[...]nry ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>the idea that in west we have ="trms">technologies so advanced we achieve absolute vision)
="lsts lst1">•Balsamo ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cosmetic surgery (='lgc'>~= new visualization ="trms">technologies) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new forms of dominance ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to Kardashians TV shows='lgc'>], ='strcls'>*replacing the male gaze with a normative dis="trms">embodied ="trms">technical gaze
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Haraway ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">technocratic gaze
="lsts lst1">•Strafford ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (starting in enlightenment) ='strcls'>*automated spectralization='strcls'>* (in visual ="trms">presentation of the ="trms">world) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the intention and purpose of the gaze became medicalized and ="trms">technologized ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to cartography='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (from ="trms">techno="trms">science to feminism) theorists have noticed a ='strcls'>*splicing='strcls'>* of direct and tactile human perception of reality with another reality, one that is mediated and ="trms">technical ='lgc'>==produce='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a new reality that negotiates the individual's knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the universe in diverse and complex ways (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- not catastrophic ='lgc'>=/= Hörl)


(time of) intellectual and artist upheaval ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new and surprising modes of ="trms">imagining the human


="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> 1950s concept of cybernetics constituted a fundamental change in thinking about control, ="trms">communication, information, life itself (='lgc'>+ new ="trms">language of feedback, auto="trms">poiesis, cellular automata, neural net)

1990s
computers ='lgc'>+ information ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cybernetic theory='lgc'>: (stressed that) information patterns are more important in understanding organisms than ="trms">materiality
='strcls'>*cybernetic view of the ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> information ="trms">coded in pattern ='and'>& randomness ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">material absence ='and'>& ="trms">presence='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•(both) human and ="trms">technological='lgc'> = informational entities
="lsts lst1">•human='lgc'> = cyborg='lgc'>: (human conceived as) cybernetic organism

='lgc'>[='qstn'>?how='lgc'>] discourses (="trms">narratives ='lgc'>+ ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors ='lgc'>+ ="trms">symbols) of ="trms">science and ="trms">technology ='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> use in advertisement to create meaning

='strcls'>**="trms">technological ="trms">imagination ='lgc'>--seize='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">social ="trms">imagination='strcls'>**
always reinforcing the ='strcls'>*awesome power of ="trms">technology to capture reality='strcls'>* (objectively ='lgc'>+ without any ="trms">agenda)
="lsts lst1">•movie Fantastic Voyage 1966 ='lgc'><='lgc'>--Dijck='lgc'>-- fascination with envisioning the body from a ="trms">different perspective
="lsts lst1">•status of foetus (float in black and white) ='lgc'><='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>-- meanings whose legitimacy comes from ="trms">technological ="trms">systems of perception
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[computer-generated images ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>?='lgc'>] camera-generated images ='lgc'><='lgc'>--Cartw="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right='lgc'>-- (paradox of) camera's role in capturing the real ='lgc'>+ camera's capacity to evoke emotion and ="trms">present a sense of the unattainable ='lgc'>~= (to appear to be at once) both ='strcls'>*magical='strcls'>* ='and'>& ='strcls'>*truthful='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==introduce='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new subjectivities into ="trms">marketplace

mediation of visual ="trms">phenomena through the eye of ="trms">technology ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> new sets of truths (about the body, environment, etc.) ='lgc'>--often='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ='strcls'>**dis="trms">embodied ="trms">technological gaze looks at the body='strcls'>**

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advertisement becomes more highly finished, ="trms">excessively produced, artificialized ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">technological gaze is found in the discourse of advertising ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">scientized ='and'>& ="trms">technologized images celebrate a particular view of ='strcls'>***life as information='strcls'>***

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="trms">nature='lgc'> = figures ='lgc'>+ ="trms">stories ='lgc'>+ images (='lgc'>~= topos, commonplace)

="large lg14" stl="font-size:104%"> paying attention to ="trms">nature like a ="trms">child ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">trope='lgc'>: a verse ="trms">interpolated into a liturgical text عبادات to embellish or amplify its meaning

="trms">language ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">material-="trms">semiotic flesh

liturgical possibilities of ="trms">nature
="lsts lst1">•="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian liturgical year
="lsts lst1">•Zaratusztrian nowruz
="lsts lst1">•star wars ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> practice of turning ="trms">tropes into ="trms">worlds ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> war of imagess='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•war of words
="lsts lst1">•

(agonistic fields='lgc'>:)
military combat
sexual domination
security maintenance
="trms">market strategy

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="brkr">
(="trms">techniques of the observer - september 9, 2012)
="lsts lst1">•What is the ="trms">relation between the de="trms">materialized digital imagery of the ="trms">present and the so-called age of mechanical reproduction='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•ongoing abstraction of vision - Problems of vision
="lsts lst1">•transformation in the makeup of vision
="lsts lst1">•="trms">history of art ='lgc'><-> ="trms">history of perception='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•onlooker (Zuschauer)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">historically important functions of the human eye ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> medical, military, and police hierarchies
="lsts lst1">•Most of the ="trms">historically important functions of the human eye are being supplanted by practices in which visual images no longer have any reference to the ="trms">position of an observer in a “real,” optically perceived ="trms">world.
="lsts lst1">•where abstract visual and ="trms">linguistic elements coincide
="lsts lst1">•avoid mystifying it by recourse to ="trms">technological explanations (this was my mistake!)
="lsts lst1">•an observer is more importantly one who sees within a prescribed set of possibilities, one who is embedded in a ="trms">system of conventions and limitations.
="lsts lst1">•="trms">measurable in terms of objects and signs
="lsts lst1">•newly constituted human ="trms">sciences in regulating and modifying the behavior of individuals.
="lsts lst1">•it was through these disciplines that the subject in a sense became visible
="lsts lst1">•passage from the ="trms">geometrical optics of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to physiological optics
="lsts lst1">•to expose the idio="trms">syncrasies of the “normal” eye
="lsts lst1">•Retinal afterimages, peripheral vision, binocular vision, and thresholds of attention
="lsts lst1">•outcome of a complex remaking of the individual as observer into something calculable-and regularizable and of human vision into something ="trms">measurable and thus, exchangeable.
="lsts lst1">•standardization of visual imagery
="lsts lst1">•in the amphitheatre / on the ="trms">stage / in the Panoptic machine
="lsts lst1">•dis="trms">sociation of touch from sight ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “separation of the senses” and industrial remapping of the body in the nineteenth century
="lsts lst1">•unloosening of the eye from the ="trms">network of referentiality incarnated in tactility ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> fitted for the tasks of “="trms">spectacular” ="trms">consumption
="lsts lst1">•Perception for ="ppl">Benjamin was acutely temporal and kinetic;
="lsts lst1">•a mobile ="trms">consumer of a ceaseless succession of illusory commodity-like Images.
="lsts lst1">•Machines are ="trms">social before being ="trms">technical
="lsts lst1">•desiring machines
="lsts lst1">•The paintings of J-B. Chardin are lodged within these same ="trms">questions of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and perception His still lifes, especially, are a last great ="trms">presentation of the classical object in all its plenitude, before it is sundered irrevocably into exchangeable and ungrounded signifiers or into the pa="trms">interly traces of an autonomous vision.
="lsts lst1">•that the very process of becoming tired was in fact perception. “When the eye fixes itself on a single color...
="lsts lst1">•the clear eye of the ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•The more ="ppl">Schopenhauer involved himself in the new collective knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of a fragmented body ="trms">composed of separate organic ="trms">systems, subject to the opacity of the sensory organs and dominated by involuntary reflex activity, the more intensely he sought to establish a visuality that escaped the ="trms">demands of that body.
="lsts lst1">•the physiological makeup of the subject as the site on which the formation of re="trms">presentations occurs.
="lsts lst1">•Of these only the cerebrum, together with the sensory nerves attached to it, and the posterior spinal nerve fascicles are intended to take up the motives from the external ="trms">world. All the other parts, on the other hand, are intended only to transmit the motives to the muscles in which the will directly manifests itself. (="ppl">Schopenhauer)
="lsts lst1">•It is knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that ="trms">Simultaneously provided ="trms">techniques for the external control and domination of the human subject and was the emancipating ground for notions of subjective vision within ="trms">modernist art theory and experimentation.


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bad visual ="trms">systems

="trms">narcissism as a cultural practice (that also motivates and steers ="trms">technological inventions)

accelerationism
(Accelerationism may also refer more broadly, and usually pejoratively, to support for the deepening of capitalism in the belief that this will hasten its self-destructive tendencies and ultimately eventuate its collapse.)

Selfie
seems to me the perfect example for this sub="trms">mission of the unconscious to the globalized machine


="large lg10" stl="font-size:104%"> latest theoretical buzzwords

control over the ="trms">interpretation of the ="trms">world

circulation of the global image machine

tree-made paper

who are (not) allowed (not) to have a body='qstn'>?

all forms of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge claims,

acting on the ideological doctrines of dis="trms">embodied ="trms">scientific (cinematic) objectivity

all seem just effects of delayed render algorithms in the play of signifiers in a virtual force field

space of simulations

not giving up to the ="trms">paranoid ="trms">science ="trms">fiction

getting to know the ="trms">world effectively by practising the ="trms">sciences

tools of ="trms">semiology

="trms">rhetorical ="trms">nature of truth

not Romantic nor ="trms">modernist objects='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. infective vectors (microbes)
="lstsrd">2. elementary particles (quarks)
="lstsrd">3. biomolecular ="trms">codes (genes)


view of the ="trms">relationship of body and ="trms">language (the problem of ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor)
those of us who would still like to talk about reality

imagery of moves in the fully textualized and ="trms">coded ="trms">world
high tech (military) field

recognizing our own ‘="trms">semiotic ="trms">technologies’ for making meanings,
life is ="trms">semiotic as well as ="trms">technology

(commitment='qstn'>?) to faithful accounts of a ‘real’ ="trms">world

="ppl">="ppl">Haraway ="trms">writes='lgc'>: All components of the desire are paradoxical and d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous, and their combination is both contradictory and necessary.

We need the power of ="trms">modern critical theories of how meanings and bodies get made, not in order to deny meaning and bodies, but in order to live in meanings and bodies that have a chance for a future. (reductionism='qstn'>?)

insist on the ="trms">embodied ="trms">nature of all vision, and so reclaim the sensory ="trms">system that has been used to signify a leap out of the marked body and into a conquering gaze from nowhere. (how the exhibition can make visible my ="trms">positing in the work='qstn'>? ground me in an ="trms">embodied vision='qstn'>? my ="trms">situation. to ="trms">situate me. not necessarily organic ="trms">embodiment='qstn'>? what have i need to learn in my bodies='qstn'>?)

="trms">perverse capacity of the eye

culture dis="trms">embodies. (="trms">nature ="trms">embodies='qstn'>?)
to distance the knowing subject from everybody and everything

visualizing ="trms">technologies are without (apparent) limit='qstn'>?

linked to='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-artificial graphic manipulation ="trms">systems
="prgrph">-computer aided scanners
="prgrph">-colour enhancement ="trms">techniques

mapping is at stake. what kind of mapping the Kinect image provides='qstn'>? that is op="trms">posite to the zeiss lens='qstn'>?

how to go there with the ="trms">technology and not fuck the ="trms">world='qstn'>? carefully not give birth to mythical ideological seeing or promising transcendence

Kinect's generative, but not devouring vision

="large lg1" stl="font-size:142%"> the ="trms">perversion of the zeiss lens is in that it tries to let the viewer ‘experience’ the moment of discovery in immediate vision of the ‘object’

="large lg14" stl="font-size:123%"> the exhibition is about a ="trms">writing of the body that ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorically emphasizes vision
= and commit to deconstruction and passionate construction.
= and passionate detachment, which is dependent on the impossibility of innocent ‘identity’ politics and ="trms">epistemologies as strategies for seeing from (any) standpoints, in order to see well. (refer to ="trms">lecture-performance Standing on the Shoulders of Giants - ="frds">Sina ="frds">Seifee 2015, on a critical ="trms">epistemology of seeing-from-far)
= whom to see with='qstn'>?

="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>: only partial perspective promises objective vision. This is an objective vision that initiates, rather than closes off, the problem of ="trms">responsibility for the generativity of all visual practices.

The ‘eyes’ made available in ="trms">modern ="trms">technological ="trms">sciences shatter any idea of passive vision='qstn'>? these prosthetic devices show us that all eyes, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding our own organic ones, are active perceptual ="trms">systems, building in ="trms">translations and ="trms">specific ways of seeing, that is, ways of life.


partial way of organizing ="trms">worlds

is unlocatable ir="trms">responsible='qstn'>?
is my visual exhibition a knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge claim='qstn'>?

To see from below (or the perspective of the mathematics, Kinect, hacker='qstn'>?) is neither easily learned nor unproblematic

ways of being nowhere while claiming to see comprehensively (i did not claim any of these - i didn't try even. i was there ="trms">traveling with ="trms">relation to my co-="trms">travelers and a ="trms">technology ="trms">relation) my issue with the images is their generality and perhaps that is their unlocatablilty. but to ="trms">situate my knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and myself i am not solely depending on the image ="trms">rhetoric. i was committed to mobile ="trms">positioning, and that is critical.


mediate vision

knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge potent for constructing ="trms">worlds
trying to be less organized by axes of domination

="trms">Science has been utopian and visionary from the start='qstn'>? that is one reason ‘we’ need it.

my eye were ="trms">crafted by the blood of mosquitoes...

="trms">translations and exchanges, ="trms">material and ="trms">semiotic
what has the property of ="trms">systematicity in my Amazon='qstn'>?
orientations and ="trms">responsibility in ="trms">material ="trms">semiotic fields of meaning.

is Here, Kinect's vision not immediately a very powerful ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor or ="trms">technology (for political ="trms">epistemological clarification)='qstn'>?

The visual ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor invites us to investigate the varied ="trms">apparatuses of visual production, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding the prosthetic ="trms">technologies ="trms">interfaced with our biological eyes and brains.

should i have an argue for (politics and) ="trms">epistemologies of location, ="trms">positioning, and ="trms">situating='qstn'>?

="large lg6" stl="font-size:127%"> view from a structuring and structured body

we ="trms">love stuttering, and the partly understood

="trms">Translation is always ="trms">interpretative, critical, and partial

Amazon (location) resists (the politics of) closure

logic of culture (="trms">nature made flexible)

="trms">science ="trms">coded body
black ="trms">coded body
colonised ="trms">coded body
="trms">coded as self sufficient (when='qstn'>?)

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the project and me are not boundary object (i am not tarzan)

suppress the lost text of aristotle on the ="trms">rhetoric of humor


how can something work and not work='qstn'>?!

mathematical competition


what is the other ="trms">story (of forest, journey, etc.) that i want urgently tell='qstn'>?
or the rhythm of what ="trms">story i want to change='qstn'>?

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In 1905 the French ="trms">neurologists G. Deny and P. Camus recounted the case of Madame I who had lost body awareness. She described her “general insensibility” as follows='lgc'>: “I'm no longer aware of myself as I used to be. I can no longer feel my arms, my legs, my head, and my hair. I have to touch myself constantly in order to know how I am. I have the feeling that my entire body is changed, even at times that it no longer exists. I touch an object, but it is not I who am touching it. I no longer feel as I used to. I cannot find myself. I cannot ="trms">imagine myself. My insensibility is f="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rightening, as if everything were empty.” Madame I was unable to recognize the ="trms">position of her arms and legs and was completely insensitive to pain. ="trms">According to Israel ="ppl">Rosenfeld's thesis, Madame I was unable to know her body as part of her ="trms">memory. (her brain could not create a ="nms">body image) She could not ="trms">imagine, or create in her mind, images of parents or the houses where she had lived. Lacking a continuous image of herself, she could re-create momentary images only when she was verifying to herself that she had a body. (see Strange, Familiar and Forgotten pp 40-42)

“If all self-reference were destroyed, consciousness and understanding would not be possible.

“Meaning and understanding are parts of the structure of consciousness that emerge from self-reference; they cannot exist without a ="nms">body image.” (p.55)

“Self-reference is not a hypothetical idea but a de="trms">monstrable part of the structure of consciousness; a partial breakdown in the physiological mechanisms that create it give us the ="trms">phenomenon of ="nms">phantom limbs.” (p.56)



Two English ="trms">neurologists, Lord Russell Brain and Henry Head (!) coined the phrase “="nms">body image” for the ="trms">internal image and ="trms">memory of one's body in space and time. The ="nms">body image is not only a picture of the body but also an anticipatory plan for the detailed movements of the body, and rather than a fixed structure, it is dynamic and plastic, capable of reorganizing itself radically with the ="trms">contingencies of experience.

The ="nms">body image can also incorporate external object, implements, and ="trms">instruments. When they are being used, they can become intimate, vital, even libidinally cathected parts of the ="nms">body image.



(Don ="ppl">="ppl">Ihde='lgc'>:) “To ="trms">embody one's praxis through ="trms">technologies is ultimately an existential ="trms">relation with the ="trms">world.” (="trms">Technology and Life="trms">world, p.72)

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> ="trms">Embodied ="trms">relations such as the experience of “seeing through” glasses (or the use of hearing aids, blind man's cane, or driving a car) take the ="trms">technology into the perceptual-bodily self-experience. The mediating ="trms">technology becomes part of the ="nms">body image, and achieves “="trms">instrumental transparency”

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