[...] 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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="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> ="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

='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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:146%"> 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)

(="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


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


="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> 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'>*


="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> (='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

(="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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:168%"> ='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

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