[...]that drive the becoming of both organic and inorganic ="trms">matter
drive to formation (Bildungstrieb)
“Runge's willingness to attribute a life force to chemicals is a continuation of Romantic ="trms">natural philosophy but meshed with Geothean ="trms">morphology and experiment.” (Leslie)
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chromatogram is an image, which discloses it's own bodily formation
here our focus should shift from the eye as a globular organ in the head of a vertebrate ="trms">animal to the eye as an epidermic lens, a light-mitigating organ that attenuates the ="trms">visceral contamination of radiation.
our inseparable alliance with plants
our eyes are immersed within a vegetative ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metabolism of a kind. we look at plants, but plants have al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready cannibalized our gaze as they become part of us looking back at them.
complex architecture of light='lgc'>:
plant photosynthesis is probably the most abused ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor and analogy of life, widely quoted across a diverse spectrum of schools of thought to justify ="trms">natura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ideologies. it is believed that photosynthesis is behind a process of energy accumulation central to ="trms">natural equilibrium and the food chain. however, there are various ways the process of light ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metabolism could be understood. it could also be understood as a process towards cosmic corruption and fermentation, or as a process towards more “complex architecture of light”.
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(="ppl">Ilana ="ppl">Halperin)
corporeal mineralogy
we are autobiographical trace fossils
what constitutes life in the ="trms">world of geology='qstn'>?
microbes feasting on the mineral bodies of stones
more ="trms">animal than mineral
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big bang, first second of existence, second second, what is going on with the ="trms">materiality
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the dark ="trms">matter, in Caecilian Kircher, we don't know what it is
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='lgc'>[Gholam Hossein Rahimi ='lgc'>+ Abd Al-Rasul Emadi, 79113902605.pdf='lgc'>]
it is “proven” that location is not ="nms">hayula (nor apparition)
="nms">hayula is anything that can have many faces ='lgc'>[this is ="trms">greek='lgc'>]
="trms">according to ="ppl">Aristotle='lgc'>: ="trms">matter cannot separate itself from ="nms">hayula (bzw. its apparition) but it can from its location.
in another sense, location is sometimes close to ='thdf'>the notion of ‘face’ (surat صورت) of the ="trms">matter, because it constitutes where the ="trms">matter ends and where does it begins.
="ppl">Avicenna='lgc'>: location is separate from located
‘location is the limitation of ="trms">matter’
location and ="trms">causality='qstn'>? ‘there’ (hamanja همانجا) is not ‘the reason’ (elat علت)
for him='lgc'>: ‘makan chizi joz nahayat-e jesm-e havi nist’ (مکان چیزی جز نهایت جسم حاوی نیست)
(location/place is nothing but the limits/ends/finalities of the holder or the comprising thing)
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two locations meeting each other
="ppl">Avicenna disagrees that ="nms">hayula could be location, because he argues that ="nms">hayula only accepts the significant apparition and not any.
some has believed that the location is the face of ="trms">matter, because the ="trms">matter is at its face/apparition the same way it is at its place/location.
the ="trms">matter/jesm/ جسم doesn't move out of its face rather it moves within its face.
water -to='lgc'>-> air ='lgc'>[this is apparition='lgc'>]
location -to='lgc'>-> located ='lgc'>[this cannot be!='lgc'>]
هیولای ثانی ="nms">hayulaye sani (secondary ="nms">hayula) ='lgc'>: it has act/ also is able to its “next level”
='lgc'>[they haven't thought about ='thdf'>the notion of gravity.='lgc'>]
جسم jesm='lgc'>: body, object, substance, ="trms">matter, corpus, flesh
when the ="trms">matter/jesm/جسم leaves the space it takes orientations/coordinations/ab'ad/ ابعاد with itself away from that locality/place/makan/مکان
location/makan/ مکان ='lgc'>: when ="trms">matter is in location, the location is.
void/khala’/ خلاء='lgc'>: when location is emptied of ="trms">matter, it is void.
for ="ppl">Avicenna, ="trms">matter/jesm/جسم (can) have mental (zehni ذهنی) and ="trms">hallucinative (vahmi وهمی) derivatives that are accessible in all its axis/directions (ab'ad ابعاد).
='lgc'>[we have to consider that here ="trms">hallucination/vahm/وهم is a strong ="trms">category of thought, it opposes reason/aghl/عقل, it is a device that ="ppl">Avicenna regularly uses in his research.='lgc'>]
for Pythagoras, void/khala’/خلاء is hole through which the universe breathes.
for them void was that which is between the ="trms">natural numbers; 1, 2, 3, etc.
(they didn't distinguish between numbers and ="trms">matters)
گسست/Gosast/rupture can only happen in corporal ="trms">matter
='lgc'>[porosity, has ="trms">social and ="trms">material meanings='lgc'>: a ="trms">measure of the void, the “accessible void”. and a ="trms">sorting algorithm, ability to absorb fluids, and volume of bodies='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[relates to ="ppl">Aristotle's notion of ="trms">matter that which resists='lgc'>='lgc'>---the resistance of ="trms">matters='lgc'>]
for ="ppl">Avicenna, the extension of admixtures is as follows='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•two ="trms">matter from two ="trms">different corporalities mix
="lsts lst1">•two dimensions mix
="lsts lst1">•one dimension and one ="trms">matter mix
ذات zat='lgc'>: being, essence, substance, ="trms">nature, the very core self of, same, identity of, spontaneousness, ="trms">material object,
="prgrph">-the Zat/essence...
what is when apparition enters void='qstn'>?\
زمان سمتی zaman-e samti ='lgc'>: directional time (='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>[='at'>#archive='lgc'>]
for ="ppl">Avicenna location and located are inseparable, location is holder or an exterior or outer surface of the located.
for him, void has two problems='lgc'>: (1) the void's dimensions will mix with the ="trms">matter's dimension. (2) void is in="trms">finite, therefore movement is impossible, since there is part of the universe that is not void therefore there can't be void in the universe since it has to be in="trms">finite.
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Hayula has no resistance to ="trms">different apparitions/surat/صورت
surathaye jesmani صورتهای جسمانی
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pandora’s complexity
purely (='qstn'>?) ="trms">material objective ="trms">agent (evolving='qstn'>?)
Hayula='lgc'>--the first principle of everything ="trms">material
bi-surat بی صورت
اشکال تن ashkal-e tan='strcls'>***
virtual proto-humanity (to ="trms">different corporalities) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> pre-organic / ="trms">anthropo='strcls'>*="trms">morphic='strcls'>* ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">inter-corporal predation ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> (sets post-mythic ="trms">relations between ="trms">species) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> trans-="trms">ontological intentionalities
="nms">hayula is a state of latency or potentiality ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> possibility of ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis in ="trms">interpersonal ="trms">relations...
every apparition ="trms">demands a recipient
(مولوی) ="ppl">Rumi wants to be able to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read the return-state to the ="nms">hayula='lgc'>:
تبدیل شدن به tabdil shodan='lgc'>:
...be arkan (ارکان ="trms">instrument)
...be heyvan (حیوان ="trms">animal)
...be jan (جان aliveness='qstn'>? liveliness of artifacts='qstn'>? ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">agency)
...be hilat (حيله, tech='lgc'>='lgc'>---means ='and'>& ways) ='lgc'>[tech='qstn'>? ='at'>#ruse='lgc'>]
(in ="ppl">Rumi='lgc'>:) ruse ='lgc'>==> قید صید gheid-e seyd
="ppl">Hafez is all about farib (فریب ruse)
="trms">material ="trms">agents='lgc'>: ='lgc'>{//complex forms of movement //affiliation into space='lgc'>}
stones, a substance indigenous to every place. (those who give up or try to stop or turn back become stones.)
the ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta-fall of the ="trms">material (in ="nms">hayula هیولا)
apparition/surat/صورت (essence/mahiyat/ماهیت)='qstn'>?
="trms">matter/madeh/ماده (hast/هست/being/is-there)='qstn'>?
='lgc'>--(surat)='lgc'>-='lgc'>->='lgc'>--(surat)='lgc'>-='lgc'>->
="trms">animal='lgc'>='lgc'>---flora='lgc'>='lgc'>---inanimate='lgc'>='lgc'>---="nms">hayula
='lgc'><='lgc'>--(madeh)='lgc'>--='lgc'><='lgc'>--(madeh)='lgc'>--
in ="ppl">Sohrevardi, he removes the light as projection and ray-tracing, and proposes a theory of light (of theory of being) as “Filter” (veril='qstn'>?, hejab حجاب). (there is no filter between the sphere of the eye and the sphere of the planet Mars.)
apparition is essential or part of the essence or itself the essence
Hayula='lgc'>: mojude mobham o bi-ta'ayon, joz ghove-e mahz va este'dad-e serf nist. (jesme basit)
هیولا='lgc'>: موجود مبهم و بی تعین, جز قوه محض و استعداد صرف نیست
(جسم بسط)
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(="ppl">Delanda)
we are taking “real ="trms">history” as starting-point
="prgrph">-to capture the dynamics of human ="trms">historical processes, we must allow the nonhuman physics to infiltrate the human ="trms">society='lgc'>='lgc'>---complex ="trms">materials that form human culture. ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> (for example) water in its several distinct states (solid, liquid, gas) in phase ="trms">transition (intensity of temperature)='lgc'>='lgc'>---that which human ="trms">society “see” as ="trms">material-change
='thdf'>example of spontaneous structural generations are coherent waves='lgc'>:
='strcls'>*solitons='strcls'>* - forming in many ="trms">different types of ="trms">materials, from tsunamis (ocean waves) to lasers. ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ='strcls'>*attractors='strcls'>* ='lgc'>{stable states, which can sustain coherent cycles activity ='lgc'>{periodic / chaotic='lgc'>}='lgc'>}
='strcls'>*monsoon='strcls'>* - a wind circuit that has powered all sail ships in Asian waters for centuries='lgc'>='lgc'>---in those ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban centers in contact with monsoon, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of its dynamical behavior and ="trms">skills in tapping its energy accumulated.
“="trms">materials” are ='lgc'>{-energetic -genetic -="trms">linguistic='lgc'>} ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> the flow of human and the ="trms">animal gene we have domesticated
the ="trms">specific dynamic pattern of turbulent ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban evolution in (European) towns should not be view as the result of “progress” but as the result of certain dynamics that intensify the accumulation of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and ="trms">technologies, and of certain institutional norms and organization. for instance, the 11th century industrial revolution can be viewed in terms of reciprocal stimulation between ="trms">technologies and institutions, fueled by='lgc'>: -solar energy (agricultural) -gravitational energy (water) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> to power grain wills ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> intensified by the flow of money.
='strcls'>*="trms">story of the bone='strcls'>*
(organism never forgot its mineral o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins)
in organic ="trms">world, soft tissue (gels and aerosols, muscle and nerve) reigned supreme until 500 million years ago. at that point, some of the conglomerations of fleshy ="trms">matter-energy that made up life underwent a sudden mineralization, a new ="trms">material for constructing living creatures emerged='lgc'>: bone. it is almost as if the mineral ="trms">world that had served as a substratum for the emergence of biological creatures was reasserting itself...
genes as ="trms">sorting algorithms, are themselves ="trms">sorted out by selection pressures such as='lgc'>: -climates -predators -parasites
structure-generating processes ="trms">sort things (1) take heterogeneity ='lgc'>[collection of ="trms">materials='lgc'>='lgc'>---pebbles, genes, roles, etc.='lgc'>] (2) homogenize them ='lgc'>[through ="trms">sorting operations='lgc'>] (2) consolidate them (into more permanent state)
catalyst='lgc'>: a chemical substance capable of “recognizing” ="trms">specific ="trms">material and altering that ="trms">material's molecular state ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> now it reacts with certain substances with which it would not normally react.
catalyst provokes a meeting of two substances
autocatalytic loops
super="trms">position (="trms">interconnection of diverse overlapping elements),
catalysts,
stable patterns,
spatial ="trms">intervals,
sedimentation,
cooling magma,
threshold of crystallization,
vicious fluid,
molten ="trms">materials,
bifurcation,
="trms">densification,
intensification,
reinforcements,
injection,
nucleation events,
dislocations,
endogenous,
endogenous stable states,
chemical clocks,
aggregate,
consistency,
elementary atoms,
stratified structures,
="trms">interlocking (matching temporally),
="trms">species ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> (gene pool of a ...)='lgc'> = an organic stratified structure
stratifies structures involve simple form of ="trms">causal ="trms">relations='lgc'>='lgc'>---one arrow from cause to effect ='lgc'>[we can see this modality in the creation of institutions='lgc'>]
coal is the product of one of several types of mineralization that organic ="trms">matter can undergo, and submitted by “civilizations” to de="trms">posit intensive exploitation ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> flow of nonhuman energy ='lgc'>==> fuel its industrial revolution
industrial age='lgc'> = the crossing of a bifurcation where previous autocatalytic dynamics come to form a self-sustaining autocatalytic loop.
(both) industrial revolution and biological evolution, they lack ='lgc'>[rpgressive direction nor consistent drive toward complexification='lgc'>='lgc'>---some ="trms">species complexity while others simplify
cities as real transformers of ="trms">matter and energy
cities are open or dissipative (esraf اسراف) ="trms">systems, with ="trms">matter-energy flowing in and out continuously
(in autocatalytic loops) the t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigger-flow ="trms">interactions='lgc'>: ="trms">interlocks a series of separately reproductive ="trms">systems into a single ="trms">interactive reproductive ="trms">system
anti="trms">market ='lgc'>='lgc'>---money='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> mining regions ='lgc'>==> intensified coa extraction ='lgc'>==> iron production ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---> ='lgc'>[steam='lgc'>] mechanical energy ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---> cotton textiles ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---> flow of profits ='lgc'>===money='lgc'>==> experimentation with coal, iron, steam
="trms">skill / know-how='lgc'> = catalytic info
(info capable of bringing together and amplifying flow of energy and ="trms">materials)
economies of agglomeration (anbashtegi انباشتگی)
the law of diminishing returns (bazdeh nozuli بازده نزولی)
a point at which the level of profits or benefits gained is less than the amount of money or energy invested. (image)
illumination ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> coal gas
motorization ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> steam
knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is an input of production which exacts high transaction costs. only where patents are perfectly enforceable will information be allowed to flow through ="trms">markets, else anti="trms">markets will prefer to ="trms">internalize it into their hierarchies. one way a corporate hierarchy may ="trms">internalize knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is by funding a research laboratory.
at some point ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban ="trms">societies would have reached a point of saturation, and the intensification would have ceased. but electricity ="trms">simultaneously increased the flow of energy and the potential uses of that energy.
automated formal ="trms">systems ='lgc'>==> victory of analytical over ="trms">embodied knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (the self-taught inventor of the 19th century)
='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> unbalance of power between informal and formal knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
(factory='lgc'> = planned autocatalytic loop)
the ="trms">science of centralization
="prgrph">-powerful computers allow the centralized control of geographically dispersed activities='lgc'>='lgc'>---coordinate and monitor compliance with central plans ='lgc'>==> ="trms">internalization of anti="trms">market institutions
the fully coexistence of the autocatalytic loops='lgc'>:
the digital / the energetic / the ="trms">material
='lgc'>==> accumulation of hierarchical structures
are computers evolving in the direction of ="trms">routinization='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-eroding the combinatorial richness of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and making flows of information ever more sterile='qstn'>?
future turns out to belong to hierarchies='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-human ="trms">history is a ="trms">narrative of ="trms">contingencies, not necessities, of missed opportunities to follow ="trms">different routes of development, not of a nonlinear succession of ways to convert energy, ="trms">matter, and information into cultural products.
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the gene tells the flesh='lgc'>: “you are a human” or “you are a...”
='strcls'>**the flesh does not know any organs, continues pulsing to its own rhythms
(how to understand) activities of processes in other spheres of reality
living creatures and their inorganic counterparts
(G. Simmons='lgc'>:) “the flow of energy and mineral nutrients through an eco="trms">system manifest themselves as actual ="trms">animals and plants of a particular ="trms">species.”
biomass='lgc'> = circulation of flesh
plants biting into the ="trms">system of solar radiation='lgc'>='lgc'>---capturing its sugars
in a sense “higher” ="trms">animals are just fancy decorations in an eco="trms">system
(decorative large predators)
eco="trms">system='lgc'> = succession of plant assemblages ='lgc'>==> stable states ='lgc'>==> climax
eco="trms">system='lgc'> = a blind groping from stable state to stable state in which each plant assemblage creates the conditions that stabilize the next one.
continental forest ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--- stability ='lgc'>{the capacity to maintain a state with relatively minor ="trms">internal fluctuations='lgc'>}
islands ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--- resilience ='lgc'>{the capacity to absorb major external and ="trms">internal fluctuations by switching between several alternative stable states='lgc'>}
cities ="trms">interaction with microorganisms
medieval cities ='lgc'>='lgc'>---islands='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ='lgc'>{-concentration of energies -low degree of ="trms">species heterogeneity (mainly humans)='lgc'>}
medieval European towns ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---> isolated islands ='lgc'>{/heat /food-web /cultural='lgc'>}
cattle as storage devices
process of shortening and redirecting food chains
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biomass ='lgc'>["="trms">natural” state='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---> cooked biomass ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---> processed through the “civilizing” power of fire='strcls'>*
='lgc'>{raw ='lgc'>=/= cooked='lgc'>} ='lgc'>==> legend/myth
='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> the cultural ="trms">materials that accumulated unconsciously, ="trms">sorted out by the pressure of the parasites themselves='lgc'>='lgc'>---germs and humans formed a meshwork
food ='lgc'>~ flow of flesh
culture is not a completely separate sphere of reality, but instead mixes and blends with flows of organic (and even mineral) ="trms">materials.
flow of genetic ="trms">materials
gene / eco="trms">system
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homogeneous ='lgc'>=/= heterogeneous
='strcls'>*genes tease out a form out of an active flesh
(genes ='lgc'>~) replicators began not only merely to exist, but to construct for themselves containers, vehicles for their continues existence.
="prgrph">-how these “replicators” created constructs out of flesh and bone ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---> then how did ‘self’ emerged in this='qstn'>?
(layers)
genotype .../.../.../.../... phenotype
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info ="trms">coded | self organizing | adaptive traits
into genes | processes (stable) | of a plant / ="trms">animal
human gene is variable du to='lgc'>: ='lgc'>{1-eco="trms">system 2-taboos='lgc'>}
(ancient) migrations ='lgc'>: vehicle for the mechanism of evolution that today is producing the greatest evolutionary effect, allowing the incorporation of new genes into established gene pools, enhancing ="trms">intrapopulation and reducing ="trms">interpopulation variability.
='lgc'>[leas normative and binding='lgc'>] to other cultures ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- culture ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> to the same culture ='lgc'>[central to ="trms">society='lgc'>]
strata='lgc'> = reproductive niche
(niche ='lgc'>: adjusted timing and quality)
hierarchy building='lgc'> = ='lgc'>{-homogenization (by a ="trms">sorting process) -consolidation (through ="trms">coding into legal, ="trms">religious, and other formal regulations)='lgc'>}
limits of bounded rationality (عقل معاش aghle ma'ash='qstn'>?)
(Bounded rationality is ='thdf'>the idea that in decision-making, rationality of individuals is limited by the information they have, the cognitive limitations of their minds, and the ="trms">finite amount of time they have to make a decision.)
='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ='thdf'>for example soil loss, due to careless exploitation of the forests’ resources has been a constant threat to ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban centers throughout ="trms">history. most ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban civilization were able to pass their genes for only seventy generations before they ran out of soil ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---> although some ="trms">material and energy flows can be “="trms">socialized” (submitted to cultural control), in practice many are not.
(my ="trms">interest and work on ="nms">hayula is about='lgc'>:) the creative ="trms">morphologies that have always resided outside the (west versus east) homoestatic text of the self and other
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contemporary US film ="trms">bestiary ='lgc'><==
="lsts lst1">•EC comics ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> popular weird fantasy, ="trms">horror ="trms">science ="trms">fiction
="lsts lst1">•creepy magazine
="lsts lst1">•the twilight zone ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">horror, ="trms">science ="trms">fiction, suspense, comedy
="lsts lst1">•film noir ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> flawed character hero ='lgc'><== german expressinonist cinematography
="lsts lst1">•crypto="trms">zoology (adventure)
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division's of life
="prgrph">-monolithic notion of the mind has been challanged by psychology and ="trms">phenomenology
biology has been previously essentially ="trms">zoocentric ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> monolithic notion of the body ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> medically proper ="trms">animal body ='lgc'>=/= if we ="trms">zoom in the living canvas, organisms blend into a pointil="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list landscape in which each dot of paint is also alive ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">symbiosis, gaia, prokaryotic sex (omnisexuality)
gaia ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> biosphere und understood not as environmental home but as body (physiological process)
bacterial omnisexuality ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> fluid genetic transfers='lgc'> = sexual
='lgc'>=/= unitary self assumed in the ="trms">zoocentric model
medieval microcosmic
cor="trms">respondences among prokaryotic, eukaryotic, ="trms">zoological and geophysiological (gaian) levels
='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> holonomic continuum ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ='strcls'>*a type of individuality that is spatially and temporally more in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[-='mywrk'>my research on ="nms">ajayeb has been more tended on the temporal in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusivity='lgc'>]
='lgc'>==> (in new biology) ="trms">chimerical body='lgc'>: hybrid of bacterial ="trms">species ='lgc'>--="ppl">Sagan='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> like that many headed ="trms">beast, the micro="trms">beast of the ="trms">animal cell combines into one entity bacteria that were o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginally freely living, self-sufficient and ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metabolically distinct
="lsts lst1">•when respirers entered and did not kill but, rather, were incorporated by larger anaerobic archaebacteria
="lsts lst1">•mitochondria are the descendants of bacteria that had be come lodged within the cells of ="trms">animals and plants
bacteria ='lgc'>==> eukaryotic cell
(the ="trms">fable of) ='lgc'>[Spencer's='lgc'>] ="trms">animal ="trms">world as a “gladiator's show” ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> evidence for parasitism and competition (='lgc'>~ ="trms">social progress in 19th century)
the grass-green photosynthetic organelles of all plants may be the descendants of a single, ="trms">wildly successful bacterium, now shackled, albeit gently, in its cytoplasmic prison
="prgrph">-="ppl">Sagan
='strcls'>*all cells with nuclei (a unicellular amoeba or amultibillion-cell anaconda) ='lgc'><== orgiastic encounters (eating, infecting, engulfing, feeding on, having sex with and so on) among quite ="trms">different types of bacteria='strcls'>*
(plant cell) ="trms">chimera='lgc'> = protective anaerobic host cell ='lgc'>+ ="trms">internally multiplying photosynthetic bacterium ='lgc'>+ respiring bacteria
="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metabolic waste product of the mutation ='lgc'>==> atmospheric oxygen ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> catastrophic ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> energetic catalyst ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ...
fermenting bacteria (like trolls or elves in a cosmic fairy tale) dwelling underground ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> stromatolite
army of mutants that evolved in the aftermath of the oxygen infusion (the greatest pollution crisis the earth) ='lgc'>==> human beings
="trms">chimerical eukaryotic ="trms">system='lgc'>:
='strcls'>*spirochete='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] at the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of larger cell, sites of leakage supplying a constant flow of food ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] renounced their former freedom of movement in order to permanently attach ='lgc'>==> a means of locomotion and food acquisition
="lsts lst1">•spirochete and mad talent, lyrical drive, (tubercle patients were orators or grandios liars)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]human body='lgc'>: an architectonic compilation of millions of ="trms">agencies of ="trms">chimerical cells
eukaryotic cells leveling cytoplasmic calcium concentrations ='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>[our='lgc'>] calcium phosphate of bone (mineral infrastructure of our bodies)='lgc'>:
because seawater concentrations of calcium are often four orders of magnitude higher than ='lgc'>[one in ten million='lgc'>], ocean-dwelling cells must exude calcium to avoid poisoning. in the full-fathomed sea did the bones of our ="trms">ancestors and the shells of their eukaryote relatives evolve. skeletons dramatize an ancient waste, whispering a ghostly testimony to the useful ="trms">internalization of hazardous waste sites. this givesa good indication of how life within the general economy evolves to deactivate, sacrifice and eventually incorporate the d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous ="trms">excesses that accrue from its solar growth. -="ppl">Sagan
='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> the body is multiple (even if orchestrated by vicis="trms">situdes and the need for harmony over evolutionary time
='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ='strcls'>*="trms">nature is ="trms">chimerical through and through='strcls'>*
="trms">intraorganismic genetic transfers
='strcls'>*health='lgc'> = ="trms">matter of maintaining an ="trms">ecology ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">matter of defending a unity='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]body='lgc'>: ornately elaborated mosaic of microbes in various states of ="trms">symbiosis
the ="trms">fiction of the self
='strcls'>**self is not only corporal but corporate='strcls'>**
="prgrph">-="ppl">Sagan
telescopic ="trms">technologies ='lgc'>==> Earth as a living entity ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= gaia='lgc'>: (a ="trms">species of noble lie) biosphere behaives as a body
="prgrph">-temperature, pH and the distribution of reactive gases have remained extraordinarily stable for hundreds of millions of years
="trms">animal body ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> exposed to ="trms">natural selection ='lgc'>=/= living Earth
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="lsts lst1">•gaian ="trms">worldview
="lsts lst1">•animism
="lsts lst1">•native Americanism
="lsts lst1">•deep ="trms">ecologism
='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> inhabits the ="trms">responsive tissues of a planet-sized complex organism
='lgc'>--threatening='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> into the muck of planetary personification New Age joy ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---> ='gtrw'>go to the latest godzilla film industrial apologetics and ="trms">ecological satanism ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> tales of human accountability='lgc'>]
='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ='strcls'>*biocentrism='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[of our time 2019='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> noble ="trms">fictions
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cross-disciplinary ="trms">science
mytho="trms">poetic
atmospheric chemistry
earth='lgc'>: organized, self-contained look of a live creature, full of information, marvelously ="trms">skilled in handling the sun
="prgrph">-="trms">Lovelock
='lgc'>--depending='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> on the forever unfinished and ="trms">eroticized ="trms">nature of human ="trms">symbolization
gaia ='lgc'><== ="trms">narrative ="trms">integration of ="trms">cosmology and morality (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- can we do without it='qstn'>?)
eukaryote made from prokaryotes and of the mesocosmic level of ="trms">animal and plant bod-ies made from reproducing eukaryotes
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(three billion years ago, the oldest type of sex on the planet='lgc'>:)
bacterial omnisexuality ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> promiscuous='lgc'>: not delimiting sexual exchanges with ="trms">species barriers (='lgc'>+ it needs ="trms">intermediaries such as plasmids or viruses to do s[...]