[...]talk, model, puppet
='strcls'>*using stop-motion animation, clay formation, ="trms">material ="trms">animal facial properties
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seeing a car crashing, is seeing a ="trms">causation, seeing a reasoning, is that logos='qstn'>? is it logos when we see a physical experimentation='qstn'>?
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='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>]
the established (dis)order is NOT necessary!
grips of necessity
(the real does/did not have to be or happen that way. the ‘real’ is the result of ="trms">contingencies and it can be undone by working the ="trms">contingencies, with ="trms">skill.)
laboring bodies, playing bodies, ="trms">sensuous bodies
(feminism='lgc'>:) you can't get freedom outside of mortality
="prgrph">-theology, the negative way of knowing, the necessary discipline of ="trms">positive affirmation in order to know what is not knowable, is a very helpful tradition
when it comes to ="trms">language we, humans, will always win over the ="trms">animals.
we will always be the ones who control the law, the ="trms">database.
(all is bad news both for the charismatic end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered Bangali tiger and the individual chicken in the food industry.)
fight the divisions and ="trms">differences
we are in a very bad place for ="trms">animals and woman
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can we do without ="trms">instrumentalization='qstn'>?
="trms">categories of killable='lgc'>--the ="trms">question of how we kill
the ="trms">question of one's-own-old-hat
regarding what you are against='lgc'>: we might find ourselves properly addressing a particular issue but having no ability to make political connection, to think beyond the ="trms">categories
='strcls'>*thinking='lgc'>: a ="trms">materia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list practice with other thinkers='lgc'>--done best as ="trms">storytelling
for me politics is that to be able to locate ways of life that deserves work, that which deserve op="trms">position, that which deserve our curiosity
dis="trms">embodiment is a ="trms">technologically produced effect='lgc'>--many people are very ="trms">skillful in creating that effect ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> effects that are also ="trms">affect/="trms">affectional
(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway on ="trms">writing the cyborg manifesto) SK
the physiological state of neutrality is an ="trms">affective state
(='thdf'>the notion that violent and passion counts as ="trms">affect and neutrality is without ="trms">affect is chemically bizarre) ='lgc'>-- ="trms">neuro-chemistry of a certain kind of self-collection
refusing the division between ="trms">material and im="trms">material
to call information-="trms">world im="trms">material is wrong
(this is the base of ='mywrk'>my work related to ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway)
in the case of vision='lgc'>: the ="trms">material and the ="trms">semiotic always implode ='lgc'>[the ="trms">apparatus and the flesh='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the effect of ='strcls'>*dis="trms">embodiment is a ="trms">technologically produced effect='strcls'>* (that is also always ="trms">affectional) (we have to get good at producing it)
='lgc'>[...so she was among (1983 ="ppl">Marxist) feminists (and the figure of cyborg is al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready in circulation for her='lgc'>--about the ="trms">questions of reproduction ="trms">technologies related to the ="trms">situation of women) without biological education='lgc'>--not only that, many of her feminist allies thought of biology as the enemy ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> anti="trms">natural rejection of the ="trms">sciences in feminist the agreement “that ‘="trms">nature’ is our enemy and that we must control our ‘="trms">natural’ bodies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> escalating logic of counterdomination='lgc'>] so her manifesto is all about that. biology is (a rich ="trms">fabulous practice and) never innocent, and it is something that ‘we mean’. in the sense of ‘what do you mean='qstn'>?!'='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[we are always telling knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">stories that we need ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> noninnocent='lgc'>]
(something is) boring ='lgc'>=='qstn'>?='lgc'>=> (something is) wrong
why do i ="trms">joke='qstn'>? it has to do with ="trms">storytelling.
anything anybody tells me i tend to believe='lgc'>--what i learn from whores
working within an ="trms">apparatus of thinking in order to get somewhere in a sustained way and not to drift into as="trms">sociations as fast as... ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
i can't finish the sentence until i can pay attention to what ="trms">interrupts it. and if i syntactically require to come to the end of sentence, syntactically commits me to a ="trms">position i don't hold. the ="trms">technical requirement of clarity (and coherence='lgc'>--must learn how to do it). my ="trms">storytelling is about how not to reach the end of sentence. (that Peter noted as suspension)
='lgc'>['thinking pushed into syntax’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='mywrk'>my work ="trms">lecture-performances are about a thinking ="trms">excessing out of syntax. not all argumentation is made in syntax(= how a sentence must end), and turn it into a ="trms">skill of nonsyntactical ="trms">pragmatic ="trms">language ="trms">craft tradition, advocating the ='strcls'>*exceedingly ="trms">agential='strcls'>* ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= there is always ‘a whole lot is going on'='lgc'>]
the iterative and fractal quality of sentences
partial connections (of distinct entities) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= analogy
analogy allows one part contaminate ="trms">systematically another part and vice versa
(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway on feminism)
feminist theory is especially good in getting at in particular ways doctrines of ="trms">nature's work to enforce ways of life on women, on people of color, on the enslaved, on those who do not possess the qualities of mind and self-possession, on those who are on the marked ="trms">categories to the unmarked. the feminist have been particularly good at getting how genre works. gender, in this regard. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that female by ="trms">nature is committed to the ="trms">species and the male by ="trms">nature committed to transcendence.
='lgc'>[our in="trms">herited binaries ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] ="trms">formulations of ="trms">nature='lgc'>: executive/non-executive organs, immanence/transcendence, maintenance/novelty, catabolic(foru-sakht فرو ساخت, sukht سوخت)/anabolic(tarkib-saz ترکیب ساز) functions, ,,
="prgrph">-in ="ppl">Darwin's ="trms">writing, non-theological account of diversity on earth, we find both ="trms">interrupters and continuers of these particular notions of ="trms">nature
the ="trms">question of model, what is the model for what, what is similar to what='qstn'>?
='strcls'>****how do we do comparative thinking='qstn'>? comparative thinking depends on similarity judgment and ="trms">difference judgment, and depends on good-enough models, and depends on a certain kind of ="trms">rhetorical work of ='strcls'>*="trms">crafting ="trms">tropes='strcls'>*
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> figures of similarity/="trms">difference='lgc'>:
by similarity, or
by contiguity, or
by part-whole, or
...
(this is ‘building’ ='strcls'>*among='strcls'>* us)
(how do i decide to compare two things='qstn'>? Shirin and Ophelia, etc)
models are built ="trms">rhetorics
="trms">history of models
the power of models is that they are not the ‘same as’
circuits of meaning and power that flow through (="trms">materials and bodies)
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mondial ='lgc'>~='qstn'>? ="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
the idiom ‘="trms">situated’ makes people think ‘local’ (instead of global)
by ="trms">situated she means the ‘knot’ which always means some place and somewhere, but that someplace/somewhere could be in ="trms">materiality a distributed digital ="trms">network. the ="trms">situated is always open. the point is that it is not nowhere and no place.
epidemic friendly
the flow of disease are major ="trms">international research ="trms">matter
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eco-feminism, veganism is for ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway is genocidal ="trms">position, a ="trms">position that advocates violence, a ="trms">position dedicated to the destruction of ways of life and living beings in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding ="trms">animals, ='lgc'>[a ="trms">position that='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*concise all working ="trms">animals to being nothing but evidence of the destructive and violating im="trms">position of human will on ="trms">natural stuff='strcls'>*, and “that domestic ="trms">animals of all kinds are victims and de="trms">monstrations of human hubris گستاخى, and they have been made into tools” ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= an extreme developemnt of liberal theory ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the (work) ="trms">animals are not self-defining subjects, are violations and victims, and should not exisit, except as='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">heritage-="trms">animals
="lsts lst1">•rescue-="trms">animals
="lsts lst1">•wards of guardianship
(='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb and ="trms">question of ="trms">heritage has been exactly against that ="trms">position)
the radical anti-food-industry ="trms">position is a radical liberal theory turns all working ="trms">animals into (at best) ='strcls'>*="trms">heritage-="trms">animals='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">animal to be preserved as much as possible separate from human use ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “all human use is bad”
(='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we know that the ="trms">question of use and ="trms">instrumentalism cannot for mortal ="trms">finite beings rid out of liberation theory and practice)
='lgc'>[='thdf'>for example the dis="trms">position of the film How to Train Your Dragon='lgc'>: The Hidden ="trms">World, where at the end dragons are better off their human partners ='lgc'>~ kabutar ba kabutar baz ba baz کبوتر با کبوتر باز با باز='lgc'>]
='strcls'>**killing is not something mortal beings can avoid='strcls'>** (us or them)
='strcls'>*the human beings have regularly and in complex ways produced other living entities as killable='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[="trms">category of killable='lgc'>: a killing that doesn't quite count as killing='lgc'>]
killing your pet when she is too sick='lgc'> = a judgment in ="trms">responsive ="trms">relationship that is not equal
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to say that “meat culture everywhere and always are acts of violation” is wrong
“post-”, ='thdf'>the notion of ‘surpassing’ that is inevitability bui[...]