[...]rossing 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



="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> (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.



='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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:124%"> (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


="large lg6" stl="font-size:124%"> 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
|              \
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'><==
="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

="large lg14" stl="font-size:107%"> 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

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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

="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'><== ="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'>==> life on earth

endo="trms">symbiosis='lgc'>: one organism swallow another without di="trms">gesting it ='lgc'>==> o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of new ="trms">species ='lgc'>[<='lgc'>=/= gradual accumulation of mutations='lgc'>]

cancer ='lgc'><== rampant multiplication of the occasionally vampiric mitochondria

="large lg14" stl="font-size:118%"> 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'>==> 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

="large lg10" stl="font-size:125%"> 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'>==> “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

="large lg14" stl="font-size:125%"> 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'>==> combination of contra="trms">dictions ='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[...]