[...] /> (='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)

="large lg1" stl="font-size:140%"> (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)


='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

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> 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'>?

='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

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

="trms">relational and possessive

="large lg5" stl="font-size:166%"> (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'>+[...]