[...] work only becomes perceptible when the cows resist='strcls'>* (when they place limit on what can happen) ='lgc'>--shows='lgc'>='lgc'>--> when everything goes correctly it is because of an active investment on the part of the cows
='strcls'>***when everything happens as it should, we don't see the work='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>=/= notion of work in art)
='at'>@="nms">apass

(when they do what has to be done in ="trms">response to an order, cow's) obedience looks “mechanical” (='lgc'>~/=='qstn'>? ="nms">Cinderella's obedience ='lgc'>[='qstn'>?not in a mechanical age='lgc'>])
='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= art's work ='lgc'><='lgc'>== conflict that disturb this order of things='lgc'>]

(the fieldwork of ="ppl">="ppl">Despret helping me to realize that) ='strcls'>*the moments without conflict='strcls'>* are not something merely ="trms">natural, self-evident, or mechanical ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they require from the cows (or someone whose work is invisible) the activity of pacification, in which they make compromises (groom each other, exchange ="trms">gestures of politeness, etc.)
="lsts lst1">•dogs and horses who are asked to serve as therapeutic assistants for humans='lgc'>: these ="trms">animals often have a passive air and seem to simply be letting things happen ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*their cooperation is based on a remarkable ability to hold themselves back='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- i saw this, in a theater piece for blind, i was sitting next to two assistant dogs, and could feel strongly their efforts to sit motionless in the dark within the crowds='lgc'>] ='lgc'>~~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> but non of this is perceived...

only by observing the many ways that cows can resist the breeders, doing something other than what is expected of them ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer could see how they are actively invested in the work ='lgc'>: when the cows show that they are unwilling to do what is wanted ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> their “good will” appeared (the effect of their willingness)
="lsts lst1">•this is an ="trms">interested problem ='at'>@="nms">apass, ='thdf'>the notion of asking participants to participate in an “active” way ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">animal work ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “working well for an artist='lgc'> = violating normative organization (recommendations, regulations, procedures, ="trms">codes, ="trms">specifications)"='lgc'> = تمرد tamarod recalcitrance='lgc'>: practical or collective intelligence appearing when intentional mistakes are made, or when feigned misunderstanding leads to active disobedience='strcls'>*****

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Vicki ="ppl">Hearne ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">="ppl">Despret
why dogs often drop the stick they fetch a couple of feet in front of you. it is a way for the dog to give to the human a sense of the limits to the ="trms">authority that she is ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready to concede, with an almost mathematical precision, reminding us that not everything goes without saying ='heart'>♥


‘="trms">communication with ="trms">animals='lgc'> = being together engaged in work’ ='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•learning patience in regard to them
="lsts lst1">•respecting them as they are ='lgc'>==imply='lgc'>='lgc'>==> you know them ='and'>& recognise them
="lsts lst1">•

='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo

we are required to think about people and ="trms">animals as ='strcls'>**connected in a single experience='strcls'>** (in which they jointly constitute their identities) ='at'>#="trms">chimera
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (="trms">obligates us to consider) the manner in which they keep faith with each other ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they ="trms">respond to each other through the consequences of their action ='and'>& their ="trms">responses are part of the consequences (='lgc'>=/= act based on shared assumptions)

='lgc'>{being a victim ='lgc'>==imply='lgc'>='lgc'>==> passivity ='lgc'>+ all its consequences='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">animal is not a victim='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[because:='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•saying “="trms">animal='lgc'> = victim” ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">="ppl">Despret's) mode of being engaged in ="trms">question
="lsts lst1">•(don't forget that) ='strcls'>***تقصیرپذیری culpability is easier to tolerate than ="trms">responsiblity مسئولیتپذیری='strcls'>*** (because ="trms">responsibility prevents the ="trms">question from being closed)
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>***a victim does not invite curiosity='strcls'>*** ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- curiosity is essential in ="trms">relations in which two beings learn to look and to look back (="ppl">="ppl">Despret ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway)

victim ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">="ppl">Despret’ ="trms">animal, ="frds">Sina's ="nms">Cinderella) more alive, more ="trms">present, they invite more ="trms">question ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they get the chance to become ="trms">interesting
="lsts lst1">•a ="nms">Cinderella who does her job engages us in a totally ="trms">different manner than a ="nms">Cinderella who is the victim of the ="trms">authority of her evil mother and wicked sisters


(from a clinical standpoint ='lgc'>+ in human terms) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]work='lgc'>: ="trms">gestures, know-how, the involvement of the body and the intelligence, the ability to analyze, ="trms">interpret and react to ="trms">situations='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•work transforms the ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•work objectifies intelligence
="lsts lst1">•work produces subjectivity

work, not only has to do with economic rationality, but participate in other forms of rationality, in ="trms">relation to='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•identities
="lsts lst1">•in ="trms">relationship to God
="lsts lst1">•="trms">obligation and cures
="lsts lst1">•obedience to ="trms">Nature or mastering it
="lsts lst1">•moral rationality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">Marx's) work='lgc'>: de="trms">finitve form of expressing their life (a mode of life, Dejours='lgc'>: assertion of their existence)

‘work='lgc'> = a source of recognition’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> work =
="lsts lst1">•a source of pleasure
="lsts lst1">•a practice in the construction of our identities
="lsts lst1">•a judgment about beauty (of something being well done that ='strcls'>*relies upon the recognition of one's peers='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this is something i realized in ="nms">apass) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> judgment about ='strcls'>*bond='strcls'>* (that concerns) the means of the work's doing ='lgc'>[and places where humans and ="trms">animals share things, achieve things together, accomplish themselves='lgc'>] (='lgc'>=/= the work as accomplished)='lgc'>: a ='strcls'>**reciprocal judgment (of bond ='and'>& beauty)='strcls'>** ='lgc'>[bond='lgc'>: judgment about the conditions of a life lived together ='strcls'>***even in ="trms">situations that are radically a="trms">symmetrical='strcls'>***='lgc'>] through which the breeder and his ="trms">animal ='lgc'>[also participants in ="nms">apass='lgc'>] may recognize each other

(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's) work='lgc'>: a process that ="trms">crafts capabilites to answer for ='lgc'>+ answer to

="ppl">="ppl">Despret's notion of ‘judgment of the bond at the center of all ="trms">relations’ ='lgc'>=/= Wittgenestein (famous and meaningless observation='lgc'>: “if ="trms">animals could speak we would get shouted at every day” ='lgc'>: highly ="trms">anthropocentric notion of ="trms">animal as victim)


="large lg1" stl="font-size:135%"> (Porcher's radical idea of) we work with ="trms">animals in order to be able to live with them, not the other way round

='lgc'>[="nms">Tehran's need of='lgc'>] speculative ="trms">fabulation='lgc'>: ="trms">stories that whets our appetite for possibilites, that open ="trms">imagination ='lgc'>=/= idyllic ="trms">story of a golden age

(="ppl">="ppl">Despret, Porcher, ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway) work='lgc'>: locus of unexpected encounter, the possibility of our ="trms">communication

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new ="trms">zoonotic infectious diseases ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new human-="trms">animal ="trms">relationship
vast silent reservoir in aquatic ="trms">birds
confinement, deprivation, stress
global biodiversity crisis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> there is no monopoly on ="trms">animal cruelty
mass-production of ="trms">animal suffering
unsanitary practices
(we make) mad cow disease='lgc'>: herbivores ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> carnivores ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cannibals

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='strcls'>*discussion across ideologies='strcls'>*
partisan mindset ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">social belonging='lgc'>]='lgc'>: ideology provides an ostensive set of tools (sometimes unconsciously) for analyzing a complex ="trms">social ="trms">world='lgc'> = orientation
="lsts lst1">•partisan operative mentality یک نوع ذهن عملی
="lsts lst1">•normal is ="trms">ontologically privileged over abnormalities (or vice versa)
="lsts lst1">•left-wing identity politics='lgc'>: reductive us-versus-them mentality ='lgc'>+ moral panic
i am influenced by the ="trms">demand of the other ='lgc'>[= (="ppl">Lacanian) ="trms">socio-psychic projection of a Big Other that stands in for the ="trms">presence of the ="trms">ontologically non-existent group ="trms">narrative='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> moral grounds for living
(='qstn'>?) reverting back to your ="trms">material status (as private individuals) ='lgc'>=/= looking after ideological stability and economy
thins that don't work with when talking to partisan mentality='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•factual argumentation
="lsts lst1">•punching them
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Kantian argument for the intrinsic value of all human lives
(what generally don't work='lgc'>:) reminding one's political rivals of facts ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">Levinasian) the trace of the other


(='qstn'>?why i need or not need) intellectual adversarie ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= caricatures for shooting practice='lgc'>]
(the banal and continuous hyper-polarized political partisanship of) ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right-wing populism ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">Social justice activism
(our agreement on) moral and ="trms">methodological ="trms">priority of the individual

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https://merionwest.com/2018/07/31/purity-politics-is-ruining-progressivism/
prison='lgc'>: mechanism available to remove people from ="trms">society

='lgc'>[my problem with='lgc'>: political philosophy (of) authentic radical politics ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] (academic or artistic) critical scholarship ='lgc'>[critical race theory, post-colonial theory, gender studies, etc. ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{busy with ='strcls'>**="trms">systemic grievances='strcls'>** (white supremacy, colonialism, racism, etc,)='lgc'>} ='lgc'>+ left-wing identity politics ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*leftist purity politics='strcls'>*='lgc'>] universalizing a kind of moral complicity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a reductionist ="trms">social ="trms">ontology of guilt and victimization ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{
="lsts lst1">•='thdf'>bad idea of the whole (liberalism) is ="trms">historically as="trms">sociated with, for example, colonialism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> all of its parts (people, idea[...]