responsibility for ="trms">translations

. ="trms">Situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges are about ="trms">communities, not about isolated individuals
(pinocchio and geppetto parable)

objectivity='lgc'> = ="trms">positioned rationality
='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= images of escape and transcendence of limits (filled in Hollywood and sci)

faithfulness of our accounts to a “real ="trms">world” (no ="trms">matter how mediated for us and no ="trms">matter how complex and contradictory these ="trms">worlds may be)

Sex is “resourced” for its re="trms">presentation as gender, which “we” can control

="trms">Situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges require that the object of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge be pictured as an actor and ="trms">agent
="prgrph">-which version of “realism” is she argueing for='qstn'>?

“='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] we are not in charge of the ="trms">world. We just live here and try to strike up noninnocent conversations by means of our prosthetic devices, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding our visualization ="trms">technologies.”

in the rich feminist practice in ="trms">science (more than anywhere else) passive ="trms">categories of objects of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge are “activated”

The biological female peopling ='lgc'>: When female “sex” has been so thoroughly retheorized and revisualized that it emerges as practically indistinguishable from “mind,” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ‘="trms">difference’ is theorized biologically as ="trms">situational, not intrinsic, (at every level from gene to foraging pattern, thereby fundamentally changing the biological politics of the body.)
="prgrph">-(example='lgc'>: ="ppl">Emily ="ppl">Martin)


points in SK='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1-="trms">finite partial perspectives
="lstsrd">2-split and contradictory self
="lstsrd">3-objectivity (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">positioned rationality, object of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge as an actor, ="trms">mutual and usually ='strcls'>*unequal='strcls'>* structuring, it is about taking risks)


how and why ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway as a feminist fights for a better Primatology='qstn'>?


(="ppl">="ppl">Barad on) ="trms">Situated Knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges='lgc'>: are not merely about knowing/seeing from somewhere (as in having a perspective) but about taking account of how the ="trms">specific prosthetic ="trms">embodiment of the ="trms">technologically enhanced visualizing ="trms">apparatus ="trms">matters to practices of knowing
="prgrph">-(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's) move from ='strcls'>*optics='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[a politics of ="trms">positioning, in ="trms">Situated Knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges='lgc'>] to ='strcls'>*diffraction='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[an optical ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor for the effort to make a ="trms">difference in the ="trms">world, in Modest_Witness='lgc'>]


="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King='lgc'>: “="trms">apparatus of ="trms">literary production”='lgc'>: a matrix from which “="trms">literature” is born.
...the “facticity” of biological discourse that is absent from ="trms">literary discourse and its knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge claims. ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Are biological bodies “produced” or “generated” in the same strong sense as ="trms">poems='qstn'>? (biological body ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">poem)
“="trms">material-="trms">semiotic actor”='lgc'>: the object of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge as an active, meaning-generating part of ="trms">apparatus of bodily production

bodies as objects of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge are ="trms">material-="trms">semiotic generative nodes.
“objects” do not preexist as such ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Their boundaries ="trms">materialize in ="trms">social ="trms">interaction. Boundaries are drawn by mapping practices.


="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= mother/="trms">matter/mutter
="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= coyote (a figure of the always problematic, always potent tie between meaning and bodies. ="trms">world as ="trms">coding trickster.)

(feminism) movement rooted in ="trms">specification and ="trms">articulation (of ='lgc'>[="trms">different kinds of='lgc'>] ‘elsewhere’) ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= (='thdf'>assumption of the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right or ability to) identities and re="trms">presentation (of identities)


='at'>#workshop ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading SK (for ="nms">apass)
Which version of “realism” are you talking about='qstn'>? Recollecting truth and objectivity are activated whenever a ‘point of view’ is produced among other ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors that we use in our practice and thinking in ="trms">techno-="trms">scientific ="trms">societies. In this group ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading session we are going to study one of the most stubborn and ="trms">pervasive phantasms in art and ="trms">sciences, the figure of objectivity, with the ="ppl">Donna ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's 1988 essay ‘="trms">Situated Knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges='lgc'>: The ="trms">Science ="trms">Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective’. This ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading focuses on politics and ="trms">epistemologies of location, ="trms">positioning, and ="trms">situating in our power-sensitive conversations, and what does it mean to become accountable and ="trms">responsible for one's own noninnocent ="trms">translations. We begin with her essay on the 2nd of February and talk about each of our practices in particular continuing on the 9th.


she wants to re-figure, not disavow, objectivity

“="trms">story-tellers exploring what it means to be ="trms">embodied in high-tech ="trms">worlds” ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">technophobia

="trms">technophilia is ="trms">narcissistic ='lgc'>: ='thdf'>the notion that man invented himself and that man is involved in some kind of ="trms">narrative of ="trms">technological escalation whereby the objectification of human intentionality in the ="trms">world has finally surpassed itself, and man has achieved self-objectification in a machine that will finally name him obsolescence as he is and destroy him in a ="trms">technological apocalypse figured by the computer. (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway) ='lgc'>[we need better dog ="trms">stories ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= (Iron Man='lgc'>:) man, made in the image of a vanished god, takes on superpowers in his secular-sacred ascent, only to end tragic='lgc'>]
“...man making himself (by realizing his intentions in his tools) yet again in the Greatest ="trms">Story Ever Told.” (your artwork doesn't need to be this kind of ="trms">story!)
or the ="ppl">Darwinist tale of “Mitochondrial Eve in a neocolonial Out of Africa”
we need ="trms">stories of companion ="trms">species, the “very mundane and ongoing ="trms">sort of tale, one full of misunderstandings, achievements, crimes, and renewable hopes.” (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway, ="ppl">La Guin, ="ppl">Tessa ="ppl">Farmer,)

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='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Haraway on ="ppl">="ppl">Ihde='lgc'>]

...="trms">technologies are not mediations='lgc'>--that is, something in between us and another bit of the ="trms">world='lgc'>--rather, ="trms">technologies are organs, full partners, in what ="ppl">Merleau-Ponty called “in="trms">foldings of the flesh.”

in="trms">folding ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">interface
="lsts lst1">•“What happens in the ="trms">folds is what is important.”
="lsts lst1">•="trms">Interfaces are made out of ="trms">interacting grappling devices.
="lsts lst1">•the in="trms">folding of others to each other is what makes up the knots we call beings or, perhaps better, following ="ppl">="ppl">Bruno ="ppl">="ppl">Latour, things.

“="trms">Technologies are always compound. They are ="trms">composed of diverse ="trms">agents of ="trms">interpretation, ="trms">agents of recording, and ="trms">agents for directing and multiplying ="trms">relational action. These ="trms">agents can be human beings or parts of human beings, other organisms in part or whole, machines of many kinds, or other ="trms">sorts of entrained things made to work in the ="trms">technological compound of conjoined forces.”

='strcls'>*="trms">animal (in ="trms">zoological terminology) ='lgc'>: a com="trms">posite of individual organisms, an enclosure of ="trms">zoons, a company of critters in="trms">folded into a one.

compound='lgc'> = com="trms">posite ='lgc'>+ enclosure
camera='lgc'>: the ="trms">technological eye ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> philosophical pretension and self-certainty (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian's camera)
='lgc'>-- camera as a black-box with which to register pictures of the outside ="trms">world in a re="trms">presentational, menta="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">semiotic economy

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="ppl">Vinciane ="ppl">="ppl">Despret, ="ppl">Isabelle ="ppl">="ppl">Stengers, ="ppl">="ppl">Bruno ="ppl">="ppl">Latour, ”_how they make their subjects ="trms">interesting,_“
to tell the ="trms">story of their work of “="trms">translation,” of invention.

refuse all loyalty to my homeland and its values

='strcls'>*heuristic='lgc'>: mental shortcuts that ease the cognitive load of making a problem solvable
="prgrph">-trading optimality, completeness, accuracy, or precision for speed
it may ='strcls'>*approximate='strcls'>* the exact solution for the problem
="prgrph">-enabling discover or learn something for themselves. (a ‘hands-on’ or ="trms">interactive heuristic approach to learning)
='lgc'>[(in computing='lgc'>:) proceeding to a solution by trial and error or by rules that are only loosely defined.='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-from ="trms">Greek heuriskein ‘find’

='strcls'>*="trms">contingent='lgc'>: using it with ‘="trms">historical’ always produces ="trms">interesting ways ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">contingency relates to a nonteleological ='lgc'>[a doctrine explaining ="trms">phenomena by their ends or purpose='lgc'>] and nonhierarchical multiplicity ='lgc'>[when i say ‘dud’ and ‘cauphing’ and ="trms">interupting ‘tracing’ i am asking for ="trms">contingent modes of relating and thinking. conceptualizing in terms of the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of the dud is about hierarchical ="trms">relations between ="trms">past and ="trms">present and teleological reasoning='lgc'>: where is the dud coming from. when i asked ‘who told the first ="trms">joke='qstn'>?’ i am trying to break and ="trms">joke with teleological mode of thinking about the ="trms">category of ‘o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin’.='lgc'>]
="trms">contingent ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? analytical (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">Contingent pro="trms">positions depend on some kind of ="trms">epistemoloy, whereas analytic pro="trms">positions are true without regard to any facts about which they speak.) ='lgc'>{telos, ghasd قصد ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ghaside قصیده ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ghazal غزل='lgc'>}
="prgrph">-We call a truth ="trms">contingent when it ='strcls'>*depends on something else='strcls'>* for its truth.
="prgrph">-has to do a lot with our ="trms">material ="trms">world
="trms">contingent ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= containing-="trms">agent='strcls'>*
='lgc'>--Tautological pro="trms">positions, which must be true
='lgc'>--Contra="trms">dictions which must necessarily be untrue
='lgc'>--possible pro="trms">positions

never use ="trms">contingency alone in a sentence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">historical ="trms">contingency
never use understanding stand alon in a sentence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> better understanding ='lgc'>{'better’ opens ="trms">situatedness, for who and how “better,” etc.='lgc'>}

="trms">Rhetoric ='lgc'><='lgc'>--(has to do with)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">Contingent
="ppl">Aristotle (in his work on ="trms">rhetoric) was against ="trms">contingency. He believed that the “unavoidable and potentially unmanageable ="trms">presence of multiple possibilities” or the complex ="trms">nature of decisions creates and invites ="trms">rhetoric. (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Plato saw ="trms">rhetoric as pure deceit ='lgc'>[gul='lgc'>] and ="trms">positioned it in politics. ='lgc'>[you can see he is terrified by the death of his teacher and mentor ="ppl">Socrates by civility.='lgc'>])
="trms">rhetoric ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> contigent ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">epistemic='lgc'>: individuals make meaning through ="trms">language and determine what constitutes truth


='strcls'>*="trms">ontology is death-dealing ='lgc'><='lgc'>--='strcls'>** terrible violence is directed to the non-existing, the never having existed
='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to the root of exist ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> which modes of existence deserve our curiosity='qstn'>?

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="large lg18" stl="font-size:134%"> (i found a word for it,) my register of ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Lili's scream='lgc'>: i see it as ‘non="trms">laughter’(='qstn'>?)
(='strcls'>*proposal='lgc'>: there is a number when we dial we can ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listen to her scream on the phone.) (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> stream, ="trms">technology, tele-, telephone, called,)
(for her) thinking ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? knowing (sending ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= receiving)
(an SF scenario='lgc'>:) ="trms">imagine and describe an alien ="trms">world where its populace don't practice ‘knowing.’
='strcls'>**scream ='lgc'>==makes='lgc'>='lgc'>==> witnesses='strcls'>**
(fighting ='lgc'>==makes='lgc'>='lgc'>==> coordination)

از طلبکار به طلبه (az talabkar be talabe)
///the (="trms">symbolic='qstn'>?) structuration of ‘="trms">demand’ in ="frds scrmbld">Lili's ="trms">presentation='lgc'>:
the ‘sujet ="trms">supposé savoir’ ='at'>#sss ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="nms">Pir, (پیر always a paternal ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor='qstn'>?) that Other whom you ‘call’ who holds (your) deepest truth ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorology of “depth” ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= “skimming the surface"='lgc'>] (installed by ="ppl">Lacan) is a subject who is in a functional ="trms">position and one presumes that this subject knows or retains or holds the knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (even vital and secret knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>[this is knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge-talabkar طلبکار='lgc'>]) that you want. this subject is functionally established. one of the laws of our encounter is that puts the speaker/="trms">writer/analyst/text/etc in the (even architectural) center='lgc'>: the subject-="trms">supposed-to-know in ="ppl">Lacan the analyst who sits there as a tower of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that mostly withholds what s/he knows ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">transferencial energy directed towards him/her ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> drama of identification (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> break-out of ="trms">narcissism for ="ppl">Freud)
="prgrph">-it is one of the (negative='qstn'>?) binding ="trms">transferential contracts in ="trms">relation to “the one who speaks”
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*="trms">anthropology of exchange='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">Transference='lgc'>: (for ="ppl">Lacan) Each time a man speaks to another in an authentic and full manner, there is, in the true sense, ="trms">transference, ="trms">symbolic ="trms">transference='lgc'>--something which takes place which changes the ="trms">nature of the two beings ="trms">present. Later ="ppl">Lacan ="trms">articulates the ="trms">transference in sujet ="trms">supposé savoir='lgc'>: ="trms">transference is the attribution of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge to the Other, the ="trms">supposition that the Other is a subject who knows. “As soon as the subject who is ="trms">supposed to know exists ='strcls'>*somewhere='strcls'>* ... there is ="trms">transference.” (Seminar II, p. 232)='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[keep in mind that the (post='qstn'>?-)="ppl">Lacanian theory is about the ='strcls'>*constitutive function of the signifier in ="trms">relation to the subject.='strcls'>* ... for ="ppl">Lacan, What constitutes the person and its identity can now be ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read as a text, and the ="trms">author is not the subject, but the ="trms">trajectory of the signifiers that re="trms">present the desire of those who occupy the place of the Other for the subject.='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[about ="trms">demand='lgc'>: ="ppl">Lacan argues that “="trms">demand constitutes the Other as al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready possessing the ‘privilege’ of satisfying needs,” and that indeed the ="trms">child's biological needs are themselves altered by “the condition that is imposed on him by the existence of the discourse, to make his need pass through the defiles of the signifier.” ... The subject has never done anything other than ="trms">demand (since infancy!)='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*='lgc'>{="trms">question ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">demand='lgc'>}='strcls'>*='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Nancy
='lgc'>[the use of ‘="trms">transference’ is a way to account for the ="trms">relationship between ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers and texts. the emphasis in ="ppl">Lacan is on the ‘="trms">supposed’ and not on the ‘know’. ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader assume that the text ‘knows’. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> What ="ppl">Lacan's understanding of the ="trms">transference points to is the fact that we must see the meaning of any given text not within the text itself but as a reconstruction between ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader and text.='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[in other words, ="trms">transference is ‘a re="trms">presentation of the ="trms">past’ (="trms">childhood and etc.) to the ="trms">present ='lgc'>]
a pedagogical problem='lgc'>: rapid ="trms">transferencial turn-over='lgc'>: going from one subject-="trms">supposed-to-know to the other (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading)
='at'>#the kind of ‘="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading’ ='lgc'>[encountering a text, artwork, speech, ourselves, etc.='lgc'>] that i am talking about is not about this ="trms">transferencial energy directed towards the sujet ="trms">supposé savoir. this practice of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading is about to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read together and to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read ourselves ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading, to an atentiveness to the way we are ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading or not-="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading or aberating from something and be attentive to that disjunctive movement. what is noncomprehension='qstn'>? what is the experience of nonunderstanding='qstn'>? and so on.
='strcls'>*so, the sujet ="trms">supposé savoir is the one who is structurally is in a place of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge which doesn't mean that subject is filled with or capable of offering power and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge but that is projected ="trms">onto that functional space='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sujet ="trms">supposé savoir is merely a spatial determination='qstn'>? (is this related to my ="trms">interventive ="trms">lectures in outdoor spaces in order to sabotage ‘what is meant to signify’ of the spatial subject-="trms">supposed-to-know='qstn'>?)
='strcls'>*sss is one of the effects of subjectivity ='lgc'>-- a scenography of ="trms">transferential intensity ='lgc'>: we credit that being with having knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge to transmit, and then we might also resist it.
='lgc'>='lgc'>---let's get out of this space!!='qstn'>?
='lgc'>--='prcnt'>%='lgc'>--in the context of pedagogy, students regards their teachers as sujet ="trms">supposé savoir, that they should know something. “it is the students’ ="trms">supposition of an art teacher who knows, who have something more than they have in themselves, that initiates the teaching and learning process rather than the art knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge actually possessed by the teacher” (Hetrick). (is it the architectural ="trms">gesture='lgc'>--the center='lgc'>--that produces the recognition of the teacher ="trms">situated as “teacher”='qstn'>?) ='strcls'>*“the spell of ="trms">transference.” / at some point some ="trms">gesture is taken by the student as a sign of hidden knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and intention ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">transference establishing itself; (how education ='lgc'>[and ="trms">love='qstn'>?='lgc'>] without ="trms">transference looks like='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Julia ="ppl">Scher, ‘post-="ppl">Lacanian’ means that you don't ‘transfer’ to the art-work nor artist='qstn'>?) ='at'>#="nms">harem
parent ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> teacher ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> what the student may desire to become (be recognized as)

="trms">according to ="ppl">Lacan there is no ="nms">Pir (='lgc'>~ ='lgc'>[often iconoclast='lgc'>] leader, guide, mentor, expert, knowing-hero, enlightener, rescuer knowing more, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edgeable pedagogue/leader “helping students find themselves,” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my failed ="trms">transference with ="frds scrmbld">Saeed='lgc'>])

='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? Discourse of the University='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: (="trms">systematic) “knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge” replaces the nonsensical master signifier in the dominant commanding ="trms">position; in this case the sujet ="trms">supposé savoir dependent upon the related knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the Other, or the source of “the field” (journals, text="trms">books, etc.) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (arbiter of) truth ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*to transmit knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that is al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready given='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[account of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge as a ="trms">symbolic and ="trms">social ="trms">network, master signifier, subject ="trms">positions,='lgc'>]

in placing the ‘text’ in the ="trms">position of a knowing expert who has the answers ="frds scrmbld">Lili (unconsciously) idealizes her texts, and of course when her ‘texts’ fail to satisfy that desire she ="trms">demands ‘knowing’ from them in terms of cynicism='lgc'>: the feeling or state of being annoyed and irritated by them. this is a structural space of ‘="trms">demand’ in her. for me what is at stake is the complex ="trms">nature of encounter between ="frds scrmbld">Lili and text which takes place in an artificial space='lgc'>--a ="trms">symbolic space='lgc'>--that is at the same time the place of real investments of her desires.

='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Lili; is she (like the rest of us humans) looking for an active, predatory art='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> if non-="trms">communicative non-predatory non-kinetic ='lgc'>[a common issue with the students of choreography and dance in general='lgc'>] art exists on this planet, then we kave to learn “a whole new set of ="trms">techniques.” ='lgc'>[="ppl">La Guin='lgc'>])
='lgc'>--the meter of ‘time,’ that essential element, matrix and ="trms">measure of all kown human-="trms">animal art. what if there are other metric ="trms">systems='qstn'>? art not as an action, but a reaction='qstn'>? not a ="trms">communication, but a reception='qstn'>? ='lgc'>{='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to my master studies Diploma on passivity in performance art='lgc'>}

registers of ‘="trms">complaining’ in ="frds scrmbld">Lili's discourse. she is a bit like Faust groaning, habe nun akhhhhh Philosophie and so on. ='lgc'>[Ach of Sprache='lgc'>] (that they have done all the work, they know everything, yet know not enough of what really counts ='lgc'>[that is the incalculable='lgc'>] and cannot be satisfied by mere knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge available to them. nor can they keep themselves to the restricted zone of knowability.) so ="frds scrmbld">Lili saying “it's too much!” is a hysteric wish for ‘more’='qstn'>?
(="ppl">Freudian ="trms">joke, the hysteric says='lgc'>: “is that all there is!='qstn'>?” while the ="trms">neurotic says='lgc'>: “this is too much!” to the same object)

='strcls'>*it was ="ppl">Goethe who invented the super-ego, ="ppl">Freud named it following him.

the all-or-nothing view='lgc'>: i know everything or i don't know anything, problem of scale, problem of ‘circumstance='lgc'> = reality’
kloAQsvRkFY

the figure of the ‘accuser’ and the ‘straight talk’ for ="frds scrmbld">Lili
...that people would speak ="trms">literally
going from proof to proof, from necessity to necessity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> displacement (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= detour)

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='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Ekaterina; some other characters='lgc'>:
the jealous, the impassioned, the persecutive, the ="trms">erotomaniacal,
="trms">complainer,
noble trader,

="frds scrmbld">Ekaterina, asking for a ="trms">fabulation='qstn'>? her totem making
="ppl">Deleuzian ="trms">fabulation='lgc'>: a ="trms">fiction made up by people in their process of becoming
making up ="trms">stories
='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">fiction (on its own; it doesn't have that ="trms">relation with becoming)

in which conditions the ="trms">paranoid mother occupies the failiour of the good-enough mother='qstn'>?
what constitutes the ‘site’ for her mother='qstn'>?

(how her) characters keep running into eachother in a universe of recursive connection (='qstn'>?)



='strcls'>**="trms">stories that collect ="trms">stories='strcls'>** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= archive='qstn'>? my hypertext='qstn'>? a mouth full='qstn'>? ='lgc'>--this ="trms">specific type of ="trms">stories are d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerously ="trms">worlders, usually handed to the un="trms">questioned mechanics of universalized taxonomy and 17th century ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs='lgc'>: encyclopedic homogeneous tables. they are the stuff of ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]
(mispronounced by ="frds scrmbld">Ekaterina > captured by ="frds scrmbld">Hoda > found object by ="frds">Sina)

="trms">stories that collect other ="trms">stories='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- archive ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">sortability
="lstsrd">2- ="trms">translation ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>-->  linearity
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> universality (that both these ="trms">stories claim)
(='mywrk'>my work on hypertext ="nms">apass ="nms">ajayeb graph ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs, is to deal within these conditions of ="trms">storying. my shift of ="trms">interest)

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(“dealing” ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Luiza='lgc'>:)
(or in ="frds scrmbld">Lili's term “..a way to tackle issues”)

='lgc'>[with ="ppl">Avital='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*modalities of dealing-with='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-parasitism
="prgrph">-(under the spell) ="trms">drugs ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= struggle (="trms">according to ="ppl">Marxian protocol='lgc'>: one is ="trms">drugged and disabled ='lgc'>[Date-rape-="trms">drug as an incapa="trms">citating ="trms">agent='lgc'>] and neutralized by state ="trms">apparatus, ="trms">drugs are administrated and spend in all ="trms">sorts of insidious ways.)
on the discourse of stupidity='lgc'>: ="ppl">Marx (in ="trms">writing to Engels says that he) believed that proletariat are stupid. ="ppl">Marx's insight to replace the other ="trms">drugs that have put so many into a stupor. people with ="trms">Religion are not around, they are praying somewhere to some ="trms">hallucination ='lgc'>[this is ="ppl">Marx, ="ppl">Freud, ="ppl">Nietzsche, and others in 20th century='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ideological stuporous ="trms">drugs, ‘everyone is stoned on something’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= alert and lucid. ='lgc'>[highly problematic!='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-this is about a body recognizing its ‘enemy’ (the figure of enemy for every and each of us and the way we “recognize” it, as ="trms">historical bodies and minds in="trms">heriting the boys of 20th century.) ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---- the state of the struggle depends on certain ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorologies on ‘clean’ that are problematic and phantasmatic and on the loose. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[the issue is that there is no “clean body”.='lgc'>] how to do dirty work='qstn'>? (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for ‘morality’ and ‘clean’ go to ="ppl">Freud on the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin on morality='lgc'>: morality began as we stopped sniffing our asses and stood erect, nose in the air, away from the dirt ='lgc'>[that we are='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> morality's phobic appropriations and designations, ='lgc'>[="ppl">Lacan='lgc'>: from the genital order to the ="trms">sublime; az kun be fayakon از کون به فیکون ='prcnt'>%='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#ouroboros ='at'>#serpent='lgc'>], ='lgc'>[so when we stood up, stood erect, our genitals became center, exposing ourselves to the other, sexually centered exposure='lgc'>], ='lgc'>[='lgc'>], ='lgc'>[='lgc'>],)
="prgrph">-="ppl">Marxian='lgc'>: ="trms">language/tool/art as a virus that infiltrates ideological structures
="prgrph">-="ppl">Lacoue-Labarthe='lgc'>: in 20th century there are three fundamental modalities of “dealing-with,” three modes of relatedness to our concerns, our ="trms">anxieties, our worries, our work, our projects ='lgc'>[three major motifs for the thinkers that continue to provoke our thoughts='lgc'>]='lgc'>: (1) ='strcls'>*struggle='strcls'>* that would be the ="ppl">Marxian motor, the modality in terms of concern for ="trms">social justice. ='lgc'>[="ppl">Delanda on ="ppl">Marx ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a model of synthesis='lgc'>: a conflict of op="trms">posites='lgc'>] (2) ='strcls'>*="trms">mission='strcls'>* as introduced and lunched by ="ppl">Heidegger, who was on a ="trms">mission='lgc'>: we have a ="trms">mission, we have a ="trms">mission of trans="trms">mission, we have a ="trms">mission to inscribe things='lgc'>--not from God but from what has happened to us and been left to us after the death of God (as ="ppl">Nietzsche has announced.) ='lgc'>{yes, without a proper address, a state of ="trms">epistemic alert, and so on='lgc'>} and (3) ='strcls'>*task='strcls'>* as="trms">sociated with ="ppl">Benjamin. the Aufgabe is that which inscribes in itself ‘giving up,’ the Aufgabe, it means it is impossible, we take it on as a kind of ethical, political ="trms">obligation, but in the word Aufgabe is also ‘Gabe’ meaning ‘gift’ in German, it is gift and giving-up. ='lgc'>[="ppl">Derrida beautifully asks to negotiate endlessly with the ‘given,’ even if the Gift that is given is poisonous.='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{ we can see how operate but also how they contaminate (and leak into each other.) we might have a sense of three of them='lgc'>}
="prgrph">-="trms">ontology of “struggling” a way out of Aporia ='lgc'>[denotes, in philosophy, a philosophical puzzle or state of puzzlement='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we can't! ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we must try to work to locate modalities of ="trms">stagnancy (rokud) without necessarily seeing the Exit. how do we live with these catastrophic markers that mark us='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-Paleonymics='lgc'>: a certain operation ="trms">according to which one continues to put old words to work. The use of a pre-existing word in a new context. ='lgc'>-- we are stuck with old pomping meanings.
='lgc'>--(="ppl">="ppl">Stengers) connecting ="trms">materialism with struggle ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (in ="nms">apass) we are descendants of this ="trms">trope

for ="frds scrmbld">Luiza, the meaning of ‘in="trms">fold’='qstn'>? instead of ‘unravel’='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">interface='strcls'>*
(i want to point out the ‘synthesis’ in her work rather than the ‘analysis’ implied in the term ‘unravel’)



="ppl">Lacoue-Labarthe made ="ppl">Heidegger possible to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read for ="ppl">Avital
(and that is what ="ppl">Avital does, make a lot of things possible to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read for me)

(to incorporate a) ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorous hesitation='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo's “slowness”)
going step by step in the confrontation (essential to the un="trms">folding of thought)
='strcls'>**not turning ‘weakness’ (or ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical weariness) into a (compelling) paraconcept ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">Levinas does it='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-taking on the the big topoi of the day like a warrior
courage ='lgc'>--comes='lgc'>='lgc'>--> from the ='strcls'>*="trms">abyss of needling fearfulness='strcls'>*
='strcls'>*German romantics invented the always-with-="trms">community, a living-with, a Mitsein practice of living life philosophically (full of moments of restricted solitude, pressure zones, etc.)
(office of friendship...) i am friend in a ="ppl">Freudian ambivalence, that means i undermine the friend, try to ="trms">trap him and catch him off guard
="prgrph">-if you are so calm, then i will try to bring you over to my side of the barricade of obsessional ="trms">neurotic (a condition in which the mind is intruded upon against her will by images, ideas, or words. consciousness remains lucid and power to reason remains intact ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> temporarily deprivation of individual of freedom of thought and action ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">intrapsychic conflict of sexual o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin that mobilizes and blocks all flows of energy (in the case ="trms">neurotic a source of pleasure to the ="trms">child ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= hysteric)='lgc'>])
="prgrph">-when we ="trms">write do we need to de="trms">monstrate a far-ranging grasp of the political consequences of every possible ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical move='qstn'>?
...prime mover or suspects such as ="ppl">Plato, ="ppl">Heidegger, ="ppl">Derrida
='strcls'>*acceleration='lgc'>: that we are result-oriented, business-oriented, under the gun of gains, and subject to the push towards ="trms">scientific objectification ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= i try to work with ="trms">different degrees of attention='lgc'>: slowing down for checkpoints, allusive ="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusters and ="trms">dense indicators, that are also problematic and short-circuited (in my ="trms">lectures) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to get to the ='strcls'>*notational space='strcls'>* that we can calmly observe, examine and explore together.
="prgrph">-to be lucid about your own part taking in ="trms">narcissistic economy
='strcls'>*="trms">mimesis='strcls'>*='lgc'>: those things we are still stuck in in very covert and unavowed ways ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> ‘destiny’ (a term i use when i mean ="trms">mimesis for us ='lgc'>[-a disease that shows ="trms">symptoms characteristic of another disease='lgc'>])
(i am not pessimistic at all) i have just a catastrophic intuition that informs my grammar ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">mimetic hell

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="large lg22" stl="font-size:118%"> ='strcls'>*="trms">complaint (blocks ‘becoming’='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-so if i am used to ="trms">complaint in all ="trms">sorts and forms and shapes, what do i do if not ="trms">complaining='qstn'>? that means i need to start learning new ="trms">techniques of being in the ="trms">world.
="prgrph">-="trms">complain, forms of protest, grievance, ='lgc'><='lgc'>--(contamination)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lament (sug سوگ, zaje ضجه)
="prgrph">-dis="trms">positions of Beschwerde
="prgrph">-which minorities are as="trms">sociated with bitching and moaning='qstn'>? (naleh va shekayat ناله و شکایت, ghor غرولند, غر) (a feminine accent='qstn'>?!)
 ="prgrph prgrph2">-it is often said that “="trms">children should stop ="trms">complaining”
“stop ="trms">complaining” ='qstn'>?!! ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> pointed to or relevant for ="frds scrmbld">Lili also='lgc'>]
='strcls'>***="trms">complaint ='lgc'>: the disenfranchised (az hagh mahrum shodeh از حق محروم شده) ="trms">language of muted rage='strcls'>***
what is (let's) bitching together='qstn'>?
is ="trms">religion one long ="trms">complaint='qstn'>? (='lgc'>--'reformation’ as a cover-up)
the “i prefer,” non-need, non-preference
='strcls'>*forms of relatedness='lgc'>--in certain ="trms">societies the opening self of ="trms">sociality consists in ="trms">complaining. (starter-utterances; ="trms">social encounter involves nagging about your friends, parents, ="trms">lovers, etc.) ='lgc'>--making friends is via ="trms">complaining. (this is about the conditions of Mitsein, being-with) ='lgc'>{non-affirmation ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/=='qstn'>? ="trms">complaint; we mistake so easily non-affirmation with ="trms">complaining. (is this ="frds scrmbld">Lili's take='qstn'>? her ="trms">complaints about the insufficiencies of being.)='lgc'>} ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is ="trms">complaint parasitized by calls for retribution='qstn'>?
Klage (="trms">complaint) ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Anklage (accusation)
='strcls'>*="trms">complaint remains a repetitive fixation that feeds rather than exhausting its course (/="ppl">Avital, aw9Cv_wQ4CQ) ='lgc'>-- it does not finish itself off, or move up the ladder of transformation ='lgc'>[important for ="frds scrmbld">Sana='lgc'>], actually increases pain ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> so, (="trms">according to the analyst='lgc'>:) ="trms">complain is jacking up one's suffering (the Analytiker can't take it anymore)
="ppl">Avital > ="ppl">Kittler='lgc'>: the Ach of Sprache, (in our ="trms">historical ="trms">language usage='lgc'>:) ="trms">literature or ="trms">language as ="trms">complaint. sigh in ="trms">literature (also pointed out by ="frds scrmbld">Lili)
='lgc'>--the ="trms">modern techo-="trms">monster Faust opens with the ="trms">complain
='strcls'>**what is then a proper address='qstn'>?
...the wish for more

="prgrph">-do machines ="trms">complaint or lament='qstn'>?

='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Luiza; (one of sub-="trms">phenomenon of utterance) ='strcls'>*blush='strcls'>* registers a ="trms">complaint(='qstn'>?)
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to be noted that certain white skin-colors considered racistly “capable” of displaying moral ="trms">anxiety.)
="prgrph">-a level of ="trms">affect and meaning that remains at the loss of words, between shame and ex="trms">citement, confession and disavow. blush speaks for her at moment when she cannot stand up for herself='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-or it betrays her with a sudden sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read of skin-mapping releasing a secret or indexing a moral blemish (lakedar لکه دار), a pigmentation... (how to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read it='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-blush manages to register a ="trms">complaint and it signs off ='lgc'>[con="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes='lgc'>] at an unspoken accusation...
="prgrph">-blossoming of senses, cultural significance, who is capable of blushing='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (decency's) ='strcls'>*outrage='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> libidinally charged, prompting a political arousal ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> still a vitality stirs in the ="trms">complaint='lgc'>--='strcls'>*the ="trms">complaint can bring movement='strcls'>*) ='lgc'>[="frds scrmbld">Luiza's climate of resistance and her ="trms">integrated modality of ‘struggle'='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**inner life of morality='strcls'>**
="prgrph">-flush='qstn'>?

='lgc'>[="trms">complaint,='lgc'>] is it issued from a place of impotence or does it have the potential to move mountains='qstn'>? (="ppl">Avital='lgc'>--="frds">Sina's emergency supply of meaning)
can it arrive at any destination whatsoever='qstn'>?
‘="trms">complain’ and ‘explain’ ="trms">relationships
(="trms">laughter as a form of ="trms">complaining)
‘="trms">complain’ and ‘politeness’ ="trms">relationships
what ="trms">complaint has to do with our ="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger-management programs='qstn'>?

="trms">complaint ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= lament (="trms">complaint won't shut up but lament desires its ending)
lament is fined to mourning and loss ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= ="trms">complaint (resisting a fixed ="trms">relation to loss) seems unable to mourn
='strcls'>*="trms">complaint cannot mourn. ='lgc'>[="trms">complaint as a form of mourning-disorder='lgc'>]
(is mourning busy with ‘continuity in life’='qstn'>? a ="trms">world that is not made of connections='lgc'>: zendegi bi/ba tadavom زندگی‌ بی/با تداوم, jahani ke be ham mortabet nist جهانی‌ که به هم مرتبط نیست)

is any critique not a ="trms">complaint='qstn'>? not throwing something in the field of ="trms">complaint='qstn'>? (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Luiza, ="frds scrmbld">Lili; certain forms of protest dominates their utterances)
='lgc'>--="trms">different ="trms">morphs of civic grief='lgc'>--
(why am i concerned with ="trms">complaint of my friends='qstn'>? this is about checking my own infrastructural concerns about zones of encounter and redirecting oversized libidinal aggressions, ='lgc'>[and pain-relief='qstn'>? ='lgc'>{is ='mywrk'>my work all about (philosophical/artistic) pain-relief='qstn'>?='lgc'>}='lgc'>])

="trms">complaint ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= staying within the boundaries of ="trms">coded gracefulness
(...credit reserved for non-="trms">complainers) ,,, ((minor scales of)) protest and breaking rhymes (of master discourse='qstn'>?) (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Sana, perturbed by manners of injustice; her libido ='lgc'>[zist-maye زیست مایه, shur-e hayat شور حیات='lgc'>] is at stake)
='lgc'>--when ="trms">complaint takes over and you don't even know if there is an injury anymore at the root of it.
(we are ="trms">traveling behind its possible meaning-fields)

de-shamanization and ="trms">translation /(non-transparency should rule='qstn'>?!)


are we ="trms">trapped in a grid of grievance='qstn'>?

="trms">different forms of ‘maybe’ (i am trying to install='qstn'>?)

how ="trms">complaint is then ="trms">situated in ‘becoming’='qstn'>?

='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] ="trms">complaint haunts our era of desperate justice (="frds scrmbld">Xiri, ="frds scrmbld">Sana, ="frds scrmbld">Varinia)
. a calling-="trms">system='qstn'>? a GPS that has lost its signal='qstn'>?

maternal super-ego
political passion emerging as a defensive strategy
(='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Xiri, is she trying to add-on the super-ego for her concern of ="trms">social justice='qstn'>?)

so, does ="trms">complaint prevent the arrival of change or make way for new forms of ="trms">sociality='qstn'>?

“I can't ="trms">complain.” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a blockbuster;) those in stubborn destitution ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----that there is no address in the era of the becoming anonymous of God. ‘Who would pick up your call='qstn'>?’
however, “the friend, whether ghostly, futural, or closely bound in time, receives the brunt of the ="trms">complaint” ='lgc'>--friends structurally ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listens to disappointed expectation, disappointed ="trms">worldliness

what-should-have-been

On what approved ="trms">contingencies, contractual loopholes, or ="trms">transferential coordinates could I possibly befriend another='qstn'>?

="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical ="trms">heritage of friendship (... reconfigured personhood)

(how can I do things without being a psycho about it='qstn'>?)
(How do I know by which politics of friendship, grid or ="trms">writing practice I am being called up='qstn'>?)
a ="trms">vocabulary existed to designate, approximate certain ="trms">routines


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(30.03.2017) Rabih Mroue and Hito Steyerl duo='lgc'>: concern for injustice and conservative justice call disguised under an elaborated and augmented ="trms">complaint (in the ="trms">aesthetic terms of contemporary art ="trms">market), non-rese="trms"nttrm="search">archers of their subjects and topics, they have no ‘topic’ only ‘resource’ (in the making of their own myth of the figure of artist,) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= when something becomes a topic for you, it bounds you to the unsettling commitments of curiosity and research and hard work.='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-in their notion of “Artist in the Reign of Terror” they ask disturbingly “but many individuals have died and it means nothing='qstn'>?!” with a sneer (artwork as puzkhand پوزخند ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali )
='lgc'>[='strcls'>**“sneer” is a contemptuous or mocking smile, remark, or tone, coming from a family of sarcastic ="trms">tropes of ="trms">complaint and ironizated ="trms">complaining='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-their art-work finds and flourishes in a terrain of terror. in their nonspeculative work there is no “but, what if” or “but, not yet” and therefore no ‘becomings’
="prgrph">-for Hito and Rabih='lgc'>: zeitgenössisch (contemporary)='lgc'> = grausam (atrocious)
="prgrph">-they dichotomize (fact/="trms">fiction, real/unreal, etc.), rather than allowing a novel and ="trms">interesting ="trms">question to be raised
="prgrph">-what is the state of unknown in one's practice='qstn'>? rather than being a news ="trms">agency




='lgc'>[negativity='qstn'>?='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> your bad feelings ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> غر ghor ="trms">complaint ='lgc'>--(turn it into)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> critique ='lgc'>--(start doing)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> research ='lgc'>--(get)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> diploma ='lgc'>--(turn it into)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> phd ='lgc'>--(make your)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> department of studies ='lgc'>--(into)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">craft tradition
='lgc'>[you don't have to start with negativity!='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[you don't need to end in your own myth tradition!='lgc'>]

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='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Anouk (='at'>@her “breathing archive”)='lgc'>: (="ppl">Lev ="ppl">Manovich's) ="trms">relationship between ‘="trms">interface’ and ‘="trms">database,’ ‘perceptable’ to ‘information’. ='lgc'>[="trms">Database as ="trms">Symbolic Form='lgc'>: http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i290-1/s04/="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readings/manovich_="trms">database.pdf='lgc'>]
what is for ="frds scrmbld">Anouk ‘information’='qstn'>? and what is for her the ="trms">relationship between information, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, ="trms">interface, and perceptable='qstn'>?
for her what is the ="trms">relationship between ‘information’ and ‘in="trms">finite’='qstn'>? (in="trms">finite as the universe of all possible images)

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='strcls'>*="frds scrmbld">Pierre's ‘="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights of nerves’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “talking to everybody”
='lgc'>[="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights of nerves='lgc'>: you are promted to do what you do out of disgust, outrage, fear, or driven by ="trms">anxiety, you don't know why, you are compelled towards an object or project or thing or unthing='lgc'>]


='strcls'>*="frds scrmbld">Seba='lgc'>: for him “="trms">narrative ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= complex” (the ="trms">question of “complexity's ="trms">situatedness”) for him='lgc'>: “multiple perspectives ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> coherency (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= bi-rabt بی‌ ربط, na-ham-dusti ناهمدوستی ='qstn'>?)” (is his idea of “coherency” leads to ‘friendship’='qstn'>? is for ="frds scrmbld">Seba ‘amity’ ='lgc'>[ravabet-e hasane روابط حسنه='lgc'>] at stake='qstn'>? )
="frds scrmbld">Seba's ="trms">epistemological object(='qstn'>?)='lgc'>: ‘evidence’ (='lgc'>=/='qstn'>?='lgc'>=>! cordial dis="trms">positions)

(complexity is the name of our game. ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway)

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my current work and ="trms">interest involves the investigation of individualized subject formation (tajarode nafs تجرد نفس ='qstn'>?); ="trms">interrogating the production of ="trms">language; and tracing the divisible distinguishing limits between ="trms">categories of human, ="trms">animal, and ="trms">monstrous.
='at'>#subjects of ="trms">interest='lgc'>: The ="trms">translator, ="trms">language, the ="trms">sublime, ="trms">animals/="trms">animality, ="trms">technicity/mechanicity, the divine/sacred,

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the myth of Poros, Penia, and Eros for ="frds scrmbld">Aela='lgc'>:
(in ="ppl">Plato's ="trms">Symposium;) Penia, the “="trms">child of poverty,” decides to forcefully impregnate herself with the inebriated Poros, “the personification of plenty,” who is always in op="trms">position with aporia, (='lgc'>~ snafu before aporia,) “puzzlement, which breaks with the logic of identity,” and thus defining aporia. The result of this union is Eros...
poverty ='lgc'>+ ='lgc'>{plenitude ='lgc'>× aporia='lgc'>} ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> eros ='lgc'>: ='lgc'>{="trms">agency of passivity ='lgc'>+ resourcefulness='lgc'>}
="lstsrd">1-="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical inquiry begins from ‘aporia’
="lstsrd">2-rationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list inquiry begins from ‘a ="trms">priori’
="lstsrd">3-="trms">="trms">empiricist inquiry begins from ‘tabula rasa’ (hakim's beginning)
/
/
="lstsrd">4-mystical inquiry begins from ‘="trms">affective a posteriori’ (effect, ="trms">wonder, heyrat, tahayor)


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sci-fi is ="trms">imagining the elsewhere inside mortality. (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> feminism stakes in SF)

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='strcls'>*make a series of studio photos with white clear backs, two ="trms">different genders ="nms">iranians having a physical/="trms">verbal fight or some ="trms">sort of aggressive encounter

='strcls'>*the idea is to ="trms">write a script for a movie or short series, combining the ="trms">historical 14th century ="nms">Iran with the 14th century ="trms">imaginal ="trms">beast ="trms">fables from the ="nms">ajayeb. the camera creats a non-exotic continuation between the two

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='lgc'>[with ="ppl">="ppl">Kenney='lgc'>]

="prgrph">-how to let emerge a ="trms">seriousness as collective ="trms">matters of care='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-how to stimulate ="trms">pragmatic ="trms">questions about how to ="trms">craft relevant knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='qstn'>?

speculation is all about ="trms">pragmatism


capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list speculation ='lgc'>: “one must speculate to accumulate” ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= relating ='and'>& ="trms">narrating

="trms">scientific speculation ='and'>& venture capital ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> big ="trms">epistemic/financial pay-offs or costly dead ends ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">="ppl">Stengers's notion of speculative) ='strcls'>*being at risk with ones claims='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= received notions of ="trms">authority or rationality='lgc'>]

(an abstract challenge='lgc'>:) to bring ="trms">specificity and ="trms">imaginative traction

='strcls'>*speculation is a more feral practice
(="trms">wild) speculation ='lgc'>[always improper='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= proper ="trms">science ='lgc'>: rational production of univerasal knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="prgrph">-speculation is not about what there is but what there might be
="prgrph">-speculation is on the side of the possible ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= probable (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Stengers)

speculative operations (quietly) insist that ='strcls'>*another ="trms">world is here='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my ="nms">ajayeb) ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= the smooth operation of business-as-usual (,, ="trms">interrupting it)

for my ="nms">ajayeb, how can i carve out a space to nurture my idea='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nest-building ='lgc'>--="trms">position/place='lgc'>='lgc'>--> digging out a bit of earth

='strcls'>*speculative ="trms">="trms">empiricism ='lgc'>: ="trms">scientific ='lgc'>+ ="trms">narrative
working with ="nms">ajayeb so that it might stimulate a specualtive ="trms">="trms">empiricism for ="trms">composing more livable ="trms">worlds ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">ajayeb's storied biospheres

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='thdf'>the notion of ‘magic’ in popular TV series, such as ‘Harry Potter’ franchise and ‘The Magicians’ among many others, and ="trms">instrumentalization. magic as information ="trms">technology that is completely ="trms">instrumentalized. the capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ideology of ‘tool’ and ‘usefulness’ are insinuated heavily in the hipster figures of ‘The Magicians’ in the way that they ="trms">interupt ="trms">history and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge-burdened living. “stop the ="trms">history lessen! tell me how do we kill the ="trms">beast with it='qstn'>?” (the stupidity of the hipster hero moving through the matrix of merely teleological ="trms">phenomena, stripping pleasure off thinking...)
(utopian='qstn'>?)

what a magic spell is good for if it is not a leverage='qstn'>?

='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
The Magicians and The Absolute Freedom and Terror

(‘The Magicians’='lgc'>:) magic='lgc'>: ="trms">instrumentalizing the logos
knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is ="trms">literal ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> magic spells are ="trms">literal ='lgc'>{the result of magic spell is predetermined='lgc'>}. in this case, the magic is both an ="trms">instrument of power and r="trms">enunciation of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
(="ppl">Heideggerian) ="trms">techne of the Western project is an ="trms">instrumentality that takes over, arrests, or enframes what it desires to manipulate or contain. (="ppl">="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian ="ppl">Hubert's notes)
='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">poiesis, a bringing-forth (in ="ppl">Heidegger='lgc'>: blooming of the blossom) (also ="trms">Greek)

“='lgc'>[(for the ="trms">techno-="trms">monster-magicians) everything is='lgc'>] ="trms">code to be cracked”

a kind of fantasies that Don ="ppl">="ppl">Ihde calls ="trms">techno-fantasy, which have been part of the transhumanism since 19th century

the toxic distinction between ="trms">techne from ="trms">episteme (since ="ppl">Homer). ‘The Magician’ sug="trms">gests magic as a ="trms">technology or tool apart from its context of involvements and referentialities ='lgc'>: a hermeneutic or alterity ="trms">relation ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Heidegger='lgc'>:) the tool is an ="trms">embodiment ="trms">relation
(one of the characters even states that humans without magic invented computers as replacement)

‘The Magician’ dismisses the generation of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in the praxis of tool-use. ="trms">science/magic is ="trms">pragmatic ="trms">relation of ="trms">="trms">equipment or tools as ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready-to-hand. the ideology of a knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">relation='lgc'>: magic (as tool) is ="trms">present-at-hand ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ontological ="trms">relationship to the ="trms">world (='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----the characters want to go and have an icecream when they are finished with all the magical fights.)
this notion of magic as tool (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">epistemological object) in use achieves (what Don ="ppl">="ppl">Ihde calls) ='strcls'>*="trms">instrumental transparency='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> It “withdraws” when in use, but becomes conspicuous again when broken or missing ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this is precisely the standard account of ="trms">technology in high-="trms">techno-="trms">scientific capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list sunny ="trms">societies='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>the idea that magicians can “forget” (or “lose”) their magic sug="trms">gests a guarantor of ="trms">instrumental transparency of magic (or knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge).
="prgrph">-the popular vision of magic hinges around the desire for total transparency='strcls'>**
="prgrph">-this ="trms">instrumental rationality is the heart of the ="trms">modernizing project (which characterizes capitalism) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the value-free calculable efficiency of administrative processes (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a project of domination and denial of dependence) (='lgc'>=='qstn'>?='lgc'>=> Auschwitz)

(how to make The Magician's bounded utilitarian individualism unthinkable='qstn'>?)

(Frankfurt School='lgc'>:) ="trms">technology ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">instrumental reason ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= reification (madiat, jesmiat) as reason
(="ppl">Habermas='lgc'>:) ="trms">systems rationality, economic and bureaucratic rationality (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> patterns of meaning rendered functional) ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">communicative processes that sustain the life="trms">world

the same ="ppl">Platonic tradition produces='lgc'>: ='lgc'>{theory ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= practice='lgc'>} ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>{mind ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= body='lgc'>} ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>{"conceptual” ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= “="trms">material"='lgc'>} (and privileging one over the other)
(for the Frankfurt School) truth='lgc'> = "a moment of correct praxis”

what is at stake is the way ‘The Magician’ heroes’ way of non-relating to an entire environment and with it to an implicit “="trms">world” that they inhabit.
...that ="trms">science is an ‘account’ of reality not a ‘tool’ for coping with it
...when the ="trms">world and the ="trms">instrument ="trms">interact
descriptions of the affordances of indissoluble ="trms">instrument / ="trms">world complexes are at stake

then how can we think magic/knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge/="trms">science without ="trms">instrumentalization (‘something in order to’)='qstn'>?


='thdf'>the notion of ‘="trms">world’ and ‘="trms">worlding’ in other Hollywood sci-fi franchises, and the way a ="trms">world (='thdf'>for example survival in Mars in ‘The Martian,’ surviving “outer space” in ‘Gravity,’ “pure ="trms">wonder” and “="trms">abyssal unknown” in many Icarusian space exploration moves and movies, the deprived Earth in ‘="trms">Interstellar,’ and so on) is rendered dead or d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous or prosperous, ideologies of ="trms">anthropocentric extensionalism.

="large lg50" stl="font-size:105%"> (this directly concerns my ="nms">ajayeb ="nms">apass research about the ="trms">past, because hollywood constantly making ="trms">science ="trms">fictions about the ="trms">past.)

='lgc'>[as much as Matt Damon is ="trms">schizo-constructing a ="trms">social environment (on “dead” Mars trying to contact “home”), ="nms">Cinderella's ="trms">schizo-="trms">affective ="trms">relation with the talking ="trms">animals is doing the same='lgc'>: talking back to a ="trms">world that talks to her, where Matt is only able to talk to home station. I think we have better chances with ="nms">Cinderella's kind of split personality.='lgc'>]


="trms">Modernity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “Project of Enlightenment” ='lgc'>: ="trms">religion ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">science ='lgc'>+ morality ='lgc'>+ art ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->  objective ="trms">science ='lgc'>+ universal morality ='lgc'>+ law  ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----='lgc'>{each with its own “inner logic"='lgc'>}
(="ppl">Luhmann; ="trms">transition to ="trms">modern='lgc'>:) stratified and hierarchical organization ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “functionally ="trms">differentiated” organization
(project of ="trms">modernity requires) a universally assumed but nowhere concretely localizable life="trms">world='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges)
="trms">modern person ='lgc'>: the self-fulfilling and self-justifying observing subject

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(="ppl">Freud's) ego='lgc'>: the record of abandoned object cathexes
(cathexes ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= electrical charge; the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object)

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(15.02.2017) three objects from ="nms">apass='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-="trms">complaint
="prgrph">-evidence
="prgrph">-monologue


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on futurity; in SF capital (Mark Fisher) the information (somewhere between cybernetic futurism and “New Economy”) is a direct generator of economic value ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ‘the information about the future’ circulates as as increasingly important commodity='strcls'>* (="ppl">Eshun)

SF='lgc'>: engineering feedback between its preferred future and its becoming ="trms">present ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> future ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> manufacturing tools capable of ="trms">intervention (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? disruption; the Sun Ra, character in the movie The Place is The Space, disrupts when he enters the youth ="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">club.)

='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Ale ='lgc'>--her='lgc'>='lgc'>--> predatory features/futures ='lgc'>: (a space for researching='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>] dimensions of) anticipatory designs, projects of emulation, manipulation, parasitism, ="trms">interpellation into a b="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right corporate tomorrow ='lgc'><='lgc'>== faces smiling at screens (='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? a bitter ="trms">joke)
="prgrph">-in her criticism of “eurocentrism” how are afrofuturism and arabfuturism located='qstn'>? (curatorial) let's invite them as her allies in Hansaring Studio.

counter="trms">memorial mediated practices

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خودشیفتگی khodshiftegi='lgc'>:
='lgc'>[="trms">narcissistic personality disorder='lgc'>]
(exaggerated feeling of) self-importance, self-absorbed, self-perception of being unique, ="trms">situated within self-="trms">presentation, sense of entitlement حق به جانب and self-centeredness schema
adult ="trms">neurotic's sense of omnipotence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> relic of the old megalomania of infancy (='lgc'>~ all ="trms">paranoic disorders) (='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> hurt with denial)

(="ppl">Freud's) primal state='lgc'>: ='lgc'>{id ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ego ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= external ="trms">world='lgc'>}='lgc'>--(not ="trms">differentiated)
one could not lay hold of oneself as other ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">narcissism expires
(="ppl">Lacan's) ego='lgc'> = another ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the specular ego (in the mirror ="trms">stage) ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">narcissistic
(‘='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=’ ='lgc'>: ="trms">erotic attraction or aggressive tension)

="ppl">Nietzsche='lgc'>: the utterance “I am ugly” created “the beautiful”
='lgc'>[does this mean='lgc'>: “I am beautiful” created “the ugly” (in the other and ="trms">world)='qstn'>?='lgc'>]


="trms">sublimation is passion transformed
or, object displacement, transformation of instincts,
a desuxualization (from primary to secondary ="trms">narcissism) (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what is ="frds scrmbld">Aela's “thirst for knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge”='qstn'>?)='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> un="trms">folding into (="trms">differentiated elements of a oneness of) instinctual-spiritual experience. (="frds scrmbld">Aela's) ‘oneness’ ='lgc'>[an o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal unity ='lgc'>+ one hidden and defended against='lgc'>] stays alive as connection='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">question of desire for ="frds scrmbld">Aela is about this hidden linkage.
='lgc'>[="trms">transitional objects, play, modifications of the pleasure principle, genital function,='lgc'>]
,
(noted by ="ppl">="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian ="ppl">Hubert='lgc'>: for ="ppl">Loewald='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*="trms">eroticism is genuine ="trms">sublimation='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: a reconciliation in the area of ego development and of ="trms">internalization. (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Aela)
="prgrph">-de="trms">sublimation (of reason='qstn'>?)
objective of sexuality conceptual transformation into Eros ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (asking ="frds scrmbld">Aela with ="ppl">Marcuse='lgc'>:) what is the non-repressive ="trms">sublimation of the resexualized body='qstn'>? (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">neurotic reactivation of ="trms">narcissistic libido)
why Eros is so powerful='qstn'>? what kind of ="trms">sublimation is the culture-building power of Eros='qstn'>?

in ="ppl">Derrida, ="trms">narcissism is the passage to the Other, and not necessarily merely a collapse into oneself.

auto-="trms">erotic solipsism

باطل کردن طلسم ضمیر the ego appears ='lgc'>[displaced elsewhere in the ="trms">world as an effect='lgc'>] as the result of primary ="trms">narcissism='qstn'>?
(batel kardan-e telesm-e zamir) dispulsion of ego
='strcls'>*ego forms in the ="trms">world='strcls'>* (="ppl">Lippit)

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the ego in the island, finding footprints of the others
(="ppl">Freudian protocols of existence='lgc'>:) there is no ="trms">world, there is only islands. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> multiplicity of isolations ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> individuation

“In ="trms">narcissism the ego disappears from the ="trms">world and reappears in the ="trms">imaginary realm of invisible ="trms">interiority.” (="ppl">Lippit)

='lgc'>{the ="trms">erotic attachment to outside objects='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>--="trms">pervert ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">narcissist='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{withdraw, calls it “instinct for self preservation"='lgc'>} (a shortcut='lgc'>: my way of undering my own ="trms">narcissistic tendencies has been through ="trms">perversity.)

='lgc'>[for ="frds scrmbld">Juan:='lgc'>] (artistic) ="trms">narcissism ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? fossilization (='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>->='qstn'>? ="trms">mimesis)

='strcls'>*="trms">mimesis='strcls'>* is not about form
in order to re="trms">present the character of the ="trms">supposed ‘word’ of another
="trms">mimesis ='lgc'>+ ="trms">techne ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= copy (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Juan)

diegesis ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="trms">mimesis
(telling) ='lgc'>-- (showing)
(recounted) ='lgc'>-- (enacted)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">poiesis _////(actually a useful and necessary ="trms">difference, synthesized by the ="trms">Greeks='lgc'>--="ppl">Plato and ="ppl">Aristotle)
(...and what about the ="trms">question of the medium='qstn'>?)

='strcls'>*="frds scrmbld">Juan's ="trms">relationship with the (in)dependency of the individuated self of the artist='lgc'>--in this case himself='lgc'>--by means of ="trms">mimetic ="trms">techne is to overcome the visual artist's ="trms">narcissism='qstn'>?

(="frds scrmbld">Pierre='lgc'>:) being alone ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">mimesis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> through ="trms">mimetic ="trms">intra-acting with the other
(="frds">Sina='lgc'>: there is no “being alone” only ‘feeling lonely’ which is itself a form of ="trms">intra-acting ='lgc'>: ="trms">internalizing an external ="trms">phenomena. “loneliness” is a belief that one has.)

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="trms">narcissism as a ="trms">mimetic and performative mode
transindividual ="trms">narcissism ='lgc'>--Maitra='lgc'>='lgc'>--> movement of the subject beyond ethnicity (ethnic formations that the bio-political processes of ="trms">interpellation ="trms">demand of the subject)
remediation of ethnic ="trms">narcissism

='lgc'>[Maitra's queer diasporic ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading practice of='lgc'>] (in diaspora media theory) performing an identity (that is “="nms">Iranian” for example)

='strcls'>*="trms">intermedia='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= multimedia='lgc'>: fuse disparate media)
frictions between ="trms">different media
conceptual ="trms">interplay between media
space of alchemical transformation
(at the level of) conflict of ="trms">interpretations
radical understanding of ="trms">interdisciplinarity

="large lg38" stl="font-size:129%"> diaspora='lgc'>: no longer having a clear answer to “where are you from='qstn'>?”

what might we learn from ="trms">narcissism (from ="trms">mimesis)='qstn'>?
mediate and fracture the ="trms">writing of the self

wound='lgc'>: disconnected event
not adding up to a comprehensive ="trms">narrative of the ethnic self

='strcls'>*ego-under-construction='strcls'>*
="ppl">Freud's primary ="trms">narcissism, we ="trms">love ourselves before ="trms">loving others
(for the ="trms">child) ="trms">narcissism='lgc'> = ="trms">intermediate
(secondary) ="trms">narcissism='lgc'>: the processes by which the distinction between the ego and external object is lost
(="ppl">Lacan) loss of distinction between the ego and its reflection in the mirror
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">narcissism helps the infant in trying to distinguish himself from the mother/other

="trms">narcissism beyond infantile sexuality ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="trms">narcissism='lgc'>: structure (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= state) ='lgc'><='lgc'>== when the burden of desire on the subject becomes intolerable

(='qstn'>?what are new structures of) artistic ="trms">narcissism
='strcls'>*an occasion to ="trms">erotisize your own body='strcls'>*
to ="trms">erotically emphasize a particular ="trms">memory
stitching together of the naked ethnic body

hupersexuality
...those who are undersexed

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='prcnt'>%note on ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice's workshop='lgc'>:
how ='thdf'>the idea of ="trms">mimesis came when we were not sure what she meant by “make note.” the signifier of “note” defined itself in a collective ="trms">mimetic semi-conscious way.
(='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ='mywrk'>my work on how signifiers transmit and transform ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> parasitism, ="trms">rumorology, etc. ... weaker neighborhoods of thought)

="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice's notions='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•explosion ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dance
="lsts lst1">•the “generative” notion in her discourse (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> notion of “active,” and “conscious intentionality” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a property of human ="trms">agency and ="trms">agential exceptionality. (the metric of) her work/workshop distinguishes the self-aware active entity from non-="trms">communicative receptive entity, ='strcls'>***="trms">intransitive ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">transitive='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{her privileged object='lgc'>}, and that distinction is not useful for me ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right now='lgc'>])
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">authority of the ="trms">trope “practice” for ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice
(what would be a non="trms">mimetic understanding of eachother='qstn'>? ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Juan)
="lsts lst1">•the workshop was not her ‘thinking’ or ‘making’ in process or an open ="trms">question or a not-knowing, rather the workshop was based on her (finished) ‘notions,’ with her ‘indisputables,’ her ‘="trms">literal’ objects; (dance, active, body, ="trms">imagination, practice, generative, creative, etc.)
="lsts lst1">•production of the “I” in her work; (a nasty side-effect='lgc'>: collateral individuation) (when were the moments in the workshop that an ="trms">interesting “we” was created and for whom='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst1">•the problematic ="trms">difference between ‘="trms">literal’ and ‘="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical’ at the footing of her thinking (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my whole ="nms">apass research is about this)
="lsts lst1">•(artist's) ="trms">imagination as a magic wand that can transform things

='strcls'>*what helped me was ='thdf'>the idea of thinking with a ‘dormant ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor’ (in my own work) and ‘activate’ it, in a way that the problems and pleasures of thinking with that ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor is felt. by ‘dormant ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor’ what i mean is an operative word that one is using often and is left un="trms">interrogated. ='thdf'>for example the problems of “landscape” as a particular ="trms">ontological tool for me became apparent only after i committed myself to that ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor in the course of the ="trms">interview with ="frds scrmbld">Pierre and ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice. to stay with a ="trms">story, to live its contra="trms">dictions. (and the ="trms">position of it in a sentence)
="lsts lst1">•“it was ‘landscape’ talking; not me!”
="lsts lst1">•why i was seeing ="nms">Tehran as the ‘ghostly landscape’='qstn'>? (="trms">matter of a confrontation with ="nms">Tehran='qstn'>? exteriority of my subjecthood is at stake='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>->!='qstn'>? the arbitrary ="trms">position of “genius loci” ='lgc'>: that from a genius ="trms">position one can see for good. -how to make myself nonarbitrary='lgc'>--not subject to individual determination='lgc'>--in ="trms">relation to ="nms">Tehran='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> towards ‘="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge’)
="lsts lst1">•what kind of ="trms">material-discursive practices thinking with “landscape” committed me to='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[to explore and feel this commitment (and its consequences) is ‘staying with the trouble’ for me='lgc'>]

it felt like ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice believes that people, we, have control over our ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors, but in the course of the workshop there were many occasions that was not the case='lgc'>:
="frds">Sina, landscape ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> optics
="frds scrmbld">Esta, building/house ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">geometry ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> security
="frds scrmbld">Agnes, super="trms">market ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exchange
="frds scrmbld">Juan, crime ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> arrest
="frds scrmbld">Zoumana, garden (='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> fecundity) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> immunity
="frds scrmbld">Eszter, electronic device ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> closed
="frds scrmbld">Ekaterina, ="trms">zoo ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> objects of care (='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> ="trms">animal ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= diseased .='lgc'>='lgc'>--> objectifying or babying them)


='strcls'>* landscape ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='qstn'>? optic ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? way of dis="trms">embodied seeing
='lgc'>[artificial perspective ='lgc'>{='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (objects are in) proportional variations in a seamless continuum='lgc'>}, gaze of the ="trms">spectator, exterior space, homogeneous, in="trms">finite, ="trms">systematic,='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (this is all) ='strcls'>*="trms">symbolic form='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[(tele/micro)scope ='lgc'><='lgc'>==='lgc'>] landscape ='lgc'><='lgc'>== perspective ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- arbitrary point of the observer

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(="ppl">Descola='lgc'>:) such “objectification of the subjective” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
(1) a distance between man and the ="trms">world
(2) ="trms">systematizes and stabilizes the external universe



="large lg10" stl="font-size:123%"> ='strcls'>***factuality is not intrinsic, it is ="trms">rhetoric (that we live with)

="trms">history of ='thdf'>the idea of ="trms">nature

‘="nms">ajayeb's architects of a ="trms">natura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic ="trms">cosmology who establish hierarchies and discontinuities among them ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">cosmogenesis of ="trms">modernity's subjectivity's illusions of continuity
='lgc'>[="ppl">Descola's “con="trms">figurations of continuity"='lgc'>]
(="nms">ajayeb creates) hierarchical order ="trms">according to the levels of the exchange of information that is reputed to be possible.
="prgrph">-which parties are set on the same level of reality (in ="nms">ajayeb)='qstn'>?

(what are the human and nonhuman) proliferation of forms in ="nms">ajayeb (='qstn'>?)
who are the “mothers of games” there='qstn'>? snake, Div, etc. (spirits that protect the game)

="trms">technical know-how to create ="trms">intersubjective ambience/ambivalence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> regulated ="trms">relations between one person and another ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--these are='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cultivated plots
how can i, starting with ="nms">apass, learn to create theaters of a subtle ="trms">sociability (in which beings with ="trms">different forms of ="trms">language and physical aspect are ="trms">ontologically indistinguishable)='qstn'>?

the ="trms">category of “persons”='lgc'>: variations in the modes of ="trms">communication that are made possible by an apprehension of perceived qualities that are unequally distributed

whose dialects are ="trms">mutually intelligible='qstn'>?

human ="trms">narcissism ='lgc'>: that if a being possess a soul is only then capable of recognizing humans
='lgc'>='lgc'>---then let's give everyone souls!

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(="ppl">Massumi > ="ppl">Deleuze's) critique ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= modulation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> actively modulated from within the ="trms">situation, immanent to it ='lgc'>{
="prgrph">-augmenting='strcls'>* (taking a certain tendency to the limit)
="prgrph">-diverting='strcls'>* (deflecting it into a ="trms">different tendency)
="prgrph">-transmutational='strcls'>* (="trms">interacting with other tendencies in a way that invents a whole new direction as a kind of surplus value of ="trms">interaction)
="prgrph">-or, it can lead to a clash that stops the process

asking people “to be true to what they re="trms">present” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> having them “encapsulated in al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready arrived-at opinion and judgment” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> blockage

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being (re="trms">presented and) legitimated in proxy war

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='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Zoumana; “decadent gardener” that connot keep distinction between kin and pest, ="trms">nature and culture
what is a garden full of indirections, snakes='qstn'>?

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='at'>#my ="trms">trope-findings, (bi="trms">lingual non="trms">systematic comparative thinking for ="trms">storytelling) (work with ="ppl">Avital='qstn'>?)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•پیر ="nms">Pir / sujet ="trms">supposé savoir (='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? پیر فلک ="nms">Pir-e falak in ="ppl">Hafez)
="lsts lst1">•غر Ghor / ="trms">complaint (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shekayat شکایت, and then, khamush خموش in ="ppl">Hafez)
="lsts lst1">•تعارف ="nms">Tarof / ="trms">greeting
="lsts lst1">•transcend ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> darajat درجات‌ (='lgc'>-> ="ppl">Attar)
="lsts lst1">•super-ego ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Div-mardom دیو مردم (='lgc'>-> ="ppl">Nezami)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">NatureZolmat (ظلمت ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">ajayeb)
="lsts lst1">•آبرو Aberu / economy of value
="lsts lst1">•طی‌الارض tey-ol-arz / body scale, intensity and ="trms">excess
="lsts lst1">•نگرانی negarani ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> practices of care




on Aberu, I became ="trms">interested due to my lack of Aberu in ="trms">presentationl quality and its abundance in other area's of my psychosomatic becoming.
Aberu ="trms">traverses, calls itself in, animates, and exists for later visits.
="prgrph">-when you are devalued by the marked of bi-aberu, you are less tied to the strictures of shame, and ‘your behavior’ becomes performance ="trms">material


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="trms">agency ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? boresh برش, jahd جهد (in ="trms">Farsi), “="trms">agential cut enacts a local ="trms">causal structure” (="ppl">="ppl">Barad)

="trms">agency of ‘hemat’ همّت
hemate shahi همّت شاهی, lavazeme hemat لوازم همّت ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">apparatus
sufi's hemat ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= magic

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='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Seba after accelerate manifesto ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading='lgc'>: (what is and how can we not pivot on our work) the ="trms">measure of the meaningfulness of action. (="frds scrmbld">Seba's notion of losing hope is because he put himself unconsciously in a cost-benefit analysis='qstn'>? “what is the effect of my actions='qstn'>?”) ='lgc'>[in practice it is difficult to ="trms">embody speculative thinking. we are still in the space of thinking in terms of the probable.='lgc'>]
to do hope-work is about ‘not talking (too much) about the future’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= commitment in terms of probabilities, refusal to treat your subjects as if they were objects of management ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> let's set aside our own hopes, and work to honour the ='strcls'>**hopefulness of others='strcls'>** (="ppl">Deborah ="ppl">Rose)

“And hope is here, all around us. Creatures want to live.” (not in the “future”)

the accelerationists putting things in their cascade of fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures, (everything sinks effortlessly into it,) and creating a vanishing point in terms of a western saturated temporality. for them the ="trms">present is the time of announcing the news of salvation or apocalypse, and has no ="trms">thickness. (the desire) to step out of ="trms">history, and is made void in the process of realization, ='thdf'>the idea that “everything is possible.” they experience their freedom as universal freedom ='strcls'>* (noted by ="ppl">Blanchot.) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the problem with all male action heroes...='lgc'>]

(is this a kind of “game-over” discourse='qstn'>?)

='strcls'>*time (thinking with ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway)
the sequential ="trms">palindromic time (in Western-related cultures) ='lgc'>[جناس قلب ="trms">palindrome='lgc'>: from the ="trms">Greek roots ="trms">palin “again” and dromos “way, direction”; a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters which ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads the same backward as forward; (un)parsable ="trms">palindromic motifs;='lgc'>]
there are many ="trms">sorts of temporalities in West, but the most ="trms">naturalized and intuitive, ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready-to-hand (and black-boxed) version of it is the “="trms">past, ="trms">present, future.” ='thdf'>the notion of ‘="trms">present’ becomes a (mathematical) vanishing point, a pivot or a point rather than itself a ="trms">thickness, an inaccessible ="trms">past being transmuted into a future that is always to come. ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= the lived time of the flesh='lgc'>]

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what counts as a ="trms">responsible person in temporality='qstn'>? (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Seba, ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Pierre's “future”)
in ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb in ="nms">apass, i choose to give account to ="trms">responsibility in a way ='strcls'>*to face those who come before rather than to face the future='strcls'>*, this is about a switch in the direction of attention.
="lsts lst1">•="trms">narratable ="trms">memory with named people turned to ="trms">ancestors and moved into dreaming time
="lsts lst1">•="trms">past='lgc'>: quiet country ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bear the mark of the care of generation, inhabits both living and dying ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> recuperation (behbud بهبود, ramagh رمق)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">present='lgc'>: ="trms">wilderness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ongoingness (="trms">thickened with creatures)

='lgc'>[in (my ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading='qstn'>?) ="nms">ajayeb's temporality='lgc'>] things come from the ="trms">past and the future ="trms">simultaneously


what i ="trms">respond to='lgc'> = what i in="trms">herit


="trms">science (in the way that is ="trms">presented) is outside ="trms">history, and becomes simply that which is “the case” of the ="trms">world
='strcls'>**everything that one does is inside time, but that which is acquired (becomes a view ="trms">onto a s="trms">cene) and is outside of time='strcls'>**

='strcls'>***(d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous) ways of being outside of the time of the ="trms">thick ="trms">present='strcls'>*** (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway)
‘-s="trms">cene’='lgc'>: a ="trms">thick ="trms">presence of now, has many durations in it

(='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">past tense trans-="trms">species affair) is about those with whom one must get on together, in the enacting of ="trms">responsibility for those who came before. how not to exit time='qstn'>? (= “staying with the trouble”)

trans-="trms">species affair then and now

(in our) multi-dimensional inhabiting of space with critters (you can't only talk about capital, land, labor without having a multi="trms">species affair)


="ppl">Badiou's points on accelerate='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•unifying us around negativity
="lsts lst1">•future of western ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•="trms">question of private property ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> key of soical organization


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='at'>#work on video series (with='qstn'>? ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian, ="frds scrmbld">Esta,)
messy short videos (for youtube or other places)
="lstsrd">1. critique of magic in cinema
="lstsrd">2. re="trms">presentation of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in cinema
="lstsrd">3.
to perform ="trms">past and ="trms">present alarmingly ="trms">simultaneously, to ="trms">intermix the directions of ="trms">causation and influence, they cannot be linear and progressive, against a production of ="trms">present ='lgc'>[="trms">presentism='lgc'>]



='at'>#create identity research center for/with ='mywrk'>my work
="lstsrd">1. ="nms">harem (حرم)
="lstsrd">2. ="nms">ajayeb (عجایب)
="lstsrd">3. wortsalad
="lstsrd">4. erklammern (with ="frds scrmbld">Foad)
="lstsrd">5. san'at-e mojarad-sazi (صنعت مجردسازی with ="frds scrmbld">Foad)
="lstsrd">6. garden (باغ)
="lstsrd">7.

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='at'>#what am i learning from Hiwa's Chicago Boys project='qstn'>?
="trms">history, recent region departures, study group, music, jam, more and more people together with their voices and ="trms">stories, faces, sing, play, discomfort in ="trms">instrument, tour, collectivity, sojourn in ="trms">stage, conviviality, cover song,
="prgrph">-when i look at the videos of the project i feel like i want to do or be part of something like that, i want those qualities, i want the way people are looking and feeling like there.

='at'>#i am learning from ="ppl">Kohn that the survival is complicated, from ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway that ="trms">world works by ="trms">excess and therefore filled with hope, with ="ppl">Sennett and ="ppl">Delanda a better account of ="trms">socio-="trms">material ="trms">history, from ="ppl">Ahmed a ="trms">different understanding of psychoanalysis, from ="ppl">="ppl">Barad ="trms">poetry and argumentation, from ="ppl">Scher the effort needed to become ="trms">interested, from ="ppl">="ppl">Kenney that there is no need for a “standard ="trms">language” to describe your ="trms">interventions or to produce a body of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge about your ="trms">matters of concern,

(this is one place that i am recognizing and foregrounding a binary structure='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•women in my life='lgc'>: ="ppl">Avital, ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway, ="ppl">Ahmed, ="ppl">Scher, ="ppl">="ppl">Barad, ="ppl">="ppl">Despret, teaching me ="trms">science and art, attentive modes of ="trms">differential ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading and ="trms">writing, practices of care and concern
="lsts lst1">•men in my life='lgc'>: ="ppl">Serres, ="ppl">Sennett, ="ppl">Delanda, ="ppl">Levinas, ="ppl">Anand, teaching me a non-guilt-driven knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of ="trms">history and ="trms">past, a ="trms">different mode of re="trms">membrance which provokes a ="trms">different mode of ="trms">response and ="trms">responsibility


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alive ='lgc'>--='lgc'>[='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dead ='lgc'>--='lgc'>[='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ancestor

what provokes ="trms">storytelling='qstn'>?

(="ppl">="ppl">Harawayian) inhabiting ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">responsibility ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> alignment

(a split-self at home with) contra="trms">dictions ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> dealing with ="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this is about ‘ongoing’

note to self='lgc'>: not to throw away the contaminated concept that we have, (='thdf'>for example ‘human intentionality,’ ‘human ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights,’ etc) ='strcls'>*but to hold on (while knowing how contaminated it is) to any concept (which are always unsettled) until it gets a particular (="trms">situated) job done
(which job i am try to get done with my good and bad concepts='qstn'>?)

where are we headed with our syntax='qstn'>?

“-s="trms">cene” ='lgc'>: the ‘now’ of the ="trms">species ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pleisto="trms">cene image='lgc'>] also, a sharp change in the graph/diagram ='lgc'>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Extinction_intensity.svg='lgc'>]

="ppl">Sa'di, thinking not with the capital T, rather with the flower, with the cut tail of the animaux

competency ='lgc'>+ competency (of ="trms">different ="trms">animal, human, machine, pigeon, etc) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= subtraction, taboo, ="trms">obligation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> deficiency='strcls'>*='lgc'>]
(additive competencies)

“="trms">excess” is the name of the ="trms">world
there is always more that we don't know; what yet has to come; the ="trms">world is constantly doing stuff; (='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> accelerate manifesto, apocalyptic ="trms">narratives)
(i am drawn to and by ="trms">excess, and i am engaged in it='lgc'>: in my ="trms">lectures, talkings, ="trms">writings, and I take it up also visually in my drawings. my ="nms">ajayeb hypertext search is ="trms">contingent and opportunistic, and its se="trms"nttrm="search">arches are non-="trms">systematic)

in ="nms">apass what my project is all about='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*="trms">loving to tell you about what i am ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading='strcls'>* (why it seams too difficult, complicated and impossible to understand!='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-“to provides a feast of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading pleasures”

holding each other's unasked-for patterns (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Luisa)
taking up each other patterns ='lgc'>[which are sometimes obvious, sometimes cryptic='lgc'>]
(what is the other name of the practices of “string figures” in ="nms">Iran='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>[stars, facts, ="trms">fabulations, “far”s, patternings,='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> all ="trms">cosmopolitical, ="trms">composes the “we”)

="lsts lst1">•a “we” com="trms">positional
="lsts lst1">•an “="nms">ajayeb” com="trms">positional
="lsts lst1">•

="trms">anthropo="trms">cene ="trms">system thinking
="lsts lst1">•feedback loops
="lsts lst1">•thermodynamics ='and'>& 18th century mathematics (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= hyperbolic mathematics in ‘crochet’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">excess of surface, ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">story of ="trms">interface)
="lsts lst1">•comparative ="trms">interpretive thinking (a dominant western model of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge production='lgc'>--which i am using!)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">modern synthesis='lgc'>: restrictive ="trms">system theories within evolutionary theories
="lsts lst1">•="trms">systems idea
="lsts lst1">•
='strcls'>*“The global scale takes precedence='lgc'>--because it is the scale of the model.”='strcls'>* ="ppl">Tsing

='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
Bi="trms">lingual ="trms">Stories for Ajayeb ="trms">NatureCultures
(...="trms">stories ‘for’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ...="trms">stories ‘of’)

does Brexit and Trumplandia changes the landscape of English use as a ="trms">language='qstn'>?

the image of pedagogy ='lgc'>: ="trms">semiotic ="trms">apparatus (& ="trms">technological) (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ritual of Simpson strangling Bart)


(why am i cultivating the) ='strcls'>*non-inventive ="trms">imagination='strcls'>* (and its anti="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metabole ='lgc'>[or chiasmus, chiastic patterns of antithesis='lgc'>]='lgc'>: non-="trms">imaginitive invention)
often we find ourselves inventing everything (in political animation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= to figure out what are we attached to

(in="trms">heriting something ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? being heir to something)

the ="trms">scientist inside me begs me to narrow my temporal scale, choose an epoch, let's say middle ages, choose a century let's say 15th, choose a year, choose a day, a moment, a micro-second slice of the cake of the milieu that you are ="trms">interested in, the instance in the bazar with Halaj in the sun and so on.

(my old school) ="trms">obligatory knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- salon of ="trms">scietific entertainment
='lgc'>}='lgc'>-> (is about creating) proper witness='strcls'>***

the ="trms">tropes i am building in my current research, do they help build a better ="nms">Iran='qstn'>? and how='qstn'>?
="trms">interms of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•an ="trms">ongoingness
="lsts lst1">•a commitment to a recent future thinking

‘homo-’='lgc'>: stuff of the soil, that figures of b="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right and sunny image of the same

='at'>#="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs and ="trms">syms='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•games
="lsts lst1">•="trms">technological designs
="lsts lst1">•plots
="lsts lst1">•mechanisms
="lsts lst1">•sfs
="lsts lst1">•="trms">jokes
="lsts lst1">•="trms">jests
="lsts lst1">•

='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
critical ="trms">bestiaries
critique-="trms">bestiary

belonging='lgc'> = achievement (dastavard دستاورد) ='lgc'>+ violence (khoshunat خشونت)

...the ways we renounce the ="trms">world through the use of the word “real” and “really”

(="ppl">="ppl">Stengers='lgc'>:) weaving='lgc'>: not secular nor ="trms">religious, not traditional nor ="trms">modern, is ="trms">sensuous


='at'>#='lgc'>[nodes and notes='lgc'>]

the emptyland, terrestrial life, ‘per-’ instead of ‘her’ or ‘his’
="prgrph">-the way i started with ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway was through the way i ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read her notion of ‘critter,’ juju (جوجو) in ="trms">Farsi, jako junevar (جک جونور), little life animators often easy and ok to kill, a term in ="trms">farsi for kids that ="trms">worlds for them in particular ways
bio (“qualified life”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= zoe, juju, “bare life” (="ppl">Agamben)='lgc'>: that which is killable ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?!='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that which must be transformed
='lgc'>[="trms">stories of o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginary ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion and com="trms">position of body='lgc'>]

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the form and function are having too tight fit. no no no!
(cities) being in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive but not ="trms">integrative

(setar ="trms">different ="trms">technique of vibrato and ="trms">measure for instance in Saba and Ghavami, which part of the finger or body, one works in certain way for one and not for the other musician ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the explicit unpacking of the activity ='lgc'>: what was formerly tacit ='lgc'>[zemni, khamush, ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= habit='lgc'>] becomes dr="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged into explicit ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= expressive='lgc'>] consciousness, precisely because there is a resistance, that there is something not ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right for the musician ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> reconsidering, reexploring ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">technique then again disappears into the tacit realm ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">technique becomes variegated)
='strcls'>**tacit ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> explicit (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= that which becomes available for reconsideration)='strcls'>**

when one masters a ="trms">skill it is about being ="trms">="trms">equipped to address a whole new set of problems
='lgc'>{expertise/mastery='lgc'>: problem solving='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=='lgc'>{="trms">craft='lgc'>: problem finding='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> when other things become problematic='lgc'>='lgc'>---the condition (in the ="trms">craft work) that when you learn how to do one thing you see other things that need to be explored ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-> ="trms">question for ="frds scrmbld">Eunkyung's drawing ="trms">skills and practice='lgc'>]

='strcls'>*="trms">craft is more important than art(='qstn'>?) (="ppl">Sennett)
...='thdf'>the notion that the work art breaks the conventions of practice, that it is something that makes an ="trms">epistemic break. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> emphasis on innovation (something new)='lgc'>--that is a reflection of ="trms">sort of 19th century bourgeois ideas of about making art.
="lsts lst1">•privileging the creative act over the ="trms">craftsman act
="lsts lst1">•in innovation the “innovator” is separated from the “mass” ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">craftsmanship is collective and additive ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (in ="trms">craftsmanship) the performance is myself
="lsts lst1">•creativity being a form of individuation or separation (='at'>@the exploratory shift in ="frds scrmbld">Eunkyung's work that ="frds scrmbld">Pierre highlighted)

='strcls'>*** ="trms">craft-work is about additive ="trms">skill; it is about building on what you know rather than throwing it out ='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list logic of progress, creativity in the sense that ‘something’ where before was ‘nothing’) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">different way of building quality (into practices and objects)

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="ppl">Bakhtin's dialogic, to become a ="trms">skilled ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listener ='lgc'>: ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening='lgc'> = ="trms">response (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= simply answering) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (when we speak) we give other people talismans that are not (perfectly) clear to us='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----we penetrate and unpack what someone doesn't have the words clearly and ="trms">response to what they intend ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “common understanding,” “make something work,”

cooperation is about getting deeper into something

conditions that more ="trms">skills are required (and not the op="trms">posite)

in ="trms">modernity everything seams to need to be ="trms">verbalized. what happens to the un="trms">verbalized, the unprogrammatic='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> can you have an implicit ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right which can't be ="trms">verbalized='qstn'>? maybe no, maybe this is the limit of the ="trms">social...

purposiveness='lgc'>: when you hear somebody go “i am going to put clearly what we all want...” you have submitted to that person (almost ="trms">erotic) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “they really know who they are” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> you become a ="trms">spectator to their de="trms">finiteness

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who the fuck='lgc'> = theology
how the fuck='lgc'> = ="trms">="trms">empiricism
what the fuck='lgc'> = ="trms">ontology
how the what the fuck='lgc'> = ="trms">epistemology
why what the fuck='lgc'> = ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics
why the fuck='lgc'> = ethics
why give a fuck='lgc'> = teleology
the fuck itself='lgc'> = ="trms">phenomenology
fucked up='lgc'> = pathology
fuck all='lgc'> = nihilism

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="frds scrmbld">Aela to ="frds scrmbld">Sven='lgc'>: “everytime you disappoint me you gain in depth” (5 April 2017)

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(06.04.2017) ='prcnt'>%notes after my ="nms">apass endweek ="trms">presentation='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•my implicit focus and energy on the body and its organs of ="trms">gesture that animates us
="lsts lst1">•="trms">loving telling you what i ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read
="lsts lst1">•giving you what i don't fully understand ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= gift from above
="lsts lst1">•(in ="trms">lecture) to allow ="trms">language ="trms">greet the un="trms">verbalized

="large lg34" stl="font-size:130%"> (it is about) organizing my ="trms">memory
(it is about) that which comes to (my) mind, and “things” coming to minds
(it is about) the things I am told
__='lgc'>[these are perhaps other names of cognition, ="trms">affect, ="trms">memory, ="trms">semiotics, ="trms">history, in="trms">heritance, ="trms">figuration, ="trms">interface, thing-="trms">relations, huntology,='lgc'>]
__in our shared space where we let eachother in the effect of our ="trms">languages, I want to practice what comes to mind when I stand in front of you and your work, ask myself ‘what else’ comes to mind='qstn'>? in a sense, my project on ="nms">ajayeb is that kind of training

also in ="nms">apass i want “to catch you in your acts”
it is my privilege to recognize you (as...)

asking='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- what do I know='qstn'>?
="lstsrd">2- what am I told='qstn'>?
="lstsrd">3- (how getting good at to) explain what somebody else said

="lstsrd">1- the first ="trms">question has no clear answer, what i know is not placed somewhere in me, it is always an ="trms">articulated ="trms">matter of ‘with’ or in ="trms">interaction with, it is a ="trms">sym, changes before i can grasp, knowing is done always with a figure or a thing, it in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes all ="trms">sorts of optics and ="trms">technologies, (="trms">affect theory, media theory, ="trms">epistemology,)
="lstsrd">2- the ="trms">response to the second ="trms">question is also not clear, i am not sure what i am told, i don't re="trms">member or hear, what i am told is in="trms">folded in what i know, (when i started with my islam ="trms">lecture series i was testing the waters of these two ="trms">questions and the possibility of staying with them without freaking out of ambiguity or ploting an answer)
3='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#cat's cradle


='at'>#on hypertext note='lgc'>:
i am becoming ="trms">skilled at looking at my notes='lgc'>:
='lgc'>{(1) what are the ='strcls'>*="trms">skills necessary='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= tabula rasa (of the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader, of the audience) of the ="trms">communo-capitalism's standard of “user-="trms">interface"='lgc'>--the strange idea that the ="trms">interaction and ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading doesn't need or must not need learned-efforts or ="trms">skills, that it should be “easy” and “effortless” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fallacy of the un="trms">skilled ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listener.='lgc'>] to engage, ="trms">interact, and get involved with the ="trms">interface, ="trms">data-set, grammar, and ="trms">literacy of (my) reservoir='qstn'>? ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>** let's ask that ="trms">question with every ="trms">apparatus that engages us into desire, movement, ="trms">articulation, ...
="trms">skills ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to become ‘="trms">literate’ in this particular way ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes this ="trms">situated ="trms">literacy and ="trms">skills of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading particular to the object of “text” (in that case how do i address my ="trms">interest in the ="trms">pervert ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader='qstn'>? the ="trms">skills of the unlearning='strcls'>*)
the ="trms">skills necessary for ='mywrk'>my work to work comes with time, attention, and desire ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-='lgc'>=>='qstn'>? ='at'>#="nms">harem (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ladies room)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (2) this ="trms">skills of (my) reservoir, what set of ="trms">questions or problems ="trms">="trms">equip me to address='qstn'>?

varzidan, varz, varzide, ورزیده

="ppl">Sennett's ="trms">love for his subjects is extraordinary (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= iconoclasm, futurism) and it influences me deeply, his voice and care when he opens his reflection, findings, etc.

ok, again, the ‘="trms">skill’ ="trms">question='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•1='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what are the set of ="trms">skills needed for ='mywrk'>my work='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•2='lgc'>='lgc'>--> which problematics these ="trms">skills ="trms">="trms">equip me to address='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•3='lgc'>='lgc'>--> can i (or should i) not know these problematics in advance='qstn'>?

the bow and arrow ='lgc'>--|)='lgc'>-> ='heart'>♥ in my ="nms">apass endweek (as sound object) was a relic of our shared physical energetic space, the nondiscursive ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how to keep it in="trms">articulate='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•a way to record space, which is always ="trms">social ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= silenced with no ="trms">agency of the recorder (the “quiet recorder”)
="lsts lst1">•also a playful respective ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of ="ppl">La Guin, (something that may seem a misunderstanding of her carrier bag theory)
="lsts lst1">•carving out a practice agility area


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the ="trms">question ‘what does X mean='qstn'>?’ is always ‘what does X mean for you='qstn'>?’

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i am following the movement of certain words here

spam ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">internet

spam operates on/with patterns of ="trms">literacy or an existing (in)sufficiencies in known ="trms">categories of cognitive biases that people have

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='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
“it's your turn now to play”

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(='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Luisa on space,) (="trms">question of='lgc'>:) producing (your) ="trms">presence

="trms">material-discursive ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">semiotic-psychosis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> her Wortsalad

(="ppl">Bocola > ="ppl">Kohut > Mondrian's bipolar structure='lgc'>:)
creation of universal beauty / ="trms">aesthetic expression of oneself
(='lgc'>=='qstn'>?='lgc'>=> transcend the framework of artistic production)
exhibitionist pole of the self / idealized pole of the self
the grandiose self / the idealized structures
="trms">worldviews / self-images

what is the (diametric, dialectical) ="trms">internal drama of her thinking and work='qstn'>?
(what are='qstn'>?) ="frds scrmbld">Luisa's overarching, idealized conception that lays claim to the validity of her values and standards as applied not only to herself and environment but to the entire universe='lgc'>: (="trms">question of structure)
="lsts lst1">•(pre-babylonian) universal abstractionism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">embodied knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="lsts lst1">•fluid equilibrium ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> movement of Being
='lgc'>[is this a romantic structural attitude='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-and how is she confronted with ="trms">cosmos ="trms">prior to her inscriptions='qstn'>? (="trms">question of realism)
="prgrph">-what is (the mystery of) a ‘being through ="trms">interpretation’ for her='qstn'>? (="trms">question of performativity)

='lgc'>[rea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic:='lgc'>] to take possession of essential aspects of the external reality (='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> recreate them in the ="trms">imagination) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">="trms">empirical='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[structural:='lgc'>] to experience the external reality as parts of an ="trms">interconnected and comprehensive whole
='lgc'>[idea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic/="trms">symbo="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list:='lgc'>] to connect the (inner) particular to the general
='lgc'>[romantic:='lgc'>] to make (inner) invisible visible

="trms">sublimated gratification of instincts, ambitions and ideals, (homogeneous) ="trms">gestalt and expression of the self, ="trms">narcissistic equilibrium, test its viability, haptic art,

“invisible reality and the ="trms">aesthetics of universality” or a mean by which universal is recognized='strcls'>*
timelessness, wholesomeness, indivisibility, ="trms">aesthetic standards
="prgrph">-pictorial thinking, movement thinking, ="trms">affectual thinking, ='lgc'>{='lgc'>='lgc'>--> all issued by ='thdf'>the notion of “pure” and “purity”='qstn'>? tendency toward idealization='qstn'>? utopian='qstn'>?='lgc'>}

movement (the act) ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= mobility (the possibility)

(is ="frds scrmbld">Luisa ="trms">interested in='qstn'>?) the immanent laws and essential unity of all being

...step to complete nonobjectivity
...objects with their expression of plasticity
="prgrph">-what is the ="trms">symbolic term in her work='qstn'>?
she said='lgc'>: “space is ="trms">literal.” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the wholesome is proclaimed in the artistic act itself (and not as ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> experienced directly ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">imagined


='lgc'>='lgc'>--> احشايى the ="trms">viscera (ahsha), ="trms">visceral theory='lgc'>: ="trms">affect and ="trms">embodiment, transmissible physical charges, porous bodies,
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Luisa
kP_AfO7Ms4I

how to create a condition in which she can herself later give access to her thinking and making='qstn'>?
="lstsrd">1- propose a curatorial ="trms">gesture of an assembly='lgc'>: ="frds scrmbld">Luisa, Mondrian, Zen master, Malevich; with ="ppl">Bocola and ="ppl">Ahmed;
="lstsrd">2- to open an investigation of ="trms">affective economies for her='lgc'>: abstraction, constructivism, idealism, ="trms">figurative empathy, ="trms">symbolism, longing,
="lstsrd">3-
="lstsrd">4-

(psychoanalysis ='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Luisa='lgc'>] allows us to see that) ='strcls'>*emotionality involves movement='strcls'>*
as="trms">sociations whereby “feeling” take us across ="trms">different levels of signification, not all of which can be admitted in the ="trms">present. (='lgc'>+="ppl">Ahmed)
="prgrph">-emotions move back and forth (="trms">past as="trms">sociations, repression traces on ="trms">present) and sideways (sticky as="trms">sociations between figures and signs) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> something as the cause of a feeling in someone ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “involving ="trms">relationships of ='strcls'>*="trms">difference and displacement='strcls'>*='lgc'>{as the form or ="trms">language of the unconscious='lgc'>} without ="trms">positive value” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">affective economies ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{="trms">social, ="trms">material, psychic='lgc'>}

='lgc'>{ psychoanalysis='lgc'> = "absent ="trms">presence” of ="trms">historicity='lgc'>='lgc'>-->(sideways movement of feelings) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>==offers='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a theory of emotion as economy='strcls'>***
="prgrph">-by economy, ="ppl">Ahmed means, like capital (is about the movement of commodities and money='strcls'>*), an effect of its circulation (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Luisa)
="prgrph">-the subject is one nodal point in the economy ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= subject as its o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin and destination

='strcls'>**the movement between signs converts into ="trms">affect
feeling ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fetish commodity

in ="ppl">Freudian model, the movement between objects is ="trms">intrapsychic ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> trace of how ="trms">histories remain alive in the ="trms">present='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[regarding ="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">histories, ="trms">histories that “stick” and which does not need to be declared, ='at'>#fohshe heyuan/heyvan فحش حیوان/حیوون sideways movements...='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-(="nms">ajayeb's) ="trms">past ="trms">histories of naming

objects, the ="trms">author of emotions



(how) emotions align subjects

_“surfacing” of individual_

(="ppl">Ahmed sug="trms">gests that) emotions are not simply “within” nor “without” but that they create the very effect of the surfaces or boundaries of bodies and ="trms">worlds.

="trms">narrative='lgc'> = production of the ordinary


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