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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
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(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
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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
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="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
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
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
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 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'>==> 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'>==> ="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'>==> “="trms">societies against the state”
complex ="trms">relations between hierarchy and counterhierarchy
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Renan's notion of monologue)
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='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'>==> 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'>==> 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'><== 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'>?
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='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'>==> attention to its context and performance ='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'>==> ='strcls'>***complex ="trms">enunciator='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ='at'>#feedback='lgc'>]
ambiguity of duality of ="trms">gestural and ="trms">verbal ='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'>--[...]