Ereignis: 0, (Max.: 500+)

[...]atives, one the ="trms">social mode of ="trms">traveling that in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes the ="trms">child='lgc'>--the op="trms">posite of the lonely masculine ="trms">traveler='lgc'>--based on the real experience and a personal ="trms">story in a trip to Amazon in Colombia with ="frds scrmbld">Karin Demuth and her three years old boy='lgc'>--="frds scrmbld">Hanno='lgc'>--, second a multi-headed ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of ="trms">technologies of ="trms">interfacing within computer culture and the ="trms">worlds of other ="trms">species, the meaning of ="trms">inter-facing with the other, and third a visual re="trms">presentation of the highly ="trms">technical images recorded by Kinect infrared 3D-scanner/motion-detector. The result of the visualization is a heavily glitchy image, which aims in the performance to link the spatial practice to the perceived and the re="trms">presentational spaces to the lived. Affirming the “un="trms">naturalness” of the image makes it a trans="trms">position of universal means of ="trms">communication='lgc'>--the ="trms">language='lgc'>--that would like to provide a direct, unmediated, and accurate re="trms">presentation of the jungle.
The performance is an engagement with ='thdf'>the notion of companion ="trms">species elaborated by ="ppl">Donna ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway, in an experience of walking in a tropical jungle with a computer in one hand and in the other hand the hand of the human ="trms">child. The work deals with ="trms">questions of the other-space that is mentally filled with projections and projects. The recording of the walking in the rain forest ='lgc'>--as spatial and ="trms">sensual experience='lgc'>-- is thus de="trms">materialized and has acquired a digital character. The ="trms">dense and hot environment of the Amazon is replaced by an abstract graphic structure, thus bringing a new understanding of the locality of the walk. The noise and the randomness of the ="trms">technical coloring the surface of the jungle provoke an ="trms">aesthetic fascination, and an appropriation of the imposible image of the forest.



="trms">Traveling to the Amazon to experience its radical Otherness is a European tradition. It unintentional affirms the ideology of a “state of ="trms">nature” that is ="trms">prior to culture.


="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> ="ppl">Lacan='lgc'>: i am led to regard the function of the mirror ="trms">stage as a particular case of the function of the imago, which is to establish a ="trms">relation between the organism and its reality - or, as they say, between the Innenwelt and the Umwelt.

This developement is experienced as temporal dialectic that decisively projects the function of the individual into ="trms">history. the mirror ="trms">stage is a drama whose ="trms">internal thrust is precipitated from insufficiency to anticipation - and which manufactures for the subject, caught up in the ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure of spatial identification, the succession of phantasies that extends from a fragmented ="nms">body image to a form of its totality that i shall call orthhopaedic - and, lastly, to ='thdf'>the ='thdf'>assumption of the armour of an alienating identity, which will mark with its ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigid structure the subject's entire mental development. thus, to break out of the circle of the Innenwelt into the Umwelt generates the inexhaustible quadrature of the ego's verifications.

="large lg14" stl="font-size:131%"> Electronic Reserve Text='lgc'>: from Jacques ="ppl">Lacan, Ecrits, New York='lgc'>: W. W. Norton, 1977.
The Mirror ="trms">Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience

Delivered at the 16th ="trms">International Congress of Psychoanalysis, Zurich, July 17, 1949

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="ppl">Flusser, ="trms">Gestures - beyond machines (="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading)


the project investigates the way in which ="frds">Seifee as an artist engages tactics of fieldwork, ="trms">embodiment and ="trms">materiality (in a manner that reveals or instigates processes of knowing).
(In this moment of increasing standardization and specialization regarding how people learn, art is a space for innovative thinking and experimentation outside given frameworks.)


...our ability to share the experience of the habits of the ="trms">world that we discover. (="ppl">Kohn)

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="ppl">Campbell on Harman's philosophy
(problem of) object-oriented ="trms">ontology as ="trms">social theory ='lgc'>[insights of object-orientation mechanically applied to the ="trms">social by Harman, “im="trms">materialism"='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">innovative adaptation of ="trms">phenomenology
="lsts lst1">critique of how objects have been failed by philosophy
="lsts lst1">insistence upon an ="trms">aesthetic attitude of investigation
='lgc'>--but='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">object-oriented ="trms">social theory lacks the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor and ="trms">imaginative potential to envision the ="trms">ontology of the ="trms">social
="lsts lst1">the way object-oriented ="trms">ontology is stuck in a no-man's-land of not-quite-nonhuman-not-quite-human
="lsts lst1">as ooo enters ="trms">social theory it commits a performative fallacy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> missing the fundamental starting point of ="trms">social theory='lgc'>: ='strcls'>***objects come into the ="trms">social ="trms">world as expressions of (negotiated, perceptual, political, ="trms">agentic) value='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[="trms">social theory is fundamentally predicated on the ="trms">socius ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">social theory is about the as="trms">sociation between things ='lgc'>=/= homogenous things='lgc'>]
='lgc'>}='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Campbell's ='strcls'>*posthuman ="trms">relationism='strcls'>*='lgc'>: another form that better understands the ="trms">abyssal point between the non-human and the human


(2007 conference) speculative realism ='lgc'>{antipathy to “human-centred” intellectual traditions='lgc'>} ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> object-oriented ="trms">ontology

="large lg1" stl="font-size:141%"> (objectivity ='lgc'>=/= obliqtivity)
Harman's im="trms">materialism='lgc'>: realism without ="trms">materialism ='lgc'>: objects can only ever be captured obliquely

object-oriented ="trms">ontology's development='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">characterised by a consistent lament for how post-="ppl">Kantian philosophy in general (Continental philosophy in particular) has abandoned hope of describing objects as objects
="lsts lst1">the real='lgc'>: absolute autonomy of objects (withdraw from subjects)
="lsts lst2">objects='lgc'>: sleeping giants holding their forces in reserve
="lsts lst1">prefer the ="trms">excess of the ="trms">aesthetic over the reduction by the ="trms">scientific (="trms">materialism's tendency to reduce objects to a primary substratum ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> rendering them susceptible to mathematical capture) ='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">aesthetic foundationalism='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>==engender='lgc'>='lgc'>==> an attitudinal ="trms">response to objects='lgc'>] (='at'>@="nms">apass, this is also a problem in artistic research)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">="trms">aesthetic appreciation above the reduction of the ="trms">phenomenon achieved by ="trms">science ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “art (art criticism) is a style that gets us closer to the ="trms">nature of objects” (='lgc'>+ bad ='thdf'>example of Clement Greenberg)
="lsts lst2">(to make the invisible deep conditions of objects perceivable) ="trms">prioritize ='strcls'>*allusive style='strcls'>* above ='strcls'>*="trms">literal description='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">claims to post-="trms">phenomenological sovereignty
="lsts lst1">over-mining approach to knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge production ='lgc'>=/= objects's surplus of reality
="lsts lst2">="trms">methodological approach which encounters objects as objects (='lgc'>=/= actor ="trms">network theory's manner of focusing upon an object's effects) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>+ bad ='thdf'>example of Dutch East India Company='lgc'>]='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> object-oriented ="trms">social theory produces a rudimentary ="trms">narrative with no discernible innovation on the level of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst3">objects ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the actors are recognisable companies, personalities, infrastructures
="lsts lst3">="trms">relations ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the major ="trms">symbiotic moments are legal contracts, infrastructure and formative moments in a human's life
="lsts lst3">time ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> there is standard chronology from birth to death, with emphasis on human-centric causes and effects
="lsts lst1">="trms">social theory='lgc'> = a mode of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge production” (='lgc'>=/= a decontextualised reflection of the ="trms">world) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> withdrawal='lgc'>: a psychological alibi, an ="trms">aesthetic (='lgc'>=/= cognitive concept) ='lgc'>==stimulate='lgc'>='lgc'>==> an attitudinal ="trms">response='lgc'>: humility ='lgc'>[='lgc'>+ passivity='qstn'>?='lgc'>] in the face of overwhelming non-human existence ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ appeal ='lgc'>==produce='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a paterna="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic-arrogant-="trms">instrumenta="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list attitude to the nonhuman ='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*appeal ='lgc'>==foster='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">responsibility='strcls'>* (a norrnativity that withdrawal cannot) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>]

="large lg6" stl="font-size:125%"> ='lgc'>}='lgc'>=/= posthuman ="trms">relationism='lgc'>: rea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists who draw on contemporary advances in disciplines like geology, biology, mathematics and ="trms">neurology to make the case that non-human reality is not a sub-set of human reality ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">commitment to an object-oriented realism (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= Harman)
="lsts lst1">occupy an ='strcls'>*="trms">anthropic='strcls'>* event horizon='lgc'>: their ="trms">social analyses occur in the shifting, impossible ground hetween the human and the nonhuman (='lgc'>=/= Harman)
="lsts lst1">dialectic of object ='strcls'>**withdrawal ='lgc'>+ appeal='strcls'>** (='lgc'>=/= Harman's object withdrawal) ='lgc'>~ ='strcls'>***="trms">interaction between objective withdrawal ='and'>& subjective appeal='strcls'>***

(Moss) earth as making an appeal ='lgc'>--="ppl">Freud='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">demand for work
“when the attention of an experienced person is drawn to the ="trms">child's state by this path of discharge, ='lgc'>[the path of discharge='lgc'>] ... acquires a secondary function of the highest importance, that of cornmunicalion
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> initial helplessness of human beings is the primal source of all moral motives
(="trms">child's) creaming and kicking ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> appeal (made by the earth) is a combination of ="trms">demand ='lgc'>+ accusation


contemporary ="trms">social theorists are turning towards objects
='lgc'><='lgc'>==Bennett='lgc'>== object produce a ‘="trms">gestalt shift’ in perception
='lgc'>}='lgc'>==="ppl">Tsing='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (amounts to) a political act ='lgc'><='lgc'>== (turning towards objects) requires us='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">to re-divide the ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">to re-="trms">prioritise matler(s)
="lsts lst1">to create ="trms">different ="trms">causalities
="lsts lst1">to follow new ="trms">agencies
="lsts lst1">to produce new spacetimes
="lsts lst1">to ="trms">interrupt the ‘mind-lulling ="trms">presence of common sense’
='lgc'>}='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge the importance of traditional ='strcls'>*="trms">social theory='strcls'>* in identifying gross inequalities ='lgc'>+ advocate a posthuman ="trms">relationism that moves ='strcls'>*from critique to production='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*new and surprising connections between modes of existence='strcls'>* (='thdf'>for example)
="lsts lst1">did the typical American diet play any role in engendering the widesp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read susceptibility to the propaganda leading up to the invasion of Iraq='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">do sand storms make a ="trms">difference to the sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read of socalled sectarian violence='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">does mercury help enact autism='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">what if ="trms">serious adoption practices for and by the elderly became common='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">what if nations that are worried about low birth rates (Denmark, Germany, Japan, Russia, white America, more) acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged that fear of immigrants is a big problem, and that racial purity projects and fantasies drive resurgent pronatalism='qstn'>?


posthuman='lgc'>: a mode of ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening for the nonhuman ='lgc'>+ ="trms">simultaneously acknowledging the impossibility of fully hearing it ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> impossible ="trms">position ='lgc'>==expand='lgc'>='lgc'>==> our range of ="trms">socialities, ="trms">causalities, temporalities and ethics because it contains the ='strcls'>**stubborn ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphic residual='strcls'>** within any ‘new’ theory of ="trms">society
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (not in="trms">finite) co-constitution of the ="trms">social ='lgc'>+ the extra-="trms">social (vaccines ='and'>& ="trms">markets, planetary ="trms">systems ='and'>& telescopes, catastrophes ='and'>& laws, etc.)

feminist ="trms">science studies ='strcls'>*="trms">demand a normative ="trms">responsibility='strcls'>* towards ="trms">ontological in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusivity and humility

(now that there is no objective ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ="trms">interrogatives are object-makers

="large lg6" stl="font-size:101%"> ='strcls'>*strangeness (of nonhuman life) ='lgc'>[acts as a guide='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mobilising new pre="trms">positions of connection ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to think ="trms">differently about the ="trms">social ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new conceptions of ="trms">society (as planetmate, messmate, ="trms">natureculture, mindbody, thing-power, odd kin, etc.)


parallels drawn between theories of evolution ='and'>& theories of ="trms">social change='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">Gould ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> concept of punctuated equilibrium
="lsts lst1">="ppl">Serres ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ontology of the ="trms">social as parasitism
="lsts lst1">Hayles ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">translation of epigenesis and ="trms">technogenesis
="lsts lst1">

='lgc'>{="trms">phenomenon of serial endo="trms">symbiosis theory ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="trms">social theorists deploy this in the search for accounts of how change and creativity o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginate='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (bio-econornic context) ='strcls'>*="trms">symbiosis='strcls'>* has long been recognised as a theory which de="trms">monstrates the co-constitution of the ="trms">social and the biological
='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Darwinian ="trms">story of='lgc'>: small variations, random mutation, long time scales, ="trms">natural selection, fitness and incremental development='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">complexity derived by brute mechanical climbing from the base al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready built by the efforts of earlier climbing
="lsts lst1">unit of change='lgc'>: the gene, or individual organism, the ="trms">zoocentric, ‘big like us’ ="trms">epistemic culture of both ="trms">science and ="trms">social ="trms">science (='lgc'>=/= weird ="trms">worldings of protists, ="trms"nttrm="search">archea, eukaryotes ='lgc'>[Wertheim='lgc'>])

bacteriology ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new organisms were often stemmed from profound and prolonged ="trms">symbiotic ="trms">relationships that have proven difficult to analyse ='lgc'>=/= discrete
="lsts lst1">traits are in="trms">herited outside of sexual dissemination (di="trms">gestion, infection, donation, other complex forms of partnerning) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> con="trms">sortia='lgc'>: a="trms">morphous ="trms">symbiotic complexes (="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metabolic energetic ="trms">networks) ='lgc'>=/= organism='lgc'>: anatomically bounded objects (="trms">systems of information and exchange)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>==="ppl">="ppl">Margulis='lgc'>='lgc'>==> focus on how perceptual, political, ="trms">social and ="trms">scientific conditions precede objects='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*objects='lgc'> = boundary-work='strcls'>*
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">differential speeds of change (sudden and unlikely mixes ='lgc'>+ slow and ="trms">causal)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> deconstruction of individuality

(co-constitutive bio-econornic-political-="trms">social context='lgc'>:)
='strcls'>**ideological contest between individualism and collectivism in political economy ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>==> intellectual development of ="trms">symbiosis theory='strcls'>**
="lsts lst1">="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list and anarchist concept of mutuellisme in the mid 1800
="lsts lst1">="ppl">Hobbesian-Malthusian-="ppl">Darwinian bio-economic concept of struggle for existence in zero-sum games of all-against-all
="lsts lst1">Kropotkin's ="trms">symbiosis as evidence for the benefit of global cooperation towards the common good, the division of labour, protection of elements and ="trms">interdependent organisation
="lsts lst1">evolutionary theory used to champion individualism and the ="trms">social policies of laissez faire

="ppl">Campbell ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what Harman misses is the elementary starting point for ="trms">sociologies of ="trms">science='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*that ="trms">social ="trms">science ="trms">translates ="trms">science='strcls'>* just as ="trms">science ="trms">translates “reality”

serial endo="trms">symbiosis theory ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lstsrd">1. no theory of ="trms">social change is going to be value-free (endo="trms">symbiosis is a process that is always al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready highly charged with rich ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor, entailing a ‘host’ that is in an ‘exchange,’ ‘="trms">relation’ or ‘merger’ with a ‘guest’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a form of ‘living together’ that becomes ‘close’ over time)
="lstsrd">2. extraordinary range and ="trms">nature of these ="trms">relations can act as strategies for other ="trms">worldings (other ways of being with each other) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> important normative function ='lgc'>[at the cataclysmic endings ='lgc'>=/= catastrophic ending='lgc'>]
="lstsrd">3. a way to think about temporalities (when a bacterium nestled into a simple cell, creating an intimacy that has lasted four billion years)
="lstsrd">4. a template for unlikely intimacies

="large lg6" stl="font-size:116%"> Harman's philosophical monologue on ="trms">social theoretical practice (which might yet be remedied by actual dialogue with ="trms">social theorists) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> performative fallacy (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- common in artist ="trms">writing)

='at'>@="nms">apass='strcls'>****
(="ppl">Campbell asking) why has object-oriented ="trms">ontology become such a popular force in other disciplines='qstn'>?
='lgc'><='lgc'>== complex ="trms">interplay between ="trms">sociological ='lgc'>+ logical factors
='lgc'>+ rise of ='strcls'>*para-academia='strcls'>*

='at'>@artist (in proliferation of artist ="trms">writing)
='strcls'>****speculation='lgc'> = the alibi for a doctrine that wishes to spare itself the trouble of justification='strcls'>****
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we need closer attention to rationality as the basis of judgement when we talk about speculation
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we need to be more informed by (="trms">sciences) when we stretch ="trms">relations to our rational outposts, without ignoring their appeals

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="large lg14" stl="font-size:123%"> posthumanism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> any discursive or bodily con="trms">figuration that displaces the human, humanism, humanities ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (21st century) ="trms">technology is the center of critical thought about culture and about ="trms">nature

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]posthumanism='lgc'>: a structure of feeling (sense of an era starts to be experienced in the ="trms">social ="trms">imagination ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">social forms become more recognisable when we had some time to classify them, ="trms">articulate them, theorize them)

(Williams > ="ppl">Campbell) structure of feeling
we can point to times in the ="trms">past and say that as an X sensibility (they were romantics, enlightenment, post="trms">modernism) ='lgc'>=/= sensing here and now ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> practical consciousness, a period at an embryonic ="trms">stage, at the very ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of ='strcls'>*semantic availability='strcls'>*

="large lg6" stl="font-size:113%"> what structure of feeling is forming in the contemporary western ="trms">world='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> posthumanism
(postbiological, postcorporal, cyborg existence, etc.)


to be human ='lgc'><='lgc'>--attack='lgc'>-- genomics, global finance, ="trms">nature of ="trms">social in virtual ="trms">communities (telegram) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> yet-to-be formalized paradigms of human experience

='lgc'>='lgc'>==> fracture  the concept of legal self ='lgc'>[legal theory (arbiter of human ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> concerned with what is to be human='lgc'>]

(taxonomies of the human ="trms">species at its time ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) humanitas='lgc'>: legal term used in public in ancient Rome to distinguish Romans and ="trms">Greeks from Barbarians


humans in persistent vegetative states
="trms">international trade of human organs
human genome project
xenotransplantation
="trms">technological unconscious

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> (tree of life replaced by) a model that='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">classifies ="trms">species ="trms">according to DNA
="lsts lst1">disregards ="trms">morphological type (how elements of body appear)
="lsts lst1">reveals human to be a tiny sub="trms">species in a mass of absolute diversity


classical philosophy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">scientized for a momden audience (by ="ppl">Descartes 17th century) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> special status of human ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- seen as a totally transparent, secular, ="trms">scientific, liberal way of thinking about the ="trms">world

="large lg6" stl="font-size:110%">
humanism='lgc'> = a belief in progress (implicitly conceived as a ="trms">technological ="trms">instrumental profit-oriented) ='lgc'>+ ="trms">technological masery over ="trms">nature ='lgc'>+ ‘human ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">animal='lgc'>+ therapeutic approach to ="trms">scientific inquiry ='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a 19th century anachronism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> deeply ingrained in contemporary self-consciousness and everyday common sense

human='lgc'>: hero of liberty ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- french in o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin, political in purpose

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> August Comte ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the universe can only e understood w[...]