[...] ="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

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='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


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 lg1" stl="font-size:146%"> ='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


="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” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> observer gawks بى خيال نگاه کردن and marvels at dissimilarity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> making ="trms">difference a ="trms">marketable feature ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">ajayeb stuff='lgc'>]
='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">="ppl">Hayward ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]identification='lgc'>: misalignment of empathy with the possibility of familiarity ='lgc'>--relying-on='lgc'>='lgc'>--> extending empathy across similarity to dissimilarity ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*the organism can only receive the benefits of empathy if we can identify with it='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Seymour's ="nms">="trms">wildboyz)

politics of erasure ='lgc'>=/= empathy

telegram ="nms">ajayeb channel ='lgc'>=/= idealized visual pathways (save, preserve, conserve vanishing ="trms">wildlife, while ignoring the idealization of ="trms">nature)

aquarium (as boundary object) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> borders of ="trms">nature and culture (that functions as public ="trms">spectacle, public enlightenment, and conquest) ='lgc'>=/= telegram

="prgrph">-if not the ‘oppressed other’ then what kind of actor is ‘you,’ ‘them,’ or ‘me’='qstn'>?

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> Ponyo ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> low-oxygen environment in which fish die but jellies thrive


distracting ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> diffracted ethics ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (as a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor to talk about) ="trms">history of ="trms">interaction, ="trms">interference, reinforcement, ="trms">difference ='lgc'>=/= reflection or reflexivity='lgc'>: displacing the same elsewhere (in traditions of re="trms">presentation, searching for the authentic really real)
='strcls'>*diffraction='lgc'>: (depending on the phase ="trms">differences and the amplitude of the light waves) elements of com="trms">posite light (white light) are reinforced, weakened, or eliminated by each other alternately='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•scales of butterfly wings and fishes...
="lsts lst1">•modification of the form of a word to express the ="trms">different grammatical ="trms">relations into which it may enter
="lsts lst1">•to put concerns, entities, ="trms">relationships, and actions into process ='lgc'>[-to put your found object into process of ="trms">interference='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]diffraction='lgc'>: mapping of ="trms">interference ='lgc'>==="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>='lgc'>==> where the ='strcls'>*effects of='strcls'>* ="trms">differences appear ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">differences appear

meaning ='lgc'>+ ="trms">matter ='lgc'>+ action (always live together)

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> telegram ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal carousel='lgc'>: nonhuman-='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal-machine

my room/bedroom (='lgc'>~-> ="nms">Cinderella's attic, architecture of containment)
overlapping perceptual ="trms">worlds
syn="trms">aesthetic force of perceiving and feeling, processing and ="trms">mattering ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transposing of senses
immersion
kinesthesia
numerous haptic registers
we are trans="trms">sensual

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]sensation='lgc'>: the vibratory force in all organisms that seduces, sexulizes, entices, and mesmerizes the body

vibrate
oscillate
wave

aquarium ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new sensations='lgc'>: deep-sea drifting and shimmering for up="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right opaque hominids ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that are sent further adrift through experience in yet unknown expressions

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='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">ecology='lgc'>: ambivalent powerful elusive ways of ="trms">composing through ="trms">histories of ="trms">interation, ="trms">relationality, ="trms">interconnection, and ="trms">materiality

="trms">relational ="trms">matter ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">matter of who has ="trms">agency

="ppl">="ppl">Hayward's ='lgc'>[and my='lgc'>] attention and ="trms">sensuous reach a[...]