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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
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
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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
='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)
shimmering ="trms">nature of metis is a mark of its kinship with the divided shifting ="trms">world of multiplicity
='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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='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'>]
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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
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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)
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Oppian is all about bonds, ropes, cords
pieces are joined end to end to form the “well twisted withies” (which the good [...]