[...]s 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)


(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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> (="ppl">="ppl">Despret, Porcher, ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway) work='lgc'>: locus of unexpected encounter, the possibility of our ="trms">communication

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eternal turtle

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new ="trms">zoonotic infectious diseases ='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'>==> 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'>==> 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'>==> all of its parts (people, ideas, etc.) are equally as="trms">sociated with colonialism
="lsts lst1">•='thdf'>the idea of ="trms">modernity ='lgc'>+ the rise of the individual ='lgc'>==> (a sense of) loss of ="trms">community
='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•participation
="lsts lst1">•horizontalism
="lsts lst1">•institutional distrust
="lsts lst1">•ad hoc organizations

forensic architecture='lgc'>: purifying itself of (and overcome) injustice ='lgc'>=/= meaningful progressive change

(Occupy movement, protest mentality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how left-wing purity politics missed the) consequences electoral capacity, electoral politics
(not knowing how to use) liberal institutions

="lsts lst1">•(thinking with Bruzzone ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) we need more ='strcls'>*impure politics='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: (reform ='and'>& compromise mentality)
="lsts lst2">◦how to transform knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge into ='strcls'>*electoral mobilization='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= ="frds scrmbld">Pierre's ="trms">interest in ="trms">fiction, ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo's ="trms">interest in a morally pure collective future)
="lsts lst2">◦how to form alliances with groups whom you have grave doubts
="lsts lst1">•we don't need ='strcls'>*hoard of like-minded people sharing collective ="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger and disgust at injustice='strcls'>*



post="trms">modern conservatism='lgc'>: ="trms">="trms">empirical / ideological
neoliberal ="trms">societies='lgc'>: hierarchies tolerated by citizens so long as the economy continues to prosper



something happens ='lgc'>==> together ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">social group

entitative='lgc'>: the quality of groupiness, a perception that the people together are a group ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*perception of similarity='strcls'>*

="trms">interaction based on ="trms">interdependence ='lgc'>==> ="trms">social group

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]group='lgc'>: experience of ="trms">social identity

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='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">embody='lgc'>: empathetically experience ="trms">situations ‘from outside’
(="ppl">="ppl">Despret raising the ="trms">question) ='strcls'>*what can we do or what are we allowed to do with our bodies when we are with our ="trms">animals='qstn'>?='strcls'>*

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]empathy='lgc'>: bodies that undo and redo each other (reciprocally though not ="trms">symmetrically) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= experiencing with one's own body what the other experiences='lgc'>]
='lgc'>==> possibilites of an ="trms">embodied ="trms">communication

feeling ='and'>& emotions are not alone in making up what life is all about

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> (="ppl">="ppl">Despret researching) ways in which ="trms">scientists’ bodies are actively being involved while they are observing ="trms">animals
='lgc'>--="frds">Sina='lgc'>='lgc'>--> becoming describable as a body ='lgc'>[that moves, walks, bears, diffuses, smells, makes noise, follows, ...='lgc'>]

the old rule of “human bodies shouldn't ="trms">interfere in a properly ="trms">scientific research process ='lgc'>=/= Lorenz='lgc'>:
...feed his jackdaw with worms
...attempted to teach him to fly
...swam with the geese
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Lorenz aimed at elucidating ‘meaning’ in and through the ="trms">relationships he sustained with the ="trms">animals he was studying ='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•he understood for a little goose what mother is/means by letting his own body be caught in that meaning of mother
="lsts lst1">•he achieved what ‘companionship’ is/means for a jackdaw through being fed and playing with, and flying lessons
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***what ="trms">matters in the ="trms">animal's ="trms">world='lgc'> = what bears meaning from their point of view='strcls'>***


="trms">presence
='strcls'>*if the ="trms">scientists body is evoked, it is never for itself nor is it named as such ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> when seeking the body, we are offered a surprisingly abstract concept='lgc'>: “="trms">presence” (under the guise of “="trms">presence of the observer”) ='lgc'>=/= body
="prgrph">-the ="trms">presence has no skin, it does not sweat, nor does it eat, sleep, dream, fear ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">presence='lgc'>: the perceived body which never acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges itself as a body (there is no ="trms">presence that could be unperceived in one way or in an other)='lgc'> = dis="trms">embodied body ='lgc'><== ='strcls'>*="trms">science='lgc'>: the cognitive activity par excellence='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•ob="trms">literates the actual ="trms">presence of the observer ='lgc'>--understood='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (in terms of a) convenient and non-problematized split “="trms">presence ='lgc'>=/= absence”
="lsts lst1">•(='qstn'>?if these attempts succeed in) reducing the reactivity of the ="trms">animal to the rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">="trms">wildboyz
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘not having a body'='lgc'> = a mean to pre="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude (to prevent or to avoid) ='strcls'>**the always possible reciprocity of the encounter='strcls'>** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> aliens are watching us!='lgc'>]
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘having a body’ discloses and renders perceptible (it is the actual condition of) the very existence of reciprocity of the encounter

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how ="trms">scientists (and artists) construe their ="trms">presence in the field
='strcls'>*the will to be there without being there='strcls'>*

the problematic “="trms">animals react ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">animal don't react”

(also in art ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>***the regime of distrust of influence='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">fable of ‘artist's o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal ="trms">interiority'='lgc'>]


="large lg5" stl="font-size:115%"> ="prgrph">-='strcls'>*- what does ‘meaningful’ means='qstn'>? -='strcls'>*-

="trms">scientists aim to find new ="trms">methods to focus on those behaviors that are most meaningful to the ="trms">animals themselves
="lsts lst1">•Shirly Strum ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> I tried to let the baboons themselves “tell” me what was ‘important’ (-how a tree can tell you what is important to them='qstn'>?) -with the baboonss='lgc'>: nothing made them believe that she could be a baboon, so she decided after a while that she could try to urinate while staying among the baboons ='lgc'>==> surprise (='lgc'>=/= trying not to disturb the baboons with her body) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> her body (style, gender, smell, look, anime, etc.) ma[...]