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='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'>*

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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

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="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


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

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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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