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(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
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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'>?)
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="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.
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'>?
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'>?)
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
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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)
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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 [...]