[...], colonialism, capitalism, ="trms">intervention,

what is shapping in these sites (="trms">science labors, ="trms">natural parks, pig and chicken farms, mobile phones, etc.) human-="trms">animal ="trms">relations (in their widely divergent kinds)='qstn'>?
(="trms">technology, ethics, welfare and politics in ="nms">Tehran)

the ways my mother thinks about the diffission of ="trms">animals’ bodily wastes beyond the bounds of their immediately ="trms">present='lgc'>: dog's poop, etc. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> spatial externality of ="trms">animals (='lgc'>--"they contaminate!”)

in the case of mobile phone ="trms">animal ="trms">meme, the human-="trms">animal ="trms">relation does not operates solely through the physical proximity of humans and ="trms">animals, but rather a wider geography, and ="trms">networks the ="trms">interiority of ="nms">Tehran domestic environments.
="prgrph">-as the house becomes cleaner, the public domain becomes more feral, and the ="trms">animal more contagious, and the proximity more virtual, and the cross-="trms">species ="trms">relationships and pictural,
="prgrph">-="trms">questions of the vital, the d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous, and the ="trms">wild (in ="nms">tehran)

“='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]="trms">animals, especially dead ones, enter centrally into what humans can themselves be and do in the ="trms">world.” (Cockburn)

i am trying to establish an ="trms">anthropological, ="trms">sociological and psychological investigations in this ="trms">matter, calling for a ‘cultural ="trms">animal geography’ that focuses on the complex entanglings of human-="trms">animal ="trms">relations with space, place, location, environment and landscape. ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> topology(s) ='lgc'>{it means that spaces and places involved make a ="trms">difference to the very constitution of the ="trms">relations in play='lgc'>}
='lgc'>[="nms">Tehran='lgc'>: ="trms">wilderness ='lgc'>~ public ='lgc'>~ non-domesticity='lgc'>]

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> ...differing peoples in differing periods and ="trms">worldly contexts='strcls'>***

="trms">societies in a host of settlements, fields, farms, factories, ="trms">imaginary, ="trms">literary, psychological and virtual spaces (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> and how ="trms">animalhuman is ="trms">socially defined)

="trms">technologies of human orderings ='lgc'>: telegram='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[encountering all kinds of inventiveness that go on cross-="trms">species (human, ="trms">animal, ="trms">story, image, media), the kind of ="trms">semiotic work='lgc'>]

='strcls'>*Space='strcls'>* (="ppl">de Certeau) ='lgc'>: A place (lieu) is the order (of whatever kind) in ="trms">accord with which elements are distributed in ="trms">relationships of coexistence. It thus ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes the possibility of two things being in the same location (place.) The law of the ‘proper’ rules in the place='lgc'>: the elements taken into consideration are beside one another, each ="trms">situated in its own ‘proper’ and distinct location, a location it defines. A place is thus an instantaneous con="trms">figuration of ="trms">positions. It implies an indication of stability.
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> space as the ‘scheme of things’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">species-identifying
='lgc'>=/= ="trms">imaginal space, ="trms">animal space, ="trms">memory, dream, etc.

‘="trms">species-identifying’ (classification) in='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•pre-Neolithic totemic ="trms">societies (="ppl">Shepard 1993)
="lsts lst1">•biblical classifications of the ="trms">different ="trms">beasts (Leviticus='lgc'>: Sibley 1995)
="lsts lst1">•ancient and medieval ‘great chain of being’ thinking (="trms">Lovejoy 1936)
="lsts lst1">•Linneaus's ="trms">Systema ="trms">naturae
="lsts lst1">•tabular re="trms">presentations of the ="trms">natural ="trms">world (Frangsmyr 1983; Spary 1996)
="lsts lst1">•...

="large lg1" stl="font-size:116%"> understandings of what comprises an ="trms">animal is ="trms">different in each case.
what should be ="trms">interested='qstn'>?

“(elaborating on ="ppl">Shepard,) Ingold (1994) sug="trms">gests that hunter-gatherers generally view the distinction between humans and ="trms">animals as permeable and easily crossed, unlike what is taken as ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read in much Western ="trms">science and philosophy.”

when/how you are persuaded to portray yourself as the relevant ‘expert’ in whatever field='qstn'>?

who are the legitimate spokespersons for ="trms">animals='qstn'>? once ="ppl">Attar, and now biology sci.
(‘the ="trms">modern constitution’ is as guilty as mysticism's ="trms">literacy)

...and that strong human sense of the proper place of ="trms">animals (which they should occupy physically) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">material-conceptual (double) placement ...(‘scheme of things’ ='lgc'>[="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">animals ="trms">supposed to be found in the non-discursive spaces and places of the ="trms">world) (or on the television)
="prgrph">-Said='lgc'>: ‘="trms">imaginative geography’, geographical ‘othering’
="prgrph">-overlappings that we find in telegram ="trms">social media ="nms">tehran ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what kinds of ‘="trms">animal’ (which ="trms">animalities) are at stake there in the mobile phone's ="trms">interface='qstn'>?

In recent years ="trms">zoos have reinvented themselves as ‘arks’


="trms">animals ="trms">categorically ="trms">embodied ‘meaty beings,’ and how they are usually “out of place” in the the immediate locality made in ="nms">Tehran

="trms">animals are very good at forging their own ="trms">beastly places, ‘other’ spaces of that of the human
(this is not about ‘territory’)


who “can” think and act in the ="trms">world='qstn'>?
who has the “ability” to prompt change='qstn'>?
='lgc'>[my ="nms">apass research project is in a sence ='strcls'>*contemplating the ="trms">agency='strcls'>* and speculating ='strcls'>*relocating qualities='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> (re)con="trms">figuration of the ="trms">world='lgc'>]

cultural cross-="trms">codings has always been constructed between ‘some’ humans and ‘some’ ="trms">animals

='strcls'>*the “source” of ="trms">agency, coined in Europe(='qstn'>?) from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries onwards='lgc'>: self-awareness, intention, thought and ="trms">language ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> properties of “consciousness”
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">History of Consciousness department in the Humanities Division of the University of California, Santa Cruz. ='at'>#entities that started to make decision deep in the ocean)
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘actor-="trms">network theory’ ANT; Callon, Law, ="ppl">="ppl">Latour, ="ppl">Serres. ='at'>#the key ="trms">difference here lies in the ="trms">historical uses and mediations of objects, for humans objects are employed to solidify ="trms">social bond. ANT sees ="trms">agency emerging as an effect generated
and performed in con="trms">figurations of ="trms">different ="trms">materials. ="ppl">="ppl">Latour's work to relocate qualities.)
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> New ="trms">Materialism; radical constructionism, all ="trms">world is a ="trms">poem)
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nonre="trms">presentational theory; Anderson, Harrison, ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart; critique become vita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list='lgc'>: to watch grass grow, or curious and experimental to face an o="trms">verbundance of things to be described or ="trms">imagined; concepts are lived; the subject is ="trms">present as witness to the moment in which some ="trms">worlding is about to disclose itself in some form or event. the result is a subject attached to ="trms">worlds throwing together in a sensory refrain, a ="trms">literally unbelievable image, or a muscle of ="trms">sociality or belief. theory='lgc'>: drawn through ="trms">writing into the ways that people and things venture out into reals. a ="trms">world in the ="trms">present tense is always other than its re="trms">presentation ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- another argument for ='at'>#="trms">excess='lgc'>]. nonre="trms">presentational ="trms">writing ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*a ="trms">phenomenal ="trms">method of attending and ="trms">composing='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= epi="trms">phenomenal='lgc'>: an expression of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready garnered انبار from scholarship. to spin out of critical thinking's bad habits='lgc'>: the prizing of prefabricated good objects over bad objects.)
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Singh, ="ppl">Anand; ="trms">agency as a threshold of life with its own immanent forms of movement and flux, studying spirits and shifts in intensity)
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> )
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> )


(the d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous and bizzar idea of) a pure ‘human’ ="trms">society


‘="trms">anthropo="trms">morphism’ actually ‘underestimates our humanity,’ in that the ‘="trms">anthropos’ and the ‘="trms">morphos’ together mean both that which has human shape and that which gives shape to humans (="ppl">Philo ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Wilbert > ="ppl">="ppl">Latour)
="trms">techno="trms">morphism, ="trms">zoo="trms">morphism, ...

="trms">anthropocentrism of the standard ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphism critique ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> human-referenced starting-point


trophies, stuffed parts, drawings
urine, faeces and other dirts

feral ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">wild ='lgc'>=/= tame ='lgc'>=/= feral

in-between ="trms">animal-findings and ="trms">animals finding

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> appropriate places of ="trms">animals='lgc'>: in ="trms">zoo or animations

(the 2016 film Fantastic ="trms">Beasts and Where to Find Them is about proper ="trms">zoology and not ="trms">animal ="trms">epistemology. here what comes after “Find Them” is crucial.)
(the developement moral identities and psychological ="trms">interiorities for Pixar's human teller in ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphist films such as Ratatouille.)
="prgrph">-we need to ="trms">imagine a new ="trms">animal geography

='strcls'>*territory='lgc'>: “...sites of a completed cycle of parentage and exchanges ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] spaces of insurmountable reciprocity.” (="ppl">Baudrillard)
(is ="ppl">Baudrillard sentimentalizing ="trms">animal territoriality='qstn'>? and giving them ‘psychic life’='qstn'>?)

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='lgc'>[="ppl">Michael ="ppl">Woods='lgc'>]
...through re="trms">presentation an entity becomes ‘immutable mobiles’ (="ppl">="ppl">Latour) that allow political debate to take place by ="trms">presenting to decision-makers convincing re="trms">presentations of things which they have not directly experienced. (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Hollywood)

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='lgc'>[="ppl">Avital='lgc'>]
the maternally contacting ="trms">child is menaced
it is the mother who call(ed) first
mother and ="trms">child, each the absolute ho="trms">stage of the Other

="large lg5" stl="font-size:136%"> to face the immense, faceless Someone

the ="trms">nature of our encounter is on a timer
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