[...]o become a way of reincorporating the estranged kin='strcls'>**(='qstn'>? -="nms">iranian hospitality='qstn'>?)
the ="trms">intertwined ="trms">nature of bureaucratic power and ritual action
the dead are haphazardly buried that have to be then contained or transformed through shamanic knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and ritual manipulations='qstn'>? -="ppl">Veena
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="trms">modern bureaucratic procedures ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> tear apart the continuity of generational connections ='lgc'><-='lgc'>~ the work of ritual to restore connections is engaged
the ="trms">different ways we come to know something ='lgc'>=/= the experience of ‘carrying’ a knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
...unknown dead in a milieu in which ="trms">ancestors and ghosts are not simply distant and abstract concepts but are felt with every sinew of the body, who come to haunt the descendants through dreams and apparitions ='lgc'>=/= Ta'zieh='lgc'>: ="trms">ancestors in contexts in which the ="trms">relation to the dead is com="trms">memorated primarily through national rituals
(in the Jeju uprising/massacre case that ="ppl">Veena studies) ‘victim’='lgc'>: the qualifying condition for genealogical connections to be maintained in ="trms">imagining kinship as constitutive of the ="trms">relations between the living and the dead ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= victim='lgc'>: an appeal to the ="trms">authority of subjective experience, or the knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge produced by the State about the dead as victim or traitor='lgc'>]
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bureaucrats (victim or traitor='qstn'>?) and shaman (="trms">ancestor or ghost='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> entanglement of ="trms">different ways of knowing and classifying
(for the survivorss of Jeju after 70 years) inordinate character of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge appears in this ="trms">world as the unbearable burden of not being able to convert your dead kin into ="trms">ancestors consigning them to a ghostly existence
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> so that the ="trms">ancestors can rest peacefully in death and less in terms of the discourse of transnational justice or human ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights
reputation of a woman ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the marriage prospects of girls ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ideas of purity and honor ='lgc'>--="ppl">Veena='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “poisonous knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge” secreted by the large-scale abduction of women (in India-Pakistan Partition)
="prgrph">-cultural understanding of sex as especially polluting for a woman
disclosure or a coming to know that a close relative had a hidden ="trms">history tied to large ="trms">historical event ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> announcing an “otherness” to a close relative with whom one had inhabited a life.
Partition ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> distortion of everyday ="trms">language itself and its bodying forth
bodily ="trms">nature of ="trms">language
="trms">poetry suffused with exquisite portraits of grief
the sense that kinship ="trms">relations themselves have become lethal
(journalism's) ="trms">trap of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge/ignorance (ruth/falsity) binary ='lgc'>[asking for formal solutions to problems of indeterminacy because of the ="trms">finitude of knowing subjects or ="trms">veiling of objects='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Veena trying to) attend to regions of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that can turn us to change the ="trms">questions we ask
(inordinate) knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is contended with locally, diurnally, repeatedly
="ppl">Veena asking how is this knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>[catastrophic event secrete knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in the everyday='lgc'>] endured or contested; concealed or revealed; and what are ='strcls'>*rhythms='strcls'>* of these movements='qstn'>?
='strcls'>*inordinate knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-as citizens, how do we deal with the knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that torture is regularly practiced as part of the security ="trms">apparatus of many democracies='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-what ="trms">responsibility do we bear for these practices that are before our eyes='lgc'>--that we cannot but help know='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-As ="trms">relational beings how do we reveal the extent of sexual violence or violent ="trms">histories of our families to our ="trms">children and to our grand="trms">children='qstn'>?
(='qstn'>?to make) ="trms">responses in terms of the cultural repertoire of one's own ="trms">society relating to the care of the dead
the necessity of embracing a mismatch between harm and healing, between not knowing and shading your eyes from what you cannot but help know ='lgc'>[-acceptance of a certain degree of ignorance as essential for life='lgc'>]
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="ppl">Ahmed, ="ppl">Sedgwick='lgc'>+Frank ='at'>@="nms">apass
installation of an automatic “anti-” (for example antibiologism, as the unshifting tenet of ‘theory’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">routinized antiessentialism='strcls'>*) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> loss of conceptual access to an entire thought-realm='strcls'>***
immersed in a precritical understanding of the body
='thdf'>the idea of biological construction having been rendered either unintelligible or naive (in feminism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an avowed ="trms">interest in the body ='lgc'>+ a persistent distaste for biological detail)
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="trms">interested in antiracism and politics of globalization ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> crucial dimension of research='lgc'>: body ='lgc'><='lgc'>== “the precarious, accidental, ="trms">contingent, expedient, striving, dynamic status of life in a messy, complicated, resistant, brute ="trms">world of ="trms">materiality, a ="trms">world regulated by the exigencies, the forces, of space and time” ='lgc'>+ the conditions under which bodies are encultured, psychologized, given identity, ="trms">historical location, and ="trms">agency
='strcls'>*(you can) speak (back) to post="trms">modernism (or democracy etc.), rather than simply speak on (your ="trms">relationship to) it='strcls'>*
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="ppl">="ppl">Hayward on the role of ="trms">embodiment in visual cultures ='lgc'>+ meaning of ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animals in re="trms">presentation
='strcls'>*to envision ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal='strcls'>*='lgc'> = to visualize, to experience, to figure, to image, kinds of ="trms">species, discourses, re="trms">presentations, institutions, ="trms">histories, ="trms">epistemologies ='lgc'>+ to “="trms">imagine possible” a set of ="trms">material and ethical ="trms">relationships between ="trms">species
envisioning='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•a mode of seeing and ="trms">embodying, of immersing and inhabiting, and of ="trms">storytelling and theorizing in a ="trms">techno-="trms">scientific ="trms">world of “eye machine”
="lsts lst1">•a range of practices for ="trms">situating the “self” (that tender thing in post="trms">modernity) in places and spaces grown ="trms">thick with entanglements and consequences; a form both of “to face” and “to perceive”
="trms">aesthetic conceptions of beauty and/or ambiguity coupled with biological ="trms">epistemology and ="trms">phenomenology of the organisms ='lgc'>--in='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in Jean Painleve, Genevieve Hamon, Leni Riefenstahl, David Powell ='lgc'>==construct='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a host of hybridized and enmeshed “encounters”
bio="trms">semiotics
="trms">zoo="trms">semiotics
="prgrph">-humanist fascist ="trms">aesthetic ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> desires to ="trms">memorialize “beautiful and unpolluted” coral ="trms">communities
="prgrph">-promise of immediate and luminous experience of “jellyfish otherness”
="prgrph">-="trms">systems (of power='qstn'>?) that constitutively produce ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal and human actors
human-='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal ='lgc'>+ nonhuman-='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal ='lgc'>+ ="trms">apparatuses ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> co-constitutive in the process of trying to know something about whale ="trms">ecology
(="ppl">="ppl">Hayward > ="ppl">Whitehead='lgc'>:) concrescence='lgc'>: “we” (con prefix) ere- (create) scence (sense, or the “s="trms">cene,” that which is seen), the ="trms">present is given by a consense of subjective forms. We are multiple individuals, but there are also multiple individual ="trms">agents of consciousness operant in the construction of the given.
="prgrph">-="trms">literal ="trms">materialization of a dynamic produced
photograph (only one part, a kind of lively limb, of the relay)='lgc'>:
(="nms">ajayeb style ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) a bumptious and lively event of the processes of whale studies and whales themselves ='lgc'>=/= a still record of a whale “that had been there”
the image='lgc'>: a kind of connective tissue, soliciting one's senses
solar light ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> brushed up against, even touched, the whale ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">translated through the camera ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> into film ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> into chemical bathes ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> into photo-paper ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> through my eye as a research assistant
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='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ‘photograph='lgc'>: ="trms">material, immanent, ="trms">interconnected’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> somatic intelligibility (="trms">embodiment) to my own somatic intelligence ='lgc'>~ enacted an encounter between the senses (subjective feelings) and their sense (objective knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges)
a ="trms">mutual ="trms">embodiment ='lgc'>='lgc'><-- shared in the event of the photographic space
experience of these photographs ='lgc'>[whale or telegram ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal video='lgc'>]='lgc'>: an instance of ='strcls'>*="trms">sensuous knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> way we are in some carnal modality able to touch and be touched by the substance of images (to feel a visual atmosphere envelop us)
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(="ppl">Grosz's) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]perception='lgc'>: flesh's reversibility ='lgc'>~ the flesh touching, seeing, perceiving itself, one ="trms">fold (provisionally) catching the other in its own selfembrace
human/='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal and ="trms">technological sensorium
="prgrph">-="ppl">="ppl">Hayward asking how coral ="trms">communities create re="trms">presentational ruptures in photographs
="prgrph">-="frds">Sina asking how telegram virtual ="trms">communities create re="trms">presentational ruptures in the real of human-='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal of ="nms">Tehran, how the enfleshed ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal mobile phone photograph touch us
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> liveliness of human='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal encounters ='lgc'>[the way in which my ="trms">aesthetic and ethical senses merge with ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animals in the flesh='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-how people get along in concrete, ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphic, phantasmatic ways
='strcls'>**sensible and ="trms">sensual ensembles of ="trms">materialized capacities and activities that ="trms">literally and ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorically make sense of, and to, ourselves and other ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animals='strcls'>**
(="ppl">="ppl">Ihde >) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">phenomenology='lgc'>: a philosophical style that emphasizes a certain ="trms">interpretation of human experience and that, in particular, concerns perception and bodily activity ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Hayward='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a theoretical practice grounded on the carnal, fleshy, ="trms">material foundations of subjectivity as it engages and is transformed by and in the ="trms">world
we attend to='lgc'>: content ='lgc'>+ form ='lgc'>+ context
invertebrates, product of displacement and comparison, a ruinous ="trms">verb turned noun turned classification ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Hayward='lgc'>='lgc'>--> foregrounding and rethinking the syntax, optics, and heterogeneity of vertebrate and invertebrate ="trms">relationality
accountability and ="trms">responsibility in the enmeshment of knowing, doing, seeing, and being
(we need less philosophizing and more) ='strcls'>*envisioning='lgc'>: an enactment of dynamic en-figurings that imperil boundaries that clearly ="trms">differentiate self and other without the loss of ="trms">historical, cultural, and ="trms">species ="trms">specificity='strcls'>*
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light has illuminated western ="trms">stories
="lsts lst1">•God said, let there be light='lgc'>: and there was light
="lsts lst1">•solar radiance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> refracted planetary atmosphere ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> earth's watery ="trms">matter ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lively forms
="lsts lst1">•life shaped by ice (="ppl">Meloy)
="lsts lst1">•life shaped by dark (="ppl">Mohaghegh)
="lsts lst1">•life shaped by ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal (="frds">Sina)
="lsts lst1">•life shaped by light (="ppl">="ppl">Hayward) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the invisible medium that makes a knowable ="trms">world visible; ='strcls'>*seeing light='lgc'>: a ="trms">trope for making visible in a comprehensive form (such that they are real)='strcls'>*
="lstsrd">1. ='strcls'>*philosophy is photology='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: ="trms">language of philosophy is constituted by ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors of light
="lstsrd">2. sunlight ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorizes into transcendent light ='lgc'>: a heavenly light promising liberation from the flesh
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transgenic ="trms">technologies ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
jellyfish ='lgc'>+ GFP (green fluorescent protein)
rhesus monkey
glowing kittens
transgenic pigs
(...='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal examples of ="trms">chimeric and impure)='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Hayward='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">articulation of carnal ="trms">interdependence across ="trms">species boundaries
bacteria, yeast, fungi, plant, fly, human cell
="trms">chimeric borderlands of GFP and transgenics
pushing against the perceptual and ="trms">affective registers of laboratory walls ="trms">embodied selves, eating practices, living conditions
bio-capitalism
='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal industry
(="ppl">="ppl">Hayward on) carnality and radiance of ="trms">naturecultures
(welcoming a) multidisciplinary table of where light is being eaten
visuality as corporality
light='lgc'> = meat
(Latin word) lumen='lgc'>: light, lantern, lamp, clairity, understanding, the central cavity of a hollow structure in an organism or cell
='strcls'>*somalumenal='lgc'>: how might luminosity, effulgence and illumination be about ="trms">embodiment or corporality='qstn'>? light transubstantiated into flesh and ="trms">matter (='lgc'>=/= body transcended by the thrills of enlightenment and radiance)='strcls'>*
(='mywrk'>my work on telegram ="trms">bestiary='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*post-='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal studies='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]tr='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal='lgc'>: a synecdochically ="trms">imagined cor="trms">respondence ="trms">written as a portmanteau word ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> changes in our understanding of bodily transformation, somatic and ="trms">sensual synthesis that manifests synecdochically (a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorically
='lgc'>[="nms">Cinderella is synecdochic='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*trans-
ongoing labor of cross-="trms">species ="trms">agents
energetic and ="trms">material crossings that disrupt bifurcated ="trms">categories
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(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">="ppl">Hayward) ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaplasm قلب حروف='lgc'>: a change in a word (by adding, comitting or transposing its letters, syllables or sounds) that can signify a mistake, stumbling, a troping that makes a ="trms">difference ='lgc'>[in joined ="trms">natureculture ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>='lgc'>--> flesh and signifier, bodies and words, ="trms">stories and ="trms">worlds='lgc'>]
to inflect tr='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animals with its tropic kin of antimeria that turns nouns into ="trms">verbs, that mobilizes, in="trms">cites, activates persons, ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animals, places, things and ideas
='strcls'>*i am rubied by your attention='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: the relay of energies and forces (not just encounter) ='lgc'>==constitute='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">ontology
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">ontology='lgc'>: what there is ='lgc'>+ what debts we owe to it ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we owe ‘sensation’ to life's ‘insistencies’ ='lgc'>: (="ppl">="ppl">Hayward arguing) we must ="trms">respond to ='strcls'>*life's insistencies='strcls'>* through sensation (corporal prehensions)
='lgc'>--(='qstn'>?why to ="trms">write='lgc'>:)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**noun='lgc'> = ="trms">transitional ="trms">responses to ="trms">relationships='strcls'>** (='lgc'>=/= direct products of environment)
='lgc'>==='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>==> percussive distribution of ="trms">affect
boundary='lgc'>: refracted ="trms">interfaces of passage, pre="trms">positional orientation
="trms">sensuous being='lgc'>: un="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metabolizable more, the residue of passing
jellyfish sting ="trms">story
“a jellyfish stings human skin, leaving an empurpled mark that inscribes the boundaries of tentacle and skin (somatic ="trms">technologies), but the ex="trms">citation (sensorial ="trms">transit) of burning and b="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listering energy remains partly un="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metabolizable='lgc'>--this remainder is ="trms">differentiating and binding. so ex="trms">citation is not necessarily predicated on ="trms">positive joins of ever expanding units of life, but emerges between them and therefore can be generated through haemorrhaging ='lgc'>[flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessels='lgc'>], excising, amputating” ='lgc'>[& killing(='qstn'>?)='lgc'>]
breaking fast with glowing light
Kac's GFP bunny='lgc'>: (="trms">chimera of) rabbit ='lgc'>+ jellyfish ='lgc'>+ human ='lgc'>+ ="trms">technology
making bodies ="trms">materially luminal ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Hayward='lgc'>='lgc'>--> تابش effulgence bound to meatier substance ='lgc'>=/= extraterrestrial force of more heavenly bodies
(-what about the moon='qstn'>?)
sexual planktonic medusa
دو شکلی di="trms">morphic life ="trms">history
جانور دریایی pelagic drifters
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]drift='lgc'>: to be carried slowly by a current of air or water ='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•move passively, aimlessly or involuntarily into a certain ="trms">situation or condition
="lsts lst1">•a steady movement or developement from one thing toward another
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*your body is an index of its environment='strcls'>* (= jellyfish='lgc'>: when provoked give off a green glow... ='strcls'>*glowing in ="trms">response to provocation='strcls'>*)
="lsts lst1">•to be sent adrift as mutation
="lsts lst1">•the general intention of an argument (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in ="trms">writing='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*="trms">technique of drifting='strcls'>*)
="lsts lst2">◦="trms">poetic joints
="lsts lst2">◦mixing ="trms">ontologies into larger organizations
="lsts lst2">◦
blend of tissue
reorder not only life but also light
="prgrph">-(="ppl">Sagan ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) life='lgc'>: how ="trms">matter ="trms">interacts with ="trms">interconnected ="trms">systems that in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude organisms in their distinct perceiving ="trms">worlds
="prgrph">-(Uexküll ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) Umwelt='lgc'>: perceptual bubbles (of the most unidentifiable ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animals='lgc'>: ticks, spiders, inverts) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ‘organs of ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animals are counterparts of lived environments’ ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>***='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal body='lgc'>: inverted map of its environment='strcls'>*** (mediated by its capacity to ="trms">interpret habitat through bodily sensation) ='lgc'>[Uexküll using music to define the laws of ="trms">nature='lgc'>: “life='lgc'> = musical ="trms">response,” effects of ='strcls'>*='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal capitalism='strcls'>*='lgc'>]
to ="trms">travel through ="trms">stages of evolution of the ="trms">consumer product ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> becoming a new harmony (='lgc'>='lgc'><-- using jellyfish as advertising in posthuman ="trms">consumerism)
="prgrph">-(Lingis ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]sensation='lgc'>: ملقمه amalgamations made of movements and ="trms">affects that shape the energetic relay between subjects and objects,, an intensity ='lgc'>--that='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pressures us ='lgc'>--feel='lgc'>='lgc'>--> our cohabitation ='lgc'>--in='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a sensible environment ='lgc'>--that='lgc'>='lgc'>--> opens outward (='lgc'>=/= simulation of our sensorys or nervous ="trms">systems) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> subject is ='strcls'>*involved='strcls'>* into the ="trms">sensuousness of being ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*ex="trms">citation of ="trms">affect and desire within a ="trms">sensuous environment ='lgc'>==generate='lgc'>='lgc'>==> substance of self='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•percepts oringinating in environmental harmonization
tr='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animals invoke the ="trms">social, ="trms">affective, sensorial ="trms">response-abilities of becoming and eating ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'><-- ="ppl">="ppl">Hayward's affirmative ="trms">poetics of trans- ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart's much more complex pattern of description='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-my art work has been more about intensity ='lgc'>+ ="trms">techne (= baroque='qstn'>?), than ="trms">aesthetics ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (='lgc'>[='lgc'>{when i make images='lgc'>} sharing='lgc'>] our) subjugation to sensation
( sensibility ='lgc'>[ ... ) ="trms">sensuousness ='lgc'>]
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="trms">affect ='lgc'>='lgc'><-- sensation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">affect
="trms">affect ="trms">affect
="trms">affect ="trms">affect ="trms">affect
="trms">affect ::='lgc'>{='lgc'>~body='lgc'>~='lgc'>}:='lgc'>:
sensation ='lgc'>--distribute='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">affects ='and'>& percepts (across bodies)
ex="trms">citation (unleashes bodily organization at the site of contact)='lgc'> = zone of an ='strcls'>*expressed threshold='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= zone of contact
multi="trms">species ="trms">materialities ='lgc'>--="ppl">Grosz='lgc'>='lgc'>--> life ="trms">folds over itself to embrace its contact with ="trms">materiality
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rabbit mammalizes light
glow='lgc'>: a dynamizing force ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> making ="trms">matter more
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="ppl">="ppl">Hayward='lgc'>: through ='lgc'>[Alba's='lgc'>] glow, her artfulness, we are reminded that ="trms">species are not just ="trms">relationships, nor are ="trms">species ever directly in ="trms">relationship with other ="trms">species, we are resonances and dissonances of intensification, energetic cadences of one another='lgc'>--a sensorial ensemble ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'><-- what ="trms">marketing would say about this='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
space between ="trms">scientific experimentation (biocultural) ='and'>& domestic cohabitation (com="trms">position ='at'>#="nms">Cinderella, pet) ='lgc'>--evoke='lgc'>='lgc'>--> invisible labour of jellyfish, research on the proliferation and patterns of cancer cells and the sensation of somalumenality ='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Hayward's Alba='lgc'>]
(Anker > ="ppl">="ppl">Hayward='lgc'>:) the ="trms">chimera must be understood in a ="trms">social context='lgc'>: these ="trms">beasts have always reflected the ="trms">social, ="trms">scientific and ="trms">religious circumstances ='lgc'>='lgc'><-- my project in ="trms">zoological vandalism
(="ppl">="ppl">Hayward's neologism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> posthumanist re="trms">positioning of visuality) carnophallogocentric visual appetite
...glow (intensifying vision) drifts through the bodies of ="trms">consumers
eating (in="trms">gesting and killing of) jellyfish usually takes the form of dried crisps sprinkled into salads and Chinese food
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="nms">Cinderella's ="trms">techne ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> companion
Crusoe's ="trms">techne ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> human
="prgrph">-="trms">fictional kitchen where ="nms">Cinderella works (and is not a master of)
='lgc'>[learning from='lgc'>] ="nms">Cinderella (her room has been undone and remade by cohabitation with ="trms">birds, mice, evil mother ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> changing the self and adapting) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">ontology='lgc'>: a practice of co-constitutive awareness
Alba ='lgc'>--engineered='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to glow
pig ='lgc'>--engineered='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to become sausage
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="ppl">Seymour
bad ="trms">affect
(bad environmentalism's) ="trms">respond to mainstream environmentalism ='lgc'>+ ="trms">questioning its broader ideals of ="trms">nature
='lgc'>=/= conventional environmental ="trms">affect
both identify ='and'>& ="trms">respond to the aforementioned absurdities and ironies, through absurdity and irony ='lgc'>+ related ="trms">affects and sensibilities='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•irreverence بى ادبى
="lsts lst1">•ambivalence
="lsts lst1">•camp
="lsts lst1">•frivolity هرزه
="lsts lst1">•indecorum بى نزاکتى
="lsts lst1">•awkwardness
="lsts lst1">•sardonicism زهر خنده
="lsts lst1">•="trms">perversity
="lsts lst1">•playfulness
="lsts lst1">•glee شاد شاد
="trms">affects and sensibilities typically as="trms">sociated with environmentalism='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•gloom
="lsts lst1">•doom
="lsts lst1">•guilt
="lsts lst1">•shame
="lsts lst1">•didacticism
="lsts lst1">•prescriptiveness
="lsts lst1">•sentimentality احساساتى
="lsts lst1">•reverence حرمت
="lsts lst1">•="trms">seriousness
="lsts lst1">•sincerity
="lsts lst1">•earnestness
="lsts lst1">•sanctimony تقدس
="lsts lst1">•self-="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">righteousness
="lsts lst1">•="trms">wonder
assumptions='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•that reverence is required for ethical ="trms">relations to the nonhuman
="lsts lst1">•that knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is key to fighting problems like climate change
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__al __ ='lgc'>: __ ="trms">affects and ="trms">matter of __
(sensational X ='lgc'>: Y ="trms">affects and the ="trms">matter of Z)
ocularcentric selves
(="ppl">="ppl">Hayward's) jellyfish='lgc'>: prismatically, their kinesthetic bling is registered visually and haptically, which draws our attention to the construction of their enclosure
expressively ="trms">dense
rendered ="trms">literal and ="trms">material
light is of this ="trms">world
to think diffractively='lgc'> = to apprehend a critical ="trms">difference within
(the formation of a word from a sound as="trms">sociated with what is named ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) onomato="trms">poetic='lgc'>: designed around the sensation of water
="ppl">="ppl">Hayward is drawn (to the Monterey Bay aquarium) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> trying to ="trms">sort out the ="trms">poetics of their display
='lgc'>[they='lgc'>] furnish a simulation of the real thing, soliciting the sensation of unmediated encounter with marine ="trms">worlds, they ='strcls'>*act as sites of ="trms">ecological hope='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--Acampora='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">zooscopic='lgc'>: a totalizing view that conceals meaningful human-='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal encounters at the price of reinvigorating ="trms">anthropocentrism ='lgc'>{='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="trms">zoological vandalism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what would be an ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal ="trms">social media='qstn'>?='lgc'>}
='lgc'>[in ="trms">zooscopic experience:='lgc'>] the very structure of the human-='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal encounter is disrupted, and the ="trms">interaction that is sought (encountering the ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal) becomes impossibility as the “real” ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animals disappear and the conditions for seeings are undermined ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'><-- how telegram does that='qstn'>? if telegram ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal media is ="trms">zooscopic, then i say that is good for ="nms">Tehran, for the “real” encounters are violent. ='thdf'>the idea of “truely seeing ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal” is ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics='lgc'>]
captivity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal against themselves, “='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal='lgc'> = qualified noun, adjectival” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">wilderness='strcls'>* was ="trms">articulated in a time before the ="trms">modern ="trms">zoo='lgc'>]
='lgc'>--Acampora='lgc'>='lgc'>--> zone of ="trms">species contact mediated by an ="trms">interruption that voids actual encounter
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds">Sina='lgc'>: there has never been an “actual encounter”
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Hayward='lgc'>: does face-to-face “seeing” ="trms">matter for organisms of a radically ="trms">different scale and for whom “eyes” are light receptors rather than picture makers='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-how can we see mediation as a dynamic of encounter, even an ethical one='qstn'>?
(captivity is always mediated)
captivity diffracted
='strcls'>*(telegram's) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]encounter='lgc'>: ="trms">sensuous rapport or energetic cadence='strcls'>*
aquariums engage a ="trms">story of looking ='lgc'>+ deep roots in imperialism and the process of nation building ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> aquarium='lgc'>: a ="trms">stage of an unspoiled garden in ="trms">nature, بوته hearth for learning human self from ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal other ='lgc'>+ (clarification of) ="trms">ontological and ="trms">epistemological disorders of ="trms">nature and culture ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Tsing's contaminated landscapes='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-18th century='lgc'>: the ocean was taboo, a place of great fear, a cursed ="trms">world full of ="trms">monsters ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurking in shadowy fathoms, (waters='lgc'>: low and deep ='lgc'>=/= air='lgc'>: domain of morality and aspiration, closer to heaven)
="prgrph">-19th century europe victorian glass ='strcls'>*aqua vivarium='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> windows that ="trms">interfaced between human sight and subaqueous s="trms">cenes (the unknown provoked feelings of bot curiosity and apprehension)='lgc'>--Stott='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for the ="trms">natura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list the marine or freshwater aquarium provided a constantly changing, glass-fronted theater of bizarre and exotic bodies, moving, ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosing, ="trms">interacting and breeding in sensational ways
="prgrph">-aquariums became sacred spaces where cohabited forces of godliness and ="trms">nature were contained, compartmentalized, and studied ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal='lgc'> = metonymic of particularly nonhuman environments ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> victorian sensibilities
(="ppl">Darwinan ="trms">trope...) ="trms">monstrously minute, potent and parasitic, characterized by missing body parts
efforts to know, classify, and conquer the oceanic (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> capture for visual pleasure) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> counter-conquest of the home by ="trms">monsters and sexual deviants
the most prized organisms were “exotics” from non-european environments that fueled ongoing colonialism in the mode of ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal husbandry
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="ppl">="ppl">Hayward='lgc'>:
="trms">differences in display ="trms">technologies
variations in viewer experience and perception
alterations in cross-="trms">species encounters
aquarium's promise of immediacy(='qstn'>?)
the ="trms">rhetoric of ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal domination is not the only discourse at work (in aquarium display, telegram, in ="nms">ajayeb, in ="trms">zoo, etc.)
="ppl">="ppl">Hayward's attention to the expressiveness of sensation, display ="trms">technologies, and the ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animals themselves ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? my attention to telegram ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal media
(="trms">modern) aquarium='lgc'>: turning toward the ="trms">monstrous oceanic but updated for a ="trms">techno="trms">scientific post="trms">modernity and anticipating a sci-fi futurity
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exhibits as idealizations
the aquarium visitor is entertained into caring about environmental ethics and marine biology. enacting a moral imperative to protect local eco="trms">systems, the aquarium is a savoir ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the parochial becomes the new ="trms">cosmopolitan
="trms">technology ='lgc'>+ artistry ='lgc'>+ biology
playing with scale, volume, space
refractive ="trms">technology='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•produces the ="trms">visceral and optical experience of immersion...
="lsts lst1">•makes us profoundly aware of our bodies in space
="lsts lst1">•producing a disorienting visuality
='strcls'>*refracted vision='lgc'> = textured light='strcls'>*
refraction='lgc'> = corporal جسمى ='lgc'>+ carnal (جسمانى marked by the appetites and passions of the body) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> effective stimulation
osmotic space
amniotic
eroded
bad boundaries
concretions
immersive medusa or jellies transducingly
snaky tresses of the mythical gorgon
more-ness of sensation
destroyed, transformed, conserved
jelly scatters
diffracting cilia and fluible mesoglea
="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosing diffraction patterns
multiple sensory registers temper the ="trms">apparatus of seeing='lgc'>: sound, tactility, movement, proximity
immersion ='lgc'>==convey='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the experience of being totally inside a ="trms">world, a state of mind, cultural and ="trms">historical forms, and intellectual rumination ='lgc'>=/= unreality or reality
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> cohabitat[...]