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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

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


="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


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

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%">
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'>==> cohabitation ='lgc'>=/= re="trms">presentation

tactile visuality
fingery eyes
relies on textured proximity rather than objective distance
the visual ="trms">apparatus is the touching body

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]art='lgc'>: ="trms">sensual movement of perceptual information (across media and bodies)

transduction='lgc'>:
(at an energetic transduction site='lgc'>: one form of organized energy a="trms">symmetrically converted into another kind of energy)
="lsts lst1">•trans="trms">mission of messages through various media and the ways those messages become mis/="trms">translated into sense and sensation
="lsts lst1">•transmitted information reformatted and transformed through devices, forces, and processes, and then broadcast to other sensorial subjects... (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to my ="nms">ajayeb-e pit ="trms">story)


='at'>#telegram's ="trms">zoological corruption ='lgc'>=/= State, ="trms">science


="large lg5" stl="font-size:165%"> ="trms">matter owes a debt to its own means of revelation='lgc'>: light

(="ppl">="ppl">Hayward's) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]captivation='lgc'>: extraction of rhythm, pulse, color, texture ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> resonate for alternative purposes buth within the conditions of the frame

the (="trms">zoo's or aquarium's) display='lgc'>: motabolizes, creates, releases sensation into the ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> environment of intense involvement ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> familiar orderings are ="trms">affectively transposed, altered, refigured

jellies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> surrea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list white shapes

i am not sure ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
(Desmond's) identification='lgc'>: the beautification of ‘drifters'='lgc'>[spending most of their time motionless with their tentacles extended over ten feet, netting the waters for food='lgc'>] makes cross-="trms">species identification impossible ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]identification='lgc'>: seeing familiarity in other organisms='lgc'> = a map for empathy and critical engagement='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= objectification of radically ="trms">different organisms) ='lgc'>: “transmutation of non-identification into ="trms">aestheticization” =[...]