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='strcls'>*no allegiance was invented='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==> no cult developed
they are gloomy, their shadow dark,
no light is in their bodies,
ever they slink along covertly,
walk not up="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right,
from their claws drips bitter gall,
their footprints are (full of) evil venom.
(from ='lgc'>[more primitive='qstn'>?='lgc'>]) d="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fascination
the shivers and chills (of death)
that fritter the sun of things,
spawn of the god of heavens,
spawned on an evil spirit,
the death warrants, be="trms">loved sons of the storm god,
born of the queen of the nether="trms">world,
who were torn out of heaven and hurled from the earth as castoffs,
are creatures of hell, all
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we are not determined, we are engendered
numinous as immanent ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> external habituation='lgc'>: inviting (or magically enforcing) the ="trms">presence of the power within
efforts of such habituation='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•cult dramatic
="lsts lst1">•="trms">fashioning or appropriate divine images
="lsts lst1">•="trms">religious ="trms">literature
="lsts lst1">•temples
='strcls'>*cult drama='lgc'>: the form fills with its content='strcls'>*
="trms">literally re-="trms">present god, ="trms">presenting his external form, (bring about the god's ="trms">presence through ritual re="trms">presentation of him) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> beneficent results for the ="trms">community ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> still works today='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•sacred marriage
="lsts lst1">•yearly lamentations
="lsts lst1">•battle drama (primeval contest for ="trms">world order against the forces of chaos)
="trms">fashioning of images (of the god) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to achive lasting ="trms">presence
="trms">poetry='lgc'>: means of invoking the ="trms">presence of powers ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we are doing this still='qstn'>?! bad ="trms">poetry='lgc'>]
creative power of the word underlines all mesopotamian (="trms">religious) ="trms">literature
="lsts lst1">•works of praise
="lsts lst1">•works of lament (specialized lamentation-priest ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Sana, ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali )
='strcls'>*lament='lgc'>: influencing and swaying the divine heart by reminding the god of ="trms">past happiness, rather than by magically recreating that ="trms">past='strcls'>*
(mesopotamian='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*temple='lgc'> = house='strcls'>*
(implication between) the divine owner and his house ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> emotional closeness of a human owner and his home ='lgc'>+ the ='strcls'>*closeness of essence='strcls'>* (of being) ='lgc'>--amounting='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to ="trms">embodiment ='lgc'>=/= habituation
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> house='lgc'> = temple='lgc'> = re="trms">presentation of the power that is meant to fill it
(similar to human dwelling) ='strcls'>***house='lgc'> = temple='lgc'> = the place where the owner could be found (or felt)='strcls'>***
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that god (the owner) was ="trms">present and available
the god's retainers ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> because the temple was god's home, was not only near and approachable, he was involved with the fortunes of the ="trms">community and commited ti maintaining it ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*mesopotamian temple was profoundly awesome='strcls'>* (it carried awesome aura, awesome or angry nimbus هاله)
="prgrph">-the temple was covered with ="trms">loveliness
="prgrph">-the god's private apartment shrouded in darkness ='lgc'>: the dark room (no eye is to see)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">specific closeness of essence ='lgc'>+ the power inhabiting it
="trms">authoritative revelation
know what was “the proper thing”
house mountain
house rising sun
house causing light
he who issues forth from the thriving...
ancient ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? ancient to us ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? ancient to them
there is no living cultural tradition that connects us with mesopotamia
immediate unanalyzed total reactions (='qstn'>?)
false meanings jar, stop, and lead no further
older elements (seemingly unchanged) come to mean something quite ="trms">different, have been ="trms">interpreted to fit into a new ="trms">system of meanings
="trms">religious ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•spiritual core in ="trms">phenomena
="lsts lst1">•rulers
="lsts lst1">•parents
='lgc'>[and then later='lgc'>] dark age closed down on mesopotamia
many divine wills to the willful whim of a single despot
='strcls'>*major gods became ="trms">natural gods='strcls'>* (identified with narrow national political aspirations)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> barbarization of ='thdf'>the idea of divinity
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(how to take ="trms">seriously) water's ="trms">materiality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how to think with water (or ='strcls'>*how water means='strcls'>*)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•water can bring human conceptual life along with it from local to global concerns
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[can help us to='lgc'>] go beyond qualities that express some timeless properties
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(my point='lgc'>: the experience of fire is as inseparable from that of stone)
='lgc'>[="ppl">Alberti sug="trms">gests='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*to think in terms of the properties of the ="trms">phenomenon ‘rock/water’ as engendered by ="trms">specific, ="trms">embodied practices in this place='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= grappling with the ="trms">question of the ="trms">agentive capacities or properties of the rock or water)
='strcls'>***there are many waters (fires, jinns, divs, stones, shadows), not only many meanings of water (fires, jinns, divs, stones, shadows)='strcls'>***
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Alberti's brilliant ="trms">response to Strang's ='thdf'>bad idea of universal notions of properties (which is a very common tendency towards ="trms">relationality among artists ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Strang='lgc'>: “common ="trms">material properties of things, and the shared cognitive and ="trms">phenomenological processes through which people ="trms">interact with them, generate recurrent ideas and patterns of engagement in diverse cultural and ="trms">historical contexts”)
to bear on the form and content of an argument about water as='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">material
="lsts lst1">•="trms">social
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> describing ="trms">relations (human and nonhuman) established through water
='strcls'>*what water can do='lgc'>: flow='strcls'>*
="trms">agentive or ="trms">affective capacities of ="trms">materials ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (bad philosophy of flux) flow as a over="trms">generalized model for ="trms">materiality ='lgc'>=/= expanding ="trms">relations water engenders through its properties in particular locations or rivers
='strcls'>*humans are able to shift conceptual scales through reflexivity='strcls'>*
(="ppl">Alberti asking within archaeology='lgc'>:) how to reconcile ="trms">materials and meaning without introducing a re="trms">presentationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list logic where meaning is applied to ="trms">matter by a thinking subject='qstn'>? how to show their co-existence without re="trms">sorting to determinism='qstn'>?
now everyone is busy and talking about ='strcls'>*="trms">relationality='strcls'>* than about ='strcls'>*meaning='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= ='mywrk'>my work has alwayes been about both, how to take risks in meaning, my ="trms">lecture-performances='lgc'> = adventures of meaning)
="prgrph">-we cannot mearly talk about ="trms">relationality ='lgc'>{quasi-universal experience of properties ='lgc'>==> commonalities of meanings across time and culture='lgc'>}, the ="trms">question of meaning remains ='lgc'>--="ppl">Alberti='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how are we to think about non-arbitrary ="trms">categories, meanings and values without recourse to universal properties='qstn'>? how ="trms">different meanings can adhere to the same substances='qstn'>?
="trms">materials (water, parasite, etc.) lend themselves to conceptual innovation
often things are willed away (not by a more ="trms">agentive segment of the population ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="trms">paranoiac understanding='lgc'>], but) due to the attraction of other kinds of work elsewhere
(how not to) think of the entire ="trms">phenomenon as one in which properties become determinate (='lgc'>~ scheme transfer) ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> properties are imminent in ="trms">embodied human engagement with that ="trms">world ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ ="ppl">="ppl">Baradian='lgc'>: there is no such thing as a property that belongs to an independent object='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•body may be the first tool
="lsts lst1">•properties (or potentials ='lgc'>[="nms">ajayeb style='qstn'>?='lgc'>]) cannot be ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listed
X as ="trms">agent ="trms">presents us, as shadow shows...
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winds
روح ruh, spirit ='lgc'>=/= wind='lgc'>: thermal expansion of air ='lgc'>~ air’s tendency to rarefy and expand under the influence of heat
(recognition of) thermal expansion of air ='lgc'>==> motor of global atmospheric circulation
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explaining winds ='lgc'>--Borrelli='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•how rational thought could grasp
="lsts lst1">•how divine power descended to earth
pneumatic machines
gears, weights, levers, pulleys
='strcls'>****pre="trms">modern ="trms">natural ="trms">phenomena
='lgc'>--more='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exploring and classifying ='strcls'>*varieties='strcls'>* of things ='lgc'>=/=
='lgc'>--less='lgc'>='lgc'>--> common ='strcls'>*causes='strcls'>* of things
varieties ='lgc'>=/= causes
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cause ='lgc'>==>='qstn'>? highly complex ="trms">phenomena
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='lgc'>[-O-='lgc'>] ='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>{t|/='qstn'>?='at'>#$^='prcnt'>%V!='lgc'>='lgc'>~)&^='lgc'>} ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- pre="trms">modern ="trms">science and art today stays here (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart’s attunement to ="trms">phenomena)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]navigation='lgc'>: negotiation between the direction one ‘witches’ to ="trms">travel ='and'>& the direction that is ‘possible’ to ="trms">travel ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> wind sense='lgc'>:
temperature
humidity
intensity
regularity
smell
knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of astronomy ='lgc'>+ geography
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wind rose ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (connection between='lgc'>:) celestial ='lgc'>+ astronomical order ='lgc'>+ terrestrial variety (of land ='lgc'>+ living creature)
estimate the speed of the ship
throw a log with a rope attached to it o="trms">verboard, and ="trms">measure how much rope went o="trms">verboard within a given period of time
Pliny the Elder ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">historia ="trms">naturalis
Seneca ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">natur[...]