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◦“which trap are you caught in?” is always relevant question
2. spider web




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




dictionary of crafts and arts (D+A)
extraordinary gesture of collecting and describing in details the skills and techniques of not the elite but the ordinary craftsman
older styles of trap-making
it is important to include the violence (asymmetry) of trap-making, that it is not a consensual relation to the other


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?
what kind of wit or intelligence is that?
are there other ways of reading random combination of environmental elements that signal something accidental to you and orient the other animals in the forest?


once you starting thinking with trap, you start to see them everywhere?


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


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


teasing with the negativity of traps (the entrapment)

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we are not having engineering knowledge about the technicality of the object (trap), we are moved by the heuristic fascination for it.
temporarily
“the negativity of the trap” :
violence of trapping
not voluntary
surprise

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kelile demne
fox sound in forest story


we are always related, composed into something
the bullshit of “freedom”: if you’d be free, you’d have no story, no connections, no memory.
it is a kind of story that more than anyone the marketing industries today wants us to be free --> freedom is the cornerstone of consumer culture


for me: trap is at the core of understanding knowledge, of the relationship to the other, to crafts, to art


trap: corpus of zoo-anthropo-biomorphic artifact
the trap-maker imagining what is the perspective of radically different being
if you make a trap for other animals you are fully engaged in multi-species perspectival game
the body is fully engaged in a perspectival communication


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


incite, to cite, to bring the source of others
to incite: to encourage violent behavior by unorthodox behavior

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trap research
1. physical body, sensual relationship
2. (literal/virtual) abstraction: you turn the environment into an abstraction to construct something through it
1. abstraction: an erotic lure for the soul
3. mimesis: how meaning is formed
(--> propositions)


lure
in the sense of house of candy in Hansel and Gretel


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


making images as lures for my research
“making” is not an expressive medium (not a medium of communication), but a research tool
(Line) “gentle trapping towards something you want”

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Despret
she asks how scientist relate to animals when they do field study
your test experiment is a form of a trap that you gain knowledge from
is there a way that we can ask the animal what interest them?


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


art of the 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) --> you have to make interesting and radically speculative choices in how you produce knowledge about the work of others


fishermen and hunters, at the edge of the forest or the shore, where animals come to check out the other realms, is where they build the trap
--> fishermen and hunters are the original thinkers of this kind of intelligence, you transform knowledge by learning from animals. it is prolonged, practical, and crafty

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

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being lured into desiring and trusting <-- this is basically the game (at the school)


critique is an art that tangles with what you are proposing
fox --> lure
octopus --> best lure-engagers (they love the trap, they can’t get enough of it)

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the O
the curved lips
apprehension of that which to be embodies


to be trapped = to be situated
situatedness =/= 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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all of this is not contextualized in adult political discourse, but I put it in children fairy tales (the Cinderella)
this is where I want the notion of trap to be situated (comprehended).

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Enrica's transcription



trap in relationship to knowledge, art

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Trap is a zoo anthropo biomorphic artifact
if you make a trap for another animal, you think from trans species perspective
it is a dangerous game
a body fully engaged in a perspectival communication

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perspectival battle of wills


trap making = in the realm of bridging different sort of knowledge that has nothing to do with you
•To cite =/= to incite (unorthodox behavior)




Searching paths:
•bodily capture
•violence of the construction
•mimesis : how meaning takes form




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

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how to make you interested in my trap/chapter?
images making/painting as a research tool/assemblage
gentle trapping yourself to wher[...]