[...] ='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'>*

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> ="trms">intraorganismic genetic transfers

='strcls'>*health='lgc'> = ="trms">matter of maintaining an ="trms">ecology ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">matter of defending a unity='strcls'>*

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]body='lgc'>: ornately elaborated mosaic of microbes in various states of ="trms">symbiosis

the ="trms">fiction of the self
='strcls'>**self is not only corporal but corporate='strcls'>**
="prgrph">-="ppl">Sagan


telescopic ="trms">technologies ='lgc'>==> Earth as a living entity ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= gaia='lgc'>: (a ="trms">species of noble lie) biosphere behaives as a body
="prgrph">-temperature, pH and the distribution of reactive gases have remained extraordinarily stable for hundreds of millions of years

="trms">animal body ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exposed to ="trms">natural selection ='lgc'>=/= living Earth

="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 lg1" stl="font-size:120%"> 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”

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> ="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................

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)

="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> (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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:149%"> (="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'>--> ='strcls'>***="trms">relation between ="trms">poetics and the[...]