[...]ive='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'>*
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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)
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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="trms">cene of ="trms">nature close up through a peep-hole, remove from the subject ="trms">animals’ ="trms">social environment
="lsts lst1">•(ignoring ="trms">animal ="trms">social cues) ="trms">imagining the baboons as seeing somebody off-="trms">category, not something ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to be a ='strcls'>*nonentity='strcls'>* (tolerated but unobtrusive!!)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]distance='lgc'>: a cognitive and ="trms">relational perspective ='lgc'>{what kind of distance, aesop ="trms">fables, Kelile Demne, or ="nms">ajayeb takes or keeps='qstn'>?='lgc'>}
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> learn to be ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]polite='lgc'>: (in the ethical, political, and ="trms">epistemological senses of the word) to ="trms">respond, to acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, to look back, and ='strcls'>*to ="trms">greet='strcls'>*
='strcls'>****politeness ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> transforms you ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in the way of those you are being polite to='strcls'>**** (='lgc'><='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>-- ="nms">Cinderella's politeness)
companion ="trms">story ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> wich who we share food ='lgc'>{='lgc'>=/= with who we cook together ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- generated protocols ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> host, guest, house, power='lgc'>}
='lgc'>[(="ppl">Annemarie's) praxiographic enquiry into the='lgc'>] (="ppl">="ppl">Despret's) ="trms">embodied practices of knowing ='lgc'>[of (="frds">Sina's) ="nms">Cinderella='lgc'>]
='strcls'>**bodies enact ='lgc'>=/= perform='strcls'>**
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Chloe, Mette ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (ironic) performing a protocol ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">embodied choreography
(contemporary choreography ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">embodiment)
(="trms">scientists and ="trms">animals are fleshy creatures which are) enacted and enacting through their ='strcls'>*="trms">embodied choreography='strcls'>* (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="trms">epistemological, political, ="trms">ontological)
="trms">scientist work ='lgc'>[observing, collecting events, meeting them, ="trms">writing about, inscribing them into theories ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> explain why they do what they do='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*makes their ="trms">animals more real='strcls'>*
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a praxiographic account ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= feedback='lgc'>] (paying attention to the way ="trms">scientists ="trms">embody their work) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*make ="trms">scientists more real='strcls'>*
(for ="nms">apass) we need praxiography ='lgc'>=/= philosophy or theory ='lgc'>[of artistic research='lgc'>]
="frds">Sina's note taking in ="nms">apass ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how ='strcls'>*practices at some point become words='strcls'>*
='at'>#feedback in ="nms">apass ='lgc'>==make='lgc'>='lgc'>==> artists and their work more real
feedback ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">interpretive version ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> coexistence of the various versions of a multiple object (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this is localized or ='strcls'>*="trms">situated='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: it happens “there” and nowhere else)
work of observation in ="nms">apass='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•conceptualizations of short-term ="trms">social exchanges
="lsts lst1">•conceptualizations of ="trms">agency-structure dynamics
="lsts lst1">•getting closer to the everyday activities of those speaking
="lsts lst1">•(context driven='qstn'>?) forms of analysis
="lsts lst1">•="trms">methodological repertoire
="lsts lst1">•note='lgc'>: com="trms">posites of ="trms">linguistic repertoires that are embedded in meanings (is part of what happens in ="nms">apass, not after what happens.) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a form of di="trms">gestion='strcls'>***
='strcls'>*praxiography='lgc'>: forms of analysis produced by practice rese="trms"nttrm="search">archers, a type of ethnographic ="trms">method that converses with multiplicity (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> following a trail, walking a path ='lgc'>=/= map out a field ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= philosophy of artistic research), doctors ='lgc'>[analyst='lgc'>] and patients ='lgc'>[analysand, artist='lgc'>] ascribe meaning in ="trms">different ways ='lgc'>--="ppl">Annemarie='lgc'>='lgc'>--> yet they perform or enact reality together ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they ='strcls'>*do the reality of a disease ='lgc'>[problem, artwork='lgc'>]='strcls'>*
='lgc'>+='lgc'>+='lgc'>{="ppl">Annemarie uses the term “enact” to show that objects (such as body and disease) exist as ="trms">articulations of the practices that produce them (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="ppl">Butler's performance), enacting (not explained by what went before, ="trms">present remains unstable, patterns and ="trms">routines and surprises) ='lgc'>=/= making (‘causes’ lie when ‘making’ happened)='lgc'>}
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]theory='lgc'>: conversations about the realities our words help to explore (='lgc'>=/= seeking to fix concepts)
in knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge practice realities are various brought into being (='lgc'>+ limits of that adaptability) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">ontology='lgc'>:
='lgc'>--="trms">anthropology='lgc'>='lgc'>--> people order “reality” ="trms">seriously ="trms">differently
='lgc'>--biomedical='lgc'>='lgc'>--> why, when, where is this truth realized='qstn'>? what does it depend on='qstn'>? what are its alternatives='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">ontology does not precede knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge practices='strcls'>* (various practices are closely linked ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">ontologies are linked ='lgc'>[='thdf'>for example a patient who talks to a doctor in a consulting room may receive a clinical diagnosis, while laboratory ="trms">measurements ‘do’ her disease in a ="trms">different way. or in artistic research environments such as ="nms">apass.='lgc'>])
(="ppl">Annemarie's) praxiography ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> asking what are the ="trms">techniques that make things (their ="trms">="trms">empirical, ="trms">epistemological found objects) visible, audible, tangible, knowable (for this artist in front of me ='at'>#feedback ='at'>@="nms">apass)='strcls'>**
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‘empathy’ is a word that is often ="trms">recruited when bodies are involved ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> resonances with troublesome romantic meanings (magic, ="trms">fold knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge)
="trms">embodied empathy shifts its meaning from one ="trms">situation to another ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">different meanings ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">different outcomes
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]empathy='lgc'>: the process by which one delegates to one's body a ="trms">question, or a problem, that ="trms">matters and that involves other beings’ bodies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bodies are ="trms">articulating and become ="trms">articulated in the asking and in its ="trms">responses
= making the body available for the ="trms">response of another being (='lgc'>=/= feeling what the other feels)
='lgc'>==create='lgc'>='lgc'>==> possibility of an ="trms">embodied ="trms">communication (='lgc'>=/= experiencing with one's body what the other experiences)
='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="nms">Cinderella's empathy='lgc'>: make one think with ='and'>& with the body
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*empathy becomes a ="trms">scientific tool='strcls'>* that need to be shaped, forged, refined, ="trms">embodied, a tool that attunes bodies
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]care='lgc'>: it ="trms">matters for them that it ="trms">matters for their ="trms">animals (='strcls'>***what ="trms">matters for the other person becomes your ="trms">matters='strcls'>***)
how to act in a polite manner in a baboon's ="trms">world='qstn'>? (or in an artist's ="trms">world, when we give feedbacks)
='lgc'>{seeing like a baboon ='lgc'>=/= acting like a baboon='lgc'> = cor="trms">responding with a baboon='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*they transform themselves in order to create partial connections='strcls'>* (James’ “acting as if”) ='lgc'>=/= performative
="lsts lst1">•to act with the baboons (learn how a tree gives you dirty looks, how it resists the pro="trms">position of your ="trms">presence)
="lsts lst1">•Lorenz's “becoming with”
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Despret's “the miracle of the attunement”
="trms">embodied ="trms">communication ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">responsible ="trms">relation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> constructing the possibility of engagement
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">responsible='lgc'>: the one who constructs him/herself in order to be available to a ="trms">respond
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (to ="trms">imagine that we can actually) cor="trms">respond through the choreographic ="trms">language of our bodies
“traying to get knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge"='lgc'> = knowing for the sake of knowing ='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>-- 19th century adventure hunter ="trms"nttrm="search">archeologist imperialism
='strcls'>***(for James) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]emotion='lgc'>: what makes us feel (='lgc'>=/= what is felt), an experience of making available ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> an occasion for others ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>****emotions ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> dispose our bodies='strcls'>**** (='lgc'>+ our bodies dispose our emotions) ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Chloe
="prgrph">-if we want to feel an emotion, we can dispose our body to produce it (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this was my ="trms">method in my early performances in 2014)
Lorenz, Strum, Smuts, ="ppl">="ppl">Despret
learn to become what it becames when it acts ‘as if’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*stakes of re="trms">liable knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>: to thing with='strcls'>*
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="ppl">Baxstrom ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">anthropology of the ="trms">anthropologist
="ppl">="ppl">Despret ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ethology of the ethologist
اشعیا Isaiah provides a vivid ="trms">imaginary of multi="trms">species bonds and flourishing='lgc'>: the wold will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little ="trms">child will lead them
='strcls'>*nonhuman ="trms">animals are as much subjects of ="trms">history as humans are='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-why do we ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listen to prohpets='qstn'>?
quasi-theological and ="trms">anthropocentric notions such as that of the great chain of being
(the importance of) changing ourselves as humans ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> change ="trms">animals
="lsts lst1">•how changing human habits also gives other ="trms">animals a chance to change theirs='qstn'>?
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]ethology='lgc'>: a practice of habits involving distance, knowing activity, politeness, milieu, alliance
(i am ="trms">interested in women) not because of gender ='lgc'>[= identity politics, political correctness='lgc'>], but because of ='strcls'>*their practice and the ="trms">question they pursue='strcls'>*
what parrots talk about
talking ="trms">birds and primates as subjective ="trms">interlocutors who can become persons in the exchanges allowed by ="trms">language
='strcls'>*they never posed the ="trms">question of knowing what a raven could, through this somewhat maniacal behavior, teach them about what ="trms">interested it='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-(curious) being always teach you what that being is ="trms">interested in
very bottom of the ladder of choices...
for ="nms">Tehran='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. ="trms">memory studies
="lstsrd">2. kalagh shenasi (raven studies) کلاغ شناسی
ravens, evidently, do not want to obey any of the rules that make research possible='lgc'>: the incivility that ex="trms">communicated them from the laboratoies of the behaviorists having al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready been stigmatized from the time of the Flood (in Noah's ark)
ravens are by all account unre="trms">liable ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- calling into ="trms">question the intelligence of their rese="trms"nttrm="search">archers, the pertinence of their models, and the solidity of their dis="trms">positives
='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to Kelile Demne
='strcls'>*the ravens ="trms">literally ="trms">recruit their rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer='strcls'>*
to ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">recruit='lgc'>: they will reveal to him the resolution of an enigma the difficulty and the ="trms">interest of which would be in ="trms">accord with what makes them impossible to study
(from) season ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> season
(from) enigma ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> findings
(from) hypothesis ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tests
suspense and sudden turns ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> transform all that we know about ravens
the ravens ="trms">present a behavior that has no sense from the point of view of evolution
the “guilty” of the ="trms">story are given from the beginning
='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ='lgc'>[="ppl">Daston's='lgc'>] ="trms">historian of ="trms">science (always knew how the ="trms">story ended)='lgc'>: ="trms">imagine you are the kind of a person who cheats when ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading mystery novels, and you ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read the last page first to know who did it, and then when you ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read the rest of mystery ="trms">story, you know everything is building towards this climax, you ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read it in a very ="trms">different way than the person who has to retrace all that have been implanted in your way by the ="trms">author to throw you off the scent of the real villain ='lgc'>{='lgc'>='lgc'>==> you lose the ="trms">past in the image of the ="trms">present='lgc'>}
='lgc'>+ ="trms">scientist (who wish to have a) ="trms">story about ='strcls'>*why we believe what we believe now and why it is ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[knowing that everything we know now will be overturned if not now later='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pathos and progress of ="trms">science ='lgc'>{='lgc'>='lgc'>==> negates ="trms">science's enormous creativity and capacity for renovation='lgc'>}
="prgrph">-='strcls'>*="ppl">="ppl">Foucault showed how many more objects ='lgc'>[sexuality, etc.='lgc'>] have ="trms">histories (that we thought they don't, that they are constant for all humanity for all time for all cultures)
ravens are capable of being silent when they don't care to be noticed
(the raven inviting the others to share in the party, when food is difficult to find ='lgc'>+ they are experts in hiding food items) eyes of an ethologist ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> why do ravens do that which the logic of evolution should prohibit them from doing='qstn'>? ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this motive will be not only a ="trms">matter of discovering but also of inscribing in the regime of proof
hierarchical ladder ='lgc'>=/= great economy of conflicts
one-upmanship
(raven's) acts that appear to be useless, pertain at once to both the game and to the affirmation of ="trms">skill
='strcls'>**reciprocity of exchanges of good conduct='strcls'>**
="lsts lst1">•you are ="trms">interested in the ="trms">differences
="lsts lst1">•you are ="trms">interested in unexpected strategies
="lsts lst1">•you take into account the fact that the ="trms">animal does not cease to transgress the rules and models ='lgc'>+ that it is unpre="trms">dictable in its choices (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ravens ="trms">demand this) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> you adopt other ='strcls'>***criteria of achievement='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in giving ='at'>#feedback to artists='lgc'>: understanding their ‘criteria of achievement’ (has nothing of an ambitious program about it, but) leaves their program totally open in regards to its realization='lgc'>]
="lsts lst2">◦for example (Heinrish explains) raven's criteria of achievement='lgc'>: the raven can ='strcls'>****procure resources from the environment and convert them to ="nms">a little more of itself='strcls'>**** (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='at'>@="nms">apass this is also what artists do, ='strcls'>*converting the environment into ="nms">a little more of itself='strcls'>*)
='lgc'>=/= theory of ="trms">sociobiology ='lgc'>{raven='lgc'> = an umpteenth ='thdf'>example of the “all purpose” model of the theory of the “selfish gene” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> altruistic behaviors ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> transmit the greatest possible number of its genes to the population ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ravens who are altruistic ="trms">recruiters (sharing rare resources), costly from the individual point of view, can reap benefits in regard to evolution ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ='strcls'>*the ="trms">animal simply obeys a relatively inflexible rule='lgc'>: help your relatives, ignore others, and you will multiply the copies of yourself='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*your ="trms">animal will be similar to others and all the variations be nothing but details of the same motive='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ="nms">Cinderella='lgc'>]='lgc'>}
how does the motive make the “crime” an achievement for the raven='qstn'>?
how (to ="trms">accord) this achievement (with that which) ="trms">translate to (the raven's everyday) survival='qstn'>?
(register of) negotiations of ="trms">interest and stakes ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= (politeness of) “getting to know” by posing the ="trms">question, in terms of achievement, what it is that ="trms">interests the raven
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to elucidate (not just what and how, but) why the raven does what it does
="lsts lst1">•the ravens will not show you straightforwardly what counts for them ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> you have to create ="trms">situations that permit the ravens to help you decide (among all the contesting ="trms">fictions) the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right ="trms">fiction ='lgc'>[='at'>#artistic feedback as ="trms">fictioning='lgc'>]
dance of hesitation
(a cadaver لاشه, once a preditor, waiting for an imprudent raven) to reverse the ="trms">situation='lgc'>: to convert the ="trms">bird into ="nms">a little more of itself
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> salutary egoism='lgc'>: it would be better to be with many others in the case of this type of error
organization
cooperation
i find, you open
='strcls'>*work of the rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer='lgc'> = leading the ravens to take a ="trms">position in ="trms">relation to his ="trms">fictions and hypothesis='strcls'>* (resisting those that don't explain, clarifying those that do) ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**the rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer must create a dis="trms">positive that confers on the ravens “the power not to submit to his ="trms">interpretations”='strcls'>** ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- politeness of “getting to know” ='lgc'>{"getting to know you” does not necessarily turn on an attentive benevolence but on the art of finding the forces, and exchanging them, in an exercise of ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]rivalry='lgc'>: (constituted by) a clever mixture of complicity ='and'>& op="trms">position='lgc'>}
test of the intelligence and cunning (of each other)
(in the case of ravens ='lgc'>[and ='at'>#feedback in art='lgc'>])
theoretically ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we understand nothing
practically ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we have to learn their tricks to be able to approach them
='strcls'>**a ="trms">matter of finding the procedures that attest to the pertinence of explanations='strcls'>** (='lgc'>=/= a ="trms">matter of explaining/understanding them)
enigma ='lgc'>--='lgc'>{(like good detective ="trms">stories) inscribes the protagonists in a ="trms">relation of='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> rivalry هم اورى ='lgc'>: if you want to understand them you must try to be as smart and cunning than they are (not letting oneself be duped by appearances)
politeness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> suspicion ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= respect (‘re-="trms">spectare’ to look twice)
="lsts lst1">•confidence without verification offers little guarantee as to its robustness
we want to witness in a re="trms">liable manner='lgc'> = we want that which we learn from the ravens is to be treated with confidence='lgc'> = we want to define ourselves as ="trms">authorized by them to speak in their names='lgc'> = we want to (required to) offer them the opportunity to show what they can do (with the ='strcls'>*great flexibility of our ="trms">interpretation='strcls'>*)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">trap
(enigma of the apparently inexplicable behavior) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*how to ask the ravens, with the same politeness, to take a ="trms">position in ="trms">relations to all the possible conjectures of the investigation='qstn'>?='strcls'>* how to ask them to teach us the good explanation, the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right motive='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer will have to learn the ='strcls'>***art of the ="trms">trap and the net='strcls'>***='lgc'> = the art of the ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure and the trick='lgc'> = ='strcls'>***the art of learning from those whose enigma you are trying to solve='strcls'>*** (and have no intention of helping you) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘how that which counts can count for them’
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*the art of metis / cunning intelligence='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: the particular form of intelligence that the ="trms">greeks (learning from hunters and fishermen) cultivated='lgc'> = intuition شهود ='lgc'>+ cunning مکر ='lgc'>+ perspicacity فراست ='lgc'>+ dissimulation فریب ='lgc'>+ improvisation بدیهه ='lgc'>+ vigilant attention هوشيار ='lgc'>+ sense of timeliness بجا (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this type of “getting to know” was constituted exaclty to be found in a domain where human intelligence is constantly at grips with the land or sea ="trms">animals in an are where humans saw their intelligence and ="trms">techniques transform in learning from ="trms">animals='strcls'>**** ='lgc'>[-how to prolong the possibility of this transformation='qstn'>?='lgc'>]) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='strcls'>*it is the only way of getting to know that can hope to address intelligent highly flexible='strcls'>* (="ppl">="ppl">Despret > Heinrish)='lgc'> = ravens who require of those who want to know them the same flexibility and the same intelligence
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>[="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ="nms">ajayeb ="trms">bestiary as enigma; ="nms">Bambi's mother studies; little mermaid; (using ="ppl">="ppl">Despret's ethological research to think about) art of feedback ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= getting to know you ='lgc'>=/= audience engagement='lgc'>]
strange politeness
art of cunning (="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures ='lgc'>+ manipulation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> enticing ravens
='strcls'>*seeing without being seen='strcls'>*
="trms">obliging them ='lgc'>: ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">luring them to actualize the choices ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>***creating ="trms">situations as if they were ="trms">natural='strcls'>*** (so as to let the ="trms">birds do the talking)
(it is a ="trms">matter of) rendering them more robust ='lgc'>[giving them the occasion to resists, of giving them ='strcls'>*the power to send the rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer/="trms">storyteller to work='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= to dis="trms">articulate (what ="ppl">Ferdosi does in Shahnameh to the Div)='lgc'>]
to find an enticement that ="trms">interests them ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= to let himself be ="trms">recruited by them
='lgc'>[from Latin “cresc-” grow, rise ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> crescent, crew, decrease, crescendo, ="trms">recruit='lgc'>]
to trust them='lgc'> = to act like them
='at'>@="nms">apass feedback (="trms">differential knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that is created because of not trusting)
the ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure could be used to ="trms">respond to this ="trms">question='lgc'>: the ravens fall for the trick
...not only do the ravens not ="trms">respond to ="trms">questions but they pose new ones
="prgrph">-how could we ask them (the ravens, trees, etc.) to verify our hypothesis (about them)='qstn'>?
='strcls'>*he has no answers ='lgc'>=/= he has nine hypothesis='strcls'>*
biological detective ="trms">stories
curiosity (for the things you discover that you don't know) ='lgc'><='lgc'>== the more you know
more cunning
more ="trms">imagination
more activities
='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">obligate ravens to choose between hypothesis
='lgc'>{ Heinrish='lgc'>: “It is still dark, and I'm al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready being awakened by raven calls! Several ="trms">birds are flying over Kaflunk making short, high-pitched calls that are unlike the usual quorks. These calls convey ex="trms">citement. The ="trms">birds are flying to a kill! I feel it. Even I can understand, and I too am ="trms">recruited” ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***if this ="trms">recruitment by nonhumans was able to acquire such an efficacy, it is because the human was transformed by those whose enigma he was trying to understand='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ="trms">animal ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights activist ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> evidence arrive in the form of a weakened raven that has to be saved='lgc'>]
='strcls'>***letting himself be drawn into their enigma='lgc'> = converting the environment into ="nms">a little more of himself ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> he learned to become sensitive to what makes the ravens sensitive='strcls'>*** (="nms">Cinderella's mice learned that about her)
Heinrish ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> I, as a mammal for whom they are not intended, can feel ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] I also feel I can detect a raven's surprise, happiness, bravado, and self-aggrandizement
(recognizing one another ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) to go by way of what the ravens ="trms">demand ='lgc'>--="nms">Cinderella='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*progress often depends more on how well one follows the ="trms">situation than on how well one controls='strcls'>* (especially when control is difficult)
="lsts lst1">•one must learn to ask them to give evidence ="trms">differently and to try to understand ='strcls'>*how a raven ponders a ="trms">question='strcls'>*
and now, when everything is suddenly new, this ="trms">bird acts as if nothing is out of the ordinary! ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] I can only guess that they see it not as an absolute but as departures from the accepted. when everything is ="trms">different, then comparisons cease, and almost anything can be accepted -Heinrish
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">integration)
tame
="trms">questions that the other ones do not allow to be asked
tamed and be tamed to better find out what ="trms">matters from a raven's point of view
gain the trust to ="trms">respond to the ="trms">demands of the politeness of ='strcls'>*getting to know='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•the dis="trms">positive of taming then proves to be a privileged access of “getting to know” ='lgc'>: it actualizes competences that have less chance of occuring in usual conditions (those of the ="trms">birds and those of the rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> transforms habits (those of the ="trms">birds and those of the one who investigate them)
aviary مرغدانی
the most adventurous ='and'>& the most curious ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the most attached to the rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer (to ="nms">Cinderella) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> hierarchy takes shape as a function of bravery ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= bravery of adventure in the shape of radical detachment and fluidity='lgc'>]
(when) ='strcls'>*investigator becomes biographer='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the ="trms">story changes)
(how when why) the fact of ="trms">recruiting must be linked to de="trms">monstrations of bravery
="trms">position in the hierarchy
manner of ="trms">recruiting
shyness='lgc'>: dancing a little dance of hesitation
(="ppl">="ppl">Despret's account of how Heinrish succeeded in) ="trms">recruiting the ravens around his problem ='lgc'><='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> ='strcls'>*he sufficiently ="trms">recruited himself to invent pertinent ways of addressing them='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the models are now commensurate متناسب with their unpre="trms">dictability
='at'>@="nms">apass
Heinrish becomes their expert and their re="trms">liable spokesperson ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (like ="frds scrmbld">Pierre) he could now convince and ="trms">interest his colleagues in terms that count for them (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> enroll other rese="trms"nttrm="search">archers to pose other ="trms">questions) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> he could bear witness for them
='lgc'>=/= Hitchcock's the ="trms">birds ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">nature turned to ="trms">horror, based on in Germany in mid-1990s fifty ravens invaded the idyllie Swabian Alps region... ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> their killing would be necessary
(chain of ="trms">recruitment='lgc'>:) the German ravens had in thier turn succeeded in ="trms">recruiting the re="trms">presentative of the american ravens, and Heinrish was able to ="trms">recruit ="trms">ecologists, who in their turn mobilized experts and politicians, who themselves modified the habits of the owners of the cows and sheep... ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Tsing's coalescence='lgc'>]
='strcls'>***amazing ="trms">inter="trms">specific ="trms">recruitment='strcls'>***
="frds">Sina ='lgc'>--telegram='lgc'>='lgc'>--> visual ="trms">animal ='lgc'>--inventing='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">hallucinating ='lgc'>--spoiled='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dis="trms">sociated
="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Godard">Goda ='lgc'>--Boicic='lgc'>='lgc'>--> wounded dog ='lgc'>--saving='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mothering ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> traumatized (left alone)
wolf observers
Heinrish's colleagues who study wolves in Yellowstone ="trms">Natural Park
the peaceful cohabitation between the wolves and ravens
in Yellowstone when the ravens are in the ="trms">presence of wolves, do not de="trms">monstrate any timidity and do not hesitate a second before eating ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the wolves allow ravens to conquer their fear ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> wolves changed the constrains that hold sway over the habits of the ravens
the ravens of much more alert and vigilant than the wolves (the ="trms">birds serve the wolves as extra eyes and ears)
the prophecy ="trms">translated in terms of ="trms">recruitment ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>='lgc'>--> who could have thought, if not no doubt a descendant of La Fontaine, that it is the ravens who protect the wolves and permit then to eat with their eyes closed='qstn'>? ='heart'>♥
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='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
the old taghalob (تقلب cheat)
="trms">history of enumeration in the ="nms">Iran (="trms">measurement, weight, scale)
the ="trms">history of our non-mathematical practices
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time ="trms">travel (in TV series or ="trms">literature) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (regardless if they are dystopian or not) essential for creating sensations of ="trms">historical continuity
Marzolph on pre="trms">modern middle eastern ="trms">narrative culture
seafaring merchant...
sailor's yarns
tales documented in persian ="trms">literature of the muslim period appear to be offshoots of earlier versions in either indian or arabic ="trms">literature ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> arabic as the ="trms">lingua franca of the day
Kitab ="nms">ajayeb al Hind, ="trms">wonders of india, 10th century by ="nms">iranian captain Bozorg ibn Sahriyar of Ramhormoz
(Marzolph holisitic assessment ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= Beyzai's parochial claims of ="nms">iranianness='lgc'>] of) middle-eastern ="trms">narrative traditions='lgc'> = arabic ='lgc'>+ persian ='lgc'>+ otaman turkish ='lgc'>+ jewish ='lgc'>+ christian (='lgc'>+ several other) ="trms">narrative traditions related to each other and none of which may claim an ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive ="trms">position
city of Brass
the Golden City is a legendary city built in africa by Tawil, the brother of the giant Ug, both of whom were born from the incestuous ="trms">relation between Cain and his sister Anaq. having been deserted for more than a thousand years, the Golden City was later conquered by Egyptians and became the source of their ="trms">fabulous wealth.
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agahi آگاهی knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
na javan mard ناجوانمرد impudent one
farz فرض rite
sonat سنت manner
mardi مردی manly combat
='lgc'>[="frds">Sina, ="frds scrmbld">Ehsan ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] in the manner of ='strcls'>*="trms">narrative men='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> typical for the thousand and one nights='lgc'>--whose protagonists of merchants (often thrift sons of rich merchants, who embark on ="trms">travel after they have wasted their fortune with false friends)
="lsts lst1">•save himself by his inventiveness, strong determination, physical strength
="lsts lst1">•there is no single predestined future but a variety of options whose eventual practical course depends on the protagonist's active ="trms">intervention
="lsts lst1">•(="nms">Sinbad left behind on an island where) the Ruhh has laid its eggs (spirit's eggs تخم های روح 🥚🥚🥚)
="lsts lst1">•althought most of them kill other people in order to survive, their action is spontaneously motivated by the needs of the moment
="lsts lst1">•
با هزار زحمت with a thousand efforts
customary formal “hearing is obeying”
pitfalls
“='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]When I returned home, my wife had died. They lifted her up, took me along, and brought us to that cave. With a rope they let me down and blocked the entrance of the cave. After they had lowered the ='lgc'>[body of my dead='lgc'>] wife and the ='lgc'>[bundle of='lgc'>] clothes and I had regained my senses, I got up and saw a tremendously large cave. I installed the wick and lit the lamp, chose a place by the side, cleaned it and made a bedstead. And when every two days they threw somebody down there alive, I killed that person with my knife and took the supplies of three days b="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read and water, until one day they de="trms">posited in that cave my former wife’s sister alive, together with her dead husband. When she saw me, she recognized me and consented to marry me. I slept with her and had several ="trms">children with her. Some time later I started to dig the ground in a corner of the cave with my knife until I had made a ='lgc'>[large='lgc'>] hole to the side of the sea. Every day I would sit there, until I finally saw a ship. I attached a piece of cloth to a stick and waved it, until the ship came close and took me and my ="trms">children aboard. They also asked me the same ="trms">question ='lgc'>[i. e. why my ="trms">children had heads like horses='lgc'>], I told them my ="trms">story, and they delivered me to my country. I had many more ="trms">children with that woman. This is the ="trms">story of my ="trms">children and their ="trms">ancestry.”
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moral ="trms">obligation of contemporary ="trms">society
...the king would use the slave girl as muslim men would do='lgc'> = for entertainment of all kinds (in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding sexual ="trms">intercourse, but not eating them)
relief after hardship فرج بعد از شدت
urdu romance bagh o bahar باغ و بهار
(the considerably older) misogynous motif of the unfaithful wife
husband and sife being buried together
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> part and parcel of the ='strcls'>**="trms">narrative stock='strcls'>** talented ="trms">storytellers would exploit to construct their tales
="trms">intertextual references
="lsts lst1">•cannibal black men
="lsts lst1">•the one-eyed person whose one eye had been picked out by a ="trms">bird (a well-known ="trms">narrative from pre="trms">modern arabic and persian tradition, a one-eyed character is taken as an ill omen, whereas here he figures as a friendly advisor and helper)
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***stock characters='strcls'>*** of pre="trms">modern middle eastern ="trms">literature
Marzolph ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> concider texts as artful creations ="trms">composed by a talented ="trms">narrator ='lgc'>=/= taking texts as the products of an anonymous popular “="trms">fold” tradition that would indiscriminately غيرمشخص lump together all kinds of ="trms">material ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> belittling the creative act of a single individual
='strcls'>*="trms">intertextual allusions (to themes, motifs, concepts familiar to the audience) ='lgc'>: a highly effective narative ="trms">technique for linking new and unknown tales to a web of tradition the audience shares='strcls'>*
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='strcls'>*='lgc'>~._
all the familiar landmarks of your thoughts that you find in somebody else's
عجایب نامه ="nms">ajayeb (doing it here in europe)='lgc'>: the exotic charm of another ="trms">system of thought (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= its limitation)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">zoo='lgc'>: terrible grounds that the ="trms">child ='lgc'>[= us='lgc'>] enjoys='lgc'> = primal s="trms">cene of conquest (of nation building, of state power) ='lgc'>--carceral='lgc'>='lgc'>--> s="trms">cene of sadistic pleasure, where bodies become “flesh” ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- telegram is all of this='lgc'>]
(="ppl">="ppl">Hayward ='lgc'>+ Borges)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">child='lgc'>: a primal s="trms">cene='lgc'> = the promise of the ="trms">social, the human, and the future ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***="trms">child is necessary for the ="trms">ongoingness of colonialism='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to the ="trms">children in The 100 TV series ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='strcls'>*white ="trms">child='lgc'>: an explorer of terrible grounds='strcls'>*='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•conscripted labor
="lsts lst1">•enslavement
="lsts lst1">•necropolitical economy
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>--elaborating-proliferating='lgc'>='lgc'>--> productive engines of empire
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Hayward='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how might the effects of colonialism always find ="trms">children enjoying terrible places='qstn'>?
the subtending (entgegensetzend) logic of the ="trms">zoo
sadism='lgc'>: the trouble of enjoying terribleness
(="ppl">Lacanian) ="trms">imaginary ='lgc'>--desires='lgc'>='lgc'>--> coherence (='lgc'>=/= fragmentation) ='lgc'>==generates='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a compromise ='lgc'>: an idealization of the self as whole, between the unbearability of ="trms">interiority and exteriority
='strcls'>*="trms">imaginary is unavoidable, the ="trms">obligatory state of existence (for speaking subjects) ='lgc'>==constitutes='lgc'>='lgc'>==> real effects
="lsts lst1">•Borges ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">imaginary ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">world in pieces (="trms">monstrous fragmentation), impossible ="trms">world of ‘that’
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Lacan ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">imaginary ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tentatively precariously constitutes a sense of self through alienation
(="ppl">="ppl">Hayward > Borgesian) ='strcls'>****="trms">zoo ='lgc'>--constitutes='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a primal s="trms">cene of colonial violence though which fantasy and ="trms">imagination, dragons and unicorns, are ="trms">articulated, organized, rendered as “elsewhere” ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="nms">ajayeb pre="trms">modern
="trms">zoo
one of the most ancient institutions
transformed by the event horizon of ="trms">modernity
(Fanon dramatizing) colonialization is animated by ="trms">zoonomia as phantasy='lgc'>: “when the settler seeks to describe the native fully in exact terms he constantly refers to the ="trms">bestiary”
='strcls'>*we='lgc'> = sadism's ="trms">children='strcls'>*
how ="trms">imaginary beings and ='strcls'>*fantastic ="trms">zoology='strcls'>* always carry a colonial logic
biological essentialism ='lgc'>: a d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous and reactionary basis upon which to build a politic
...racial and colonial violence of slavery
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prison='lgc'>: anti-trans necropolitical institution
='lgc'>+ its abolition='lgc'>: a critique of anti-black legal/sovereign violence and for the radical potentiality of ="trms">social tranformation
(='lgc'>=/= prison in Orange Is the New Black TV series)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]trans='lgc'>: an effect of white supremacist thinking that needs incoherent genders to make gender ="trms">matter at all='strcls'>****
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Hayward='lgc'>='lgc'>--> when trans becomes ‘this’ (an effect of gender) then it can only serve regimes of power
='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Hayward's (expected and a bit cliche)='lgc'>] trans="trms">figurations='lgc'>: (cascading provocations) sug="trms">gesting ="trms">questions without answering them, to break from an ="trms">interpretive paradigm that ="trms">demands solution-making over and against problem-generating
native
a ="trms">zoological term
="ppl">Derrida's blackness (skin color)='lgc'>: unsovereign and stateless, criminal and ="trms">beast
(promise of ="trms">love ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) relinquishing the body to ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]flesh='lgc'>: pre-discoursive ="trms">material, a zone of non-personhood, a state of anjection (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="trms">according to ="ppl">="ppl">Hayward)
anatomo-political)
soma-politics of the body (of the racial-colonial ="trms">category of the human)
carno-political ="trms">question of flesh (under the regime of racial capitalism) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> human/="trms">animal divide
="lsts lst1">•="trms">animals in the afterlife of slavery are rendered as flesh (under the regime carno-political regimes of racial capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list valuation) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">="ppl">Hayward's misrecognition of contemporary ="trms">society as “regime"='lgc'>]
genre of ="trms">animal
Gossett ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">="ppl">Hayward's argument ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the psychic life of ="trms">zoophobia and ="trms">zoophilia are tied up with negrophobia and negrophilia ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">species divides (human/="trms">animal) are ="trms">technologies of race (human/black)
maroon='lgc'>: escaped cattle
typography='lgc'>: domain of style, of appearance, of ="trms">aesthetic
glyph “='strcls'>*”
asterisk
a diminutive star
limb-y reach
a grasping
erring on the side of over-population, over-use, ="trms">excessiveness
“='strcls'>*” can denote a ="trms">database search or censorship
designate multiplication
a disclaimer
mark genetic identity
pseudonyms that have been changed
='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*the star of life='strcls'>*
xenogenesis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> proliferating ="trms">difference (genesis) built through pessimism (xeno)
Sun Ra (in Space is the Place ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= earth is “nowhere,” no longer a place ='lgc'>[='lgc'>+ Octavia, Delany='lgc'>]) signaled the failed projects of planetary humanist and earthly liberalism, inviting blacks living in Oakland to leave the gratuitous violence of the ="trms">world
afro-futurism is about the impossible, the unbearable, the fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure of the ="trms">world ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> afro-pessimism (blackness as loss, as nothingness)
(mode of ="trms">imagination='lgc'>:) “anti-black racism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> radical politics of abolition”
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “being (white) is made possible thourgh and with black bodies cannibalized by a racial capitalism and its ="trms">scientific jaws” ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">="ppl">Hayward's politically correct and simple fantasy about good and bad='lgc'>]
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='strcls'>*body='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">socio="trms">historical construct ='and'>& constrain
='lgc'>=/=
='strcls'>*="trms">embodiment='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sense of being bodily (pain, ...) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- my focus has been on this one more than the other='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**never ="trms">embody ironically!='strcls'>** (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- maybe irony is OK in visual or ="trms">written medium='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">embodiment goes beyond body (my body is still my body but also not)
="lsts lst1">•to pose
="lsts lst1">•to transpose
in ='mywrk'>my work, i transpose='lgc'>: walk through ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readings (='lgc'>=/= transform='lgc'>: performative “true” ="trms">embodiment)
="lsts lst1">•trans="trms">position='lgc'>: a mapping of senses, to change something into another form (='lgc'>+ its foreclosures, refusals, limits)='lgc'> = expressive ex="trms">citation, provocation of ="trms">difference that cannot be resolved by penetration or collapsed selves ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">interpenetration
border crossing='lgc'>: forces and ex="trms">citations of location, of neighborhood
sensation='lgc'>: a com="trms">posite of ="trms">affects and percepts
personal ='lgc'>=/= individual
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="ppl">="ppl">Hayward's ="trms">story is shaped by repression ='lgc'>: a wish to be seen as she wants to be seen ='lgc'>=/= ="frds">Sina
="trms">story='lgc'>: act of violence and deception
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medicalized legacy of transsexual's self-="trms">narrativizing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">synchronous field of wrong body-ness ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> account
accurate accounting ='lgc'>=/= describe ="trms">transitional sensations
described='lgc'>: forma="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listically detailed trans="trms">positional
post-="trms">animal='lgc'>: the afterward of the ="trms">animal is meat
bumptious coherence of bodies
(neighborhoods) designed to make some vulnerable while others safe
percussed by bullets or by traffic
='strcls'>*threat as invitation='strcls'>*
جراحی زیبایی who alter themselves through surgeries and hormonoes ='strcls'>*to feel themselves ="trms">differently='strcls'>*
(shia in ="nms">iran is islam after a cosmetic surgery to feel their ="trms">religion ="trms">differently)
='strcls'>*changing sex is about changing senses and ="trms">species='strcls'>* ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Foad
depending on my needs, i pretend not to understand
="trms">instrumentalization of ="trms">animal life
surgically changing body
="trms">technique of eschew اجتناب
eschewing a ="trms">nature or culture distinction
sex in pieces
spheres of ="trms">imagination
='lgc'>[='mywrk'>my work:='lgc'>] trans="trms">historical diagnosis='lgc'>: ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading in pieces neighborhoods of ="trms">imagination (opposed to what is available)
='at'>#sleep-walking
web-building ="trms">beasts (spiders) ='lgc'>[webbing ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? weaving='lgc'>: a feminine ="trms">trope='qstn'>?='lgc'>] ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> expression of the body
my fleshy referent 🕷
over-reaching subjects
='strcls'>*spider's web ='lgc'>==propose='lgc'>='lgc'>==> home and territory are of and with the body='strcls'>*
spiders are s="trms">cenes of arachnophobia and revultion
extending bodily substance through sexual ="trms">transition
(arrangment of) sensorial milieu of the self ='lgc'>+ profusion of the ="trms">world
(="trms">trope for fear as emancipation)
an ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban designer
weaver of cityscapes
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]web='lgc'>: skeletalization of the surface, extension of the surface ="trms">affects of the spider, dynamic threshold of sensibility ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Hayward='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (the body is strengthed) react through a spatial and temporal generativity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> body='lgc'>: ="trms">inter- and ="trms">intra-th="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readings of many ="trms">sensuous vectors that relay like the spider in its web ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= cities, web-builders
='strcls'>*center of her web='lgc'> = her touch ="trms">world='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-moves quickly, even uncannily, there/then not, sill/in motion, unsettling/reassuring (seems to ="trms">trap only dust)
='strcls'>*lived-web='lgc'> = optic skin, a resounding connective tissue
(spider's capacities to) create, ="trms">syncopate, improvise
(spider and me in the appartment) we resonate in ="trms">relation to our ="trms">different movements and processes
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">trap='lgc'>: a mouth, a mode of utterance, the “O” curve of lips and throat that sounds out and names the apprehension of being ="trms">embodied
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***="trms">positionality ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= ="trms">situatedness='lgc'> = to be ="trms">trapped='strcls'>*** (to speak and receive ranges of ="trms">sensuous input from one's environment) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*our bodies are not endlessly available to intentionality='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">articulation='lgc'>: speaking oneself into culture and ="trms">history, but also creating a site, a gap, making room in cultural and political fabrications, and finding a tempo, a beat
="lsts lst1">•utopic in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion (sexual, national, racial)
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*sexuality ="trms">imagined as political promise='strcls'>* (radical force of nonnormative sexuality) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= (for ="ppl">Freud) sex is regressive='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•trans='lgc'>: energetic and fantastic space between objects
(racial, economic) ='strcls'>**divisions='lgc'> = dependencies='strcls'>**
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(="ppl">Lyotard='lgc'>: we must) construct the anatomy of poly="trms">morphous ="trms">perversion, un="trms">fold the immense ="trms">membrane of libidinal body ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">system of parts
irreverent intimacies
thresholding='lgc'>: an intensity that must be exceeded for reaction to occur
“here is my home, i am freshly aware that my body is a threshold, an entry between rooms”
limits (of my body)='lgc'> = energized zones
sadomasochism stitches
='strcls'>*carnal improvisation='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- paradigm of performance art in europe (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to karaoke in KHM, role of my body as medium in the circuit of trans="trms">missions, ="trms">poetically ="trms">imagine the shape of a new pattern)
="trms">past="trms">present='lgc'>: an always ="trms">present ="trms">past in the ="trms">present
='strcls'>*patterns longer than lived experience='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">history='lgc'>: libidinal tracings, ="trms">erotogenic intensities, psychical cartographies
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='lgc'>{ porosity='lgc'> = ="trms">poiesis ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> collapse the boundary between the ="trms">embodied self ='lgc'>+ its ="trms">world ='lgc'>+ others ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> con="trms">situte a ="trms">specific place
="lsts lst1">•puberty='lgc'> = the fantasy that this dis="trms">figuration will make me more myself
="lsts lst1">•teenager='lgc'> = you spend hours before the refracting reflection of your transmutating ='strcls'>*body='lgc'> = your most intimate other='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> enact boundaries, sometimes ="trms">lovingly, but also brutally
(senses are) reactive to the ="trms">sensual abundance of the ="trms">world but limited by ="trms">affected perceptual milieus
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]texture='lgc'>: residue of un="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metabolized and ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metabolized sensations of animate forces ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> emergence of bodiliness (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">="ppl">Hayward's ="trms">rhetoric)
="trms">transitional body='lgc'> = textural body
architecture='lgc'>: the most binding part of the ="trms">communal rhythm
appearance ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= metonymic
appearance allows her to emerge ="trms">situationally as a woman, a gendered neighbor, a ="trms">historical subject
(being under the influence of the moon='lgc'>:) enfleshing elements of your (celestial) environment within yourself and expressing parts of yourself back into the (terrestrial ="trms">social) environment
identification='lgc'>: “i am like you='lgc'> = i know you” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> resolve the divide of ="trms">difference
(let's not make that kind of garden again ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion in Adam's nameable Eden of belonging (='lgc'>=/= ="nms">Cinderella's trans="trms">bestiary)
cross-="trms">species rejoiners
mended spiderwebs
error is (still a kind of) expression
human='lgc'>: com="trms">posites of ="trms">zoo-intensities, animated movements, bio-="trms">differentials
(i always felt like this) my perceptions are refracted through psychic forces
="trms">anxious
uncertain
="trms">paranoid
“is everyone staring at the ="trms">morphing ‘it’ that is me”
(understanding of art in contemporary european performance ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) art='lgc'> = intensifying bodily substance, to resonate otherwise, to feel ="trms">different corpo(realities) through zones of ="trms">transition and ="trms">intervention, provocation='lgc'> = ="trms">responses to our ='strcls'>*capacities to resonate='strcls'>*
...medicalization, recognition, subjectification, ="trms">instrumentalization, and ="trms">responsiveness being with ="trms">animals
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what does the maze mean for the rat='qstn'>?
what a maze can mean='qstn'>?
experimental psychology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> subjects conform most often to the expectations of their experimenters ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they are ='strcls'>*artifactual='strcls'>*='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-='strcls'>*the ="trms">scientists think that the subject ="trms">respond to the ="trms">question that is posed to them, but the subject in fact ="trms">respond to another ="trms">question='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{="trms">question that is addressed to them='lgc'> = protocol to which they are submitted='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they can take a ="trms">position in ="trms">relation to what is proposed to them in ="trms">scientific research ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ="nms">Cinderella's mice subject='lgc'>]
='thdf'>the idea that (='thdf'>the ='thdf'>assumption that) their subjects could be influenced by what the ="trms">scientist was looking for ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the experimenters tried most often to camouflage the real ="trms">questions guiding their research
="prgrph">-='thdf'>the ='thdf'>assumption that the subjects do not do what they do because the experimenter asked then to do so, but for more abstract and more general reasons ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “="trms">ecological validity”
="prgrph">-='strcls'>*the subjects most of the time not only predict what the experimenter expects of them but they comform to it='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-='lgc'>[they ="trms">responded to='lgc'>] the way in which they ="trms">interpreted that which was expected of them (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- just because they are nice people.) “when the subjects were asked why they did all this ='lgc'>[absurd tedious repetitive='lgc'>] work without objecting and without posing other ="trms">questions, they ="trms">responded that they had thought that is was a test of endurance. and they obeyed because a ="trms">scientist asked then to”
="trms">difference between hypnotized subjects and “normal” experimental subjects
='strcls'>*the ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure utilized to mask the expectations='strcls'>* (in psychology, far from resolving the problem)
organization of the research ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">scientist distributes expertise in a very a="trms">symmetrical manner
what a maze can mean='qstn'>? ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**="trms">translating what happens to rats in terms of meaning='strcls'>**
(drawing on Uexküll's theory of Umwelt) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> open up for the ="trms">animal the ="trms">question of point of view
a concrete or lived Umwelt ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the ="trms">animal endowed with sensory organs ="trms">different from our own, cannot perceive the same ="trms">world as we do
='lgc'>{='strcls'>**perception='lgc'>: an act of creation ='lgc'>=/= a form of reception='strcls'>**='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">animal ='strcls'>**fills its environment with perceptual objects='strcls'>**, it constructs its environment by ='strcls'>*peopling='strcls'>* it with perceptual objects (='lgc'>=/= perceive passively)
='strcls'>*the activity of perception='lgc'> = an activity that confers meaning='strcls'>*='lgc'> = only that which has meaning is perceived, only that which can be perceived (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= is important of the organism) is ='strcls'>*="trms">accorded a meaning='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">accordance)
="lsts lst1">•butterfly lives in a ="trms">world of luminous intensities and of odors
="lsts lst1">•tick lives in a ="trms">world of butyric acid released by the sebaceous follicles of mammals
="lsts lst1">•spider lives in a ="trms">world of...
="lsts lst1">•rat lives in a ="trms">world of...
="lsts lst1">•
for a spider='qstn'>?
for a rat='qstn'>?
time, space, place, path, way, house, odor, enemy,,, ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> each event (in the perceived ="trms">world) “signified” which is not perceived except in that it signifies ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>***="trms">animal='lgc'> = subject='lgc'> = a “lender” of meaning='strcls'>***
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]subject='lgc'>: that which ="trms">accords meaning
the object is constituted in action (the ="trms">animal never enters into a ="trms">relation with an object as such) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> meaning does not emerge from the object='lgc'> = objects are not alone in having meaning ="trms">accorded to them
Umwelt='lgc'>: an environment of ="trms">relations
no ="trms">animal can be neutral of another (in the environment) ='lgc'><='lgc'>--if='lgc'>-- it can be seen to be ="trms">accorded a meaning
='strcls'>***strange ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures ='lgc'>==make=possible='lgc'>='lgc'>==> types of research='strcls'>***
="nms">Cinderella to the mice ='lgc'>: al="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">luring producer of ="trms">sociality (="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure='lgc'>: enticement for meaning) ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures are frequently required in order to convey the meanings of an ="trms">animal='strcls'>*
a human can take on the meaning of ='strcls'>*="trms">socius='strcls'>* (comrade, friend, ally)
a human can learn what a ="trms">socius means in the like of a jackdaw (to be taken for a ="trms">material ="trms">socius)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘as="trms">sociating with'='lgc'> = carry out various activities together
you want to be taken by somebody from another ="trms">species for a ="trms">material ="trms">socius (that is also why people have pets) ='lgc'>=/= pray
meanings are not fixed once and for all, flowing from elementary needs of the organism='lgc'>: meanings are flexible, can apply to other beings, extend to unforseen ="trms">situations, change, and even invent and create new ="trms">relational uses (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this is what i experience in ="trms">translational working with meanings in ="trms">farsi ="trms">literate in my ="trms">lectures)
(="nms">Cinderella asking) when observing rats, what can produce the activity of ="trms">translating their behaviors in terms of meanings='qstn'>?
one confuses the term “examine” with that of “neutralize” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (Watson, ="trms">scientist) removed the rat's eyes, olfactory bulb, and whikers, which are essential to the sense of touch in rats, before throwing it into the exploration of the maze...
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>='lgc'>--> if the ="trms">world had probably lost all meaning for this de-sensed rat, the rat itself had lost all meaning for its experimenter (if it ever had one for him)
="prgrph">-this is the goal of the procedure='lgc'>: search out the lowest common denominator, the left-over, the automation, the behavior that from one ="trms">species to another will render all organisms commensurable تناسب پذير ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- no!!!!='lgc'>]
the tacit ='thdf'>assumption that an ="trms">animal could ever enter into a ="trms">relationship with an object is false ='lgc'><='lgc'>--Uexküll='lgc'>-- (to have in mind) to study the most ="trms">different kinds of ="trms">animals in their ="trms">relations to a maze
her attic, ="nms">Cinderella in the universe of meanings
an ="trms">epistemological problem ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it is not straightforward to enter into the subjective universe of an ="trms">animal in ="trms">interrogating it through an experimental dis="trms">positive thought up by a human
='lgc'>[dis="trms">positif='lgc'>: referring to machines and devices. as philosophical concept that has been drawn upon by ="ppl">Deleuze, ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault, ="ppl">Althusser, ="ppl">Agamben, and many others, has been rendered as “="trms">apparatus”, ="trms">social ="trms">apparatus='lgc'>]
maze ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what this particular experimental dis="trms">positive can mean for a rat='qstn'>? how can this ='strcls'>*="trms">traversing='strcls'>* come to be, from the point of view of the rat (Uexküll calls “familiar path”)='qstn'>? how rats in pretending to ="trms">respond to the ="trms">questions of the behaviorists ="trms">respond in fact to another ="trms">question='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-behaviorist's ="trms">question='lgc'>: what is the abstract ="trms">relation of a being, whatever it may be (that which the behaviorists call an organism) to a ="trms">natural object='qstn'>?
why do rats always touch the walls as they go along them='qstn'>? ='lgc'>--="nms">Cinderella='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•they are haptophiles, they like to touch
="lsts lst1">•they inscribe the course of their route in their bodies in the form of lines, curves, and turns, or even roughness, textures, sensations of cold or humidity
="lsts lst1">•letting itself be marked by the space
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what do we know about what the body of a rat can sense='qstn'>?
='strcls'>***(from) the why of caused ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> entering into the regime of meanings='strcls'>***
the rat does not ="trms">respond to the ="trms">question of learning, he ="trms">responds to the ="trms">question of ='strcls'>*an architecture that constitute the ="trms">world for him='strcls'>*
(how='qstn'>?) the “="trms">animal's own ="trms">world” can (with difficulty) in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude the human observer as an observer
...the maze can ="trms">authorize neither the ="trms">question of the “familiar path” nor that of the meaning of the wall
artifactual='lgc'>: the ="trms">situation where the being who is ="trms">interrogated ="trms">responds to a ="trms">different ="trms">question than the one the ="trms">scientist poses to her
hypothesis of the existence of an artifact ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the possibility of taking into account the fact that the ="trms">animal would have a point of view on the ="trms">situation
(to take ="trms">measure of) what one's ="trms">anxiety prompts (in the course of research)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•expanding the ="trms">imagination
="lsts lst1">•paralyzing the ="trms">imagination ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> injection of more control
="trms">sciences that mobilize the beings that ="trms">respond to it
each experiment indicates not only the manner in which the ="trms">animals generally experience the procedures ='lgc'>--but='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the way in which each of the ="trms">animals lives them as a function of the perception that it has of them, as a function of what it expects
(="ppl">="ppl">Despret affirming that) there is no ='strcls'>*artifact='strcls'>* unless there is ='strcls'>*="trms">generalization='strcls'>*
='strcls'>*the time of the experimental dis="trms">positive='strcls'>* is not the same since it is set within a provisional and short time (five days if testing, cor="trms">responding to the work week) while ='strcls'>*the time of the farm='strcls'>* is a time of accumulated ="trms">memories and experience
="prgrph">-the ="trms">memory of the food eaten before
='at'>#="nms">Cinderella
it expects something else ='lgc'><='lgc'>== what one gives it is not the sole cause involved
="trms">animals certainly ="trms">respond to a ="trms">question, but it is not the one we pose to them
='strcls'>*the rese="trms"nttrm="search">archers compartmentalize the research; the ="trms">animals to not stop prompting them to decompartmentalize it='strcls'>* ='heart'>♥
(always) the artifact ='lgc'>--constitutes='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the object of critique
="trms">animals do not judge an ='strcls'>*abstract ="trms">situation='strcls'>*, but a ="trms">situation offered to them ='strcls'>*as it is offered='strcls'>* to them
(="nms">Cinderella's) reciprocal habituation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">animal itself actively takes the ="trms">questions and the ="trms">presence of the rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer into consideration
to negate the condition of research ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exchange judgment and opinions (='lgc'>+ ="trms">mutually ="trms">affect one another)
why is ‘="trms">interest’ a bad motive, in this frame='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-because the ="trms">animal must be ="trms">interested in other things besides the human being, it must continue to live its life as a goat or a sheep ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “the good ="trms">animal='lgc'>: the ="trms">animal ="trms">responds to her observer”
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="ppl">Singh ='lgc'>+ Dave ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ordinary ="trms">affects of killing (="trms">animal) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">anthropology of ethics ='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Agamben's killablity (linked with sovereignty)='lgc'>: ="trms">routinized emotionally in="trms">different production of bare life (capacity to decide which bodies can be killed, without the killing counting either as homicide or as a sacrifice)
normative moral claims
(Laidlaw, ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault) ethical life='lgc'>: reflexive practice of freedom ='lgc'>--humanistic='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•traditions of virtuous conduct
="lsts lst1">•changing practices of self-="trms">fashioning
="lsts lst1">•="trms">affective dis="trms">positions='lgc'>: compassion, devotion
="lsts lst1">•(altruistic ="trms">question of) how ought to one live='qstn'>?
='lgc'>=/=
what is the mode of a killing='qstn'>?
what is the mood accompanying that killing='qstn'>?
='lgc'>+ ethical repercussions (if any) there of, even of they are not prescribed or proscribed in state or in customary law
='strcls'>*to ="trms">write nonmorally about ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]ethics='lgc'>: a mode of relatedness, even if the ="trms">relation is as ephemeral as a mood that may escape ="trms">measure or description, lying somewhere between mourning and in="trms">difference
='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= to have an a ="trms">priori moral ="trms">code based on which we might justify (or predict ahead) our emotional ="trms">responses to particular killing ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= what constitutes a good life or death='lgc'>]
(mourning ='lgc'>=/= in="trms">difference)
concept ='lgc'>+ reality of ="trms">animals ='lgc'>+ ="trms">anthropology of India
everyday ="trms">affects (while witnessing or executing the death of ="trms">animals)
doubts and pleasures
cruelties and in="trms">differences
chicken shops
decimated forests of central India
moods='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•ambivalence
="lsts lst1">•cruelty and pleasure
="lsts lst1">•senses of devastation
modes and moods of ="trms">specific commercial and ritual occurrences (in ="nms">Tehran)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***how does (and does not) killability shade into vitality='qstn'>?='strcls'>***
what does it mean for ="trms">animals to be alive in a severely depleted habitat='qstn'>?
(what it means to be alive in contemporary ="nms">Tehran='qstn'>?)
profane='lgc'>: a ="trms">routine, ritual, process that does not in itself invoke a sacred purpose or value
="prgrph">-how would we ="trms">measure the distance between the poles of the profane and sacred in terms of the mood and intention surrounding the ritual of killing='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-what is the mood sounding the sacrificial death='qstn'>? (veneration='qstn'>?)
="trms">animal sacrifice has a long ="trms">history in textual and oral forms of Hinduism (as do arguments against it)
آرامش قصاب
butcher's easy hospitality
slow time of sadism
='at'>#="trms">story
tribe of bonded laborer decide not to sacrifice ="trms">animals. “what is the use of someone's untimely death causing another='qstn'>?” (and because goats are expensive nowadays). one summer all the brothers get together and call the deity. he possessed my father's brother's son. we said='lgc'>: “baba, we won't give you a goat. eat us if you must.” the spirit began to get angry. he said if i accept this for you, then others will do the same. (after negotiation) he accepted only from one person and not others. the issue is still unresolved.
="trms">religiously infused con="trms">science
banality of secular cruelty
long-standing intimacy between violence and the sacred
='at'>#="trms">story
Nitin is jinn and no jinn wants to marry their daughter to someone who sells chicken for a living. Nitin has debilitating nightmares about dying chickens.
="lsts lst1">•poultry industry
="lsts lst1">•cage-free farming
(there is no “irreducible” ="trms">ontological gap, disjuncture of temporality, ="trms">ontological un="trms">translatability, between='lgc'>:)
time of ="trms">history/capital ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= time of the gods/ritual
both ritual and capital ='lgc'>--involve='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exchange ="trms">relations ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> unpre="trms">dictable forms of movement (across domains)
="lsts lst1">•(show of being halal) re="trms">citation of kalma with the first ="trms">bird and the last, assuming comprehensive coverage for the ones who fall between
="lsts lst1">•Skylard s="trms">laughterhouse building hospitals and temples
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> emotional, ritual, commercial traffic across sacred and profane
="trms">consumption of neighboring ="trms">species
='strcls'>*cruelty as play='strcls'>*
(a less cultivated form of pleaser='qstn'>?)
deadended ="trms">bird
ceased-but-not-killed mouse
not dead, not killed, but not quite a being either
the power to turn ="trms">animals into things, as of they were never anything else
recognition of playful actually ='lgc'>--="ppl">Singh='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ethics of immanent ="trms">obligation
(='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]collaboration='lgc'>: ="trms">interrupt each other's train of thought)
(dramatization of) agonistic intimacy ='lgc'>: a ="trms">relationship of proximity and violence between neighboring ="trms">social groups (the body of neighboring ="trms">species)
='lgc'>--Taussig='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ritual violence (the most stunning prop is the human='lgc'>: the all too profane body with its various appendages, fluids, undulating surfaces, ="trms">folds, exists, entrances)
='lgc'>--="ppl">Veena='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sacrificial violence ='lgc'>: dramatization of one's own inevitable death (there is a certain ="trms">anxiety around violence that is ="trms">integral to ='strcls'>*the ="trms">imagination of an ethical life='strcls'>* in Hindu texts and practices)
='lgc'>--="frds">Sina='lgc'>='lgc'>--> gamer video of ="trms">zoo
condition of ="trms">viscerality
a condition of being ransomed to death
Venna ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a major theological transformation (a critique of violence) in a nonmessianic nonsoteriological sense رستگاری شناختی in South Asia took place with the Mahabharata
='strcls'>*cruelty ='lgc'>=/= violence='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•the feeling of noncruilty expressed in the unpre="trms">dictable attachments, at times across ="trms">species (companionship) in the Mahabharata (="ppl">Veena) ='lgc'>[in ="ppl">Attar='qstn'>? in Kelile and Demne='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•companionable thinking (Cavell)
="lsts lst1">•com="trms">mission ="trms">species (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway)
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Singh's agonistic intimacy='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. companionship may also involve forms of ="trms">mutual violence
="lstsrd">2. violence inevitability (in af="trms">finity o[...]