[...]de her enter into ="trms">relationships with the ="trms">animals in a new mode, ='strcls'>**as a living person (like them) she creates with them an ="trms">embodied proximity='strcls'>** (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">embodied af="trms">finities) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="frds scrmbld">Jassem is very good at it. this happens as well in ="nms">apass research environment between artists='lgc'>]
='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="nms">Cinderella taking shower with her ="trms">birds in the attic ='lgc'>{urine, noise, surprise='lgc'>}
="lsts lst1">•Mark Bekoff ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> empathy='lgc'>: possibility of sharing feelings involves mirror ="trms">neurons (“I can feel the ="trms">animals”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= (an experiment to incorporate) ='strcls'>*to ="trms">embody ="trms">literally='strcls'>*
='lgc'>+ (Burghardt's) use of ='strcls'>*critical ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphism='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= Walt Disney) use of various forms of information (="trms">natural ="trms">history, perception, behavioral description, autism, ="nms">Cinderella, etc.)
="lsts lst1">•Temple Grandin (expert in factory plants for s="trms">laughter ="trms">systems) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*empathy without pathos='strcls'>* (for her and the ="trms">animals) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">world='lgc'>: a swirling mass of tiny details ='lgc'>~ ='lgc'>[="trms">animal='lgc'>: autistic savant ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= special form of genius='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a little plastic water bottle lying harmlessly, a shiny reflection, a yellow jacket hanging on a fence, all those turn out to be in their ="trms">world ='strcls'>*wrong details='strcls'>* (“I think the way ="trms">animals think”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>****="trms">animals are visual thinkers='strcls'>**** ='lgc'>{='strcls'>*you have to see in details='strcls'>*_ ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- how ='mywrk'>my work changed visually from abstract to baroque while working on the ="trms">heritage of ="trms">zoology. ='at'>#="nms">Cinderella='lgc'>: which part of me ="trms">animals give new powers and meanings='qstn'>? that part is of other beings='lgc'>}
="prgrph">-='lgc'>{Grandin actively transforms mindless ="trms">animals into meaningful geniuses ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> gives them new powers ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> changes her='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">animals (or your ghosts, your subjects) are invited to other modes of being, other ="trms">relationships, new ways to inhabit the human ="trms">world ='lgc'>+ to force human beings to address them ="trms">differently ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>**disclosing unexpected af="trms">finities ='lgc'>==create='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new identities='strcls'>** (='lgc'>=/= empathy='lgc'>: tourism of the soul) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> identities do not pre-exist identification ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*****previous construction of af="trms">finities ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> identity (is the outcome, the achievement)='strcls'>*****
(Grandin='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*marginal essence ='lgc'>--transform='lgc'>='lgc'>--> partial perspective ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> af="trms">finities='lgc'>: (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's) just-barely-connections='strcls'>*
='lgc'>}='lgc'>=/= romanticism='lgc'>: the belief that “feeling for another” belongs to some ="trms">sort of naive state of ="trms">nature
(='at'>#feedback='lgc'>: ways of showing the artists how they actively create the perspective that allows them to “see” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘giving artistic feedback='lgc'> = being an ="trms">anthropologist on Mars’)
="ppl">="ppl">Despret anticipate finding some references to the body (beyond simple “="trms">presence”) in the work of ="trms">scientists ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">question of meaning ='lgc'>+ (its corollary) the ="trms">question of perspective
tick's perception='lgc'> = ="trms">world
(we know from Uexküll) one may indeed construct a perspective without involving the body - the perspective may be drawn partially from a mental process
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*="trms">animals only perceive things that have meaning for them='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*="trms">animals construe meanings in acting='strcls'>*
Umwelt theory='lgc'>: a ="trms">scientist may make an inventory of what makes the ="trms">animal act and react ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> collecting ‘meanings’ the ="trms">scientist rebuilds the ="trms">world as each ="trms">animal perceives it ='lgc'>+ seeks for which meaning all these things take for it (='lgc'>=/= adopt the perspective of ="trms">animal)
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the ="trms">scientist aims not just to understand what something merely ‘means’ for another being, but also how something ‘="trms">matters’ for it (='lgc'>~ the most meaningful)
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="trms">language of perspective ='lgc'>--="ppl">Daston='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what does it mean to understand other minds
='strcls'>*="trms">sympathetic projection='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**perspective='lgc'>: apotheosis of subjectivity as the essence of mind='lgc'>] ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a cultural shift='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•habit of ="trms">interior observation cultivated by certain forms of piety
="lsts lst1">•increasingly refined ="trms">language of individual subjectivity (developed in the 18th and 19th century novel)
="lsts lst1">•equation drawn between ‘sensory experience='lgc'> = self’ by sensationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list psychology
="lsts lst1">•economic (and political) individualism
="lsts lst1">•cult of ="trms">sympathy
perspective ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">sympathy (with ="trms">science ='lgc'>+ ="trms">animals) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an inappropriate form of subjectivity
="lstsrd">1. adopting ="trms">animal's perspective involves a d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous flirtation with ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">anthropo="trms">morphism='lgc'>: one putting himself in the ="trms">animal's shoe ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? one actually put the ="trms">animal in human shoes
="lstsrd">2. perspective ='lgc'>==imperil='lgc'>='lgc'>==> necessary distance (or ‘sanitary cordon’ between the observer and the observed)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•="trms">anthropo="trms">morphism ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">science
="lsts lst1">•anecdote ='lgc'>=/= legitimate date
="lsts lst1">•nonhuman ='lgc'>=/= beliefs (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> you can't attribute belief to ="trms">animals)
(old dualism of) “="trms">Science ='lgc'>=/= non-="trms">science” ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= “="trms">imaginative (autobiographical, emotional) ='lgc'>=/= factual (neutral)” ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= “body ='lgc'>=/= mind”
(reconstruction of)
what is most meaningful for ="trms">animal
what is the perspective of ="trms">animal
='strcls'>*most meaningful='lgc'>: ="trms">affected perspective='strcls'>* (="ppl">="ppl">Despret) ='lgc'>=/= (Uexküll) ="trms">semiological perspective (of the tick)
(looking for or) focus on ="trms">affected perspective ='lgc'>==="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (reveals) ="trms">scientists’ bodies in their practice ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what having a body means (for ="trms">scientists)
='lgc'>+
(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) ='strcls'>*bodies are “made” by ="trms">scientific practices ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='thdf'>that is why the ="trms">question of ="trms">science is important for whoever dealing or working with the body='lgc'>]
='lgc'>+
(="ppl">Annemarie ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) bobies (that are made) are enacted multiples (in medical practice)
='lgc'>+
(="ppl">="ppl">Despret ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) how bodies are undoing and redoing themselves through ="trms">different ="trms">scientific practices with ="trms">animals='qstn'>?='lgc'> = ='strcls'>*how are bodies growing multiples in diverse practices='qstn'>?='strcls'>* ='lgc'>+ (its corollary) ='strcls'>*how do each of these practices (='lgc'>+ ="trms">animals they are addressing) enact each of these bodies='qstn'>?='strcls'>*
Mowat's ='strcls'>*modest ="trms">embodiment='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>='lgc'>==> partial af="trms">finities ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= seeing like a wolf or mouse='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> feeling or being like a wolf or mouse='lgc'> = ='strcls'>****to be taken in a radically non-psychological sense='strcls'>**** (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">Cinderella's non-psychological ="trms">relation to her ="trms">birds and mice ='lgc'>=/= contemporary western psychological subjects)
='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="nms">="trms">wildboyz, ="nms">Cinderella under a mouse regimen
="prgrph">-using his body as an experimental tool ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> eating a wolf's diet (='lgc'>=/= empathy, romantic dream of being a wolf)
submit his own body to mouse diet
one uses one's own body to meet the needs of another
Mowat used his own body as a means of generating ="trms">scientific proof, and turned it into an ="trms">apparatus for validity ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how do we apply or misapply our body in artistic environment for generating truth and validity='qstn'>? to be careful with the context of ="trms">generalization='lgc'>]
(='lgc'>[artist's and='lgc'>] ="trms">scientist's) body='lgc'>: a ="trms">technical device, the witness
(companion ="trms">story ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>***to ="trms">embody the way other beings solve their survival problems='strcls'>***
“the business of curling up to start with, and spinning around after each nap” (was vital to success with a dozing wolf) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">Cinderella's choreography of the morning ="trms">greeting ceremony
limits of endurance
i feld that i, because of my ="trms">specific superiority as a ="trms">member of Homo sapiens, together with my intensive ="trms">technical training, was entitled to ='strcls'>*pride of place='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= being under observation
Mowat's humour ='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Derrida not ="trms">laughing at his own worries (concerned with='lgc'>: what distinguish ="trms">animals from man is their “being naked without knowing it”)
="lsts lst1">•naked body is a pretext, a pre-text for more philosophy
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Derrida is talking to his colleagues (the very people who are ='strcls'>**seeking grandiose ="trms">difference='strcls'>** ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- also artists) ='lgc'>=/= a ="trms">difference that happens to him
="lsts lst1">•(my problem with the old tiring trend in philosophy ='lgc'>[after encounter with Manning='lgc'>]='lgc'>:) looking for locus of things ='lgc'>[a generality='lgc'>] ='lgc'>: talk about ‘the figure of the cat'='lgc'> = the allegory for all the cats on the earth (='lgc'>~ the felines that ="trms">traverses our myths and ="trms">religions, ="trms">literature and ="trms">fables)
='strcls'>***what the cat might actually be doing='strcls'>***
(this is my ="trms">relation to description, what is the ="trms">world, that cat, the demon, the mice up to='qstn'>? and use my best ="trms">imaginative ="trms">crafts and precise descriptive acts, the answers are many. that is not about de="trms">finition or defining ‘what is’ the cat that visits me or the spider in my room. i only try to well define concepts and not subjects. my style of ="trms">presenting ='mywrk'>my research on ="nms">ajayeb ="trms">bestiary='lgc'>: ="trms">narrating the ="trms">contingency of the ="trms">differences that happened and ="trms">mattered to me in particular ='lgc'>=/= philosophy)
wolves (='lgc'>=/= nomadic roamer) have strong feelings of property ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights and they ritually and regularly mark their boundaries
what am i allowed to do with my body when i am with ="trms">animals='qstn'>?
(="ppl">="ppl">Despret ='lgc'>+ Strum ='lgc'>+ Mowat) using one's body to make the ="trms">animal ="trms">respond (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> does this make sense with humans='qstn'>? in ="nms">apass for example ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> use your body to make them ="trms">respond ='lgc'>=/= react)
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a “good” (actually bad) ="trms">scientist='lgc'> = learning to be invisible, like a rock to be unavailable, as if ="trms">data-collecting humankind were not ="trms">present, seeing the s[...]