[...]wly 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'>==> “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'>==> 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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="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> 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


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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:148%"> ="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

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’

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.

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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

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> 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.

="large lg5" stl="font-size:168%"> 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 [...]