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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
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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
(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'>***
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='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
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
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
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">naturales quaestiones
air has a ="trms">natural power of moving itself ='lgc'>[='lgc'>==> ="trms">agency باد='lgc'>]
='lgc'>}='lgc'><== Seneca’s stoic ="trms">worldview='lgc'>: conceived the cosmic principle of all life and movement (pneuma) as a subtle substance ="trms">pervading everything and giving rise, among other things, to all weather ="trms">phenomena
air='lgc'> = expression of pneuma (alive ='and'>& live-giving)
all weather='lgc'> = manifestations as transmutations of air
(late medieval encyclopedia ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>*weather='lgc'> = a kind of alchemy of air='strcls'>*
(late medieval wind diagrams ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) wind='lgc'>: cosmic divine powers blowing from the celestial sphere ="trms">onto earth
="ppl">Aristotle ='lgc'>+ Albertus Magnus ='lgc'>==> explanation of the ="trms">nature and o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of winds in Renaissance meteorological works
air and were then dragged along by the circular movement of the celestial spheres so that they ended up moving horizontally
hot and dry exhalations
aeolipila='lgc'>: a hollow ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal sphere (shaped like the face of Aeolus) with a single tiny hole in it
air possessed a force (“vis”) that heat could awaken
16th century ='lgc'>--increase='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">interest in ="trms">systematic explanation of meteorological ="trms">phenomena
='at'>#workshop on wind ="trms">poetry
epic battle, ="trms">systems moving air, ="trms">agency,
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feature of Renaissance thought ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>the idea of ='strcls'>*a middle instance (neither fully corporal nor fully incorporeal) ="trms">intervening between ="trms">matter and soul='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>+ fire as ="trms">intermediator='lgc'>] ='lgc'>~ spiritus, pneum, quintessence ='lgc'>~ fire or air
...in schematic abstract structure of body-spirit-soul, spirit is somewhere in between
spirit='lgc'>: air-like substance
air='lgc'>: preferred vehicle of spirit (conveyed the breath if life ='lgc'>+ ='strcls'>*used by demonic spirits as a means to produce ="trms">material effects='strcls'>*)
='strcls'>*spirit='lgc'>: celestial o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin to the “innate heat” (calidum innatum) of living creatures
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effects of solar heat on air ='lgc'>: act of vitalization
pneuma of the stoics ='lgc'>+ astral body of Neoplatonic philosophy ='lgc'>+ medical spirits of Galenic medicine ='lgc'>}='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•Renaissance
="lsts lst1">•(christian notion of) Holy Ghost
="lsts lst1">•='thdf'>the idea of close connection between wind and divine power (in Bible)
(in alchemical view) spirits were somehow connected ti air ='lgc'><== quintessences were often separated from raw substances in the form of vapours
="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">natural magic
='strcls'>*kinds of ="trms">natural motions='strcls'>*
="lstsrd">1. avoidance of avacum='lgc'>: from the form of a portion of air, when it does not want to be either expanded further or separated (from other ="trms">matter). ="trms">horror vacui ='lgc'>--kinetic='lgc'>='lgc'>--> motion was regarded as due to a property of a ="trms">specific part of the machine
="lstsrd">2. resistance to ="trms">excessive compression='lgc'>: the form of basic ="trms">matter should not become less that what is ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right for it
="lstsrd">3. the tendency of heavy things to descend and of light things to rise
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air='lgc'> = vital spirit that joins things together, resounding spirit if the ="trms">world ="trms">instrument
Paraceksian theory of aerial niter
(an active principle) aerial version of ear[...]