[...]at is not void therefore there can't be void in the universe since it has to be in="trms">finite.
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.)
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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
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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
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
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(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
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="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 [...]