[...]tes,
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'>]
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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'>='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'>='lgc'>==> intensified coa extraction ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> iron production ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[steam='lgc'>] mechanical energy ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cotton textiles ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> flow of profits ='lgc'>='lgc'>===money='lgc'>='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'>='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'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">internalization of anti="trms">market institutions
the fully coexistence of the autocatalytic loops='lgc'>:
the digital / the energetic / the ="trms">material
='lgc'>='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.
='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]
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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'>='lgc'>==> stable states ='lgc'>='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'>='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
| | |
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'><='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'><='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
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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'>='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
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bacteria ='lgc'>='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'><='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'>='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'>='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'>='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'>==> ='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'>='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
="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
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'><='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
(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 so)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lateral transfer
omnisexuality='lgc'>: a means of genetically “locking” together once-diverse groups (of prokaryotes)
bacterial crowding ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> life on earth
endo="trms">symbiosis='lgc'>: one organism swallow another without di="trms">gesting it ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of new ="trms">species ='lgc'>[<='lgc'>=/= gradual accumulation of mutations='lgc'>]
cancer ='lgc'><='lgc'>== rampant multiplication of the occasionally vampiric mitochondria
bacteria's bodies are so genetically open, that the very concept of ="trms">species falsjfies their character as a unique life form
="ppl">Sagan
this ="trms">zoological “I” ='lgc'>[is open to radical revision='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
model of ="trms">zoocentrism='lgc'>: encased self
(='qstn'>?what are ="nms">ajayeb) ="trms">bestiary's ="trms">aesthetic model of a ="trms">difference (='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="trms">zoocentric model)
='lgc'>--Burgess='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">interference patterns generated by a series of ="trms">symbiotically living form ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> artist
as an organism's connections to the external envimnment grow, that environment becomes its body ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ="frds">Sina='lgc'>]
snail
snail whose house is carried on his back, the “case” of the “self” has been moved, through an incorporation of what once would have been called inanimate ="trms">matters='lgc'>--organically worked and reworked
="prgrph">-subjective identities always al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready und ergoing active (de)com="trms">position
="prgrph">-(="trms">relations of) physiological identity and psychological subjectivity link up
="ppl">Sagan trying to relativize that ="trms">zoocentric bedrock of “self”
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political ="trms">chimeras
chiefs’ talk
fluent in a ="trms">verbal genre
formalized speeches directed either to leaders of other groups (Southern Amazon in multiethnic and multi="trms">lingual ="trms">system of Upper Xingu) or to their own people, depending on the context in which they are delivered
='lgc'>--Guerreiro='lgc'>='lgc'>--> both the chief and his audience are ="trms">symbolically constructed as “paradoxical” subjects characterized by contradictory predicates
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*how uncertainty can enact an exchange of perspectives='strcls'>* (through which the identities of the group and the chief are produced)
(from a gift-theory perspective) chief='lgc'>: donator of goods and words, and a receiver of spouses ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- unilateral direction ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “chieftaincy کدخدايى='lgc'>: a place of nonexchange” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ signs are deprived of their circulation value ='lgc'>+ reciprocity is denied under the ="trms">demand that ="trms">society make visible the foundations of power, maintaining them under the control of the collective body='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘creditor ="trms">position of chief’ would imprison power and assume control of the place where it could emerge ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">society of the state
ritual polity
public rituals are the main motor of collective life / ='at'>@="nms">apass
chieftaincy ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ritual
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ritual con="trms">densation='lgc'>: the ="trms">simultaneous enactment of nominally contrary modes of ="trms">relationship='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•affirmations of identity are at the same time testimonies of ="trms">difference
="lsts lst1">•displays of ="trms">authority are also de="trms">monstrations of subordination
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">presence of persons or other beings is at once corroborated and denied
="lsts lst1">•secrets are ="trms">simultaneously dissimulated and revealed
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> combination of contra="trms">dictions ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> distinctive context of ="trms">communication
ritual efficacy of images and objects
ritual ="trms">relation to mnemonic ="trms">technologies
="trms">relations between images and words
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Severi='lgc'>='lgc'>--> concept of ="trms">chimera helps (an indigenous mode='qstn'>?) in understanding power and dealing with it
(="ppl">="ppl">Severi and Lagrou ='lgc'>+ Guerreiro)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">chimera='lgc'>: every image that, by designating a p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lural being by means of a single re="trms">presentation, mobilizes its invisible parts, by purely optical means or by a set of inferences
="prgrph">-="trms">chimerical image as="trms">sociates, in a single visual form, indexes from ="trms">different beings (a ="trms">bird and a human being, a serpent and a jaguar, a wolf and a sea lion etc.), provoking a projection by the eye, which gives rise to an image implying at the same time the ="trms">presence of these ="trms">different beings
="prgrph">-evokes something that is implicit or absent to the observer
="prgrph">-="trms">chimerical images ="trms">present a ="trms">specific link between iconic re="trms">presentation (by imitation and convention) and indexical indication (visual, tactile or other) of a ="trms">presence whose mode of existence, especially mental, is not realized ="trms">materially
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> game between='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•perception ='and'>& projection
="lsts lst1">•iconic re="trms">presentation ='and'>& indexical indication
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> intensification (of the efficacy of ="trms">chimeric images) ='lgc'>: “capture the eye='lgc'> = capture the ="trms">imagination” ='lgc'>+ ="trms">demand that by projection ='lgc'>[the observer='lgc'>] mentally “complete” the image
indexical signs have a ="trms">causal contiguity (spatiotemporal contiguity) with what they signify
ritual action and artistic creation ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Severi='lgc'>='lgc'>--> synesthetic
(my ="trms">lecture-performances='qstn'>? ='lgc'>~ ="trms">chimeric image of chiefs’ talk ='lgc'>[khotbe خطبه fluent at combining ="trms">different ="trms">aesthetic resources='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ="trms">linguistic ='lgc'>+ extra="trms">linguistic media in ritual performance (working/producing visual ='lgc'>+ mental images)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> combining of indexical signs in ="trms">communication acts ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">poetry of identities-in-motion (capable of projecting complex images of a nonvisual kind)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]image='lgc'>: an abstract portrait of identity ="trms">fashioned out of cumulating patterns of congruence across all manner of indexical signs='lgc'>--in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding visual ones='lgc'>--that addressees and audiences can ="trms">imaginatively experience, like a hologram
(Silverstein > Guerreiro)
='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***="trms">relation between ="trms">poetics and the production of identities='strcls'>***
="trms">chimerical re="trms">presentation='lgc'>: an art of ambiguity
(="ppl">Strauss's Amazonian ethnology ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) dualism in perpetual disequilibrium='lgc'>: centripetal forces of centralization ='lgc'>+ centrifugal forces of dispersion
='at'>@="nms">apass ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “="trms">societies against the state”
complex ="trms">relations between hierarchy and counterhierarchy
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Renan's notion of monologue)
='lgc'>[Clastres's model rooted in Western ="trms">language ideology looking at Amerindian ="trms">language:='lgc'>]
="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">historical bond between ='strcls'>*power ='and'>& speech='strcls'>* cannot be conceived of separately
="lsts lst1">•state ="trms">societies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the word is a ‘="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right’ to power (that may be used to command)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">societies against the state ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the word is a ‘duty’ of the chief (an indigenous leader must be capable of offering ="trms">society the words that it ‘="trms">demands’)
="lsts lst3">◾Amerindian chief='lgc'>: a voice preaching in the ="trms">wilderness (="trms">literally says nothing, a repetition of “edifying discourse”) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- his speech is not spoken in order to be ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listened to (='lgc'>~ ritualized act ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= act of ="trms">communication='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> chief's speech is transformed into pure value (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">poet's speech for whom words are values before they are signs) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (for Clastres) ="trms">language ='lgc'>=/= violence='lgc'>: a facet of coercive power
denotative قوه تفکيک ()
predicative (Dickensian aspect)
referential (the efficacy of its context and meaning depends on something else)
="trms">enunciation (="trms">pragmatic) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> effects on the ="trms">enunciator ='lgc'>+ audience ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~Silverstein='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]politics='lgc'>: the dynamic arrangement and rearrangement of people as subjects within structures of actual and potential action of all ="trms">sort ='lgc'>--comprises='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">poetics ='lgc'><='lgc'>== everything experienced as effective practice is formed ="trms">semiotically (='lgc'>~ through sign)
='strcls'>*political oratory ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= informing the content of a message='lgc'>] uses ="trms">poetical resources that allow ="trms">interlocutors to have their identities ="trms">mutually constructed by means of indexical signs='strcls'>* (that connect the message's form to extra="trms">linguistic contextual facts) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*message ascribes to me ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= message describes my reality='lgc'>]='strcls'>*
="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali's use of political oratory in the context of ordinary ="trms">interactions with me ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i forgot that the ="trms">symbolic procedures that separate ritual speech from ordinary ="trms">interactions are not necessarily intended to mean something
="prgrph">-what was the ="trms">pragmatic conditions that define the kind of ‘="trms">language game’ ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali was playing='qstn'>?
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]formalization='lgc'>: reduction of combinatory and creative possibilities of ="trms">language by the use of ="trms">formulas, archaic ="trms">vocabulary, syntactic and sty="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic patterns ='lgc'>{='lgc'>='lgc'>--> distancing the
discourse from its semantic content ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> attention to its context and performance ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> effects='lgc'>}
ritual action ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Severi='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reflexivity='lgc'>: de="trms">finition of its own meaning and effectiveness within the context of ritual ="trms">communication
(='at'>@="nms">apass's) performative and ="trms">poetic structure
='lgc'>[Guerreiro ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] chief='lgc'> = consanguine kin ابى ='and'>& potentially d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous enemy ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="trms">transference='lgc'>]
(chief's fellows's both as ="trms">children ='and'>& prey)
ritual speech ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>***complex ="trms">enunciator='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ='at'>#feedback='lgc'>]
ambiguity of duality of ="trms">gestural and ="trms">verbal ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> exchange of perspectives (='lgc'>=/= exchange of words)='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> paradoxical construction of identities
='lgc'>+
="trms">chimerical re="trms">presentation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">presence of counterparts (of percepted fragmentary signs) to its audience
beautiful and strong body
serene and generous behavior
="trms">linguistic abilities (“made to discourse”)
(we are living with) mythical, ="trms">aesthetic, and ritual elaboration
guiding them with “good speech”
pleasing them by sponsoring rituals
welcome messengers (“made in order to ="trms">greet messengers”)
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="trms">relational and possessive
(possessed form of) a="trms">symmetrical ="trms">relationship between a denominated (individualized) person and an un="trms">differentiated collective
agglutinate
="trms">enunciated in the same tone with no pauses to breath
='lgc'>+
expletive ah
='lgc'>+
set of particles
='lgc'>+
deictic ige (evidential ='lgc'>[devaluating='qstn'>?='lgc'>] particle that indicates proximity, ="trms">presence, or existence, fixed to the copula ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> piece of advice='qstn'>?)
expletive and particles with no lexical element ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> self-derogatory forms of speech (the “humbling effect”)
it's common for men to emit long high-pitched and melodic screams as soon as they wake up ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to wake the whole village up with joy
="trms">present is nothing more than an impoverished form of a previous age idealized as grandiose ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- (chief) to “work on his ="trms">children” like an ="trms">ancestor, he must state that he could never do so
='strcls'>*parallelism='strcls'>*
enchainment of repeated verses and themes ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the shaman is ="trms">symbolically identified as a paradoxical character (human ='and'>& nonhuman, here ='and'>& there, in the ="trms">present time ='and'>& in the mythic time)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transfer properties from one being to another
(formal ='lgc'>=/=) ‘performative parallelism’ between the actual chief and those before him ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> attenuate ="trms">past ='and'>& ="trms">present
="prgrph">-he speaks about ="trms">ancestors, as an ="trms">ancestor (using their ="trms">language), and on ="trms">ancestors’ behalf (since they are gone)
(antonymic affirmation of) “="trms">past ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">present” ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> shame in the ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listeners ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> act as the ancient chiefs’ own ="trms">children
='lgc'>--="ppl">Austin='lgc'>='lgc'>--> illocutionary force ='lgc'>==gives='lgc'>='lgc'>==> capacity to perform an act in saying something
='strcls'>*hyperbole (contrast) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the audience could be ="trms">aesthetically and morally compelled
to act in some way (perlocutionary acts)
that which had once been human (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mythical human o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of the plant corn)
chief is weakened ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> people tend to be more egoistic ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “go crazy” ='lgc'>+ forget about their relatives='lgc'> = (the first step in) producing a witch
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(="nms">Pir ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= chief's) foundations of kinship='lgc'> = thinking about kin ='lgc'>=/= forgetting kin ='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•generating and raising ="trms">children
="lsts lst1">•producing food
="lsts lst1">•avoiding witch="trms">craft
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> fabrication of a collective body of kin
imperfections of the ="trms">present ='lgc'>+ ideal of ="trms">social life ='lgc'>==encourage='lgc'>='lgc'>==> people to behave like kin (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- needs to be actively produced)
='lgc'>[we have to be carefull in art with per[...]