[...]etting to know” something ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*call it research='lgc'>] where your subject does not speak plain to you, and you, nor your work, do not intend to transform them. The ="trms">question of “what is ="trms">interesting for them='qstn'>?” raises up immediately. This ="trms">question emerges in all ="trms">sorts of domains of ="trms">social life. As a bullshiter ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*a ="trms">technical term for performance-="trms">lecture='lgc'>: an art of ="trms">interweaving logos='lgc'>] and program-coordinator and educator in the art sector (ZUYD Toneelacademie ="ppl">Maastricht), I am permanently ="trms">positioned to ask this ="trms">question. For this I have found ='thdf'>the notion of ="trms">trap particularly useful to think with, especially in environments where participants entice each other in their subjects of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge by means of an adaptable cunning intelligence.


Somewhere between fairytale findings, ="trms">animal as="trms">sociations, and ="trms">dictations from ="ppl">Benjamin ="ppl">Alberti, Eva ="ppl">="ppl">Hayward, Marcel Detienne, and ="ppl">Vinciane ="ppl">="ppl">Despret, I am thinking about ="trms">traps as ="trms">zoo-="trms">anthropo-bio="trms">morphic artifacts, made-up things that entice meaning across ="trms">species. ="trms">Trap-making is the forms of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the back-tracking of a fox, of building a fishing net, ="trms">skills of a weaver, a carpenter, poly="trms">morphism of an octopus, and the ="trms">rhetorical tricks of a ="trms">crafty charlatan. The ="trms">trap-maker ="trms">imagines what is the perspective of a radically ="trms">different being. If you make a ="trms">trap for other ="trms">animals you are fully engaged in multi-="trms">species perspectival game. You think about their bodies engaged in a perspectival ="trms">communication. I argue, ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures are needed to convey meaning. In this sense, ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures and ="trms">traps are ="trms">mimetic devices, they are enticements of meaning, and we have ="trms">mimetic participation with them. ="trms">Mimetic is the op="trms">posite of ="trms">semiotic. In ="trms">mimetic participation, one does not ponder about the ="trms">symbolic ="trms">relations hidden in the game, but rather one is caught in its form. But this form can still be ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta and not ="trms">literal. In my understanding and use of ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure one is not necessarily fossilized by this seizure. It is a form of ="trms">figuration by trying to enact. It ="trms">demands enacting something outside of you. A ="trms">mimetic preoccupation is something that you cannot stop following. ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*The ="trms">fashion industry, ="trms">marketing, conspiracy theories, art, psychology, and hunting, are all about ="trms">mimesis.='lgc'>]

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One ="trms">mimetic form that I have been caught in is an old figure of ="trms">children's fairy tale, ="nms">Cinderella='lgc'>--during her confinement with the evil step-mother and two step-sisters. ="nms">Cinderella is my ="trms">ancestor and ="trms">heritage. I was exposed as a ="trms">child to Disney’s version of Grimm’s recollection of the ="trms">story, which was the very last Disney movie that was officially dubbed in ="trms">Farsi before the ="nms">Iranian revolution. ="nms">Cinderella’s voiceover in ="trms">Farsi was the continuum of an actor-training that o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginated in the ="nms">Tehrani cabaret voice-performances. Her voice has a radically ="trms">different feeling than its English o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal. In contrast to how “="trms">childish” the mice sounds in the movie, ="nms">Cinderella's ="trms">articulations are perceived much more “adult,” sexually textured, of how a young female sounded like in the ="nms">Iranian ="trms">consumer culture of the 1950s. Recollecting that ="nms">Cinderella now reveals something else that cor="trms">responds with ='mywrk'>my research, an attic ="trms">bestiary, a mini universe of meanings and beings with whom she is in conversation with and in a permanent collaboration of ="trms">worlding.


="nms">Cinderella lives with the precarity of a family who torment and insult her on a daily basis. I kept asking myself, why doesn't she become estranged='qstn'>? ="nms">Cinderella is circumscribed in all ="trms">sorts of ways, yet she is capable of knowing new things about the ="trms">animals she lives. She incorporates a form of transhumanity that lies in (1) the way she is inhabiting and ="trms">composing with a place that she is not a master of nor can she escape from, and (2) in the way ="trms">animals give her power and meaning. Can we think of ="nms">Cinderella as an amateur ethologist='qstn'>? A ="trms">skilled practitioner of attention to ="trms">animals, for whom the ways that attention is addressed ="trms">matters. A ="nms">Cinderella who does her job is bizarre. It engages us in a totally ="trms">different manner than a ="nms">Cinderella who is the victim of evil circumstances. Not considered as a victim, she becomes much more ="trms">present, inviting more ="trms">interesting ="trms">questions about her labor of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge production. This opened for me a space to think about her inhuman ="trms">gesture of endurance, her know-how of being in a ="trms">world that proliferates with chaotic zones of improvisation with ="trms">animals. From ="nms">Cinderella one can learn cross-="trms">species politeness and exploring ways of ="trms">imagining what ="trms">animals are capable of, with and because of her labor. This is her mice-="trms">trap. Steeped in ="trms">routines of ="trms">schizo-="trms">affective ="trms">hallucinating with talking ="trms">animals, her ="trms">technique of ="trms">trap-making is not a ="trms">category of human behavior, but a model for a form of intelligence. I argue that as a ="trms">lover and ="trms">interlocutor of mice, her ="trms">traps are in the form of a net in which her subject becomes entangled. ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">Lures are frequently needed to prompt meaning to an ="trms">animal. ="nms">Cinderella to the mice, is an al="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">luring producer of ="trms">sociality. Her mice-="trms">trap produces the meaning of the ="trms">social. The mouse is captured not as prey but as ="trms">material comrade and ally.


='lgc'>[....='lgc'>]


Sometimes there is no maker behind the ="trms">trap. They are created by the ="trms">world, by random, emergent, coalescence of elements in the environment. In a witness-="trms">fable by Kelileh o Demneh we have a moment of problematization of cunning intelligence. The ="trms">story goes, once a fox was walking down his forest when he noticed ="trms">animals were escaping from something. Upon further investigation he found out they were running from a special sound that scared them, a loud drum. At this ="trms">stage, he is curious but vigilance and not afraid, because he knows the forest is all deceit and trickery. His inner thought is opportunistic or playful, he thinks there must be something juicy there that I can get my hands on. ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">Lured in the other direction than other ="trms">animals, he goes to the source of the sound, and puts his paws in it. He realizes that the sound was created by the force of wind moving a tree branch to hit the remains of an ="trms">animal fat and skin caught in the branches. Disappointed and victorious, he calls the illusion and moves on. Here we have the fox revealing the ="trms">techne of the lie='lgc'>: an assemblage of skin, fat, tree, and wind, that others are ="trms">trapped in. What is the problem with the fox='qstn'>? What kind of wit or intelligence does he possess='qstn'>? Is the fox detached from the ="trms">mimesis of the forest='qstn'>? How do we not get caught in certain ="trms">traps='qstn'>? My ="trms">question here is, in which context do you say yes to the ="trms">trap='qstn'>?


The fox of Kelileh o Demneh is smart, someone who ="trms">embodies “metis.” Metis is ancient ="trms">Greek for wiley intelligence. Metis ='lgc'>[pointed out by Detienne='lgc'>] refers to patterns of thought relating to an effective adaptable cunning, the exact op="trms">posite of contemplating about unchanging essences. The art of metis encompasses a coherent body of mental attitudes and intellectual behaviors that cultivates shohood (intuition شهود), makr (cunning مکر), ferasat (perspicacity فراست), farib (dissimulation فریب), badiheh (improvisation بدیهه), hushiar (vigilant attention هوشيار), be-ja (timeliness بجا). In the ="trms">world of Kelileh o Demneh you are a hunter and the ="trms">world is made of ="trms">traps and ="trms">animals are full of cunning. This is precisely the metis’ field of operation, a ="trms">world of movement and ambiguity in the battle of perspectival will. For the ="trms">Greeks and Kelileh o Demneh, continuous ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphoses is the name of the game. A disconcerting divided shifting ="trms">world of multiplicity that creates (1) poly="trms">morphous ="trms">monsters (mistrustful mobile elusive beings) and (2) ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphing minds (mistrustful mobile elusive minds).


The notion of metis that we have is ="trms">articulated in ="trms">Greek deities powers. It is the form of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of Athena, Hephaestus, Hermes, Aphrodite, Zeus, and Prometheus. The ="trms">Greek gods often found themselves in either ="trms">position of victory or as vanquished. Metis is the power of binding in ="trms">situations of confrontation.


The fox and octopus master of bonds


="trms">Trap is poly="trms">morphism, the op="trms">posite of what it seems to be, in ="trms">Greek, dolos mechanos. Dolos ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers to cunning, that which is woven, braided or ="trms">interlacing. It is about the ancient ="trms">techniques of fitting together ="trms">different pieces that ="trms">articulates a whole. A ="trms">skill of making knots, meshes and nets that surprise, ="trms">trap and bind. A net is the invisible (mesh of) bonds, the favorite ="trms">technique of metis. Bond is the combination of two things, weave and twist.

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='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]bond='lgc'> = weave ='lgc'>+ twist
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]net='lgc'>: invisible (mesh of) bonds ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- favorite ="trms">technique of metis


arm='lgc'> = bond
every part of its body is a ='strcls'>*bond='strcls'>* which can secure anything (but nothing can seize)


='strcls'>*fox='lgc'> = a living bond='strcls'>* (can bend, unbend, reverse its own ="trms">position at will)


Oppian is all about bonds, ropes, cords

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="nms">Cinderella’s ="trms">position neither victorious nor vanquished.


I use the word “="trms">trap” because it is more problematic and d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous than ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures


='lgc'>[For the record, ="ppl">Plato completely opposed ='thdf'>the idea of hunting with ="trms">traps, because these ="trms">techniques were thought to cultivate cunning and duplicity which were against what a virtuous political man should be. For ="ppl">Plato ="trms">embodiment was a form of distraction to true knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge.='lgc'>]

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The cunning of “getting to know them” ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]
You politely approach in order to get to know them, research as a ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure for yourself to be transformed by the encounter. The nontransportive investigation is in fact full of transformations.


It is important to think about ="trms">traps not as something great and necessary, but in a sense that we should be able to recognize and choose sometimes not to do it. I think we need ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures, because the ="trms">world is transient, shifting, disconcerting, ambiguous, and so are we. The ="trms">question always is which ="trms">trap are you caught in='qstn'>? How does it look like='qstn'>? Are you alone in it='qstn'>? Which ="nms">Cinderella is making you a ="trms">trap='qstn'>?

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points
='strcls'>* define cunning intelligence
   ='strcls'>* ="trms">greek notion of “metis” (you are a hunter='lgc'>: the ="trms">world is made of ="trms">traps and ="trms">animals are full of cunning)
   ='strcls'>* bonds ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fox ='lgc'>+ octopus
   ='strcls'>* fox forest ="trms">story ="nms">kelile demne
      ='strcls'>* is fox detached from the ="trms">mimesis of the forest='qstn'>? Is this what critical intelligence looks like='qstn'>? by putting his paw and breaking that fragile assemble of skin, fat, tree, and wind. he reveals a lie. what other ="trms">animals are ="trms">trap engagers='qstn'>?
      ='strcls'>* in which context you say yes to the ="trms">trap='qstn'>?
='strcls'>* ="trms">differentiate metis from ="nms">Cinderella’s mouse ="trms">trap (mechane, ="trms">techne)
   ='strcls'>* ='strcls'>* ="trms">trap as research ="trms">method, but it has a double bind, it is as much as a ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure for oneself as for the other
   ='strcls'>*



my ="trms">mimetic preoccupations ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> with ="trms">memory


(from mnemonic devices) to ="trms">mimetic devices (="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure)
="trms">mimetic participation with X
(with ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures and ="trms">traps we have ="trms">mimetic participation)


a useful and necessary ="trms">difference, synthesized by the ="trms">Greeks='lgc'>--="ppl">Plato and ="ppl">Aristotle
diegesis ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="trms">mimesis
(telling) ='lgc'>-- (showing)
(recounted) ='lgc'>-- (enacted)


you don’t get necessarily fossilized by it


="trms">mimetic ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">semiotic
enacted showing other than you (='lgc'>=/= telling)
="trms">figuration by trying to imitate
to copy='lgc'> = ="trms">mimesis ='lgc'>+ ="trms">techne
(summoning ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">mimesis)
getting caught in a form
it is form, but it is not about form
industry of ="trms">fashion is about ="trms">mimesis
problem of realism ='lgc'>=/= problem of ="trms">mimesis

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="lstsrd">2. a better mouse ="trms">trap
="nms">Cinderella

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and now I tell you...
what exactly a ="trms">trap is made of...
text='lgc'>: con="trms">densed, everything

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="lstsrd">1. mouse ="trms">trap
="lsts lst2">◦diary of ="nms">Cinderella, a ="trms">lover and ="trms">interlocutor of mice
who is a mouse ="trms">lover, a mouse career, a mouse ="trms">interlocutor (somebody who ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listens and tells ="trms">stories), but she is also a shepherd.
="lsts lst2">◦“which ="trms">trap are you caught in='qstn'>?” is always relevant ="trms">question
="lstsrd">2. spider web




="lstsrd">1. ="ppl">Benjamin ="ppl">Alberti
="lsts lst2">◦minoan culture (pottery in ancient ="trms">Greek)
="lsts lst2">◦artifacts and appendices ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">traps
="lstsrd">2. Eva ="ppl">="ppl">Hayward
="lsts lst4">◽="trms">animal thinker
="lsts lst4">◽trans="trms">animality
="lsts lst4">◽='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">trap='lgc'>: a mouth, a mode of utterance, the “O” curve of lips and throat that sounds out and names the apprehension of being ="trms">embodied
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***="trms">positionality ='lgc'>~/= ="trms">situatedness='lgc'> = to be ="trms">trapped='strcls'>*** (to speak and receive ranges of ="trms">sensuous input from one's environment) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*our bodies are not endlessly available to intentionality='strcls'>*
="lstsrd">3. Marcel Detienne
="lsts lst2">◦='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]metis='lgc'>: intelligence which operates in the ="trms">world of becoming, in circumstances of conflict='lgc'> = forethought perspicacity ='lgc'>+ quickness and acuteness of understanding ='lgc'>+ trickery ='lgc'>+ deceit
="lsts lst2">◦='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">trap='lgc'> = poly="trms">morphism (the op="trms">posite of what it seems to be)
="lsts lst2">◦dolos mechanos
="lsts lst2">◦(dolos ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]cunning='lgc'>: woven, braiding or ="trms">interlacing, ='strcls'>*fitted together='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='strcls'>***ancient ="trms">techniques that use the pliability and torsion of plant fibers to make knots, ropes, meshes and nets to surprise, ="trms">trap and bind='strcls'>*** ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='thdf'>the idea that ='strcls'>***many pieces can be fitted together to produce a well-="trms">articulated whole='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? art)
="lstsrd">4. ="ppl">Vinciane ="ppl">="ppl">Despret




="trms">dictionary of ="trms">crafts and arts (D='lgc'>+A)
extraordinary ="trms">gesture of collecting and describing in details the ="trms">skills and ="trms">techniques of not the elite but the ordinary ="trms">craftsman
older styles of ="trms">trap-making
it is important to in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude the violence (a="trms">symmetry) of ="trms">trap-making, that it is not a con="trms">sensual ="trms">relation to the other


="nms">kelile demne
indian courts to teach the young princes the art of cunning
putting your paw in the source of the thing (fat)
what is the problem with the fox='qstn'>?
what kind of wit or intelligence is that='qstn'>?
are there other ways of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading random combination of environmental elements that signal something accidental to you and orient the other ="trms">animals in the forest='qstn'>?


once you starting thinking with ="trms">trap, you start to see them everywhere='qstn'>?


you are always ="trms">trapped, the ="trms">question is which ="trms">trap are you caught in='qstn'>?
can it be dismantled='qstn'>? do you bring others in it='qstn'>?
do you move with the ="trms">trap while being stuck in it='qstn'>?
which ="nms">Cinderella is making you a ="trms">trap='qstn'>?


='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a way of thinking about ways of being with ="trms">technical objects without mastery or understanding them or being an engineer. we are not in a engineering ="trms">relationship with ="trms">traps, we are in heuristic ="trms">relation with something that catches you long enough.


teasing with the negativity of ="trms">traps (the en="trms">trapment)

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we are not having engineering knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge about the ="trms">technicality of the object (="trms">trap), we are moved by the heuristic fascination for it.
temporarily
“the negativity of the ="trms">trap” ='lgc'>:
violence of ="trms">trapping
not voluntary
surprise

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="nms">kelile demne
fox sound in forest ="trms">story


="large lg30" stl="font-size:125%"> we are always related, ="trms">composed into something
the bullshit of “freedom”='lgc'>: if you’d be free, you’d have no ="trms">story, no connections, no ="trms">memory.
it is a kind of ="trms">story that more than anyone the ="trms">marketing industries today wants us to be free ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> freedom is the cornerstone of ="trms">consumer culture


for me='lgc'>: ="trms">trap is at the core of understanding knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, of the ="trms">relationship to the other, to ="trms">crafts, to art


="trms">trap='lgc'>: corpus of ="trms">zoo-="trms">anthropo-bio="trms">morphic artifact
the ="trms">trap-maker ="trms">imagining what is the perspective of radically ="trms">different being
if you make a ="trms">trap for other ="trms">animals you are fully engaged in multi-="trms">species perspectival game
the body is fully engaged in a perspectival ="trms">communication


perspectival battle of will
construction of ="trms">affect
being in ="trms">relation to “variety”
when you are in the business of ="trms">trap-making you are in the realm of knowing ="trms">different things (="trms">differential, ="trms">different things that have little to do with each other)


in="trms">cite, to ="trms">cite, to bring the source of others
to in="trms">cite='lgc'>: to encourage violent behavior by unorthodox behavior

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="trms">trap research
="lstsrd">1. physical body, ="trms">sensual ="trms">relationship
="lstsrd">2. (="trms">literal/virtual) abstraction='lgc'>: you turn the environment into an abstraction to construct something through it
="lstsrd">1. abstraction='lgc'>: an ="trms">erotic ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure for the soul
="lstsrd">3. ="trms">mimesis='lgc'>: how meaning is formed
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pro="trms">positions)


="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure
in the sense of house of candy in Hansel and Gretel


to be able to be caught in ="trms">traps, even if their are accidental, just created by random, emergent, coalescence of elements in the environment. sometimes there is no maker behind the ="trms">trap.


making images as ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures for ='mywrk'>my research
“making” is not an expressive medium (not a medium of ="trms">communication), but a research tool
(Line) “gentle ="trms">trapping towards something you want”

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="ppl">="ppl">Despret
she asks how ="trms">scientist relate to ="trms">animals when they do field study
your test experiment is a form of a ="trms">trap that you gain knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge from
is there a way that we can ask the ="trms">animal what ="trms">interest them='qstn'>?


if you are investigating, how to make conjectures='qstn'>? conjecture='lgc'>: a kind of temporary hypothesis that allow you to go to the next
investigative research='lgc'>: your subject does not speak english to you ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what is ="trms">interesting for the other


art of the ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure
art of learning from those whose enigma you are trying to solve (and have no intention in helping you)
to solve the enigma (of the raven, or the artwork of the student) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> you have to make ="trms">interesting and radically speculative choices in how you produce knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge about the work of others


fishermen and hunters, at the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the forest or the shore, where ="trms">animals come to check out the other realms, is where they build the ="trms">trap
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fishermen and hunters are the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal thinkers of this kind of intelligence, you transform knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge by learning from ="trms">animals. it is prolonged, practical, and ="trms">crafty

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spider
expert at waiting ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="nms">Cinderella’s waiting
building environment from body liquids ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> becoming bodily='lgc'> = the near-by-ness of things
='lgc'>=/= fox='lgc'>: suspicious

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being ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lured into desiring and trusting ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this is basically the game (at the school)


critique is an art that tangles with what you are proposing
fox ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure
octopus ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> best ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure-engagers (they ="trms">love the ="trms">trap, they can’t get enough of it)

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the O
the curved lips
apprehension of that which to be ="trms">embodies


to be ="trms">trapped='lgc'> = to be ="trms">situated
="trms">situatedness ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">positionality

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we are not fully intentionally engaged with things
what we do is not intentionally all the time

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this is where I want ='thdf'>the notion of ="trms">trap to be ="trms">situated (comprehended).

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Enrica's transcription



="trms">trap in ="trms">relationship to knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, art

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="trms">Trap is a ="trms">zoo ="trms">anthropo bio="trms">morphic artifact
if you make a ="trms">trap for another ="trms">animal, you think from trans ="trms">species perspective
it is a d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous game
a body fully engaged in a perspectival ="trms">communication

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perspectival battle of wills


="trms">trap making='lgc'> = in the realm of bridging ="trms">different ="trms">sort of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that has nothing to do with you
="lsts lst1">•To ="trms">cite ='lgc'>=/= to in="trms">cite (unorthodox behavior)




Searching paths='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•bodily capture
="lsts lst1">•violence of the construction
="lsts lst1">•="trms">mimesis ='lgc'>: how meaning takes form




But also ="trms">traps get me ="trms">trapped
lore - hansel and gretel’s house='lgc'>: doesn’t look like a ="trms">trap but …
sometimes there is no maker behind the ="trms">trap (is this a scandal='qstn'>? is this emptiness='qstn'>?)

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how to make you ="trms">interested in my ="trms">trap/chapter='qstn'>?
images making/painting as a research tool/assemblage
gentle ="trms">trapping yourself to where you like to stay

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="ppl">Vinciane ="ppl">="ppl">Despret, “What Would ="trms">Animals Say If We Asked the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Right ="trms">Questions='qstn'>?”
a conversation between ="trms">scientist and ="trms">animals in ="trms">wild
your text experience is a ="trms">trap, something that you gain knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge from. Is there even a way to politely ask ="trms">animals a ="trms">question='qstn'>?
investigative research - how to deal with another subject that doesn’t even speak English to you='qstn'>? what ="trms">trap am i being constructed into='qstn'>? what is the raven ="trms">interested in='qstn'>?
and we are ="trms">different things

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the art of the lore and the tricks, learning from enygma - I’m ="trms">interested in how do you produce knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge from the work of others='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[="frds">Sina, in the ="trms">position of coordinator of the Master/educator='lgc'>]
edgy (transsectoral ="trms">worlds)='lgc'>: the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the forest, where sea and forest meet - where hunters/fishermen meet (...)


FOX suspicious - someone who s smart
“="frds">Sina, don’t be tricked!” my mom would tell me
a lore into desire
my needs ='lgc'>=/= lores


OCTOPUS
best engagers
tentacles

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Abstraction as an ="trms">erotic lore of the soul
="trms">eroticism is here in the ="trms">book
an open ="trms">trap in the forest as an open mouth that names the apprehension that ="trms">embodies
to be ="trms">situated (how you are ="trms">trapped/="ppl">="ppl">Haraway, how do you receive ranges from the environment you are caught in) VS ="trms">positionality (i’m white, 40 years old, Italian, … and than you speak from that - it actually ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes possibility of hybridization)
we are not available to intentionality all the time ='lgc'>[i need to take some time to think with this sentence='lgc'>]


time focuses on individual
="trms">trapping implies ="trms">relationality
a ="trms">trap/="trms">trapper/the ="trms">trapped ones

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a ="trms">story from Kalila and Dimna='lgc'>: rabbit, mouse, frog are ="trms">trapped together and they bond about how to get rid of it. eventually they start to move from within it (not from escaping the ="trms">trap) as a ="trms">monstrous hybrid.


="trms">Fables='lgc'>: ="nms">Cinderella precarious ="trms">situation
I want to break with ="ppl">Artaud idea (“to be powerless” is a bad idea)='lgc'>: plea for ="trms">traps='lgc'>:
care, ="trms">writing, work happens when you are ="trms">trapped!

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="trms">trap


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">trap
(enigma of the apparently inexplicable behavior) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*how to ask the ravens, with the same politeness, to take a ="trms">position in ="trms">relations to all the possible conjectures of the investigation='qstn'>?='strcls'>* how to ask them to teach us the good explanation, the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right motive='qstn'>? ='lgc'>==> the rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer will have to learn the ='strcls'>***art of the ="trms">trap and the net='strcls'>***='lgc'> = the art of the ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure and the trick='lgc'> = ='strcls'>***the art of learning from those whose enigma you are trying to solve='strcls'>*** (and have no intention of helping you) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘how that which counts can count for them’
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*the art of metis / cunning intelligence='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: the particular form of intelligence that the ="trms">greeks (learning from hunters and fishermen) cultivated='lgc'> = intuition شهود ='lgc'>+ cunning مکر ='lgc'>+ perspicacity فراست ='lgc'>+ dissimulation فریب ='lgc'>+ improvisation بدیهه ='lgc'>+ vigilant attention هوشيار ='lgc'>+ sense of timeliness بجا (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this type of “getting to know” was constituted exaclty to be found in a domain where human intelligence is constantly at grips with the land or sea ="trms">animals in an are where humans saw their intelligence and ="trms">techniques transform in learning from ="trms">animals='strcls'>**** ='lgc'>[-how to prolong the possibility of this transformation='qstn'>?='lgc'>]) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='strcls'>*it is the only way of getting to know that can hope to address intelligent highly flexible='strcls'>* (="ppl">="ppl">Despret > Heinrish)='lgc'> = ravens who require of those who want to know them the same flexibility and the same intelligence
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>[="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ="nms">ajayeb ="trms">bestiary as enigma; ="nms">Bambi's mother studies; little mermaid; (using ="ppl">="ppl">Despret's ethological research to think about) art of feedback ='lgc'>~= getting to know you ='lgc'>=/= audience engagement='lgc'>]

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strange politeness
art of cunning (="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures ='lgc'>+ manipulation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> enticing ravens
='strcls'>*seeing without being seen='strcls'>*
="trms">obliging them ='lgc'>: ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">luring them to actualize the choices ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>***creating ="trms">situations as if they were ="trms">natural='strcls'>*** (so as to let the ="trms">birds do the talking)
(it is a ="trms">matter of) rendering them more robust ='lgc'>[giving them the occasion to resists, of giving them ='strcls'>*the power to send the rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer/="trms">storyteller to work='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= to dis="trms">articulate (what ="ppl">Ferdosi does in Shahnameh to the Div)='lgc'>]

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to find an enticement that ="trms">interests them ='lgc'>~= to let himself be ="trms">recruited by them
='lgc'>[from Latin “cresc-” grow, rise ='lgc'>==> crescent, crew, decrease, crescendo, ="trms">recruit='lgc'>]


to trust them='lgc'> = to act like them
='at'>@="nms">apass feedback (="trms">differential knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that is created because of not trusting)

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the ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure could be used to ="trms">respond to this ="trms">question='lgc'>: the ravens fall for the trick
...not only do the ravens not ="trms">respond to ="trms">questions but they pose new ones

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='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">story of ="trms">birds en="trms">trapped escape away with the cage

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THE prey and THE visible (both are ="trms">categories of forest life survival ="trms">stories. also have high stakes in ="nms">iranian culture, thought, and philosophy)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what is important for a living self='qstn'>?


(bab-e) hekayat-e dusti-e kabutar o zagh o mush o bakhe o aahu o ...
بابِ / حکایت دوستی کبوتر و زاغ و موش و باخه و آهو و ...
='lgc'>[everyone='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[the ="trms">story of the friendship of these ="trms">animals; the quality, properties, and pitfalls of ="trms">relation='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•what is (re)activating the ='strcls'>*="trms">imaginary friend='strcls'>*='qstn'>? (is it really fully on shut-down='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">trap to abstract thought='qstn'>? ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this ‘abstract thought’ is d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous for “sadness” to get lost in it, but it is amazing for “joy”
="lsts lst1">•how much we need sadness='qstn'>?


why jackal is so persistent and play-full (full of “plays”) in Kelile o Demne's ="trms">bestiary='qstn'>?

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="trms">bird people
,
fox people


,


‘shekar’ ='lgc'>[شکار prey='lgc'>] and ‘ashkar’ ='lgc'>[آشکار visible='lgc'>], two entities in play, like the game of stone-paper-scissors, a link in our shared ="trms">literature that relates the perceptible to the subject of hunt. in a discourse of friendship and enmity, the visible anticipating itself as target for violence, becomes meaningful when we approach it in a game-theoretic-="trms">semiotic linkage, relating and tying together issues of voyeurism, sur="trms">veillance, violence, mediation, and predation in ="trms">poetic itineraries.


="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading and ="trms">greeting

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metis

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speeches (logos) and artifices (mechane)


dolos, mechane, ="trms">techne, kerdos, apate, aiolos, poikilos, haimulos
quick, supple, wiley, deceitful, to confront the unexpected on every occasion,


wiley intelligence='lgc'>: effective adaptable cunning ='lgc'>=/= contemplating unchanging essences
(patterns of thought relating to metis='lgc'>:)
="trms">craftsman's ="trms">skills
theogony
myth
sovereignty
="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphoses of a marine deity


metis='lgc'>: Zeus’ first wife


metis ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? zerang زرنگ, rend رند


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]wiley='lgc'>: a mind able to twist and turn in every direction


forms of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of Athena, Hephaestus, Hermes, Aphrodite, Zeus, Prometheus ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•a hunting ="trms">trap
="lsts lst1">•a fishing net
="lsts lst1">•="trms">skills of a basket-maker
="lsts lst1">•="trms">skills of a weaver
="lsts lst1">•="trms">skills of a carpenter
="lsts lst1">•the mastery of a navigator
="lsts lst1">•the flair of a politician
="lsts lst1">•the experienced eye of a doctor
="lsts lst1">•the tricks of a ="trms">crafty character such as Odysseus
="lsts lst1">•back-tracking of a fox
="lsts lst1">•poly="trms">morphism of an octopus
="lsts lst1">•solving of enigmas and riddles
="lsts lst1">•beguiling ="trms">rhetorical illusionism of the sophists


(="trms">Greek's) ancient ="trms">technical traditions ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> particular type of intelligence='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*objects which must be dominated by cunning='strcls'>*
(Detienne's research) to define one major ="trms">category of the mind


practical intelligence manifested in the ="trms">skills of the artisan (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to 3D hacker)


metis='lgc'>: coherent body of mental attitudes and intellectual behavior which combine flair, wisdom, forethought, subtlety of mind, deception, resourcefulness, vigilance, opportunism, various ="trms">skills, and experience acquired over the years ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> applied to ="trms">situations which are transient, shifting, disconcerting, ambiguous


="trms">routine
chancey inspiration
changeable opinion
charlatanerie


dexterity
sureness of eye
sharpwittedness
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="ppl">Plato='lgc'>='lgc'>--> belong to a type of cognition which is alien to truth and quite separate from ="trms">episteme, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Aristotle's “practical intelligence”


="ppl">Plato
="trms">skill='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*starting from the Forms, produces in the ="trms">world of Becoming='strcls'>* creations that are as real, stable and organized as is possible


="trms">greek deity ='lgc'>~= ='strcls'>***Powers (power of binding) in a ="trms">situation of confrontation='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> find themselves in either ="trms">position as victors ='lgc'>=/= as vanquished (='lgc'>=/= ="nms">Cinderella’s ="trms">position neither victorious nor vanquished)


reality whose limitless poly="trms">morphic powers render it almost impossible to seize ='lgc'>==> cunning intelligence (='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]askew='lgc'>: adopt an oblique course, to bend intelligence, ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready to go in any direction)
='strcls'>*intelligence attempts to make contact with an object by confronting it in the guise of a rival(= connivance ='lgc'>+ op="trms">position)='strcls'>*
cunning intelligence (metis) ='lgc'>~/=='qstn'>? trickster, deceiver


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]dominate='lgc'>: to enclose it/them within the limits of a single, unchangeable form within (his control) ='lgc'>+ he proves himself to be even more multiple, more mobile, more polyvalent than his adversary

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Zeus’ metis
nothing can surprise him
nothing can cheat his vigilance
nothing can frustrate his designs


Iliad's man of metis='lgc'>: vigilant premeditation (='lgc'>=/= impulsiveness)
="lsts lst1">•displays a greater grip of the ="trms">present (where nothing escapes him)
="lsts lst1">•more awareness of the future (several aspects of which he has al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready manipulated)
="lsts lst1">•richer experience accumulated from the ="trms">past


(Iliad's art of the charioteer ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->)
pukine='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*="trms">dense rich compressed experience='strcls'>*
kairos='lgc'>: fleeting opportunity
metis='lgc'>: catch kairos by surprise (to seize)
poikilos='lgc'>: shimmering sheen and shifting movement ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*the fox has a mind which is poikilos='strcls'>* ='lgc'>~~> ="trms">crafty='lgc'>]
aiolos='lgc'>: many-colored (versicolor), marked with colors that overlap ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> all creatures whose w="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riggling and moving mass is never still='lgc'>: worms, horseflies, wasps, swarm of bees='lgc'>] ='lgc'>~~> he whose cleverness enables him to turn his hand to anything

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='strcls'>*comparing the future with the ="trms">past='strcls'>*
='strcls'>*too look beyond the victory='strcls'>*


Prometheus='lgc'>: the one who reflects in advance ='lgc'>=/= Epimetheus='lgc'>: the one who understands after the event (Prometheus's twin brother, his double and op="trms">posite)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> prometheia of man='lgc'>: radical ignorance of the future


cunning's field of application='lgc'>: the ="trms">world of movement, of multiplicity, of ambiguity (='lgc'>==> metis)
(for the ="trms">greeks='lgc'>:) continuous ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphoses is the name of the game ='lgc'>+ only like could be ="trms">affected by like
='lgc'>==> a poly="trms">morphous ="trms">monster (mistrustful mobile elusive being)
='lgc'>==> a ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphing mind (mistrustful mobile elusive mind)


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='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]poros='lgc'>: the discovery of a way out (water is very good at poros, finding passage)

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semantic field of cunning intelligence (metis of Iliad ='lgc'>+ Odyssey)
="lstsrd">1. look beyond the immediate ="trms">present
="lstsrd">2. multiple (many-coloured, shifting)
="lstsrd">3. duplicity of the ="trms">trap


dolos ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cunning
kerde ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tricks
kairso ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ability to seize an opportunity

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Treatise on Fishing (Oppian)
Treatise on Hunting (Oppian2)


hunting and fishing (o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginally) provide the model of intelligence


baits, nets, weels, nooses, snares


dolos, ="trms">techne, mechane ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in the ="trms">world of ="trms">animal ='and'>& human


='strcls'>**="trms">relations of force are constantly upset by the ="trms">intervention of metis='strcls'>**


metis of fish can take a thousand forms


angler-fish
tongue disguised as food
fleshy appendage growing on the fishing frog is a true fishing bait and as such has a double character='lgc'>: to the little fish it looks for all the ="trms">world like food but it is food which soon changes itself into a voracious maw


fish='lgc'> = ambiguous creature
sea (...the ="trms">world of ="trms">animals)='lgc'> = ="trms">world of metis
human='lgc'> = hunter/fisherman confronted with a ="trms">world of ="trms">traps and at grips with ="trms">animals full of cunning


Oppian ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it is by ='strcls'>*="trms">techne='strcls'>* that the octopus merges in with the rock to which it clings


hunter='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. agility
="lstsrd">2. dissimulation='lgc'>: the art of seeing without being seen (dokeuein='lgc'>: to be on the lookout, on the watch)
="lstsrd">3. vigilance (mind full of finesse ='lgc'>[like fine sugar='lgc'>])


="ppl">Plato violently condemns line fishing, the hunting of aquatic creatures, the use of weels, the hunting of ="trms">birds and all forms of hunting with nets and ="trms">traps, he does so because all these ="trms">techniques foster the qualities of cunning and duplicity which are diametrically opposed to the virtues that the city of the Laws ="trms">demanded from its citizen.
(Detienne)

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="large lg18" stl="font-size:115%"> ='strcls'>*fox='strcls'>* and ='strcls'>*octopus='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
in ="trms">Greek thought serve as models, the incarnation of cunning in the ="trms">animal ="trms">world
fox ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reversal (="trms">technique of reversing oneself)
octopus ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> poly="trms">morphism (="trms">symbolizes the unseizability that comes from poly="trms">morphy)


reversal
="lsts lst1">•the way fox catches bustards ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it droops its head downward and gently wags its tail, deluded bustards approach this object which they mistake for one of their own kind, fox suddenly turns round
="lsts lst1">•(foxfish='qstn'>?) fish turns itself inside out like a g="trms">love, so that the ="trms">interior becomes the exterior='lgc'>: the hook falls out


fox
='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]it lives, in its intelligence, in the depths of an earth which is admirably laid out. The dwelling that it digs itself has seven ="trms">different entrances linked by as many corridors and the openings are ="trms">situated a long way from each other.
='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]The fox is not to be captured by ambush nor by noose nor by net for it has no equal in smelling out an ambush; it is clever at severing ropes and escaping death through the subtlety of its cunning tricks.
(Oppian > Dettienne)


fox's escape='lgc'> = o="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listhcinein (in ="trms">greek='lgc'>: an athlete whose body, rubbed with oil, slips through the grasp of his adversary)


='lgc'>--Detienne='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*it was not in ="trms">nature that the ="trms">Greeks found this type of reversal behavior in ="trms">animals, but rather in their own minds (in the conception that they formed of metis)='strcls'>*
(metis is not something that is “out there”='qstn'>? ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="nms">ajayeb ="trms">bestiary)


octopus
(to the ="trms">Greeks) octopus='lgc'> = a knot made up of a thousand arms, a living, ="trms">interlacing, ="trms">network, a poluplokos being (coil چنبره snake with its coils and ="trms">folds, labyrinth, Typhon='lgc'>: multiple creature “with a hundred heads” whose trunk tapers out into its eel-like limbs)
='strcls'>*octopus mechane='lgc'>: enables it to merge with the stone to which it clings
='strcls'>*octopus logos='lgc'>: poluplokos
="prgrph">-it too knows how to disappear into the night, but it is a night which it can itself secrete (the ink, this dark cloud, this impenetrable night which defines one of the essential features of the octopus and of the cuttlefish)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*pathless night='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> metis='lgc'>: only they can discover a poros
cephalopod ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->  ='strcls'>*oblique creatures='strcls'>*='lgc'>: they have neither front nor rear, they swim sideways with their eyes in front and their mouth behind, their heads haloed by their waving feet ='lgc'>==> confusion of directions ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> aporia (aporai)


living ="trms">traps ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they exploit a device (that Plutarch calls) sophisma='lgc'>: fish ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurer


fox ='lgc'>+ octopus ='lgc'>--define='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•a type of human behavior='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*="trms">present a ="trms">different aspect of yourself to each of our friends='strcls'>*(!)
="lsts lst1">•a model for a form of intelligence (i call it ='strcls'>*coiled intelligence='strcls'>* هوش مارپیچ) ='lgc'>--="trms">trap='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the net in which his adversary becomes entangled ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= chamaeleon='lgc'>: ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphoses produced by fear='lgc'>]




fox ='lgc'>+ octopus ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*master of bonds='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]bond='lgc'> = weave ='lgc'>+ twist
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]net='lgc'>: invisible (mesh of) bonds ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- favorite ="trms">technique of metis


arm='lgc'> = bond
every part of its body is a ='strcls'>*bond='strcls'>* which can secure anything (but nothing can seize)


='strcls'>*fox='lgc'> = a living bond='strcls'>* (can bend, unbend, reverse its own ="trms">position at will)


Oppian is all about bonds, ropes, cords
pieces are joined end to end to form the “well twisted withies” (which the good hunter always carries with him)


Hermes='lgc'>: living web of ="trms">interweaving (sumplekein), stations himself ='strcls'>*close to the door='strcls'>*, mobile as the ="trms">mime


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">lecture-performance='lgc'>: art of (bending and) ="trms">interweaving logos


the fisherman's “cloud” is the unyielding answer to the “cloud” of the cuttle-fish
='strcls'>*It is only by himself becoming, by means of his net, a bond and a circle, by himself becoming deep night, endless aporia, an elusive shape, that the man of metis can triumph over the most cunning ="trms">species in the ="trms">animal ="trms">world.='strcls'>*
(Detienne)


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]metis='lgc'>: intelligence which operates in the ="trms">world of becoming, in circumstances of conflict='lgc'> = forethought perspicacity ='lgc'>+ quickness and acuteness of understanding ='lgc'>+ trickery ='lgc'>+ deceit


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">trap='lgc'> = poly="trms">morphism (the op="trms">posite of what it seems to be)
dolos mechanos


(Detienne's research='lgc'>: recognize and explain ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) stability of terminology


="trms">world of appearance ='lgc'>+ Becoming


by means of ="trms">rhetorical ploys sophist can make the weaker argument triumph over the strong ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to Kelile Demne cunning intelligence


(dolos ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]cunning='lgc'>: woven, braiding or ="trms">interlacing, ='strcls'>*fitted together='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='strcls'>***ancient ="trms">techniques that use the pliability and torsion of plant fibers to make knots, ropes, meshes and nets to surprise, ="trms">trap and bind='strcls'>*** ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='thdf'>the idea that ='strcls'>***many pieces can be fitted together to produce a well-="trms">articulated whole='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? art)

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pliability انعطاف
poly="trms">morphism
duplicity ='lgc'>+ equivocality
inversion ='lgc'>+ reversal
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*attributes of curve='strcls'>*


ultimate expression of curve ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the “O”, circle='lgc'>: the bond that is perfect because it completely turns back on itself, is closed in on itself, with neither beginning nor end, front nor rear, and which in rotation becomes both mobile and immobile, moving in both directions at once
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> giving birth to its op="trms">posite
“machines” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> properties of the circle


="prgrph">-gu ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> used to indicate curving
="prgrph">-kamp ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> used to refer to whatever is curved, p="trms">liable or ="trms">articulated ="brkr">
the fossil of fire goes back before the ="trms">wild-life

the ="trms">history of fire related to the ="trms">history of forest

In the 1950s, government officials in Sierra Juarez of Oaxaca='lgc'>--in southern Mexico='lgc'>--blamed forest destruction upon the local indigenous ="trms">communities. Fire, as a ="trms">symbol of disorder, became the target of state control and the subject of a state-sponsored discourse of environmental degradation. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] Fire suppression frequently has been part of state policies of ="trms">social control. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] The vision of fire as destructive, part of the state ="trms">narrative ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] How has the ="trms">memory of the traditional use of fire by indigenous ="trms">communities been suppressed='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]State political myth has obscured ="trms">community ="trms">memories of fire as a force in the forest, and as a tool for human use. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] Why the indigenous ="trms">communities of the Sierra Juarez no longer talk about the long-term ="trms">history of their forests. Clearly, the ="trms">communities ="trms">internalized parts of the state-sponsored degradation discourse. (However, discourse analysis is not enough; it is all too easy to treat discourse as a monolithic structure of ideas='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] ) ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] These discourses require a threat, a source of chaos and disorder to which the moral regeneration of the progressive discourse can provide a solution. In the case of the Sierra juarez, forest fires provide this op="trms">position. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] It is exactly this resistance of the ="trms">natural ="trms">world to discursive domination that is one of the themes of this article. ='lgc'>[1='lgc'>]

='lgc'>[1='lgc'>]ANDREWSA LVADORMA THEWS - suppressing FIRE AND MEMORY='lgc'>: ENVIRONMENTALDE GRADATIONAN D POLITICALRE STORATION INT HES IERRAJ UAREZO F OAXACA, 1887-2001

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Jinn older and Man

="trms">ecology of the Jinn


(Qur'an)
raging fire
scorched by burning fire
striking sparks of fire
and roasting at hell-fire
the fire of Allah, kindled
...



bringing together of two homogeneous blocks of ="trms">material in a given, al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready-inhabited space

as if we knew what space and time mean



“the desert bighorn is an ="trms">animal shaped by ice. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] the design of ="trms">wild sheep is very much an expression of arctic cold.” (="ppl">Meloy)
(what the design of fire is as expression of='qstn'>? what shaped fire='qstn'>? ice='qstn'>?)
(we are shaped also by fire)

how you go from lizard to ="trms">bird='qstn'>?
it must have been through the behavior of lizard that ‘="trms">birdness’ has come to be possible. a certain trait of behavior have allowed the lizard find itself in the air.


ice age
="trms">story of fire, ="trms">story of grass, ...

after the establishment of a land-based flora (Middle Ordovician period, 470 million years ago) and permitting the accumulation of oxygen in the atmosphere it permitted the possibility of ="trms">wildfire.

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