[...] ="prgrph">-how to stimulate ="trms">pragmatic ="trms">questions about how to ="trms">craft relevant knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='qstn'>?

speculation is all about ="trms">pragmatism


capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list speculation ='lgc'>: “one must speculate to accumulate” ='lgc'>=/= relating ='and'>& ="trms">narrating

="trms">scientific speculation ='and'>& venture capital ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> big ="trms">epistemic/financial pay-offs or costly dead ends ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">="ppl">Stengers's notion of speculative) ='strcls'>*being at risk with ones claims='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= received notions of ="trms">authority or rationality='lgc'>]

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> (an abstract challenge='lgc'>:) to bring ="trms">specificity and ="trms">imaginative traction

='strcls'>*speculation is a more feral practice
(="trms">wild) speculation ='lgc'>[always improper='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=/= proper ="trms">science ='lgc'>: rational production of univerasal knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="prgrph">-speculation is not about what there is but what there might be
="prgrph">-speculation is on the side of the possible ='lgc'>=/= probable (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Stengers)

speculative operations (quietly) insist that ='strcls'>*another ="trms">world is here='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my ="nms">ajayeb) ='lgc'>=/= the smooth operation of business-as-usual (,, ="trms">interrupting it)

for my ="nms">ajayeb, how can i carve out a space to nurture my idea='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nest-building ='lgc'>--="trms">position/place='lgc'>='lgc'>--> digging out a bit of earth

='strcls'>*speculative ="trms">="trms">empiricism ='lgc'>: ="trms">scientific ='lgc'>+ ="trms">narrative
working with ="nms">ajayeb so that it might stimulate a specualtive ="trms">="trms">empiricism for ="trms">composing more livable ="trms">worlds ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">ajayeb's storied biospheres

="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................

='thdf'>the notion of ‘magic’ in popular TV series, such as ‘Harry Potter’ franchise and ‘The Magicians’ among many others, and ="trms">instrumentalization. magic as information ="trms">technology that is completely ="trms">instrumentalized. the capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ideology of ‘tool’ and ‘usefulness’ are insinuated heavily in the hipster figures of ‘The Magicians’ in the way that they ="trms">interupt ="trms">history and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge-burdened living. “stop the ="trms">history lessen! tell me how do we kill the ="trms">beast with it='qstn'>?” (the stupidity of the hipster hero moving through the matrix of merely teleological ="trms">phenomena, stripping pleasure off thinking...)
(utopian='qstn'>?)

what a magic spell is good for if it is not a leverage='qstn'>?

='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
The Magicians and The Absolute Freedom and Terror

(‘The Magicians’='lgc'>:) magic='lgc'>: ="trms">instrumentalizing the logos
knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is ="trms">literal ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> magic spells are ="trms">literal ='lgc'>{the result of magic spell is predetermined='lgc'>}. in this case, the magic is both an ="trms">instrument of power and r="trms">enunciation of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
(="ppl">Heideggerian) ="trms">techne of the Western project is an ="trms">instrumentality that takes over, arrests, or enframes what it desires to manipulate or contain. (="ppl">="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian ="ppl">Hubert's notes)
='lgc'>=/= ="trms">poiesis, a bringing-forth (in ="ppl">Heidegger='lgc'>: blooming of the blossom) (also ="trms">Greek)

="large lg1" stl="font-size:134%"> “='lgc'>[(for the ="trms">techno-="trms">monster-magicians) everything is='lgc'>] ="trms">code to be cracked”

a kind of fantasies that Don ="ppl">="ppl">Ihde calls ="trms">techno-fantasy, which have been part of the transhumanism since 19th century

the toxic distinction between ="trms">techne from ="trms">episteme (since ="ppl">Homer). ‘The Magician’ sug="trms">gests magic as a ="trms">technology or tool apart from its context of involvements and referentialities ='lgc'>: a hermeneutic or alterity ="trms">relation ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Heidegger='lgc'>:) the tool is an ="trms">embodiment ="trms">relation
(one of the characters even states that humans without magic invented computers as replacement)

‘The Magician’ dismisses the generation of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in the praxis of tool-use. ="trms">science/magic is ="trms">pragmatic ="trms">relation of ="trms">="trms">equipment or tools as ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready-to-hand. the ideology of a knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">relation='lgc'>: magic (as tool) is ="trms">present-at-hand ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ontological ="trms">relationship to the ="trms">world (='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>--the characters want to go and have an icecream when they are finished with all the magical fights.)
this notion of magic as tool (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">epistemological object) in use achieves (what Don ="ppl">="ppl">Ihde calls) ='strcls'>*="trms">instrumental transparency='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> It “withdraws” when in use, but becomes conspicuous again when broken or missing ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this is precisely the standard account of ="trms">technology in high-="trms">techno-="trms">scientific capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list sunny ="trms">societies='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>the idea that magicians can “forget” (or “lose”) their magic sug="trms">gests a guarantor of ="trms">instrumental transparency of magic (or knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge).
="prgrph">-the popular vision of magic hinges around the desire for total transparency='strcls'>**
="prgrph">-this ="trms">instrumental rationality is the heart of the ="trms">modernizing project (which characterizes capitalism) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the value-free calculable efficiency of administrative processes (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a project of domination and denial of dependence) (='lgc'>=='qstn'>?='lgc'>=> Auschwitz)

(how to make The Magician's bounded utilitarian individualism unthinkable='qstn'>?)

(Frankfurt School='lgc'>:) ="trms">technology ='lgc'>~= ="trms">instrumental reason ='lgc'>~= reification (madiat, jesmiat) as reason
(="ppl">Habermas='lgc'>:) ="trms">systems rationality, economic and bureaucratic rationality (='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> patterns of meaning rendered functional) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">communicative processes that sustain the life="trms">world

the same ="ppl">Platonic tradition produces='lgc'>: ='lgc'>{theory ='lgc'>=/= practice='lgc'>} ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ='lgc'>{mind ='lgc'>=/= body='lgc'>} ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ='lgc'>{"conceptual” ='lgc'>=/= “="trms">material"='lgc'>} (and privileging one over the other)
(for the Frankfurt School) truth='lgc'> = "a moment of correct praxis”

what is at stake is the way ‘The Magician’ heroes’ way of non-relating to an entire environment and with it to an implicit “="trms">world” that they inhabit.
...that ="trms">science is an ‘account’ of reality not a ‘tool’ for coping with it
...when the ="trms">world and the ="trms">instrument ="trms">interact
descriptions of the affordances of indissoluble ="trms">instrument / ="trms">world complexes are at stake

then how can we think magic/knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge/="trms">science without ="trms">instrumentalization (‘something in order to’)='qstn'>?


='thdf'>the notion of ‘="trms">world’ and ‘="trms">worlding’ in other Hollywood sci-fi franchises, and the way a ="trms">world (='thdf'>for example survival in Mars in ‘The Martian,’ surviving “outer space” in ‘Gravity,’ “pure ="trms">wonder” and “="trms">abyssal unknown” in many Icarusian space exploration moves and movies, the deprived Earth in ‘="trms">Interstellar,’ and so on) is rendered dead or d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous or prosperous, ideologies of ="trms">anthropocentric extensionalism.

(this directly concerns my ="nms">ajayeb ="nms">apass research about the ="trms">past, because hollywood constantly making ="trms">science ="trms">fictions about the ="trms">past.)

='lgc'>[as much as Matt Damon is ="trms">schizo-constructing a ="trms">social environment (on “dead” Mars trying to contact “home”), ="nms">Cinderella's ="trms">schizo-="trms">affective ="trms">relation with the talking ="trms">animals is doing the same='lgc'>: talking back to a ="trms">world that talks to her, where Matt is only able to talk to home station. I think we have better chances with ="nms">Cinderella's kind of split personality.='lgc'>]


="trms">Modernity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “Project of Enlightenment” ='lgc'>: ="trms">religion ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">science ='lgc'>+ morality ='lgc'>+ art ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->  objective ="trms">science ='lgc'>+ universal morality ='lgc'>+ law  ='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>--='lgc'>{each with its own “inner logic"='lgc'>}
(="ppl">Luhmann; ="trms">transition to ="trms">modern='lgc'>:) stratified and hierarchical organization ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “functionally ="trms">differentiated” organization
(project of ="trms">modernity requires) a universally assumed but nowhere concretely localizable life="trms">world='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges)
="trms">modern person ='lgc'>: the self-fulfilling and self-justifying observing subject

="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................

(="ppl">Freud's) ego='lgc'>: the record of abandoned object cathexes
(cathexes ='lgc'>~= electrical charge; the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object)

="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................
="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%">
(15.02.2017) three objects from ="nms">apass='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-="trms">complaint
="prgrph">-evidence
="prgrph">-monologue


="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................
="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%">
on futurity; in SF capital (Mark Fisher) the information (somewhere between cybernetic futurism and “New Economy”) is a direct generator of economic value ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ‘the information about the future’ circulates as as increasingly important commodity='strcls'>* (="ppl">Eshun)

SF='lgc'>: engineering feedback between its preferred future and its becoming ="trms">present ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> future ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> manufacturing tools capable of ="trms">intervention (='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? disruption; the Sun Ra, character in the movie The Place is The Space, disrupts when he enters the youth ="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">club.)

='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Ale ='lgc'>--her='lgc'>='lgc'>--> predatory features/futures ='lgc'>: (a space for researching='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>] dimensions of) anticipatory designs, projects of emulation, manipulation, parasitism, ="trms">interpellation into a b="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right corporate tomorrow ='lgc'><== faces smiling at screens (='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? a bitter ="trms">joke)
="prgrph">-in her criticism of “eurocentrism” how are afrofuturism and arabfuturism located='qstn'>? (curatorial) let's invite them as her allies in Hansaring Studio.

counter="trms">memorial mediated practices

="large lg5" stl="font-size:158%"> ="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................

خودشیفتگی khodshiftegi='lgc'>:
='lgc'>[="trms">narcissistic personality disorder='lgc'>]
(exaggerated feeling of) self-importance, self-absorbed, self-perception of being unique, ="trms">situated within self-="trms">presentation, sense of entitlement حق به جانب and self-centeredness schema
adult ="trms">neurotic[...]