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='strcls'>*oxygen
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O2 build-up in the Earth's atmosphere. Red and green lines re="trms">present the range of the estimates while time is ="trms">measured in billions of years ago (Ga).
="trms">Stage 1 (3.85-2.45 Ga)='lgc'>: Practically no O2 in the atmosphere. The oceans were also largely anoxic with the possible exception of O2 gases in the shallow oceans.
="trms">Stage 2 (2.45-1.85 Ga)='lgc'>: O2 produced, and rose to values of 0.02 and 0.04 atm, but absorbed in oceans and seabed rock.
="trms">Stage 3 (1.85-0.85 Ga)='lgc'>: O2 starts to gas out of the oceans, but is absorbed by land surfaces. There was no significant change in terms of oxygen level.
="trms">Stages 4 and 5 (0.85-="trms">present)='lgc'>: O2 sinks filled and the gas accumulates.='lgc'>[1='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[1='lgc'>] Holland, Heinrich D. “The oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans”. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal ="trms">Society='lgc'>: Biological ="trms">Sciences. Vol. 361. 2006. pp. 903-915.
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="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metazoan phyla ='lgc'>: ="trms">animal
="trms">history of life is tight to hisory of oxygen ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fire
Aerobic ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metabolism is more efficient than anaerobic pathways
Abiogenesis='lgc'>: the ="trms">natural process of life arising from non-living ="trms">matter, how pre-life chemical reactions gave rise to life on Earth
="lsts lst1">•self-replicating molecules
="lsts lst1">•RNA ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> catalyze peptide ligation or amino acid polymerization ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> protains, specialized biocatalysis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> RNA ='lgc'>+ iron ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> DNA ='lgc'>: ="trms">data storage
="lsts lst1">•synthesized from inorganic compounds
="lsts lst1">•catalysis in chemical ="trms">systems ='lgc'>=='qstn'>?='lgc'>=> molecules necessary for self-replication
="lsts lst1">•this is a protain ="trms">writing
='strcls'>*water
Study of zircons has found that liquid water must have existed as long ago as 4.4 Ga, very soon after the formation of Earth ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] water with similar deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio was al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready available at the time of Earth's formation, as evidenced in ancient “eucrites” meteorites o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginating from the asteroid Vesta. (wikipedia)
(four elements temporal hierarchy)
earth > water > oxygen(air) > fire
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='lgc'>[with ="ppl">Guy ="ppl">Debord='lgc'>]
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fire media theoretic
‘image’ detached into a stream, percieved as generality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an inversion of life (“visible” negation of life - that has invented a visual form for itself)
(its ="trms">social practices)
fire, not subordinate, as ="trms">spectacle comes as means of unification, locus of illusion, ="trms">generalized apparition ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> seperation
(its general truth) fire untouched by evolution and form binding constrains, is a universal mater, the ="trms">spectacle of burning flame manifests itself as a ="trms">positivity out of reach and beyond. the case of fire is ="trms">different than Deobord ="trms">spectalcle who speaks='lgc'>: “Everything that appears is good; whatever is good will appear.”
therefore fire specatle is not image, rather ="trms">social ="trms">relationship between subjects that are mediated by it
thus the function and ="trms">phenomenon of separation mediated by fire becomes part and parcel of the unity of the ="trms">world, from now on
="prgrph">-a new form of the sacred emerged with the discovery of fire's image
="prgrph">-produced new worshipful subjection
the ="trms">language of the fire as ="trms">spectacle is ="trms">composed of signs that talk to Moses, Zaratostra, and others
="prgrph">-in this ="trms">writing i like to rewind theology and pause at the moment Moses meets Fire in mount sinai, go after some media theoretic specualtions, asking what are the conditions of this (="trms">inter)mediated encounter='qstn'>? and what are the consequences of talking to fire='qstn'>? (="trms">technicity and ="trms">affectibilty)
(mount sinai ='lgc'>: cradle of stone, rendered dead ="trms">matter when ‘he’ comes out of stone-age)
="lsts lst1">•the Israelite's God, who appeared “by day as a cloud and by night as a fire” (Exodus 13:21)
='lgc'>[fire and brimstone, an idiomatic expression of signs of God's wrath in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the New Testament.='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the fate of the unfaithful
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> perceptible to the naked of the prohpet)
fire's mechanisms of contemplation
(in my preaching here i won't do what christians used to encourage repentence)
it is important not to put fire in abstract op="trms">position to concret stone activity
mystic order ='lgc'>~='qstn'>?-> ="trms">spectacular order
the ="trms">spectalce of fire reciprocal alienation was part and parcel of human ="trms">social life and its essence underpinning its ="trms">relations to the real
diversities and contrasts in looking into the image of flame
what is al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready in ="trms">society that fire (="trms">spectacle) gives expression='qstn'>? the beyond
(fire, we are) governed by its ="trms">agenda
='strcls'>***monopolization of the realm of appearances='strcls'>*** (ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding other illusions, apparition, tellings, etc.)
="prgrph">-with fire a new brand of ="trms">storytelling
='strcls'>***fire's ="trms">spectacular aspect (accumulated to the point that) produces an image-object that is a seperate entity ='lgc'>[accumulation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> generality/="trms">category ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new object='lgc'>], that of the mediated, from the fire itself, a second objecthood detached from its ="trms">materiality, introduing transcendent im="trms">materiality ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics
="prgrph">-taking over life and existence
from vision to wisdom
="trms">categories of visulaity took human cognition ho="trms">stage, gave rise to a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical tradition/abundance imposing itself upon existence, regulating the perception of ="trms">material life, philosophizing ‘reality’ to ‘beyond ="trms">nature’ ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*alienated thought='strcls'>* (due to the alienated power of fire) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- im="trms">material specatle of the afterlife, the ="trms">world-beyond rendering life dead
abounding in ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical subtleties
="prgrph">-="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical abundance
...allegiance to the frozen
(="ppl">Rumi's calling) “You must burn!” - this is very selfish
='lgc'>[to Siyavash='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
still today in sci-fi we are talking to a ="trms">technoilogized light (as the messenger of beyond)
fire, transforms the ="trms">world, not in terms of changing manifest matriality, rather the mind and thinking
fire in its temporal animation renders space fixated, giving the illusion that (visual) animation='lgc'> = life ='lgc'>{='lgc'>~= ="trms">spectacle='lgc'>}
the fire ="trms">spectacle colonizing our participation with the beyond, colonizing the way our flux of senses make tentative contact with the other sides,
(what a stone sug="trms">gests='qstn'>? the senses that never stop participating, never stop throwing themselves beyond the immediatly visible)
every phase of existence
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='lgc'>[="ppl">Scott ="ppl">="ppl">Gilbert='lgc'>]
(all organic beings have been formed on two general laws, ="trms">according to ="ppl">Darwin='lgc'>:)
(1) unity of type and (2) conditions of existence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> inorganic='qstn'>? fire='qstn'>?
="trms">natural selection ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> adaptation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> conditions of existence
embryonic homologies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> unity of type
='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> “descent with modification” (or decent modifications)
='lgc'>[(embryology ='lgc'>=/=) ‘fire’ could transform ="trms">matters, “change” their class, their type and its unity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “parvaneh sho!” ="ppl">Rumi wants embryology undermined='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
construct phylogenies
(phylogeny ='lgc'>: branching out evolutionarily)
small genetic changes was not sufficient to generate evolutionary novel structures such as teeth, feathers, cnidocysts or mullusk shells (="ppl">Goldschmidt, 1940) (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lizards had ="trms">birdness in it ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> potentiality ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~-> mutation is not random='lgc'>])
(="ppl">Waddington then launched into a) critique of ='thdf'>the notion of “random mutation,” noting that there are developmental constraints placed on what changes are possible.
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...a perceptual game of risking linearity, collapsing discovery and juris="trms">diction (a judiciary not a branch of any map of governance)
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(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway on Burning Man='lgc'>:) Fire in the North American West has a complicated multi="trms">species ="trms">history; fire is an essential element for ongoing, as well as an ="trms">agent of double death, te killing of ="trms">ongoingness. The ="trms">material ="trms">semiotics of fire is our times are at stake.
='lgc'>[='lgc'>]three icons (sug="trms">gestions by ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway, three “-="trms">cene” tuned tor the touch of its critters)='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- ‘missing ice’ of the Capitalo="trms">cene
="lstsrd">2- ‘flame’ of the ="trms">Anthropo="trms">cene
="lstsrd">3- ‘red clay pottery’ of the Cthulu="trms">cene
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(="ppl">Conley >) Rosolato treats perspective in terms of the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins of ="trms">sensuous ="trms">affect='lgc'>:
infant's projective activity ='lgc'>+ infant closes its eyes to fend off menace, hence negotiating with the real in a space and time ="trms">prior to the mirror ="trms">stage
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The artful sandwich of Rostam-rock-div provides a thinking mode of who-caries-who='lgc'>: whose being is dependent on whos[...]