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stsrd clss="lstsrd">3-objectivity (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">posits>ioned rationality, object of knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> as an actor, s clss="trms">mutuals> and usually <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>unequal<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> structuring, it is about taking risks)
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how and why ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway as a feminist fights for a better Primatology<span clss='qstn'>?span>
(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Barad on) s clss="trms">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Situs>ated Knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>sss='lgc'>: are not merely about knowing/seeing from somewhere (as in having a perspective) but about taking account of how the s clss="trms">specifis>c prosthetic s clss="trms">embods>iment of the s clss="trms">techns>ologically enhanced visualizing s clss="trms">apparatuss> s clss="trms">matters>s to practices of knowing
<span clss="prgrph">-(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway's) move from <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>optics<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>[a politics of s clss="trms">posits>ioning, in s clss="trms">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Situs>ated Knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>sss='lgc'>] to <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>diffraction<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>[an optical s clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>phors> for the effort to make a s clss="trms">differens>ce in the s clss="trms">worlds>, in Modest_Witnessss='lgc'>]
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ss="ppl">Katie ss="ppl">Kingss='lgc'>: “s clss="trms">apparatuss> of s clss="trms">literas>ry production”ss='lgc'>: a matrix from which “s clss="trms">literas>ture” is born.
...the “facticity” of biological discourse that is absent from s clss="trms">literas>ry discourse and its knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> claims. ss='lgc'>-ss='lgc'>-ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> Are biological bodies “produced” or “generated” in the same strong sense as s clss="trms">poes>ms<span clss='qstn'>?span> (biological body ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= s clss="trms">poes>m)
“s clss="trms">materis>al-s clss="trms">semios>tic actor”ss='lgc'>: the object of knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> as an active, meaning-generating part of s clss="trms">apparatuss> of bodily production
bodies as objects of knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> are s clss="trms">materis>al-s clss="trms">semios>tic generative nodes.
“objects” do not preexist as such ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> Their boundaries s clss="trms">materis>alize in s clss="trms">socis>al s clss="trms">inters>action. Boundaries are drawn by mapping practices.
s clss="trms">worlds> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= mother/s clss="trms">matters>/mutter
s clss="trms">worlds> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= coyote (a figure of the always problematic, always potent tie between meaning and bodies. s clss="trms">worlds> as s clss="trms">cods>ing trickster.)
(feminism) movement rooted in s clss="trms">specifis>cation and s clss="trms">articulats>ion (of ss='lgc'>[s clss="trms">differens>t kinds ofss='lgc'>] ‘elsewhere’) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= (ss='thdf'>assumption of the s clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>ht or ability to) identities and res clss="trms">presens>tation (of identities)
ss='at'>#workshop s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>SK (for s clss="nms">apasss>)
Which version of “realism” are you talking about<span clss='qstn'>?span> Recollecting truth and objectivity are activated whenever a ‘point of view’ is produced among other s clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>phors>s that we use in our practice and thinking in s clss="trms">techns>o-s clss="trms">scies>ntific s clss="trms">socis>eties. In this group s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing session we are going to study one of the most stubborn and s clss="trms">pervs>asive phantasms in art and s clss="trms">scies>nces, the figure of objectivity, with the ss="ppl">Donna ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway's 1988 essay ‘s clss="trms">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Situs>ated Knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>sss='lgc'>: The s clss="trms">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Scies>nce s clss="trms">Questions> in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective’. This s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing focuses on politics and s clss="trms">epistems>ologies of location, s clss="trms">posits>ioning, and s clss="trms">situs>ating in our power-sensitive conversations, and what does it mean to become accountable and s clss="trms">respons>sible for one's own noninnocent s clss="trms">translats>ions. We begin with her essay on the 2nd of February and talk about each of our practices in particular continuing on the 9th.
she wants to re-figure, not disavow, objectivity
“s clss="trms">storys>-tellers exploring what it means to be s clss="trms">embods>ied in high-tech s clss="trms">worlds>s” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="trms">techns>ophobia
s clss="trms">techns>ophilia is s clss="trms">narcisss>istic ss='lgc'>: ss='thdf'>the notion that man invented himself and that man is involved in some kind of s clss="trms">narrats>ive of s clss="trms">techns>ological escalation whereby the objectification of human intentionality in the s clss="trms">worlds> has finally surpassed itself, and man has achieved self-objectification in a machine that will finally name him obsolescence as he is and destroy him in a s clss="trms">techns>ological apocalypse figured by the computer. (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway) ss='lgc'>[we need better dog s clss="trms">storiess> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= (Iron Manss='lgc'>:) man, made in the image of a vanished god, takes on superpowers in his secular-sacred ascent, only to end tragicss='lgc'>]
“...man making himself (by realizing his intentions in his tools) yet again in the Greatest s clss="trms">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Storys> Ever Told.” (your artwork doesn't need to be this kind of s clss="trms">storys>!)
or the ss="ppl">Darwinist tale of “Mitochondrial Eve in a neocolonial Out of Africa”
we need s clss="trms">storiess> of companion s clss="trms">species>s, the “very mundane and ongoing s clss="trms">sorts> of tale, one full of misunderstandings, achievements, crimes, and renewable hopes.” (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway, ss="ppl">La Guin, ss="ppl">Tessa ss="ppl">Farmer,)
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ss='lgc'>[ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway on ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Ihdess='lgc'>]
...s clss="trms">techns>ologies are not mediationsss='lgc'>--that is, something in between us and another bit of the s clss="trms">worlds>ss='lgc'>--rather, s clss="trms">techns>ologies are organs, full partners, in what ss="ppl">Merleau-Ponty called “ins clss="trms">folds>ings of the flesh.”
ins clss="trms">folds>ing ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="trms">inters>face
sts clss="lsts lst1">•“What happens in the s clss="trms">folds>s is what is important.”
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•s clss="trms">Inters>faces are made out of s clss="trms">inters>acting grappling devices.
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•the ins clss="trms">folds>ing of others to each other is what makes up the knots we call beings or, perhaps better, following ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Bruno ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Latour, things.
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“s clss="trms">Techns>ologies are always compound. They are s clss="trms">composs>ed of diverse s clss="trms">agens>ts of s clss="trms">inters>pretation, s clss="trms">agens>ts of recording, and s clss="trms">agens>ts for directing and multiplying s clss="trms">relations>al action. These s clss="trms">agens>ts can be human beings or parts of human beings, other organisms in part or whole, machines of many kinds, or other s clss="trms">sorts>s of entrained things made to work in the s clss="trms">techns>ological compound of conjoined forces.”
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="trms">animals> (in s clss="trms">zoos>logical terminology) ss='lgc'>: a coms clss="trms">posits>e of individual organisms, an enclosure of s clss="trms">zoos>ns, a company of critters ins clss="trms">folds>ed into a one.
compoundss='lgc'> = coms clss="trms">posits>e ss='lgc'>+ enclosure
camerass='lgc'>: the s clss="trms">techns>ological eye ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> philosophical pretension and self-certainty (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christians>'s camera)
ss='lgc'>-- camera as a black-box with which to register pictures of the outside s clss="trms">worlds> in a res clss="trms">presens>tational, mentas clss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists> s clss="trms">semios>tic economy
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ss="ppl">Vinciane ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Despret, ss="ppl">Isabelle ss="ppl">ss="ppl">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stengers, ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Bruno ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Latour, ”_how they make their subjects s clss="trms">inters>esting,_“
to tell the s clss="trms">storys> of their work of “s clss="trms">translats>ion,” of invention.
refuse all loyalty to my homeland and its values
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>heuristicss='lgc'>: mental shortcuts that ease the cognitive load of making a problem solvable
<span clss="prgrph">-trading optimality, completeness, accuracy, or precision for speed
span>
it may <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>approximate<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> the exact solution for the problem
<span clss="prgrph">-enabling discover or learn something for themselves. (a ‘hands-on’ or s clss="trms">inters>active heuristic approach to learning)
span>
ss='lgc'>[(in computingss='lgc'>:) proceeding to a solution by trial and error or by rules that are only loosely defined.ss='lgc'>]
<span clss="prgrph">-from s clss="trms">Greeks> heuriskein ‘find’
span>
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="trms">contingens>tss='lgc'>: using it with ‘s clss="trms">histos>rical’ always produces s clss="trms">inters>esting ways ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">contingens>cy relates to a nonteleological ss='lgc'>[a doctrine explaining s clss="trms">phenomens>a by their ends or purposess='lgc'>] and nonhierarchical multiplicity ss='lgc'>[when i say ‘dud’ and ‘cauphing’ and s clss="trms">inters>upting ‘tracing’ i am asking for s clss="trms">contingens>t modes of relating and thinking. conceptualizing in terms of the os clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>in of the dud is about hierarchical s clss="trms">relations>s between s clss="trms">pasts> and s clss="trms">presens>t and teleological reasoningss='lgc'>: where is the dud coming from. when i asked ‘who told the first s clss="trms">joks>e<span clss='qstn'>?span>’ i am trying to break and s clss="trms">joks>e with teleological mode of thinking about the s clss="trms">categs>ory of ‘os clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>in’.ss='lgc'>]
s clss="trms">contingens>t ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/=<span clss='qstn'>?span> analytical (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">Contingens>t pros clss="trms">posits>ions depend on some kind of s clss="trms">epistems>oloy, whereas analytic pros clss="trms">posits>ions are true without regard to any facts about which they speak.) ss='lgc'>{telos, ghasd s>قصدs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ghaside s>قصیدهs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= ghazal s>غزلs>ss='lgc'>}
<span clss="prgrph">-We call a truth s clss="trms">contingens>t when it <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>depends on something else<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> for its truth.
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-has to do a lot with our s clss="trms">materis>al s clss="trms">worlds>
span>
s clss="trms">contingens>t ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= containing-s clss="trms">agens>t<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>
ss='lgc'>--Tautological pros clss="trms">posits>ions, which must be true
ss='lgc'>--Contras clss="trms">dictis>ons which must necessarily be untrue
ss='lgc'>--possible pros clss="trms">posits>ions
never use s clss="trms">contingens>cy alone in a sentence ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">histos>rical s clss="trms">contingens>cy
never use understanding stand alon in a sentence ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> better understanding ss='lgc'>{'better’ opens s clss="trms">situs>atedness, for who and how “better,” etc.ss='lgc'>}
s clss="trms">Rhetors>ic ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>--(has to do with)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">Contingens>t
ss="ppl">Aristotle (in his work on s clss="trms">rhetors>ic) was against s clss="trms">contingens>cy. He believed that the “unavoidable and potentially unmanageable s clss="trms">presens>ce of multiple possibilities” or the complex s clss="trms">naturs>e of decisions creates and invites s clss="trms">rhetors>ic. (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= ss="ppl">Plato saw s clss="trms">rhetors>ic as pure deceit ss='lgc'>[gulss='lgc'>] and s clss="trms">posits>ioned it in politics. ss='lgc'>[you can see he is terrified by the death of his teacher and mentor ss="ppl">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Socrates by civility.ss='lgc'>])
s clss="trms">rhetors>ic ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> contigent ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">epistems>icss='lgc'>: individuals make meaning through s clss="trms">languages> and determine what constitutes truth
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="trms">ontos>logy is death-dealing ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>--<strcls clss='strcls'>**strcls> terrible violence is directed to the non-existing, the never having existed
ss='lgc'>-ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <span clss='gtrw'>go tospan> the root of exist ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> which modes of existence deserve our curiosity<span clss='qstn'>?span>
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(i found a word for it,) my register of ss='at'>@s clss="frds scrmbld">Lilis>'s screamss='lgc'>: i see it as ‘nons clss="trms">laughs>ter’(<span clss='qstn'>?span>)
(<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>proposalss='lgc'>: there is a number when we dial we can s clss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists>en to her scream on the phone.) (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> stream, s clss="trms">techns>ology, tele-, telephone, called,)
(for her) thinking ss='lgc'>=<span clss='qstn'>?span> knowing (sending ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= receiving)
(an ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>SF scenarioss='lgc'>:) s clss="trms">imagis>ne and describe an alien s clss="trms">worlds> where its populace don't practice ‘knowing.’
<strcls clss='strcls'>**strcls>scream ss='lgc'>==makesss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> witnesses<strcls clss='strcls'>**strcls>
(fighting ss='lgc'>==makesss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> coordination)
s>از طلبکار به طلبهs> (az talabkar be talabe)
///the (s clss="trms">syms>bolic<span clss='qstn'>?span>) structuration of ‘s clss="trms">demands>’ in s clss="frds scrmbld">Lilis>'s s clss="trms">presens>tationss='lgc'>:
the ‘sujet s clss="trms">supposs>é savoir’ ss='at'>#sss ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= s clss="nms">Pirs>, (s>پیرs> always a paternal s clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>phors><span clss='qstn'>?span>) that Other whom you ‘call’ who holds (your) deepest truth ss='lgc'>-ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <span clss='gtrw'>go tospan> the s clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>phors>ology of “depth” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= “skimming the surface"ss='lgc'>] (installed by ss="ppl">Lacan) is a subject who is in a functional s clss="trms">posits>ion and one presumes that this subject knows or retains or holds the knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> (even vital and secret knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> ss='lgc'>[this is knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>-talabkar s>طلبکارs>ss='lgc'>]) that you want. this subject is functionally established. one of the laws of our encounter is that puts the speaker/s clss="trms">writs>er/analyst/text/etc in the (even architectural) centerss='lgc'>: the subject-s clss="trms">supposs>ed-to-know in ss="ppl">Lacan the analyst who sits there as a tower of knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> that mostly withholds what s/he knows ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">transferens>cial energy directed towards him/her ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> drama of identification (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> break-out of s clss="trms">narcisss>ism for ss="ppl">Freud)
<span clss="prgrph">-it is one of the (negative<span clss='qstn'>?span>) binding s clss="trms">transferens>tial contracts in s clss="trms">relations> to “the one who speaks”
span>
ss='lgc'>[<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="trms">anthrops>ology of exchange<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">Transferens>cess='lgc'>: (for ss="ppl">Lacan) Each time a man speaks to another in an authentic and full manner, there is, in the true sense, s clss="trms">transferens>ce, s clss="trms">syms>bolic s clss="trms">transferens>cess='lgc'>--something which takes place which changes the s clss="trms">naturs>e of the two beings s clss="trms">presens>t. Later ss="ppl">Lacan s clss="trms">articulats>es the s clss="trms">transferens>ce in sujet s clss="trms">supposs>é savoirss='lgc'>: s clss="trms">transferens>ce is the attribution of knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> to the Other, the s clss="trms">supposs>ition that the Other is a subject who knows. “As soon as the subject who is s clss="trms">supposs>ed to know exists <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>somewhere<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> ... there is s clss="trms">transferens>ce.” (ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Seminar II, p. 232)ss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>[keep in mind that the (post<span clss='qstn'>?span>-)ss="ppl">Lacanian theory is about the <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>constitutive function of the signifier in s clss="trms">relations> to the subject.<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> ... for ss="ppl">Lacan, What constitutes the person and its identity can now be s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads> as a text, and the s clss="trms">authors> is not the subject, but the s clss="trms">trajects>ory of the signifiers that res clss="trms">presens>t the desire of those who occupy the place of the Other for the subject.ss='lgc'>]
ss='lgc'>[about s clss="trms">demands>ss='lgc'>: ss="ppl">Lacan argues that “s clss="trms">demands> constitutes the Other as als clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>y possessing the ‘privilege’ of satisfying needs,” and that indeed the s clss="trms">childs>'s biological needs are themselves altered by “the condition that is imposed on him by the existence of the discourse, to make his need pass through the defiles of the signifier.” ... The subject has never done anything other than s clss="trms">demands> (since infancy!)ss='lgc'>] <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>{s clss="trms">questions> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="trms">demands>ss='lgc'>}<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss="ppl">Nancy
ss='lgc'>[the use of ‘s clss="trms">transferens>ce’ is a way to account for the s clss="trms">relations>ship between s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ers and texts. the emphasis in ss="ppl">Lacan is on the ‘s clss="trms">supposs>ed’ and not on the ‘know’. s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>er assume that the text ‘knows’. ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> What ss="ppl">Lacan's understanding of the s clss="trms">transferens>ce points to is the fact that we must see the meaning of any given text not within the text itself but as a reconstruction between s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>er and text.ss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>[in other words, s clss="trms">transferens>ce is ‘a res clss="trms">presens>tation of the s clss="trms">pasts>’ (s clss="trms">childs>hood and etc.) to the s clss="trms">presens>t ss='lgc'>]
a pedagogical problemss='lgc'>: rapid s clss="trms">transferens>cial turn-overss='lgc'>: going from one subject-s clss="trms">supposs>ed-to-know to the other (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing)
ss='at'>#the kind of ‘s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing’ ss='lgc'>[encountering a text, artwork, speech, ourselves, etc.ss='lgc'>] that i am talking about is not about this s clss="trms">transferens>cial energy directed towards the sujet s clss="trms">supposs>é savoir. this practice of s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing is about to s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads> together and to s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads> ourselves s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing, to an atentiveness to the way we are s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing or not-s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing or aberating from something and be attentive to that disjunctive movement. what is noncomprehension<span clss='qstn'>?span> what is the experience of nonunderstanding<span clss='qstn'>?span> and so on.
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>so, the sujet s clss="trms">supposs>é savoir is the one who is structurally is in a place of knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> which doesn't mean that subject is filled with or capable of offering power and knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> but that is projected s clss="trms">ontos> that functional space<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> sujet s clss="trms">supposs>é savoir is merely a spatial determination<span clss='qstn'>?span> (is this related to my s clss="trms">inters>ventive s clss="trms">lecturs>es in outdoor spaces in order to sabotage ‘what is meant to signify’ of the spatial subject-s clss="trms">supposs>ed-to-know<span clss='qstn'>?span>)
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>sss is one of the effects of subjectivity ss='lgc'>-- a scenography of s clss="trms">transferens>tial intensity ss='lgc'>: we credit that being with having knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> to transmit, and then we might also resist it.
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>---let's get out of this space!!<span clss='qstn'>?span>
ss='lgc'>--<span clss='prcnt'>%span>ss='lgc'>--in the context of pedagogy, students regards their teachers as sujet s clss="trms">supposs>é savoir, that they should know something. “it is the students’ s clss="trms">supposs>ition of an art teacher who knows, who have something more than they have in themselves, that initiates the teaching and learning process rather than the art knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> actually possessed by the teacher” (Hetrick). (is it the architectural s clss="trms">gests>uress='lgc'>--the centerss='lgc'>--that produces the recognition of the teacher s clss="trms">situs>ated as “teacher”<span clss='qstn'>?span>) <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>“the spell of s clss="trms">transferens>ce.” / at some point some s clss="trms">gests>ure is taken by the student as a sign of hidden knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> and intention ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> s clss="trms">transferens>ce establishing itself; (how education ss='lgc'>[and s clss="trms">lovs>e<span clss='qstn'>?span>ss='lgc'>] without s clss="trms">transferens>ce looks like<span clss='qstn'>?span> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss="ppl">Julia ss="ppl">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Scher, ‘post-ss="ppl">Lacanian’ means that you don't ‘transfer’ to the art-work nor artist<span clss='qstn'>?span>) ss='at'>#s clss="nms">harems>
parent ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> teacher ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> what the student may desire to become (be recognized as)
s clss="trms">accords>ing to ss="ppl">Lacan there is no s clss="nms">Pirs> (ss='lgc'>~ ss='lgc'>[often iconoclastss='lgc'>] leader, guide, mentor, expert, knowing-hero, enlightener, rescuer knowing more, knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>able pedagogue/leader “helping students find themselves,” ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> my failed s clss="trms">transferens>ce with s clss="frds scrmbld">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Saeeds>ss='lgc'>])
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--><span clss='qstn'>?span> Discourse of the University<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>: (s clss="trms">syss>tematic) “knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>” replaces the nonsensical master signifier in the dominant commanding s clss="trms">posits>ion; in this case the sujet s clss="trms">supposs>é savoir dependent upon the related knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> of the Other, or the source of “the field” (journals, texts clss="trms">books>s, etc.) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> (arbiter of) truth ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>to transmit knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> that is als clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>y given<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>
ss='lgc'>[account of knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> as a s clss="trms">syms>bolic and s clss="trms">socis>al s clss="trms">networks>, master signifier, subject s clss="trms">posits>ions,ss='lgc'>]
in placing the ‘text’ in the s clss="trms">posits>ion of a knowing expert who has the answers s clss="frds scrmbld">Lilis> (unconsciously) idealizes her texts, and of course when her ‘texts’ fail to satisfy that desire she s clss="trms">demands>s ‘knowing’ from them in terms of cynicismss='lgc'>: the feeling or state of being annoyed and irritated by them. this is a structural space of ‘s clss="trms">demands>’ in her. for me what is at stake is the complex s clss="trms">naturs>e of encounter between s clss="frds scrmbld">Lilis> and text which takes place in an artificial spacess='lgc'>--a s clss="trms">syms>bolic spacess='lgc'>--that is at the same time the place of real investments of her desires.
ss='at'>@s clss="frds scrmbld">Lilis>; is she (like the rest of us humans) looking for an active, predatory art<span clss='qstn'>?span>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> if non-s clss="trms">communs>icative non-predatory non-kinetic ss='lgc'>[a common issue with the students of choreography and dance in generalss='lgc'>] art exists on this planet, then we kave to learn “a whole new set of s clss="trms">techns>iques.” ss='lgc'>[ss="ppl">La Guinss='lgc'>])
ss='lgc'>--the meter of ‘time,’ that essential element, matrix and s clss="trms">meass>ure of all kown human-s clss="trms">animals> art. what if there are other metric s clss="trms">syss>tems<span clss='qstn'>?span> art not as an action, but a reaction<span clss='qstn'>?span> not a s clss="trms">communs>ication, but a reception<span clss='qstn'>?span> ss='lgc'>{ss='lgc'>-ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <span clss='gtrw'>go tospan> my master studies Diploma on passivity in performance artss='lgc'>}
registers of ‘s clss="trms">complains>ing’ in s clss="frds scrmbld">Lilis>'s discourse. she is a bit like Faust groaning, habe nun akhhhhh Philosophie and so on. ss='lgc'>[Ach of ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sprachess='lgc'>] (that they have done all the work, they know everything, yet know not enough of what really counts ss='lgc'>[that is the incalculabless='lgc'>] and cannot be satisfied by mere knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> available to them. nor can they keep themselves to the restricted zone of knowability.) so s clss="frds scrmbld">Lilis> saying “it's too much!” is a hysteric wish for ‘more’<span clss='qstn'>?span>
(ss="ppl">Freudian s clss="trms">joks>e, the hysteric saysss='lgc'>: “is that all there is!<span clss='qstn'>?span>” while the s clss="trms">neuros>tic saysss='lgc'>: “this is too much!” to the same object)
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>it was ss="ppl">Goethe who invented the super-ego, ss="ppl">Freud named it following him.
the all-or-nothing viewss='lgc'>: i know everything or i don't know anything, problem of scale, problem of ‘circumstancess='lgc'> = reality’
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the figure of the ‘accuser’ and the ‘straight talk’ for s clss="frds scrmbld">Lilis>
...that people would speak s clss="trms">literas>lly
going from proof to proof, from necessity to necessity ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> displacement (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= detour)
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ss='at'>@s clss="frds scrmbld">Ekaterinas>; some other charactersss='lgc'>:
the jealous, the impassioned, the persecutive, the s clss="trms">erots>omaniacal,
s clss="trms">complains>er,
noble trader,
s clss="frds scrmbld">Ekaterinas>, asking for a s clss="trms">fabus>lation<span clss='qstn'>?span> her totem making
ss="ppl">Deleuzian s clss="trms">fabus>lationss='lgc'>: a s clss="trms">ficts>ion made up by people in their process of becoming
making up s clss="trms">storiess>
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="trms">ficts>ion (on its own; it doesn't have that s clss="trms">relations> with becoming)
in which conditions the s clss="trms">paranos>id mother occupies the failiour of the good-enough mother<span clss='qstn'>?span>
what constitutes the ‘site’ for her mother<span clss='qstn'>?span>
(how her) characters keep running into eachother in a universe of recursive connection (<span clss='qstn'>?span>)
<strcls clss='strcls'>**strcls>s clss="trms">storiess> that collect s clss="trms">storiess><strcls clss='strcls'>**strcls> ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= archive<span clss='qstn'>?span> my hypertext<span clss='qstn'>?span> a mouth full<span clss='qstn'>?span> ss='lgc'>--this s clss="trms">specifis>c type of s clss="trms">storiess> are ds clss="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angers>ously s clss="trms">worlds>ers, usually handed to the uns clss="trms">questions>ed mechanics of universalized taxonomy and 17th century s clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>sss='lgc'>: encyclopedic homogeneous tables. they are the stuff of s clss="nms">ajayebs>ss='lgc'>]
(mispronounced by s clss="frds scrmbld">Ekaterinas> > captured by s clss="frds scrmbld">Hodas> > found object by s clss="frds">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sinas>)
s clss="trms">storiess> that collect other s clss="trms">storiess>ss='lgc'>:
stsrd clss="lstsrd">1- archive ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">sorts>ability
stsrd>
stsrd clss="lstsrd">2- s clss="trms">translats>ion ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> linearity
stsrd>
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> universality (that both these s clss="trms">storiess> claim)
(<span clss='mywrk'>my workspan> on hypertext s clss="nms">apasss> s clss="nms">ajayebs> graph s clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>s, is to deal within these conditions of s clss="trms">storys>ing. my shift of s clss="trms">inters>est)
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(“dealing” ss='at'>@s clss="frds scrmbld">Luizas>ss='lgc'>:)
(or in s clss="frds scrmbld">Lilis>'s term “..a way to tackle issues”)
ss='lgc'>[with ss="ppl">Avitalss='lgc'>]
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>modalities of dealing-withss='lgc'>:
<span clss="prgrph">-parasitism
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-(under the spell) s clss="trms">drugs>s ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= struggle (s clss="trms">accords>ing to ss="ppl">Marxian protocolss='lgc'>: one is s clss="trms">drugs>ged and disabled ss='lgc'>[Date-rape-s clss="trms">drugs> as an incapas clss="trms">citas>ting s clss="trms">agens>tss='lgc'>] and neutralized by state s clss="trms">apparatuss>, s clss="trms">drugs>s are administrated and spend in all s clss="trms">sorts>s of insidious ways.)
span>
on the discourse of stupidityss='lgc'>: ss="ppl">Marx (in s clss="trms">writs>ing to Engels says that he) believed that proletariat are stupid. ss="ppl">Marx's insight to replace the other s clss="trms">drugs>s that have put so many into a stupor. people with s clss="trms">Religs>ion are not around, they are praying somewhere to some s clss="trms">hallucins>ation ss='lgc'>[this is ss="ppl">Marx, ss="ppl">Freud, ss="ppl">Nietzsche, and others in 20th centuryss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ideological stuporous s clss="trms">drugs>s, ‘everyone is stoned on something’ ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= alert and lucid. ss='lgc'>[highly problematic!ss='lgc'>]
<span clss="prgrph">-this is about a body recognizing its ‘enemy’ (the figure of enemy for every and each of us and the way we “recognize” it, as s clss="trms">histos>rical bodies and minds ins clss="trms">herits>ing the boys of 20th century.) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>---- the state of the struggle depends on certain s clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>phors>ologies on ‘clean’ that are problematic and phantasmatic and on the loose. ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss='lgc'>[the issue is that there is no “clean body”.ss='lgc'>] how to do dirty work<span clss='qstn'>?span> (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> for ‘morality’ and ‘clean’ go to ss="ppl">Freud on the os clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>in on moralityss='lgc'>: morality began as we stopped sniffing our asses and stood erect, nose in the air, away from the dirt ss='lgc'>[that we aress='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> morality's phobic appropriations and designations, ss='lgc'>[ss="ppl">Lacanss='lgc'>: from the genital order to the s clss="trms">sublims>e; az kun be fayakon s>از کون به فیکونs> <span clss='prcnt'>%span>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss='at'>#ouroboros ss='at'>#serpentss='lgc'>], ss='lgc'>[so when we stood up, stood erect, our genitals became center, exposing ourselves to the other, sexually centered exposuress='lgc'>], ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>], ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>],)
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-ss="ppl">Marxianss='lgc'>: s clss="trms">languages>/tool/art as a virus that infiltrates ideological structures
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-ss="ppl">Lacoue-Labarthess='lgc'>: in 20th century there are three fundamental modalities of “dealing-with,” three modes of relatedness to our concerns, our s clss="trms">anxis>eties, our worries, our work, our projects ss='lgc'>[three major motifs for the thinkers that continue to provoke our thoughtsss='lgc'>]ss='lgc'>: (1) <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>struggle<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> that would be the ss="ppl">Marxian motor, the modality in terms of concern for s clss="trms">socis>al justice. ss='lgc'>[ss="ppl">Delanda on ss="ppl">Marx ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> a model of synthesisss='lgc'>: a conflict of ops clss="trms">posits>esss='lgc'>] (2) <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="trms">missions><strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> as introduced and lunched by ss="ppl">Heidegger, who was on a s clss="trms">missions>ss='lgc'>: we have a s clss="trms">missions>, we have a s clss="trms">missions> of transs clss="trms">missions>, we have a s clss="trms">missions> to inscribe thingsss='lgc'>--not from God but from what has happened to us and been left to us after the death of God (as ss="ppl">Nietzsche has announced.) ss='lgc'>{yes, without a proper address, a state of s clss="trms">epistems>ic alert, and so onss='lgc'>} and (3) <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>task<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> ass clss="trms">socis>ated with ss="ppl">Benjamin. the Aufgabe is that which inscribes in itself ‘giving up,’ the Aufgabe, it means it is impossible, we take it on as a kind of ethical, political s clss="trms">obligs>ation, but in the word Aufgabe is also ‘Gabe’ meaning ‘gift’ in German, it is gift and giving-up. ss='lgc'>[ss="ppl">Derrida beautifully asks to negotiate endlessly with the ‘given,’ even if the Gift that is given is poisonous.ss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>{ we can see how operate but also how they contaminate (and leak into each other.) we might have a sense of three of themss='lgc'>}
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-s clss="trms">ontos>logy of “struggling” a way out of Aporia ss='lgc'>[denotes, in philosophy, a philosophical puzzle or state of puzzlementss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> we can't! ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> we must try to work to locate modalities of s clss="trms">stags>nancy (rokud) without necessarily seeing the Exit. how do we live with these catastrophic markers that mark us<span clss='qstn'>?span>
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-Paleonymicsss='lgc'>: a certain operation s clss="trms">accords>ing to which one continues to put old words to work. The use of a pre-existing word in a new context. ss='lgc'>-- we are stuck with old pomping meanings.
span>
ss='lgc'>--(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stengers) connecting s clss="trms">materis>alism with struggle ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (in s clss="nms">apasss>) we are descendants of this s clss="trms">tropes>
for s clss="frds scrmbld">Luizas>, the meaning of ‘ins clss="trms">folds>’<span clss='qstn'>?span> instead of ‘unravel’<span clss='qstn'>?span> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">inters>face<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>
(i want to point out the ‘synthesis’ in her work rather than the ‘analysis’ implied in the term ‘unravel’)
ss="ppl">Lacoue-Labarthe made ss="ppl">Heidegger possible to s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads> for ss="ppl">Avital
(and that is what ss="ppl">Avital does, make a lot of things possible to s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads> for me)
(to incorporate a) <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>orous hesitation<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leos>'s “slowness”)
going step by step in the confrontation (essential to the uns clss="trms">folds>ing of thought)
<strcls clss='strcls'>**strcls>not turning ‘weakness’ (or s clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>phors>ical weariness) into a (compelling) paraconcept ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>-- ss="ppl">Levinas does itss='lgc'>]
<span clss="prgrph">-taking on the the big topoi of the day like a warrior
span>
courage ss='lgc'>--comesss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> from the <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="trms">abyss>s of needling fearfulness<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>German romantics invented the always-with-s clss="trms">communs>ity, a living-with, a Mitsein practice of living life philosophically (full of moments of restricted solitude, pressure zones, etc.)
(office of friendship...) i am friend in a ss="ppl">Freudian ambivalence, that means i undermine the friend, try to s clss="trms">traps> him and catch him off guard
<span clss="prgrph">-if you are so calm, then i will try to bring you over to my side of the barricade of obsessional s clss="trms">neuros>tic (a condition in which the mind is intruded upon against her will by images, ideas, or words. consciousness remains lucid and power to reason remains intact ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> temporarily deprivation of individual of freedom of thought and action ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>== s clss="trms">intras>psychic conflict of sexual os clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>in that mobilizes and blocks all flows of energy (in the case s clss="trms">neuros>tic a source of pleasure to the s clss="trms">childs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= hysteric)ss='lgc'>])
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-when we s clss="trms">writs>e do we need to des clss="trms">monsts>rate a far-ranging grasp of the political consequences of every possible s clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>physs>ical move<span clss='qstn'>?span>
span>
...prime mover or suspects such as ss="ppl">Plato, ss="ppl">Heidegger, ss="ppl">Derrida
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>accelerationss='lgc'>: that we are result-oriented, business-oriented, under the gun of gains, and subject to the push towards s clss="trms">scies>ntific objectification ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= i try to work with s clss="trms">differens>t degrees of attentionss='lgc'>: slowing down for checkpoints, allusive s clss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>sters and s clss="trms">denss>e indicators, that are also problematic and short-circuited (in my s clss="trms">lecturs>es) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> to get to the <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>notational space<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> that we can calmly observe, examine and explore together.
<span clss="prgrph">-to be lucid about your own part taking in s clss="trms">narcisss>istic economy
span>
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="trms">mimes>sis<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>: those things we are still stuck in in very covert and unavowed ways ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>-> ‘destiny’ (a term i use when i mean s clss="trms">mimes>sis for us ss='lgc'>[-a disease that shows s clss="trms">syms>ptoms characteristic of another diseasess='lgc'>])
(i am not pessimistic at all) i have just a catastrophic intuition that informs my grammar ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="trms">mimes>tic hell
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<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="trms">complains>t (blocks ‘becoming’<span clss='qstn'>?span>)
<span clss="prgrph">-so if i am used to s clss="trms">complains>t in all s clss="trms">sorts>s and forms and shapes, what do i do if not s clss="trms">complains>ing<span clss='qstn'>?span> that means i need to start learning new s clss="trms">techns>iques of being in the s clss="trms">worlds>.
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-s clss="trms">complains>, forms of protest, grievance, ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>--(contamination)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> lament (sug s>سوگs>, zaje s>ضجهs>)
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-diss clss="trms">posits>ions of Beschwerde
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-which minorities are ass clss="trms">socis>ated with bitching and moaning<span clss='qstn'>?span> (naleh va shekayat s>ناله و شکایتs>, ghor s>غرولندs>, s>غرs>) (a feminine accent<span clss='qstn'>?span>!)
span>
<span clss="prgrph prgrph2">-it is often said that “s clss="trms">childs>ren should stop s clss="trms">complains>ing”
span>
“stop s clss="trms">complains>ing” <span clss='qstn'>?span>!! ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>~> pointed to or relevant for s clss="frds scrmbld">Lilis> alsoss='lgc'>]
<strcls clss='strcls'>***strcls>s clss="trms">complains>t ss='lgc'>: the disenfranchised (az hagh mahrum shodeh s>از حق محروم شدهs>) s clss="trms">languages> of muted rage<strcls clss='strcls'>***strcls>
what is (let's) bitching together<span clss='qstn'>?span>
is s clss="trms">religs>ion one long s clss="trms">complains>t<span clss='qstn'>?span> (ss='lgc'>--'reformation’ as a cover-up)
the “i prefer,” non-need, non-preference
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>forms of relatednessss='lgc'>--in certain s clss="trms">socis>eties the opening self of s clss="trms">socis>ality consists in s clss="trms">complains>ing. (starter-utterances; s clss="trms">socis>al encounter involves nagging about your friends, parents, s clss="trms">lovs>ers, etc.) ss='lgc'>--making friends is via s clss="trms">complains>ing. (this is about the conditions of Mitsein, being-with) ss='lgc'>{non-affirmation ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~/=<span clss='qstn'>?span> s clss="trms">complains>t; we mistake so easily non-affirmation with s clss="trms">complains>ing. (is this s clss="frds scrmbld">Lilis>'s take<span clss='qstn'>?span> her s clss="trms">complains>ts about the insufficiencies of being.)ss='lgc'>} ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> is s clss="trms">complains>t parasitized by calls for retribution<span clss='qstn'>?span>
Klage (s clss="trms">complains>t) ss='lgc'>--toss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> Anklage (accusation)
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="trms">complains>t remains a repetitive fixation that feeds rather than exhausting its course (/ss="ppl">Avital, aw9Cv_wQ4CQ) ss='lgc'>-- it does not finish itself off, or move up the ladder of transformation ss='lgc'>[important for s clss="frds scrmbld">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sanas>ss='lgc'>], actually increases pain ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> so, (s clss="trms">accords>ing to the analystss='lgc'>:) s clss="trms">complains> is jacking up one's suffering (the Analytiker can't take it anymore)
ss="ppl">Avital > ss="ppl">Kittlerss='lgc'>: the Ach of ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sprache, (in our s clss="trms">histos>rical s clss="trms">languages> usagess='lgc'>:) s clss="trms">literas>ture or s clss="trms">languages> as s clss="trms">complains>t. sigh in s clss="trms">literas>ture (also pointed out by s clss="frds scrmbld">Lilis>)
ss='lgc'>--the s clss="trms">moderns> techo-s clss="trms">monsts>er Faust opens with the s clss="trms">complains>
<strcls clss='strcls'>**strcls>what is then a proper address<span clss='qstn'>?span>
...the wish for more
<span clss="prgrph">-do machines s clss="trms">complains>t or lament<span clss='qstn'>?span>
span>
ss='at'>@s clss="frds scrmbld">Luizas>; (one of sub-s clss="trms">phenomens>on of utterance) <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>blush<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> registers a s clss="trms">complains>t(<span clss='qstn'>?span>)
(ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> to be noted that certain white skin-colors considered racistly “capable” of displaying moral s clss="trms">anxis>ety.)
<span clss="prgrph">-a level of s clss="trms">affects> and meaning that remains at the loss of words, between shame and exs clss="trms">cites>ment, confession and disavow. blush speaks for her at moment when she cannot stand up for herself<span clss='qstn'>?span>
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-or it betrays her with a sudden sps clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads> of skin-mapping releasing a secret or indexing a moral blemish (lakedar s>لکه دارs>), a pigmentation... (how to s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads> it<span clss='qstn'>?span>)
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-blush manages to register a s clss="trms">complains>t and it signs off ss='lgc'>[cons clss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>desss='lgc'>] at an unspoken accusation...
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-blossoming of senses, cultural significance, who is capable of blushing<span clss='qstn'>?span> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (decency's) <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>outrage<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> libidinally charged, prompting a political arousal ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> still a vitality stirs in the s clss="trms">complains>tss='lgc'>--<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>the s clss="trms">complains>t can bring movement<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>) ss='lgc'>[s clss="frds scrmbld">Luizas>'s climate of resistance and her s clss="trms">integrs>ated modality of ‘struggle'ss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <strcls clss='strcls'>**strcls>inner life of morality<strcls clss='strcls'>**strcls>
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-flush<span clss='qstn'>?span>
span>
ss='lgc'>[s clss="trms">complains>t,ss='lgc'>] is it issued from a place of impotence or does it have the potential to move mountains<span clss='qstn'>?span> (ss="ppl">Avitalss='lgc'>--s clss="frds">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sinas>'s emergency supply of meaning)
can it arrive at any destination whatsoever<span clss='qstn'>?span>
‘s clss="trms">complains>’ and ‘explain’ s clss="trms">relations>ships
(s clss="trms">laughs>ter as a form of s clss="trms">complains>ing)
‘s clss="trms">complains>’ and ‘politeness’ s clss="trms">relations>ships
what s clss="trms">complains>t has to do with our s clss="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angers>-management programs<span clss='qstn'>?span>
s clss="trms">complains>t ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~/= lament (s clss="trms">complains>t won't shut up but lament desires its ending)
lament is fined to mourning and loss ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~/= s clss="trms">complains>t (resisting a fixed s clss="trms">relations> to loss) seems unable to mourn
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="trms">complains>t cannot mourn. ss='lgc'>[s clss="trms">complains>t as a form of mourning-disorderss='lgc'>]
(is mourning busy with ‘continuity in life’<span clss='qstn'>?span> a s clss="trms">worlds> that is not made of connectionsss='lgc'>: zendegi bi/ba tadavom s>زندگی بیs>/s>با تداومs>, jahani ke be ham mortabet nist s>جهانی که به هم مرتبط نیستs>)
is any critique not a s clss="trms">complains>t<span clss='qstn'>?span> not throwing something in the field of s clss="trms">complains>t<span clss='qstn'>?span> (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="frds scrmbld">Luizas>, s clss="frds scrmbld">Lilis>; certain forms of protest dominates their utterances)
ss='lgc'>--s clss="trms">differens>t s clss="trms">morphs>s of civic griefss='lgc'>--
(why am i concerned with s clss="trms">complains>t of my friends<span clss='qstn'>?span> this is about checking my own infrastructural concerns about zones of encounter and redirecting oversized libidinal aggressions, ss='lgc'>[and pain-relief<span clss='qstn'>?span> ss='lgc'>{is <span clss='mywrk'>my workspan> all about (philosophical/artistic) pain-relief<span clss='qstn'>?span>ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>])
s clss="trms">complains>t ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= staying within the boundaries of s clss="trms">cods>ed gracefulness
(...credit reserved for non-s clss="trms">complains>ers) ,,, ((minor scales of)) protest and breaking rhymes (of master discourse<span clss='qstn'>?span>) (ss='at'>@s clss="frds scrmbld">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sanas>, perturbed by manners of injustice; her libido ss='lgc'>[zist-maye s>زیست مایهs>, shur-e hayat s>شور حیاتs>ss='lgc'>] is at stake)
ss='lgc'>--when s clss="trms">complains>t takes over and you don't even know if there is an injury anymore at the root of it.
(we are s clss="trms">traves>ling behind its possible meaning-fields)
de-shamanization and s clss="trms">translats>ion /(non-transparency should rule<span clss='qstn'>?span>!)
are we s clss="trms">traps>ped in a grid of grievance<span clss='qstn'>?span>
s clss="trms">differens>t forms of ‘maybe’ (i am trying to install<span clss='qstn'>?span>)
how s clss="trms">complains>t is then s clss="trms">situs>ated in ‘becoming’<span clss='qstn'>?span>
ss='lgc'>[...ss='lgc'>] s clss="trms">complains>t haunts our era of desperate justice (s clss="frds scrmbld">Xiris>, s clss="frds scrmbld">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sanas>, s clss="frds scrmbld">Varinias>)
. a calling-s clss="trms">syss>tem<span clss='qstn'>?span> a GPss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>S that has lost its signal<span clss='qstn'>?span>
maternal super-ego
political passion emerging as a defensive strategy
(ss='at'>@s clss="frds scrmbld">Xiris>, is she trying to add-on the super-ego for her concern of s clss="trms">socis>al justice<span clss='qstn'>?span>)
so, does s clss="trms">complains>t prevent the arrival of change or make way for new forms of s clss="trms">socis>ality<span clss='qstn'>?span>
“I can't s clss="trms">complains>.” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (a blockbuster;) those in stubborn destitution ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>----that there is no address in the era of the becoming anonymous of God. ‘Who would pick up your call<span clss='qstn'>?span>’
however, “the friend, whether ghostly, futural, or closely bound in time, receives the brunt of the s clss="trms">complains>t” ss='lgc'>--friends structurally s clss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists>ens to disappointed expectation, disappointed s clss="trms">worlds>liness
what-should-have-been
On what approved s clss="trms">contingens>cies, contractual loopholes, or s clss="trms">transferens>tial coordinates could I possibly befriend another<span clss='qstn'>?span>
s clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>physs>ical s clss="trms">herits>age of friendship (... reconfigured personhood)
(how can I do things without being a psycho about it<span clss='qstn'>?span>)
(How do I know by which politics of friendship, grid or s clss="trms">writs>ing practice I am being called up<span clss='qstn'>?span>)
a s clss="trms">vocabulars>y existed to designate, approximate certain s clss="trms">routins>es
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CrGJIss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>S3quYY
(30.03.2017) Rabih Mroue and Hito ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Steyerl duoss='lgc'>: concern for injustice and conservative justice call disguised under an elaborated and augmented s clss="trms">complains>t (in the s clss="trms">aesthets>ic terms of contemporary art s clss="trms">markets>), non-reses clss="trms"nttrm="search">arches>rs of their subjects and topics, they have no ‘topic’ only ‘resource’ (in the making of their own myth of the figure of artist,) ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= when something becomes a topic for you, it bounds you to the unsettling commitments of curiosity and research and hard work.ss='lgc'>]
<span clss="prgrph">-in their notion of “Artist in the Reign of Terror” they ask disturbingly “but many individuals have died and it means nothing<span clss='qstn'>?span>!” with a sneer (artwork as puzkhand s>پوزخندs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss='at'>@s clss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Shariati">Alis> )
span>
ss='lgc'>[<strcls clss='strcls'>**strcls>“sneer” is a contemptuous or mocking smile, remark, or tone, coming from a family of sarcastic s clss="trms">tropes>s of s clss="trms">complains>t and ironizated s clss="trms">complains>ingss='lgc'>]
<span clss="prgrph">-their art-work finds and flourishes in a terrain of terror. in their nonspeculative work there is no “but, what if” or “but, not yet” and therefore no ‘becomings’
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-for Hito and Rabihss='lgc'>: zeitgenössisch (contemporary)ss='lgc'> = grausam (atrocious)
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-they dichotomize (fact/s clss="trms">ficts>ion, real/unreal, etc.), rather than allowing a novel and s clss="trms">inters>esting s clss="trms">questions> to be raised
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-what is the state of unknown in one's practice<span clss='qstn'>?span> rather than being a news s clss="trms">agens>cy
span>
ss='lgc'>[negativity<span clss='qstn'>?span>ss='lgc'>]ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> your bad feelings ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s>غرs> ghor s clss="trms">complains>t ss='lgc'>--(turn it into)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> critique ss='lgc'>--(start doing)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> research ss='lgc'>--(get)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> diploma ss='lgc'>--(turn it into)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> phd ss='lgc'>--(make your)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> department of studies ss='lgc'>--(into)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">crafts> tradition
ss='lgc'>[you don't have to start with negativity!ss='lgc'>]
ss='lgc'>[you don't need to end in your own myth tradition!ss='lgc'>]
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ss='at'>@s clss="frds scrmbld">Anouks> (ss='at'>@her “breathing archive”)ss='lgc'>: (ss="ppl">Lev ss="ppl">Manovich's) s clss="trms">relations>ship between ‘s clss="trms">inters>face’ and ‘s clss="trms">datas>base,’ ‘perceptable’ to ‘information’. ss='lgc'>[s clss="trms">Datas>base as s clss="trms">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Syms>bolic Formss='lgc'>: http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i290-1/s04/s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ings/manovich_s clss="trms">datas>base.pdfss='lgc'>]
what is for s clss="frds scrmbld">Anouks> ‘information’<span clss='qstn'>?span> and what is for her the s clss="trms">relations>ship between information, knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>, s clss="trms">inters>face, and perceptable<span clss='qstn'>?span>
for her what is the s clss="trms">relations>ship between ‘information’ and ‘ins clss="trms">finits>e’<span clss='qstn'>?span> (ins clss="trms">finits>e as the universe of all possible images)
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<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="frds scrmbld">Pierres>'s ‘s clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>hts of nerves’ ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> “talking to everybody”
ss='lgc'>[s clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>hts of nervesss='lgc'>: you are promted to do what you do out of disgust, outrage, fear, or driven by s clss="trms">anxis>ety, you don't know why, you are compelled towards an object or project or thing or unthingss='lgc'>]
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="frds scrmbld">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sebas>ss='lgc'>: for him “s clss="trms">narrats>ive ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= complex” (the s clss="trms">questions> of “complexity's s clss="trms">situs>atedness”) for himss='lgc'>: “multiple perspectives ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> coherency (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= bi-rabt s>بی ربطs>, na-ham-dusti s>ناهمدوستیs> <span clss='qstn'>?span>)” (is his idea of “coherency” leads to ‘friendship’<span clss='qstn'>?span> is for s clss="frds scrmbld">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sebas> ‘amity’ ss='lgc'>[ravabet-e hasane s>روابط حسنهs>ss='lgc'>] at stake<span clss='qstn'>?span> )
s clss="frds scrmbld">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sebas>'s s clss="trms">epistems>ological object(<span clss='qstn'>?span>)ss='lgc'>: ‘evidence’ (ss='lgc'>=/<span clss='qstn'>?span>ss='lgc'>=>! cordial diss clss="trms">posits>ions)
(complexity is the name of our game. ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway)
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my current work and s clss="trms">inters>est involves the investigation of individualized subject formation (tajarode nafs s>تجرد نفسs> <span clss='qstn'>?span>); s clss="trms">inters>rogating the production of s clss="trms">languages>; and tracing the divisible distinguishing limits between s clss="trms">categs>ories of human, s clss="trms">animals>, and s clss="trms">monsts>rous.
ss='at'>#subjects of s clss="trms">inters>estss='lgc'>: The s clss="trms">translats>or, s clss="trms">languages>, the s clss="trms">sublims>e, s clss="trms">animals>s/s clss="trms">animals>ity, s clss="trms">techns>icity/mechanicity, the divine/sacred,
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the myth of Poros, Penia, and Eros for s clss="frds scrmbld">Aelas>ss='lgc'>:
(in ss="ppl">Plato's s clss="trms">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Syms>posium;) Penia, the “s clss="trms">childs> of poverty,” decides to forcefully impregnate herself with the inebriated Poros, “the personification of plenty,” who is always in ops clss="trms">posits>ion with aporia, (ss='lgc'>~ snafu before aporia,) “puzzlement, which breaks with the logic of identity,” and thus defining aporia. The result of this union is Eros...
poverty ss='lgc'>+ ss='lgc'>{plenitude ss='lgc'>× aporiass='lgc'>} ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> eros ss='lgc'>: ss='lgc'>{s clss="trms">agens>cy of passivity ss='lgc'>+ resourcefulnessss='lgc'>}
stsrd clss="lstsrd">1-s clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>physs>ical inquiry begins from ‘aporia’
stsrd>
stsrd clss="lstsrd">2-rationas clss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists> inquiry begins from ‘a s clss="trms">priors>i’
stsrd>
stsrd clss="lstsrd">3-s clss="trms">s clss="trms">empiris>cs>ist inquiry begins from ‘tabula rasa’ (hakim's beginning)
stsrd>
/
/
stsrd clss="lstsrd">4-mystical inquiry begins from ‘s clss="trms">affects>ive a posteriori’ (effect, s clss="trms">wonders>, heyrat, tahayor)
stsrd>
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sci-fi is s clss="trms">imagis>ning the elsewhere inside mortality. (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> feminism stakes in ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>SF)
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<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>make a series of studio photos with white clear backs, two s clss="trms">differens>t genders s clss="nms">irans>ians having a physical/s clss="trms">verbs>al fight or some s clss="trms">sorts> of aggressive encounter
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>the idea is to s clss="trms">writs>e a script for a movie or short series, combining the s clss="trms">histos>rical 14th century s clss="nms">Irans> with the 14th century s clss="trms">imagis>nal s clss="trms">beasts> s clss="trms">fables>s from the s clss="nms">ajayebs>. the camera creats a non-exotic continuation between the two
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ss='lgc'>[with ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Kenneyss='lgc'>]
<span clss="prgrph">-how to let emerge a s clss="trms">serios>usness as collective s clss="trms">matters>s of care<span clss='qstn'>?span>
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-how to stimulate s clss="trms">pragmas>tic s clss="trms">questions>s about how to s clss="trms">crafts> relevant knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges><span clss='qstn'>?span>
span>
speculation is all about s clss="trms">pragmas>tism
capitas clss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists> speculation ss='lgc'>: “one must speculate to accumulate” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= relating <span clss='and'>&span> s clss="trms">narrats>ing
s clss="trms">scies>ntific speculation <span clss='and'>&span> venture capital ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> big s clss="trms">epistems>ic/financial pay-offs or costly dead ends ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stengers's notion of speculative) <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>being at risk with ones claims<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= received notions of s clss="trms">authors>ity or rationalityss='lgc'>]
(an abstract challengess='lgc'>:) to bring s clss="trms">specifis>city and s clss="trms">imagis>native traction
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>speculation is a more feral practice
(s clss="trms">wilds>) speculation ss='lgc'>[always improperss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= proper s clss="trms">scies>nce ss='lgc'>: rational production of univerasal knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>
<span clss="prgrph">-speculation is not about what there is but what there might be
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-speculation is on the side of the possible ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= probable (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss="ppl">ss="ppl">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stengers)
span>
speculative operations (quietly) insist that <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>another s clss="trms">worlds> is here<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> my s clss="nms">ajayebs>) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= the smooth operation of business-as-usual (,, s clss="trms">inters>rupting it)
for my s clss="nms">ajayebs>, how can i carve out a space to nurture my idea<span clss='qstn'>?span> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> nest-building ss='lgc'>--s clss="trms">posits>ion/placess='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> digging out a bit of earth
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>speculative s clss="trms">s clss="trms">empiris>cs>ism ss='lgc'>: s clss="trms">scies>ntific ss='lgc'>+ s clss="trms">narrats>ive
working with s clss="nms">ajayebs> so that it might stimulate a specualtive s clss="trms">s clss="trms">empiris>cs>ism for s clss="trms">composs>ing more livable s clss="trms">worlds>s ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="nms">ajayebs>'s storied biospheres
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ss='thdf'>the notion of ‘magic’ in popular TV series, such as ‘Harry Potter’ franchise and ‘The Magicians’ among many others, and s clss="trms">instrus>mentalization. magic as information s clss="trms">techns>ology that is completely s clss="trms">instrus>mentalized. the capitas clss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists> ideology of ‘tool’ and ‘usefulness’ are insinuated heavily in the hipster figures of ‘The Magicians’ in the way that they s clss="trms">inters>upt s clss="trms">histos>ry and knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>-burdened living. “stop the s clss="trms">histos>ry lessen! tell me how do we kill the s clss="trms">beasts> with it<span clss='qstn'>?span>” (the stupidity of the hipster hero moving through the matrix of merely teleological s clss="trms">phenomens>a, stripping pleasure off thinking...)
(utopian<span clss='qstn'>?span>)
what a magic spell is good for if it is not a leverage<span clss='qstn'>?span>
ss='lgc'>[titless='lgc'>]
The Magicians and The Absolute Freedom and Terror
(‘The Magicians’ss='lgc'>:) magicss='lgc'>: s clss="trms">instrus>mentalizing the logos
knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> is s clss="trms">literas>l ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> magic spells are s clss="trms">literas>l ss='lgc'>{the result of magic spell is predeterminedss='lgc'>}. in this case, the magic is both an s clss="trms">instrus>ment of power and rs clss="trms">enuncs>iation of knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>
(ss="ppl">Heideggerian) s clss="trms">techns>e of the Western project is an s clss="trms">instrus>mentality that takes over, arrests, or enframes what it desires to manipulate or contain. (ss="ppl">s clss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christians> ss="ppl">Hubert's notes)
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="trms">poiess>is, a bringing-forth (in ss="ppl">Heideggerss='lgc'>: blooming of the blossom) (also s clss="trms">Greeks>)
“ss='lgc'>[(for the s clss="trms">techns>o-s clss="trms">monsts>er-magicians) everything isss='lgc'>] s clss="trms">cods>e to be cracked”
a kind of fantasies that Don ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Ihde calls s clss="trms">techns>o-fantasy, which have been part of the transhumanism since 19th century
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the toxic distinction between s clss="trms">techns>e from s clss="trms">epistems>e (since ss="ppl">Homer). ‘The Magician’ sugs clss="trms">gests>s magic as a s clss="trms">techns>ology or tool apart from its context of involvements and referentialities ss='lgc'>: a hermeneutic or alterity s clss="trms">relations> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= (ss="ppl">Heideggerss='lgc'>:) the tool is an s clss="trms">embods>iment s clss="trms">relations>
(one of the characters even states that humans without magic invented computers as replacement)
‘The Magician’ dismisses the generation of knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> in the praxis of tool-use. s clss="trms">scies>nce/magic is s clss="trms">pragmas>tic s clss="trms">relations> of s clss="trms">s clss="trms">equips>s>ment or tools as s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>y-to-hand. the ideology of a knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> s clss="trms">relations>ss='lgc'>: magic (as tool) is s clss="trms">presens>t-at-hand ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">ontos>logical s clss="trms">relations>ship to the s clss="trms">worlds> (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>----the characters want to go and have an icecream when they are finished with all the magical fights.)
this notion of magic as tool (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="trms">epistems>ological object) in use achieves (what Don ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Ihde calls) <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="trms">instrus>mental transparency<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> It “withdraws” when in use, but becomes conspicuous again when broken or missing ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> this is precisely the standard account of s clss="trms">techns>ology in high-s clss="trms">techns>o-s clss="trms">scies>ntific capitas clss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists> sunny s clss="trms">socis>etiesss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss='thdf'>the idea that magicians can “forget” (or “lose”) their magic sugs clss="trms">gests>s a guarantor of s clss="trms">instrus>mental transparency of magic (or knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>).
<span clss="prgrph">-the popular vision of magic hinges around the desire for total transparency<strcls clss='strcls'>**strcls>
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-this s clss="trms">instrus>mental rationality is the heart of the s clss="trms">moderns>izing project (which characterizes capitalism) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the value-free calculable efficiency of administrative processes (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> a project of domination and denial of dependence) (ss='lgc'>=<span clss='qstn'>?span>ss='lgc'>=> Auschwitz)
span>
(how to make The Magician's bounded utilitarian individualism unthinkable<span clss='qstn'>?span>)
(Frankfurt ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Schoolss='lgc'>:) s clss="trms">techns>ology ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= s clss="trms">instrus>mental reason ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= reification (madiat, jesmiat) as reason
(ss="ppl">Habermasss='lgc'>:) s clss="trms">syss>tems rationality, economic and bureaucratic rationality (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> patterns of meaning rendered functional) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="trms">communs>icative processes that sustain the lifes clss="trms">worlds>
the same ss="ppl">Platonic tradition producesss='lgc'>: ss='lgc'>{theory ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= practicess='lgc'>} ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> ss='lgc'>{mind ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= bodyss='lgc'>} ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> ss='lgc'>{"conceptual” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= “s clss="trms">materis>al"ss='lgc'>} (and privileging one over the other)
(for the Frankfurt ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>School) truthss='lgc'> = "a moment of correct praxis”
what is at stake is the way ‘The Magician’ heroes’ way of non-relating to an entire environment and with it to an implicit “s clss="trms">worlds>” that they inhabit.
...that s clss="trms">scies>nce is an ‘account’ of reality not a ‘tool’ for coping with it
...when the s clss="trms">worlds> and the s clss="trms">instrus>ment s clss="trms">inters>act
descriptions of the affordances of indissoluble s clss="trms">instrus>ment / s clss="trms">worlds> complexes are at stake
then how can we think magic/knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>/s clss="trms">scies>nce without s clss="trms">instrus>mentalization (‘something in order to’)<span clss='qstn'>?span>
ss='thdf'>the notion of ‘s clss="trms">worlds>’ and ‘s clss="trms">worlds>ing’ in other Hollywood sci-fi franchises, and the way a s clss="trms">worlds> (ss='thdf'>for example survival in Mars in ‘The Martian,’ surviving “outer space” in ‘Gravity,’ “pure s clss="trms">wonders>” and “s clss="trms">abyss>sal unknown” in many Icarusian space exploration moves and movies, the deprived Earth in ‘s clss="trms">Inters>stellar,’ and so on) is rendered dead or ds clss="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angers>ous or prosperous, ideologies of s clss="trms">anthrops>ocentric extensionalism.
(this directly concerns my s clss="nms">ajayebs> s clss="nms">apasss> research about the s clss="trms">pasts>, because hollywood constantly making s clss="trms">scies>nce s clss="trms">ficts>ions about the s clss="trms">pasts>.)
ss='lgc'>[as much as Matt Damon is s clss="trms">schizos>-constructing a s clss="trms">socis>al environment (on “dead” Mars trying to contact “home”), s clss="nms">Cinderellas>'s s clss="trms">schizos>-s clss="trms">affects>ive s clss="trms">relations> with the talking s clss="trms">animals>s is doing the samess='lgc'>: talking back to a s clss="trms">worlds> that talks to her, where Matt is only able to talk to home station. I think we have better chances with s clss="nms">Cinderellas>'s kind of split personality.ss='lgc'>]
s clss="trms">Moderns>ity ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> “Project of Enlightenment” ss='lgc'>: s clss="trms">religs>ion ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>physs>ics ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">scies>nce ss='lgc'>+ morality ss='lgc'>+ art ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> objective s clss="trms">scies>nce ss='lgc'>+ universal morality ss='lgc'>+ law ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>----ss='lgc'>{each with its own “inner logic"ss='lgc'>}
(ss="ppl">Luhmann; s clss="trms">transits>ion to s clss="trms">moderns>ss='lgc'>:) stratified and hierarchical organization ss='lgc'>--toss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> “functionally s clss="trms">differens>tiated” organization
(project of s clss="trms">moderns>ity requires) a universally assumed but nowhere concretely localizable lifes clss="trms">worlds><strcls clss='strcls'>***strcls> (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/=<span clss='qstn'>?span> s clss="trms">situs>ated knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>s)
s clss="trms">moderns> person ss='lgc'>: the self-fulfilling and self-justifying observing subject
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(ss="ppl">Freud's) egoss='lgc'>: the record of abandoned object cathexes
(cathexes ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= electrical charge; the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object)
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(15.02.2017) three objects from s clss="nms">apasss>ss='lgc'>:
<span clss="prgrph">-s clss="trms">complains>t
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-evidence
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-monologue
span>
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on futurity; in ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>SF capital (Mark Fisher) the information (somewhere between cybernetic futurism and “New Economy”) is a direct generator of economic value ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> ‘the information about the future’ circulates as as increasingly important commodity<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> (ss="ppl">Eshun)
ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>SFss='lgc'>: engineering feedback between its preferred future and its becoming s clss="trms">presens>t ss='lgc'>--<span clss='not'>✕span>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> future ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> manufacturing tools capable of s clss="trms">inters>vention (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/=<span clss='qstn'>?span> disruption; the ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sun Ra, character in the movie The Place is The ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Space, disrupts when he enters the youth s clss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>b.)
ss='at'>@s clss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Ales> ss='lgc'>--herss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> predatory features/futures ss='lgc'>: (a space for researchingss='lgc'>[<span clss='qstn'>?span>ss='lgc'>] dimensions of) anticipatory designs, projects of emulation, manipulation, parasitism, s clss="trms">inters>pellation into a bs clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>ht corporate tomorrow ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>== faces smiling at screens (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--><span clss='qstn'>?span> a bitter s clss="trms">joks>e)
<span clss="prgrph">-in her criticism of “eurocentrism” how are afrofuturism and arabfuturism located<span clss='qstn'>?span> (curatorial) let's invite them as her allies in Hansaring ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Studio.
span>
counters clss="trms">mems>orial mediated practices
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s>خودشیفتگیs> khodshiftegiss='lgc'>:
ss='lgc'>[s clss="trms">narcisss>istic personality disorderss='lgc'>]
(exaggerated feeling of) self-importance, self-absorbed, self-perception of being unique, s clss="trms">situs>ated within self-s clss="trms">presens>tation, sense of entitlement s>حق به جانبs> and self-centeredness schema
adult s clss="trms">neuros>tic's sense of omnipotence ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> relic of the old megalomania of infancy (ss='lgc'>~ all s clss="trms">paranos>ic disorders) (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>-> hurt with denial)
(ss="ppl">Freud's) primal statess='lgc'>: ss='lgc'>{id ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= ego ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= external s clss="trms">worlds>ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>--(not s clss="trms">differens>tiated)
one could not lay hold of oneself as other ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> s clss="trms">narcisss>ism expires
(ss="ppl">Lacan's) egoss='lgc'> = another ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> the specular ego (in the mirror s clss="trms">stags>e) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="trms">narcisss>istic
(‘ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/=’ ss='lgc'>: s clss="trms">erots>ic attraction or aggressive tension)
ss="ppl">Nietzschess='lgc'>: the utterance “I am ugly” created “the beautiful”
ss='lgc'>[does this meanss='lgc'>: “I am beautiful” created “the ugly” (in the other and s clss="trms">worlds>)<span clss='qstn'>?span>ss='lgc'>]
s clss="trms">sublims>ation is passion transformed
or, object displacement, transformation of instincts,
a desuxualization (from primary to secondary s clss="trms">narcisss>ism) (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> what is s clss="frds scrmbld">Aelas>'s “thirst for knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>”<span clss='qstn'>?span>)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> uns clss="trms">folds>ing into (s clss="trms">differens>tiated elements of a oneness of) instinctual-spiritual experience. (s clss="frds scrmbld">Aelas>'s) ‘oneness’ ss='lgc'>[an os clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>inal unity ss='lgc'>+ one hidden and defended againstss='lgc'>] stays alive as connection<span clss='qstn'>?span> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the s clss="trms">questions> of desire for s clss="frds scrmbld">Aelas> is about this hidden linkage.
ss='lgc'>[s clss="trms">transits>ional objects, play, modifications of the pleasure principle, genital function,ss='lgc'>]
,
(noted by ss="ppl">s clss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christians> ss="ppl">Hubertss='lgc'>: for ss="ppl">Loewaldss='lgc'>:) <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="trms">erots>icism is genuine s clss="trms">sublims>ation<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>: a reconciliation in the area of ego development and of s clss="trms">inters>nalization. (ss='at'>@s clss="frds scrmbld">Aelas>)
<span clss="prgrph">-des clss="trms">sublims>ation (of reason<span clss='qstn'>?span>)
span>
objective of sexuality conceptual transformation into Eros ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (asking s clss="frds scrmbld">Aelas> with ss="ppl">Marcusess='lgc'>:) what is the non-repressive s clss="trms">sublims>ation of the resexualized body<span clss='qstn'>?span> (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="trms">neuros>tic reactivation of s clss="trms">narcisss>istic libido)
why Eros is so powerful<span clss='qstn'>?span> what kind of s clss="trms">sublims>ation is the culture-building power of Eros<span clss='qstn'>?span>
in ss="ppl">Derrida, s clss="trms">narcisss>ism is the passage to the Other, and not necessarily merely a collapse into oneself.
auto-s clss="trms">erots>ic solipsism
s>باطل کردن طلسم ضمیرs> the ego appears ss='lgc'>[displaced elsewhere in the s clss="trms">worlds> as an effectss='lgc'>] as the result of primary s clss="trms">narcisss>ism<span clss='qstn'>?span>
(batel kardan-e telesm-e zamir) dispulsion of ego
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>ego forms in the s clss="trms">worlds><strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> (ss="ppl">Lippit)
auto-s clss="trms">erots>ic economy
the ego in the island, finding footprints of the others
(ss="ppl">Freudian protocols of existencess='lgc'>:) there is no s clss="trms">worlds>, there is only islands. ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> multiplicity of isolations ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>-> individuation
“In s clss="trms">narcisss>ism the ego disappears from the s clss="trms">worlds> and reappears in the s clss="trms">imagis>nary realm of invisible s clss="trms">inters>iority.” (ss="ppl">Lippit)
ss='lgc'>{the s clss="trms">erots>ic attachment to outside objectsss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>--s clss="trms">pervs>ert ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="trms">narcisss>istss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>{withdraw, calls it “instinct for self preservation"ss='lgc'>} (a shortcutss='lgc'>: my way of undering my own s clss="trms">narcisss>istic tendencies has been through s clss="trms">pervs>ersity.)
ss='lgc'>[for s clss="frds scrmbld">Juans>:ss='lgc'>] (artistic) s clss="trms">narcisss>ism ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/=<span clss='qstn'>?span> fossilization (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>-><span clss='qstn'>?span> s clss="trms">mimes>sis)
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="trms">mimes>sis<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> is not about form
in order to res clss="trms">presens>t the character of the s clss="trms">supposs>ed ‘word’ of another
s clss="trms">mimes>sis ss='lgc'>+ s clss="trms">techns>e ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= copy (ss='at'>@s clss="frds scrmbld">Juans>)
diegesis ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/=<span clss='qstn'>?span> s clss="trms">mimes>sis
(telling) ss='lgc'>-- (showing)
(recounted) ss='lgc'>-- (enacted)
ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">poiess>is _////(actually a useful and necessary s clss="trms">differens>ce, synthesized by the s clss="trms">Greeks>sss='lgc'>--ss="ppl">Plato and ss="ppl">Aristotle)
(...and what about the s clss="trms">questions> of the medium<span clss='qstn'>?span>)
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="frds scrmbld">Juans>'s s clss="trms">relations>ship with the (in)dependency of the individuated self of the artistss='lgc'>--in this case himselfss='lgc'>--by means of s clss="trms">mimes>tic s clss="trms">techns>e is to overcome the visual artist's s clss="trms">narcisss>ism<span clss='qstn'>?span>
(s clss="frds scrmbld">Pierres>ss='lgc'>:) being alone ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">mimes>sis ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> through s clss="trms">mimes>tic s clss="trms">intras>-acting with the other
(s clss="frds">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sinas>ss='lgc'>: there is no “being alone” only ‘feeling lonely’ which is itself a form of s clss="trms">intras>-acting ss='lgc'>: s clss="trms">inters>nalizing an external s clss="trms">phenomens>a. “loneliness” is a belief that one has.)
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s clss="trms">narcisss>ism as a s clss="trms">mimes>tic and performative mode
transindividual s clss="trms">narcisss>ism ss='lgc'>--Maitrass='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> movement of the subject beyond ethnicity (ethnic formations that the bio-political processes of s clss="trms">inters>pellation s clss="trms">demands> of the subject)
remediation of ethnic s clss="trms">narcisss>ism
ss='lgc'>[Maitra's queer diasporic s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing practice ofss='lgc'>] (in diaspora media theory) performing an identity (that is “s clss="nms">Irans>ian” for example)
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="trms">inters>media<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= multimediass='lgc'>: fuse disparate media)
frictions between s clss="trms">differens>t media
conceptual s clss="trms">inters>play between media
space of alchemical transformation
(at the level of) conflict of s clss="trms">inters>pretations
radical understanding of s clss="trms">inters>disciplinarity
diasporass='lgc'>: no longer having a clear answer to “where are you from<span clss='qstn'>?span>”
what might we learn from s clss="trms">narcisss>ism (from s clss="trms">mimes>sis)<span clss='qstn'>?span>
mediate and fracture the s clss="trms">writs>ing of the self
woundss='lgc'>: disconnected event
not adding up to a comprehensive s clss="trms">narrats>ive of the ethnic self
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>ego-under-construction<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>
ss="ppl">Freud's primary s clss="trms">narcisss>ism, we s clss="trms">lovs>e ourselves before s clss="trms">lovs>ing others
(for the s clss="trms">childs>) s clss="trms">narcisss>ismss='lgc'> = s clss="trms">inters>mediate
(secondary) s clss="trms">narcisss>ismss='lgc'>: the processes by which the distinction between the ego and external object is lost
(ss="ppl">Lacan) loss of distinction between the ego and its reflection in the mirror
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">narcisss>ism helps the infant in trying to distinguish himself from the mother/other
s clss="trms">narcisss>ism beyond infantile sexuality ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->
s clss="trms">narcisss>ismss='lgc'>: structure (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= state) ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>== when the burden of desire on the subject becomes intolerable
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(<span clss='qstn'>?span>what are new structures of) artistic s clss="trms">narcisss>ism
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>an occasion to s clss="trms">erots>isize your own body<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>
to s clss="trms">erots>ically emphasize a particular s clss="trms">mems>ory
stitching together of the naked ethnic body
hupersexuality
...those who are undersexed
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<span clss='prcnt'>%span>note on s clss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Shariati">Alis>ce's workshopss='lgc'>:
how ss='thdf'>the idea of s clss="trms">mimes>sis came when we were not sure what she meant by “make note.” the signifier of “note” defined itself in a collective s clss="trms">mimes>tic semi-conscious way.
(ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/=<span clss='qstn'>?span> <span clss='mywrk'>my workspan> on how signifiers transmit and transform ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> parasitism, s clss="trms">rumors>ology, etc. ... weaker neighborhoods of thought)
s clss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Shariati">Alis>ce's notionsss='lgc'>:
sts clss="lsts lst1">•explosion ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> dance
sts>
sts clss="lsts lst1">•the “generative” notion in her discourse (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> notion of “active,” and “conscious intentionality” ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> a property of human s clss="trms">agens>cy and s clss="trms">agens>tial exceptionality. (the metric of) her work/workshop distinguishes the self-aware active entity from non-s clss="trms">communs>icative receptive entity, <strcls clss='strcls'>***strcls>s clss="trms">intras>nsitive ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="trms">transits>ivess='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>{her privileged objectss='lgc'>}, and that distinction is not useful for me s clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>ht nowss='lgc'>])
sts>
sts clss="lsts lst1">•the s clss="trms">authors>ity of the s clss="trms">tropes> “practice” for s clss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Shariati">Alis>ce
sts>
(what would be a nons clss="trms">mimes>tic understanding of eachother<span clss='qstn'>?span> ss='at'>@s clss="frds scrmbld">Juans>)
sts clss="lsts lst1">•the workshop was not her ‘thinking’ or ‘making’ in process or an open s clss="trms">questions> or a not-knowing, rather the workshop was based on her (finished) ‘notions,’ with her ‘indisputables,’ her ‘s clss="trms">literas>l’ objects; (dance, active, body, s clss="trms">imagis>nation, practice, generative, creative, etc.)
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•production of the “I” in her work; (a nasty side-effectss='lgc'>: collateral individuation) (when were the moments in the workshop that an s clss="trms">inters>esting “we” was created and for whom<span clss='qstn'>?span>)
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•the problematic s clss="trms">differens>ce between ‘s clss="trms">literas>l’ and ‘s clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>phors>ical’ at the footing of her thinking (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> my whole s clss="nms">apasss> research is about this)
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•(artist's) s clss="trms">imagis>nation as a magic wand that can transform things
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<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>what helped me was ss='thdf'>the idea of thinking with a ‘dormant s clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>phors>’ (in my own work) and ‘activate’ it, in a way that the problems and pleasures of thinking with that s clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>phors> is felt. by ‘dormant s clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>phors>’ what i mean is an operative word that one is using often and is left uns clss="trms">inters>rogated. ss='thdf'>for example the problems of “landscape” as a particular s clss="trms">ontos>logical tool for me became apparent only after i committed myself to that s clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>phors> in the course of the s clss="trms">inters>view with s clss="frds scrmbld">Pierres> and s clss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Shariati">Alis>ce. to stay with a s clss="trms">storys>, to live its contras clss="trms">dictis>ons. (and the s clss="trms">posits>ion of it in a sentence)
sts clss="lsts lst1">•“it was ‘landscape’ talking; not me!”
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•why i was seeing s clss="nms">Tehrans> as the ‘ghostly landscape’<span clss='qstn'>?span> (s clss="trms">matters> of a confrontation with s clss="nms">Tehrans><span clss='qstn'>?span> exteriority of my subjecthood is at stake<span clss='qstn'>?span> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>->!<span clss='qstn'>?span> the arbitrary s clss="trms">posits>ion of “genius loci” ss='lgc'>: that from a genius s clss="trms">posits>ion one can see for good. -how to make myself nonarbitraryss='lgc'>--not subject to individual determinationss='lgc'>--in s clss="trms">relations> to s clss="nms">Tehrans><span clss='qstn'>?span> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> towards ‘s clss="trms">situs>ated knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>’)
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•what kind of s clss="trms">materis>al-discursive practices thinking with “landscape” committed me to<span clss='qstn'>?span> ss='lgc'>[to explore and feel this commitment (and its consequences) is ‘staying with the trouble’ for mess='lgc'>]
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it felt like s clss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Shariati">Alis>ce believes that people, we, have control over our s clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>phors>s, but in the course of the workshop there were many occasions that was not the casess='lgc'>:
s clss="frds">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sinas>, landscape ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> optics
s clss="frds scrmbld">Estas>, building/house ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">geomes>try ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> security
s clss="frds scrmbld">Agness>, supers clss="trms">markets> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> exchange
s clss="frds scrmbld">Juans>, crime ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> arrest
s clss="frds scrmbld">Zoumanas>, garden (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>-> fecundity) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> immunity
s clss="frds scrmbld">Eszters>, electronic device ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> closed
s clss="frds scrmbld">Ekaterinas>, s clss="trms">zoos> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> objects of care (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>-> s clss="trms">animals> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= diseased .ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> objectifying or babying them)
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> landscape ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==><span clss='qstn'>?span> optic ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--><span clss='qstn'>?span> way of diss clss="trms">embods>ied seeing
ss='lgc'>[artificial perspective ss='lgc'>{ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (objects are in) proportional variations in a seamless continuumss='lgc'>}, gaze of the s clss="trms">spectas>tor, exterior space, homogeneous, ins clss="trms">finits>e, s clss="trms">syss>tematic,ss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (this is all) <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="trms">syms>bolic form<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>
ss='lgc'>[(tele/micro)scope ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>==ss='lgc'>] landscape ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>== perspective ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>-- arbitrary point of the observer
(ss="ppl">Descolass='lgc'>:) such “objectification of the subjective” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==>
(1) a distance between man and the s clss="trms">worlds>
(2) s clss="trms">syss>tematizes and stabilizes the external universe
<strcls clss='strcls'>***strcls>factuality is not intrinsic, it is s clss="trms">rhetors>ic (that we live with)
s clss="trms">histos>ry of ss='thdf'>the idea of s clss="trms">naturs>e
‘s clss="nms">ajayebs>'s architects of a s clss="trms">naturs>as clss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists>ic s clss="trms">cosmos>logy who establish hierarchies and discontinuities among them ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="trms">cosmos>genesis of s clss="trms">moderns>ity's subjectivity's illusions of continuity
ss='lgc'>[ss="ppl">Descola's “cons clss="trms">figurats>ions of continuity"ss='lgc'>]
(s clss="nms">ajayebs> creates) hierarchical order s clss="trms">accords>ing to the levels of the exchange of information that is reputed to be possible.
<span clss="prgrph">-which parties are set on the same level of reality (in s clss="nms">ajayebs>)<span clss='qstn'>?span>
span>
(what are the human and nonhuman) proliferation of forms in s clss="nms">ajayebs> (<span clss='qstn'>?span>)
who are the “mothers of games” there<span clss='qstn'>?span> snake, Div, etc. (spirits that protect the game)
s clss="trms">techns>ical know-how to create s clss="trms">inters>subjective ambience/ambivalence ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> regulated s clss="trms">relations>s between one person and another ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>--these aress='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> cultivated plots
how can i, starting with s clss="nms">apasss>, learn to create theaters of a subtle s clss="trms">socis>ability (in which beings with s clss="trms">differens>t forms of s clss="trms">languages> and physical aspect are s clss="trms">ontos>logically indistinguishable)<span clss='qstn'>?span>
the s clss="trms">categs>ory of “persons”ss='lgc'>: variations in the modes of s clss="trms">communs>ication that are made possible by an apprehension of perceived qualities that are unequally distributed
whose dialects are s clss="trms">mutuals>ly intelligible<span clss='qstn'>?span>
human s clss="trms">narcisss>ism ss='lgc'>: that if a being possess a soul is only then capable of recognizing humans
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>---then let's give everyone souls!
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(ss="ppl">Massumi > ss="ppl">Deleuze's) critique ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= modulation ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> actively modulated from within the s clss="trms">situs>ation, immanent to it ss='lgc'>{
<span clss="prgrph">-augmenting<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> (taking a certain tendency to the limit)
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<span clss="prgrph">-diverting<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> (deflecting it into a s clss="trms">differens>t tendency)
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<span clss="prgrph">-transmutational<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> (s clss="trms">inters>acting with other tendencies in a way that invents a whole new direction as a kind of surplus value of s clss="trms">inters>action)
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<span clss="prgrph">-or, it can lead to a clash that stops the process
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asking people “to be true to what they res clss="trms">presens>t” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> having them “encapsulated in als clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>y arrived-at opinion and judgment” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> blockage
war of “disqualification” ss='lgc'>~ ss="ppl">ss="ppl">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stengersian non-event
being (res clss="trms">presens>ted and) legitimated in proxy war
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ss='at'>@s clss="frds scrmbld">Zoumanas>; “decadent gardener” that connot keep distinction between kin and pest, s clss="trms">naturs>e and culture
what is a garden full of indirections, snakes<span clss='qstn'>?span>
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ss='at'>#my s clss="trms">tropes>-findings, (bis clss="trms">lingus>al nons clss="trms">syss>tematic comparative thinking for s clss="trms">storys>telling) (work with ss="ppl">Avital<span clss='qstn'>?span>)ss='lgc'>:
sts clss="lsts lst1">•s>پیرs> s clss="nms">Pirs> / sujet s clss="trms">supposs>é savoir (ss='lgc'>--<span clss='not'>✕span>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--><span clss='qstn'>?span> s>پیر فلکs> s clss="nms">Pirs>-e falak in ss="ppl">Hafez)
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•s>غرs> Ghor / s clss="trms">complains>t (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> shekayat s>شکایتs>, and then, khamush s>خموشs> in ss="ppl">Hafez)
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•s>تعارفs> s clss="nms">Tarofs> / s clss="trms">greets>ing
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•transcend ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> darajat s>درجاتs> (ss='lgc'>-> ss="ppl">Attar)
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•super-ego ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> Div-mardom s>دیو مردمs> (ss='lgc'>-> ss="ppl">Nezami)
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•s clss="trms">Naturs>eZolmat (s>ظلمتs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="nms">ajayebs>)
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•s>آبروs> Aberu / economy of value
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•s>طیالارضs> tey-ol-arz / body scale, intensity and s clss="trms">excesss>
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•s>نگرانیs> negarani ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> practices of care
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on Aberu, I became s clss="trms">inters>ested due to my lack of Aberu in s clss="trms">presens>tationl quality and its abundance in other area's of my psychosomatic becoming.
Aberu s clss="trms">traves>rses, calls itself in, animates, and exists for later visits.
<span clss="prgrph">-when you are devalued by the marked of bi-aberu, you are less tied to the strictures of shame, and ‘your behavior’ becomes performance s clss="trms">materis>al
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s clss="trms">agens>cy ss='lgc'>=<span clss='qstn'>?span> boresh s>برشs>, jahd s>جهدs> (in s clss="trms">Farsis>), “s clss="trms">agens>tial cut enacts a local s clss="trms">causas>l structure” (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Barad)
s clss="trms">agens>cy of ‘hemat’ s>همّتs>
hemate shahi s>همّت شاهیs>, lavazeme hemat s>لوازم همّتs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">apparatuss>
sufi's hemat ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= magic
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ss='at'>@s clss="frds scrmbld">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sebas> after accelerate manifesto s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ingss='lgc'>: (what is and how can we not pivot on our work) the s clss="trms">meass>ure of the meaningfulness of action. (s clss="frds scrmbld">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sebas>'s notion of losing hope is because he put himself unconsciously in a cost-benefit analysis<span clss='qstn'>?span> “what is the effect of my actions<span clss='qstn'>?span>”) ss='lgc'>[in practice it is difficult to s clss="trms">embods>y speculative thinking. we are still in the space of thinking in terms of the probable.ss='lgc'>]
to do hope-work is about ‘not talking (too much) about the future’ ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= commitment in terms of probabilities, refusal to treat your subjects as if they were objects of management ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> let's set aside our own hopes, and work to honour the <strcls clss='strcls'>**strcls>hopefulness of others<strcls clss='strcls'>**strcls> (ss="ppl">Deborah ss="ppl">Rose)
“And hope is here, all around us. Creatures want to live.” (not in the “future”)
the accelerationists putting things in their cascade of fais clss="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurs>es, (everything sinks effortlessly into it,) and creating a vanishing point in terms of a western saturated temporality. for them the s clss="trms">presens>t is the time of announcing the news of salvation or apocalypse, and has no s clss="trms">thicks>ness. (the desire) to step out of s clss="trms">histos>ry, and is made void in the process of realization, ss='thdf'>the idea that “everything is possible.” they experience their freedom as universal freedom <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> (noted by ss="ppl">Blanchot.) ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the problem with all male action heroes...ss='lgc'>]
(is this a kind of “game-over” discourse<span clss='qstn'>?span>)
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>time (thinking with ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway)
the sequential s clss="trms">palis>ndromic time (in Western-related cultures) ss='lgc'>[s>جناس قلبs> s clss="trms">palis>ndromess='lgc'>: from the s clss="trms">Greeks> roots s clss="trms">palis>n “again” and dromos “way, direction”; a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters which s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>s the same backward as forward; (un)parsable s clss="trms">palis>ndromic motifs;ss='lgc'>]
there are many s clss="trms">sorts>s of temporalities in West, but the most s clss="trms">naturs>alized and intuitive, s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>y-to-hand (and black-boxed) version of it is the “s clss="trms">pasts>, s clss="trms">presens>t, future.” ss='thdf'>the notion of ‘s clss="trms">presens>t’ becomes a (mathematical) vanishing point, a pivot or a point rather than itself a s clss="trms">thicks>ness, an inaccessible s clss="trms">pasts> being transmuted into a future that is always to come. ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= the lived time of the fleshss='lgc'>]
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> what counts as a s clss="trms">respons>sible person in temporality<span clss='qstn'>?span> (ss='at'>@s clss="frds scrmbld">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sebas>, ss='at'>@s clss="frds scrmbld">Pierres>'s “future”)
in <span clss='mywrk'>my workspan> on s clss="nms">ajayebs> in s clss="nms">apasss>, i choose to give account to s clss="trms">respons>sibility in a way <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>to face those who come before rather than to face the future<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>, this is about a switch in the direction of attention.
sts clss="lsts lst1">•s clss="trms">narrats>able s clss="trms">mems>ory with named people turned to s clss="trms">ancests>ors and moved into dreaming time
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•s clss="trms">pasts>ss='lgc'>: quiet country ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> bear the mark of the care of generation, inhabits both living and dying ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> recuperation (behbud s>بهبودs>, ramagh s>رمقs>)
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•s clss="trms">presens>tss='lgc'>: s clss="trms">wilds>erness ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">ongoingnesss> (s clss="trms">thicks>ened with creatures)
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ss='lgc'>[in (my s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing<span clss='qstn'>?span>) s clss="nms">ajayebs>'s temporalityss='lgc'>] things come from the s clss="trms">pasts> and the future s clss="trms">simultans>eously
what i s clss="trms">respons>d toss='lgc'> = what i ins clss="trms">herits>
s clss="trms">scies>nce (in the way that is s clss="trms">presens>ted) is outside s clss="trms">histos>ry, and becomes simply that which is “the case” of the s clss="trms">worlds>
<strcls clss='strcls'>**strcls>everything that one does is inside time, but that which is acquired (becomes a view s clss="trms">ontos> a ss clss="trms">cenes>) and is outside of time<strcls clss='strcls'>**strcls>
<strcls clss='strcls'>***strcls>(ds clss="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angers>ous) ways of being outside of the time of the s clss="trms">thicks> s clss="trms">presens>t<strcls clss='strcls'>***strcls> (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway)
‘-ss clss="trms">cenes>’ss='lgc'>: a s clss="trms">thicks> s clss="trms">presens>ce of now, has many durations in it
(<span clss='mywrk'>my workspan> on s clss="nms">ajayebs>'s s clss="trms">pasts> tense trans-s clss="trms">species>s affair) is about those with whom one must get on together, in the enacting of s clss="trms">respons>sibility for those who came before. how not to exit time<span clss='qstn'>?span> (= “staying with the trouble”)
trans-s clss="trms">species>s affair then and now
(in our) multi-dimensional inhabiting of space with critters (you can't only talk about capital, land, labor without having a multis clss="trms">species>s affair)
ss="ppl">Badiou's points on acceleratess='lgc'>:
sts clss="lsts lst1">•unifying us around negativity
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•future of western s clss="trms">worlds>
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•s clss="trms">questions> of private property ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> key of soical organization
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ss='at'>#work on video series (with<span clss='qstn'>?span> s clss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christians>, s clss="frds scrmbld">Estas>,)
messy short videos (for youtube or other places)
stsrd clss="lstsrd">1. critique of magic in cinema
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stsrd clss="lstsrd">2. res clss="trms">presens>tation of knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> in cinema
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stsrd clss="lstsrd">3.
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to perform s clss="trms">pasts> and s clss="trms">presens>t alarmingly s clss="trms">simultans>eously, to s clss="trms">inters>mix the directions of s clss="trms">causas>tion and influence, they cannot be linear and progressive, against a production of s clss="trms">presens>t ss='lgc'>[s clss="trms">presens>tismss='lgc'>]
ss='at'>#create identity research center for/with <span clss='mywrk'>my workspan>
stsrd clss="lstsrd">1. s clss="nms">harems> (s>حرمs>)
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stsrd clss="lstsrd">2. s clss="nms">ajayebs> (s>عجایبs>)
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stsrd clss="lstsrd">3. wortsalad
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stsrd clss="lstsrd">4. erklammern (with s clss="frds scrmbld">Foads>)
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stsrd clss="lstsrd">5. san'at-e mojarad-sazi (s>صنعت مجردسازیs> with s clss="frds scrmbld">Foads>)
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stsrd clss="lstsrd">6. garden (s>باغs>)
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stsrd clss="lstsrd">7.
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ss='at'>#what am i learning from Hiwa's Chicago Boys project<span clss='qstn'>?span>
s clss="trms">histos>ry, recent region departures, study group, music, jam, more and more people together with their voices and s clss="trms">storiess>, faces, sing, play, discomfort in s clss="trms">instrus>ment, tour, collectivity, sojourn in s clss="trms">stags>e, conviviality, cover song,
<span clss="prgrph">-when i look at the videos of the project i feel like i want to do or be part of something like that, i want those qualities, i want the way people are looking and feeling like there.
span>
ss='at'>#i am learning from ss="ppl">Kohn that the survival is complicated, from ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway that s clss="trms">worlds> works by s clss="trms">excesss> and therefore filled with hope, with ss="ppl">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sennett and ss="ppl">Delanda a better account of s clss="trms">socis>o-s clss="trms">materis>al s clss="trms">histos>ry, from ss="ppl">Ahmed a s clss="trms">differens>t understanding of psychoanalysis, from ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Barad s clss="trms">poes>try and argumentation, from ss="ppl">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Scher the effort needed to become s clss="trms">inters>ested, from ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Kenney that there is no need for a “standard s clss="trms">languages>” to describe your s clss="trms">inters>ventions or to produce a body of knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> about your s clss="trms">matters>s of concern,
(this is one place that i am recognizing and foregrounding a binary structuress='lgc'>:)
sts clss="lsts lst1">•women in my lifess='lgc'>: ss="ppl">Avital, ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway, ss="ppl">Ahmed, ss="ppl">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Scher, ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Barad, ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Despret, teaching me s clss="trms">scies>nce and art, attentive modes of s clss="trms">differens>tial s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing and s clss="trms">writs>ing, practices of care and concern
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•men in my lifess='lgc'>: ss="ppl">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Serres, ss="ppl">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sennett, ss="ppl">Delanda, ss="ppl">Levinas, ss="ppl">Anand, teaching me a non-guilt-driven knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> of s clss="trms">histos>ry and s clss="trms">pasts>, a s clss="trms">differens>t mode of res clss="trms">mems>brance which provokes a s clss="trms">differens>t mode of s clss="trms">respons>se and s clss="trms">respons>sibility
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alive ss='lgc'>--ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>]ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> dead ss='lgc'>--ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>]ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">ancests>or
what provokes s clss="trms">storys>telling<span clss='qstn'>?span>
(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Harawayian) inhabiting ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> s clss="trms">respons>sibility ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> alignment
(a split-self at home with) contras clss="trms">dictis>ons ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> dealing with s clss="trms">situs>ated knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> this is about ‘ongoing’
note to selfss='lgc'>: not to throw away the contaminated concept that we have, (ss='thdf'>for example ‘human intentionality,’ ‘human s clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>hts,’ etc) <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>but to hold on (while knowing how contaminated it is) to any concept (which are always unsettled) until it gets a particular (s clss="trms">situs>ated) job done
(which job i am try to get done with my good and bad concepts<span clss='qstn'>?span>)
where are we headed with our syntax<span clss='qstn'>?span>
“-ss clss="trms">cenes>” ss='lgc'>: the ‘now’ of the s clss="trms">species>s ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> pleistos clss="trms">cenes> imagess='lgc'>] also, a sharp change in the graph/diagram ss='lgc'>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Extinction_intensity.svgss='lgc'>]
ss="ppl">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sa'di, thinking not with the capital T, rather with the flower, with the cut tail of the animaux
competency ss='lgc'>+ competency (of s clss="trms">differens>t s clss="trms">animals>, human, machine, pigeon, etc) ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= subtraction, taboo, s clss="trms">obligs>ation ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> deficiency<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]
(additive competencies)
“s clss="trms">excesss>” is the name of the s clss="trms">worlds>
there is always more that we don't know; what yet has to come; the s clss="trms">worlds> is constantly doing stuff; (ss='lgc'>--<span clss='not'>✕span>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> accelerate manifesto, apocalyptic s clss="trms">narrats>ives)
(i am drawn to and by s clss="trms">excesss>, and i am engaged in itss='lgc'>: in my s clss="trms">lecturs>es, talkings, s clss="trms">writs>ings, and I take it up also visually in my drawings. my s clss="nms">ajayebs> hypertext search is s clss="trms">contingens>t and opportunistic, and its ses clss="trms"nttrm="search">arches>s are non-s clss="trms">syss>tematic)
in s clss="nms">apasss> what my project is all aboutss='lgc'>: <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="trms">lovs>ing to tell you about what i am s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> (why it seams too difficult, complicated and impossible to understand!<span clss='qstn'>?span>)
<span clss="prgrph">-“to provides a feast of s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing pleasures”
span>
holding each other's unasked-for patterns (ss='at'>@s clss="frds scrmbld">Luisas>)
taking up each other patterns ss='lgc'>[which are sometimes obvious, sometimes crypticss='lgc'>]
(what is the other name of the practices of “string figures” in s clss="nms">Irans><span clss='qstn'>?span> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>[stars, facts, s clss="trms">fabus>lations, “far”s, patternings,ss='lgc'>]ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> all s clss="trms">cosmos>political, s clss="trms">composs>es the “we”)
sts clss="lsts lst1">•a “we” coms clss="trms">posits>ional
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•an “s clss="nms">ajayebs>” coms clss="trms">posits>ional
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•
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s clss="trms">anthrops>os clss="trms">cenes> s clss="trms">syss>tem thinking
sts clss="lsts lst1">•feedback loops
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•thermodynamics <span clss='and'>&span> 18th century mathematics (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= hyperbolic mathematics in ‘crochet’ ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">excesss> of surface, ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">storys> of s clss="trms">inters>face)
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•comparative s clss="trms">inters>pretive thinking (a dominant western model of knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> productionss='lgc'>--which i am using!)
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•s clss="trms">moderns> synthesisss='lgc'>: restrictive s clss="trms">syss>tem theories within evolutionary theories
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•s clss="trms">syss>tems idea
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•
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<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>“The global scale takes precedencess='lgc'>--because it is the scale of the model.”<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> ss="ppl">Tsing
ss='lgc'>[titless='lgc'>]
Bis clss="trms">lingus>al s clss="trms">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Storiess> for Ajayeb s clss="trms">Naturs>eCultures
(...s clss="trms">storiess> ‘for’ ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= ...s clss="trms">storiess> ‘of’)
does Brexit and Trumplandia changes the landscape of English use as a s clss="trms">languages><span clss='qstn'>?span>
the image of pedagogy ss='lgc'>: s clss="trms">semios>tic s clss="trms">apparatuss> (& s clss="trms">techns>ological) (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the ritual of ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Simpson strangling Bart)
(why am i cultivating the) <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>non-inventive s clss="trms">imagis>nation<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> (and its antis clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>bole ss='lgc'>[or chiasmus, chiastic patterns of antithesisss='lgc'>]ss='lgc'>: non-s clss="trms">imagis>nitive invention)
often we find ourselves inventing everything (in political animation) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= to figure out what are we attached to
(ins clss="trms">herits>ing something ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/=<span clss='qstn'>?span> being heir to something)
the s clss="trms">scies>ntist inside me begs me to narrow my temporal scale, choose an epoch, let's say middle ages, choose a century let's say 15th, choose a year, choose a day, a moment, a micro-second slice of the cake of the milieu that you are s clss="trms">inters>ested in, the instance in the bazar with Halaj in the sun and so on.
(my old school) s clss="trms">obligs>atory knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>-- salon of s clss="trms">scies>tific entertainment
ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>-> (is about creating) proper witness<strcls clss='strcls'>***strcls>
the s clss="trms">tropes>s i am building in my current research, do they help build a better s clss="nms">Irans><span clss='qstn'>?span> and how<span clss='qstn'>?span>
s clss="trms">inters>ms ofss='lgc'>:
sts clss="lsts lst1">•an s clss="trms">ongoingnesss>
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•a commitment to a recent future thinking
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‘homo-’ss='lgc'>: stuff of the soil, that figures of bs clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>ht and sunny image of the same
ss='at'>#s clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>s and s clss="trms">syms>s<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>
sts clss="lsts lst1">•games
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•s clss="trms">techns>ological designs
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•plots
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•mechanisms
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•sfs
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•s clss="trms">joks>es
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•s clss="trms">jests>s
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•
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ss='lgc'>[titless='lgc'>]
critical s clss="trms">bestiars>ies
critique-s clss="trms">bestiars>y
belongingss='lgc'> = achievement (dastavard s>دستاوردs>) ss='lgc'>+ violence (khoshunat s>خشونتs>)
...the ways we renounce the s clss="trms">worlds> through the use of the word “real” and “really”
(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stengersss='lgc'>:) weavingss='lgc'>: not secular nor s clss="trms">religs>ious, not traditional nor s clss="trms">moderns>, is s clss="trms">sensus>ous
ss='at'>#ss='lgc'>[nodes and notesss='lgc'>]
the emptyland, terrestrial life, ‘per-’ instead of ‘her’ or ‘his’
<span clss="prgrph">-the way i started with ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway was through the way i s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads> her notion of ‘critter,’ juju (s>جوجوs>) in s clss="trms">Farsis>, jako junevar (s>جک جونورs>), little life animators often easy and ok to kill, a term in s clss="trms">farsis> for kids that s clss="trms">worlds>s for them in particular ways
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bio (“qualified life”) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= zoe, juju, “bare life” (ss="ppl">Agamben)ss='lgc'>: that which is killable ss='lgc'>--<span clss='qstn'>?span>!ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> that which must be transformed
ss='lgc'>[s clss="trms">storiess> of os clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>inary exs clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>sis>on and coms clss="trms">posits>ion of bodyss='lgc'>]
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the form and function are having too tight fit. no no no!
(cities) being ins clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>sis>ve but not s clss="trms">integrs>ative
(setar s clss="trms">differens>t s clss="trms">techns>ique of vibrato and s clss="trms">meass>ure for instance in ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Saba and Ghavami, which part of the finger or body, one works in certain way for one and not for the other musician ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the explicit unpacking of the activity ss='lgc'>: what was formerly tacit ss='lgc'>[zemni, khamush, ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= habitss='lgc'>] becomes drs clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>d into explicit ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= expressivess='lgc'>] consciousness, precisely because there is a resistance, that there is something not s clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>ht for the musician ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> reconsidering, reexploring ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the s clss="trms">techns>ique then again disappears into the tacit realm ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">techns>ique becomes variegated)
<strcls clss='strcls'>**strcls>tacit ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> explicit (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= that which becomes available for reconsideration)<strcls clss='strcls'>**strcls>
when one masters a s clss="trms">skils>l it is about being s clss="trms">s clss="trms">equips>s>ped to address a whole new set of problems
ss='lgc'>{expertise/masteryss='lgc'>: problem solvingss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/=ss='lgc'>{s clss="trms">crafts>ss='lgc'>: problem findingss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> when other things become problematicss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>---the condition (in the s clss="trms">crafts> work) that when you learn how to do one thing you see other things that need to be explored ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>-> s clss="trms">questions> for s clss="frds scrmbld">Eunkyungs>'s drawing s clss="trms">skils>ls and practicess='lgc'>]
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="trms">crafts> is more important than art(<span clss='qstn'>?span>) (ss="ppl">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sennett)
...ss='thdf'>the notion that the work art breaks the conventions of practice, that it is something that makes an s clss="trms">epistems>ic break. ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> emphasis on innovation (something new)ss='lgc'>--that is a reflection of s clss="trms">sorts> of 19th century bourgeois ideas of about making art.
sts clss="lsts lst1">•privileging the creative act over the s clss="trms">crafts>sman act
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•in innovation the “innovator” is separated from the “mass” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="trms">crafts>smanship is collective and additive ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (in s clss="trms">crafts>smanship) the performance is myself
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•creativity being a form of individuation or separation (ss='at'>@the exploratory shift in s clss="frds scrmbld">Eunkyungs>'s work that s clss="frds scrmbld">Pierres> highlighted)
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<strcls clss='strcls'>***strcls> s clss="trms">crafts>-work is about additive s clss="trms">skils>l; it is about building on what you know rather than throwing it out <strcls clss='strcls'>***strcls> (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= capitas clss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists> logic of progress, creativity in the sense that ‘something’ where before was ‘nothing’) ss='lgc'>-ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> a s clss="trms">differens>t way of building quality (into practices and objects)
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ss="ppl">Bakhtin's dialogic, to become a s clss="trms">skils>led s clss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists>ener ss='lgc'>: s clss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists>eningss='lgc'> = s clss="trms">respons>se (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= simply answering) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (when we speak) we give other people talismans that are not (perfectly) clear to usss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>----we penetrate and unpack what someone doesn't have the words clearly and s clss="trms">respons>se to what they intend ss='lgc'>--<span clss='not'>✕span>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> “common understanding,” “make something work,”
cooperation is about getting deeper into something
conditions that more s clss="trms">skils>ls are required (and not the ops clss="trms">posits>e)
in s clss="trms">moderns>ity everything seams to need to be s clss="trms">verbs>alized. what happens to the uns clss="trms">verbs>alized, the unprogrammatic<span clss='qstn'>?span> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> can you have an implicit s clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>ht which can't be s clss="trms">verbs>alized<span clss='qstn'>?span> maybe no, maybe this is the limit of the s clss="trms">socis>al...
purposivenessss='lgc'>: when you hear somebody go “i am going to put clearly what we all want...” you have submitted to that person (almost s clss="trms">erots>ic) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> “they really know who they are” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> you become a s clss="trms">spectas>tor to their des clss="trms">finits>eness
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who the fuckss='lgc'> = theology
how the fuckss='lgc'> = s clss="trms">s clss="trms">empiris>cs>ism
what the fuckss='lgc'> = s clss="trms">ontos>logy
how the what the fuckss='lgc'> = s clss="trms">epistems>ology
why what the fuckss='lgc'> = s clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>physs>ics
why the fuckss='lgc'> = ethics
why give a fuckss='lgc'> = teleology
the fuck itselfss='lgc'> = s clss="trms">phenomens>ology
fucked upss='lgc'> = pathology
fuck allss='lgc'> = nihilism
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s clss="frds scrmbld">Aelas> to s clss="frds scrmbld">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Svens>ss='lgc'>: “everytime you disappoint me you gain in depth” (5 April 2017)
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(06.04.2017) <span clss='prcnt'>%span>notes after my s clss="nms">apasss> endweek s clss="trms">presens>tationss='lgc'>:
sts clss="lsts lst1">•my implicit focus and energy on the body and its organs of s clss="trms">gests>ure that animates us
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•s clss="trms">lovs>ing telling you what i s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•giving you what i don't fully understand ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= gift from above
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•(in s clss="trms">lecturs>e) to allow s clss="trms">languages> s clss="trms">greets> the uns clss="trms">verbs>alized
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(it is about) organizing my s clss="trms">mems>ory
(it is about) that which comes to (my) mind, and “things” coming to minds
(it is about) the things I am told
__ss='lgc'>[these are perhaps other names of cognition, s clss="trms">affects>, s clss="trms">mems>ory, s clss="trms">semios>tics, s clss="trms">histos>ry, ins clss="trms">herits>ance, s clss="trms">figurats>ion, s clss="trms">inters>face, thing-s clss="trms">relations>s, huntology,ss='lgc'>]
__in our shared space where we let eachother in the effect of our s clss="trms">languages>s, I want to practice what comes to mind when I stand in front of you and your work, ask myself ‘what else’ comes to mind<span clss='qstn'>?span> in a sense, my project on s clss="nms">ajayebs> is that kind of training
also in s clss="nms">apasss> i want “to catch you in your acts”
it is my privilege to recognize you (as...)
askingss='lgc'>:
stsrd clss="lstsrd">1- what do I know<span clss='qstn'>?span>
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stsrd clss="lstsrd">2- what am I told<span clss='qstn'>?span>
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stsrd clss="lstsrd">3- (how getting good at to) explain what somebody else said
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stsrd clss="lstsrd">1- the first s clss="trms">questions> has no clear answer, what i know is not placed somewhere in me, it is always an s clss="trms">articulats>ed s clss="trms">matters> of ‘with’ or in s clss="trms">inters>action with, it is a s clss="trms">syms>, changes before i can grasp, knowing is done always with a figure or a thing, it ins clss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>des all s clss="trms">sorts>s of optics and s clss="trms">techns>ologies, (s clss="trms">affects> theory, media theory, s clss="trms">epistems>ology,)
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stsrd clss="lstsrd">2- the s clss="trms">respons>se to the second s clss="trms">questions> is also not clear, i am not sure what i am told, i don't res clss="trms">mems>ber or hear, what i am told is ins clss="trms">folds>ed in what i know, (when i started with my islam s clss="trms">lecturs>e series i was testing the waters of these two s clss="trms">questions>s and the possibility of staying with them without freaking out of ambiguity or ploting an answer)
stsrd>
3ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss='at'>#cat's cradle
ss='at'>#on hypertext notess='lgc'>:
i am becoming s clss="trms">skils>led at looking at my notesss='lgc'>:
ss='lgc'>{(1) what are the <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="trms">skils>ls necessary<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= tabula rasa (of the s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>er, of the audience) of the s clss="trms">communs>o-capitalism's standard of “user-s clss="trms">inters>face"ss='lgc'>--the strange idea that the s clss="trms">inters>action and s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing doesn't need or must not need learned-efforts or s clss="trms">skils>ls, that it should be “easy” and “effortless” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> fallacy of the uns clss="trms">skils>led s clss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists>ener.ss='lgc'>] to engage, s clss="trms">inters>act, and get involved with the s clss="trms">inters>face, s clss="trms">datas>-set, grammar, and s clss="trms">literas>cy of (my) reservoir<span clss='qstn'>?span> ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <strcls clss='strcls'>**strcls> let's ask that s clss="trms">questions> with every s clss="trms">apparatuss> that engages us into desire, movement, s clss="trms">articulats>ion, ...
s clss="trms">skils>ls ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> to become ‘s clss="trms">literas>te’ in this particular way ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">situs>ated knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> ins clss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>des this s clss="trms">situs>ated s clss="trms">literas>cy and s clss="trms">skils>ls of s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing particular to the object of “text” (in that case how do i address my s clss="trms">inters>est in the s clss="trms">pervs>ert s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>er<span clss='qstn'>?span> the s clss="trms">skils>ls of the unlearning<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>)
the s clss="trms">skils>ls necessary for <span clss='mywrk'>my workspan> to work comes with time, attention, and desire ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~-ss='lgc'>=><span clss='qstn'>?span> ss='at'>#s clss="nms">harems> (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= ladies room)
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (2) this s clss="trms">skils>ls of (my) reservoir, what set of s clss="trms">questions>s or problems s clss="trms">s clss="trms">equips>s> me to address<span clss='qstn'>?span>
varzidan, varz, varzide, s>ورزیدهs>
ss="ppl">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sennett's s clss="trms">lovs>e for his subjects is extraordinary (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= iconoclasm, futurism) and it influences me deeply, his voice and care when he opens his reflection, findings, etc.
ok, again, the ‘s clss="trms">skils>l’ s clss="trms">questions>ss='lgc'>:
sts clss="lsts lst1">•1ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> what are the set of s clss="trms">skils>ls needed for <span clss='mywrk'>my workspan><span clss='qstn'>?span>
sts>
sts clss="lsts lst1">•2ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> which problematics these s clss="trms">skils>ls s clss="trms">s clss="trms">equips>s> me to address<span clss='qstn'>?span>
sts>
sts clss="lsts lst1">•3ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> can i (or should i) not know these problematics in advance<span clss='qstn'>?span>
sts>
the bow and arrow ss='lgc'>--|)ss='lgc'>-> <span clss='heart'>♥span> in my s clss="nms">apasss> endweek (as sound object) was a relic of our shared physical energetic space, the nondiscursive ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> how to keep it ins clss="trms">articulats>e<span clss='qstn'>?span>
sts clss="lsts lst1">•a way to record space, which is always s clss="trms">socis>al ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= silenced with no s clss="trms">agens>cy of the recorder (the “quiet recorder”)
sts>
sts clss="lsts lst1">•also a playful respective s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing of ss="ppl">La Guin, (something that may seem a misunderstanding of her carrier bag theory)
sts>
sts clss="lsts lst1">•carving out a practice agility area
sts>
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the s clss="trms">questions> ‘what does X mean<span clss='qstn'>?span>’ is always ‘what does X mean for you<span clss='qstn'>?span>’
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i am following the movement of certain words here
spam ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="trms">inters>net
spam operates on/with patterns of s clss="trms">literas>cy or an existing (in)sufficiencies in known s clss="trms">categs>ories of cognitive biases that people have
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ss='lgc'>[titless='lgc'>]
“it's your turn now to play”
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(ss='at'>@s clss="frds scrmbld">Luisas> on space,) (s clss="trms">questions> ofss='lgc'>:) producing (your) s clss="trms">presens>ce
s clss="trms">materis>al-discursive ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">semios>tic-psychosis ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> her Wortsalad
(ss="ppl">Bocola > ss="ppl">Kohut > Mondrian's bipolar structuress='lgc'>:)
creation of universal beauty / s clss="trms">aesthets>ic expression of oneself
(ss='lgc'>=<span clss='qstn'>?span>ss='lgc'>=> transcend the framework of artistic production)
exhibitionist pole of the self / idealized pole of the self
the grandiose self / the idealized structures
s clss="trms">worlds>views / self-images
what is the (diametric, dialectical) s clss="trms">inters>nal drama of her thinking and work<span clss='qstn'>?span>
(what are<span clss='qstn'>?span>) s clss="frds scrmbld">Luisas>'s overarching, idealized conception that lays claim to the validity of her values and standards as applied not only to herself and environment but to the entire universess='lgc'>: (s clss="trms">questions> of structure)
sts clss="lsts lst1">•(pre-babylonian) universal abstractionism ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">embods>ied knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>
sts>
sts clss="lsts lst1">•fluid equilibrium ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> movement of Being
sts>
ss='lgc'>[is this a romantic structural attitude<span clss='qstn'>?span>ss='lgc'>]
<span clss="prgrph">-and how is she confronted with s clss="trms">cosmos>s s clss="trms">priors> to her inscriptions<span clss='qstn'>?span> (s clss="trms">questions> of realism)
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-what is (the mystery of) a ‘being through s clss="trms">inters>pretation’ for her<span clss='qstn'>?span> (s clss="trms">questions> of performativity)
span>
ss='lgc'>[reas clss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists>ic:ss='lgc'>] to take possession of essential aspects of the external reality (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>-> recreate them in the s clss="trms">imagis>nation) ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">s clss="trms">empiris>cs>al<span clss='qstn'>?span>ss='lgc'>]
ss='lgc'>[structural:ss='lgc'>] to experience the external reality as parts of an s clss="trms">inters>connected and comprehensive whole
ss='lgc'>[ideas clss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists>ic/s clss="trms">syms>bos clss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists>:ss='lgc'>] to connect the (inner) particular to the general
ss='lgc'>[romantic:ss='lgc'>] to make (inner) invisible visible
s clss="trms">sublims>ated gratification of instincts, ambitions and ideals, (homogeneous) s clss="trms">gests>alt and expression of the self, s clss="trms">narcisss>istic equilibrium, test its viability, haptic art,
“invisible reality and the s clss="trms">aesthets>ics of universality” or a mean by which universal is recognized<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>
timelessness, wholesomeness, indivisibility, s clss="trms">aesthets>ic standards
<span clss="prgrph">-pictorial thinking, movement thinking, s clss="trms">affects>ual thinking, ss='lgc'>{ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> all issued by ss='thdf'>the notion of “pure” and “purity”<span clss='qstn'>?span> tendency toward idealization<span clss='qstn'>?span> utopian<span clss='qstn'>?span>ss='lgc'>}
span>
movement (the act) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= mobility (the possibility)
(is s clss="frds scrmbld">Luisas> s clss="trms">inters>ested in<span clss='qstn'>?span>) the immanent laws and essential unity of all being
...step to complete nonobjectivity
...objects with their expression of plasticity
<span clss="prgrph">-what is the s clss="trms">syms>bolic term in her work<span clss='qstn'>?span>
span>
she saidss='lgc'>: “space is s clss="trms">literas>l.” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the wholesome is proclaimed in the artistic act itself (and not as s clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>phors>) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> experienced directly ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="trms">imagis>ned
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s>احشايىs> the s clss="trms">viscs>era (ahsha), s clss="trms">viscs>eral theoryss='lgc'>: s clss="trms">affects> and s clss="trms">embods>iment, transmissible physical charges, porous bodies,
ss='at'>@s clss="frds scrmbld">Luisas>
kP_AfO7Ms4I
how to create a condition in which she can herself later give access to her thinking and making<span clss='qstn'>?span>
stsrd clss="lstsrd">1- propose a curatorial s clss="trms">gests>ure of an assemblyss='lgc'>: s clss="frds scrmbld">Luisas>, Mondrian, Zen master, Malevich; with ss="ppl">Bocola and ss="ppl">Ahmed;
stsrd>
stsrd clss="lstsrd">2- to open an investigation of s clss="trms">affects>ive economies for herss='lgc'>: abstraction, constructivism, idealism, s clss="trms">figurats>ive empathy, s clss="trms">syms>bolism, longing,
stsrd>
stsrd clss="lstsrd">3-
stsrd>
stsrd clss="lstsrd">4-
stsrd>
(psychoanalysis ss='lgc'>[ss='at'>@s clss="frds scrmbld">Luisas>ss='lgc'>] allows us to see that) <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>emotionality involves movement<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>
ass clss="trms">socis>ations whereby “feeling” take us across s clss="trms">differens>t levels of signification, not all of which can be admitted in the s clss="trms">presens>t. (ss='lgc'>+ss="ppl">Ahmed)
<span clss="prgrph">-emotions move back and forth (s clss="trms">pasts> ass clss="trms">socis>ations, repression traces on s clss="trms">presens>t) and sideways (sticky ass clss="trms">socis>ations between figures and signs) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> something as the cause of a feeling in someone ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> “involving s clss="trms">relations>ships of <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="trms">differens>ce and displacement<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>{as the form or s clss="trms">languages> of the unconsciousss='lgc'>} without s clss="trms">posits>ive value” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">affects>ive economies ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>{s clss="trms">socis>al, s clss="trms">materis>al, psychicss='lgc'>}
span>
ss='lgc'>{ psychoanalysisss='lgc'> = "absent s clss="trms">presens>ce” of s clss="trms">histos>ricityss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->(sideways movement of feelings) ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>==offersss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> a theory of emotion as economy<strcls clss='strcls'>***strcls>
<span clss="prgrph">-by economy, ss="ppl">Ahmed means, like capital (is about the movement of commodities and money<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>), an effect of its circulation (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="frds scrmbld">Luisas>)
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-the subject is one nodal point in the economy ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= subject as its os clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>in and destination
span>
<strcls clss='strcls'>**strcls>the movement between signs converts into s clss="trms">affects>
feeling ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> fetish commodity
in ss="ppl">Freudian model, the movement between objects is s clss="trms">intras>psychic ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> trace of how s clss="trms">histos>ries remain alive in the s clss="trms">presens>t<strcls clss='strcls'>***strcls> ss='lgc'>[regarding s clss="nms">ajayebs>'s s clss="trms">histos>ries, s clss="trms">histos>ries that “stick” and which does not need to be declared, ss='at'>#fohshe heyuan/heyvan s>فحش حیوانs>/s>حیوونs> sideways movements...ss='lgc'>]
<span clss="prgrph">-(s clss="nms">ajayebs>'s) s clss="trms">pasts> s clss="trms">histos>ries of naming
span>
objects, the s clss="trms">authors> of emotions
(how) emotions align subjects
_“surfacing” of individual_
(ss="ppl">Ahmed sugs clss="trms">gests>s that) emotions are not simply “within” nor “without” but that they create the very effect of the surfaces or boundaries of bodies and s clss="trms">worlds>s.
s clss="trms">narrats>ivess='lgc'> = production of the ordinary
sts clss="lsts lst1">•(which crimes against persons become crimes against place<span clss='qstn'>?span> -‘us’-)
sts>
sts clss="lsts lst1">•“body of the nation”
sts>
sts clss="lsts lst1">•ss clss="trms">cenes> of “our injury” (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> also in s clss="nms">Irans>ss='lgc'>: “our” s clss="trms">histos>rical injury)
sts>
sts clss="lsts lst1">•(the fucking) s clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>ht to defense ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ‘home’ itself becomes to be mobilized as a defense against terror, becomes transformed into the s clss="trms">syms>bolic space of the nation ss='at'>#ss='lgc'>[ss='thdf'>example of when the approach (to/by objects) itself becomes a fetish object<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> “staying at home”ss='lgc'>: a form of mobilization ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>-ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <span clss='gtrw'>go tospan> three little pigsss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>---- “the constitution of open cultures involves the projection of what is closed s clss="trms">ontos> others, and hence the concealment of what is closed and contained ‘at home’” (ss="ppl">Ahmed <span clss='heart'>♥span>) ss='lgc'>{ouvrir le fermé, fermé le ouvertss='lgc'>}
sts>
sts clss="lsts lst1">•alert citizens, amre be ma'ruf va nahye az monkar s>امر به معروف و نهی از منکs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>-s clss="trms">ontos>logy of tosiye s>توصیهs>
sts>
sts clss="lsts lst1">•suspicious others
sts>
sts clss="lsts lst1">•saving women from s clss="trms">religs>ious fundamentalism
sts>
sts clss="lsts lst1">•negativity of latent (could-be-ness ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> opens up the power to detain, police pishgiri s>پلیس پیشگیریs>)
sts>
os clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>ins of bad feeling
threat to violate the pure bodies ss='lgc'>[vulnerable and damaged bodies of the white woman and s clss="trms">childs>ss='lgc'>]
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>s clss="trms">affects> is economic<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> it circulates between signifiers in s clss="trms">relations>ships of s clss="trms">differens>ce and displacement ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> they align subjects ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> effect of collective ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (in Ahemd's economical model of emotions) they work to bind subjects together ss='lgc'>: the nonresidence of emotions is what makes them “binding” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> her notion of economy ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= ss='lgc'>{inside/outside model ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">posits>ive residence of emotionsss='lgc'>: “I have an emotion” or “something makes me feel a certain way"ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> “fear does not come from within the subject, nor does it reside in its object”
<span clss="prgrph">-(ss='lgc'>[ss='at'>@s clss="frds scrmbld">Hodas>'s take on witnessss='lgc'>] alignment of the individual with the collectivess='lgc'>:) the accumulation of s clss="trms">affects>ive value shapes the surfaces of bodies and s clss="trms">worlds>s; s clss="trms">affects> generates the surfaces of collective bodies (ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>==allowsss='lgc'>== not to locate s clss="trms">affects> in a subject or object) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss='lgc'>[to initiate with s clss="frds scrmbld">Hodas> an examination of the) <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>mobility of bodies of subjects<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> (in the West or her regions ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="trms">questions> of the mediatization of her emotional experiencesss='lgc'>}
span>
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>emotions ‘involve’ subjects and objects<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>
what constructs emotions as s clss="trms">posits>ive or negative residence<span clss='qstn'>?span>
ss='lgc'>[<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]psychoanalysisss='lgc'>: a theory of the subject as lacking s clss="trms">posits>ive residence
(this ‘lack’ is commonly s clss="trms">articulats>ed as the “unconscious”ss='lgc'>: in ss="ppl">Freudian terms, where an s clss="trms">affects>ive impulse is perceived but misconstructed, and which becomes attached to another idea. ss='lgc'>[can i say that <span clss='mywrk'>my workspan> in s clss="nms">ajayebs>, which i named it as ‘organizing my s clss="trms">mems>ory, and also, that which comes to mind’ is all about this reconstruction of cognizeds and percepts<span clss='qstn'>?span> is that why i am having less and less unconsciousness in my daily life<span clss='qstn'>?span>!ss='lgc'>])
<span clss="prgrph">-cognizant agah s>آگاهs>
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-in ss="ppl">Freud's model of unconsciousness, the s clss="trms">affects> itself is not repressed, rather, what is repressed is the idea to which the s clss="trms">affects> was attached ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> displacement
span>
(ss="ppl">Lacan's) subjectss='lgc'>: proper ss clss="trms">cenes> of absence and loss<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>
a theory of the subject that the locus of the signifier settles ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> constitution of the subject as “settlement”
(ss='lgc'>[what is<span clss='qstn'>?span>ss='lgc'>] s clss="frds scrmbld">Eszters>'s s clss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>ht and will to keep looking for signs of s clss="trms">differens>ce. ss='lgc'>--when she was talking about idios clss="trms">syncs>rasies of her countries)
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>[with s clss="frds scrmbld">Eszters>'s “the nation has suffered enough!"ss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>--ss="ppl">Lezrass='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> politics in a sense is precisely concerned with what is or is not <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>enough<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>
“it's enough!” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss='at'>#s clss="trms">demands> something or before which I make a claim. it is practical (even s clss="trms">techns>ical) or is dealing with being practical
the haunting modifier of “enough”
the <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>amount<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> of something (-of suffering in this case) ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>-- “That's enough coffee”
<span clss="prgrph">-we are dealing with s clss="trms">materis>ality and s clss="trms">meass>ure
span>
ss='lgc'>{has that anything to do with the enough of s clss="frds scrmbld">Ekaterinas>'s “good-enough mothers”<span clss='qstn'>?span>ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> true enough-ness for an effect to be achieved
model of emotion ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> s clss="trms">materis>alization of bodies
(emotions construct) bodies as ‘enveloped’
in standard psychological model, fear ‘has’ an object
<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>(ss="ppl">Ahmed's) fearss='lgc'>: “passing by” (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= arriving) of the object, impossibility of containment of object
s clss="trms">anxis>ety is an approach to objects ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>=/= fear is an object's approach
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in ss="ppl">Freudss='lgc'>: self is made by the fear of father
ss="ppl">Ahmed's model of ‘impact of fear’
fear does not leat to containment but an expansion ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> his/her embrace of the s clss="trms">worlds>
sts clss="lsts lst1">•being sealed into a body that takes up less space!
sts>
<strcls clss='strcls'>**strcls>fear works to restrict some bodies through the movement or expansion of others<strcls clss='strcls'>**strcls> (s clss="trms">inters>esting for s clss="frds scrmbld">Monas>'s work)
ss='lgc'>[structural possibility:ss='lgc'>] proximity of fear-object ss='lgc'>--isss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> possibility of future injury
impressions of coherence, “sticking together”
(that is perhaps why s clss="trms">dictis>onaries and s clss="trms">bestiars>ies are s clss="trms">inters>estingss='lgc'>: because their elements do not “stick together” in the sense of an s clss="trms">affects>ive economy ss='lgc'>[of inquiry and s clss="trms">narrats>ivess='lgc'>] ss='at'>#s clss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists>s)
s clss="trms">ontos>logy of insecurity ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (naratives of) crisis ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> “return” (to values) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> fetish
<span clss="prgrph">-production of crisis is crucial for insecurity
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-declaration/announcement of <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>crisis<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> s clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>s the fact/figure/event and transforms is into a fetish object that then acquires a life of its own
span>
<span clss="prgrph">-it must be presumed that things are not secure, in and of themselves, in order to justify the imspan>[...]