[...]on 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.

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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> 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

(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'>]

='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

='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[...]