[...]hena, 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)

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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)


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

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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)


="large lg5" stl="font-size:114%"> ='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[...]