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(i am drawn to and by ="trms">excess, and i am engaged in it='lgc'>: in my ="trms">lectures, talkings, ="trms">writings, and I take it up also visually in my drawings. my ="nms">ajayeb hypertext search is ="trms">contingent and opportunistic, and its se="trms"nttrm="search">arches are non-="trms">systematic)
in ="nms">apass what my project is all about='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*="trms">loving to tell you about what i am ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading='strcls'>* (why it seams too difficult, complicated and impossible to understand!='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-“to provides a feast of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading pleasures”
holding each other's unasked-for patterns (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Luisa)
taking up each other patterns ='lgc'>[which are sometimes obvious, sometimes cryptic='lgc'>]
(what is the other name of the practices of “string figures” in ="nms">Iran='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>[stars, facts, ="trms">fabulations, “far”s, patternings,='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> all ="trms">cosmopolitical, ="trms">composes the “we”)
="lsts lst1">•a “we” com="trms">positional
="lsts lst1">•an “="nms">ajayeb” com="trms">positional
="lsts lst1">•
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="trms">anthropo="trms">cene ="trms">system thinking
="lsts lst1">•feedback loops
="lsts lst1">•thermodynamics ='and'>& 18th century mathematics (='lgc'>=/= hyperbolic mathematics in ‘crochet’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">excess of surface, ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">story of ="trms">interface)
="lsts lst1">•comparative ="trms">interpretive thinking (a dominant western model of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge production='lgc'>--which i am using!)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">modern synthesis='lgc'>: restrictive ="trms">system theories within evolutionary theories
="lsts lst1">•="trms">systems idea
="lsts lst1">•
='strcls'>*“The global scale takes precedence='lgc'>--because it is the scale of the model.”='strcls'>* ="ppl">Tsing
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
Bi="trms">lingual ="trms">Stories for Ajayeb ="trms">NatureCultures
(...="trms">stories ‘for’ ='lgc'>=/= ...="trms">stories ‘of’)
does Brexit and Trumplandia changes the landscape of English use as a ="trms">language='qstn'>?
the image of pedagogy ='lgc'>: ="trms">semiotic ="trms">apparatus (& ="trms">technological) (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ritual of Simpson strangling Bart)
(why am i cultivating the) ='strcls'>*non-inventive ="trms">imagination='strcls'>* (and its anti="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metabole ='lgc'>[or chiasmus, chiastic patterns of antithesis='lgc'>]='lgc'>: non-="trms">imaginitive invention)
often we find ourselves inventing everything (in political animation) ='lgc'>=/= to figure out what are we attached to
(in="trms">heriting something ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? being heir to something)
the ="trms">scientist inside me begs me to narrow my temporal scale, choose an epoch, let's say middle ages, choose a century let's say 15th, choose a year, choose a day, a moment, a micro-second slice of the cake of the milieu that you are ="trms">interested in, the instance in the bazar with Halaj in the sun and so on.
(my old school) ="trms">obligatory knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- salon of ="trms">scietific entertainment
='lgc'>}='lgc'>-> (is about creating) proper witness='strcls'>***
the ="trms">tropes i am building in my current research, do they help build a better ="nms">Iran='qstn'>? and how='qstn'>?
="trms">interms of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•an ="trms">ongoingness
="lsts lst1">•a commitment to a recent future thinking
‘homo-’='lgc'>: stuff of the soil, that figures of b="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right and sunny image of the same
='at'>#="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs and ="trms">syms='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•games
="lsts lst1">•="trms">technological designs
="lsts lst1">•plots
="lsts lst1">•mechanisms
="lsts lst1">•sfs
="lsts lst1">•="trms">jokes
="lsts lst1">•="trms">jests
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
critical ="trms">bestiaries
critique-="trms">bestiary
belonging='lgc'> = achievement (dastavard دستاورد) ='lgc'>+ violence (khoshunat خشونت)
...the ways we renounce the ="trms">world through the use of the word “real” and “really”
(="ppl">="ppl">Stengers='lgc'>:) weaving='lgc'>: not secular nor ="trms">religious, not traditional nor ="trms">modern, is ="trms">sensuous
='at'>#='lgc'>[nodes and notes='lgc'>]
the emptyland, terrestrial life, ‘per-’ instead of ‘her’ or ‘his’
="prgrph">-the way i started with ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway was through the way i ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read her notion of ‘critter,’ juju (جوجو) in ="trms">Farsi, jako junevar (جک جونور), little life animators often easy and ok to kill, a term in ="trms">farsi for kids that ="trms">worlds for them in particular ways
bio (“qualified life”) ='lgc'>=/= zoe, juju, “bare life” (="ppl">Agamben)='lgc'>: that which is killable ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?!='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that which must be transformed
='lgc'>[="trms">stories of o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginary ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion and com="trms">position of body='lgc'>]
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the form and function are having too tight fit. no no no!
(cities) being in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive but not ="trms">integrative
(setar ="trms">different ="trms">technique of vibrato and ="trms">measure for instance in Saba and Ghavami, which part of the finger or body, one works in certain way for one and not for the other musician ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the explicit unpacking of the activity ='lgc'>: what was formerly tacit ='lgc'>[zemni, khamush, ='lgc'>=/= habit='lgc'>] becomes dr="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged into explicit ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= expressive='lgc'>] consciousness, precisely because there is a resistance, that there is something not ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right for the musician ='lgc'>==> reconsidering, reexploring ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">technique then again disappears into the tacit realm ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">technique becomes variegated)
='strcls'>**tacit ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> explicit (='lgc'>~= that which becomes available for reconsideration)='strcls'>**
when one masters a ="trms">skill it is about being ="trms">="trms">equipped to address a whole new set of problems
='lgc'>{expertise/mastery='lgc'>: problem solving='lgc'>}='lgc'>=/=='lgc'>{="trms">craft='lgc'>: problem finding='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> when other things become problematic='lgc'>='lgc'>---the condition (in the ="trms">craft work) that when you learn how to do one thing you see other things that need to be explored ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-> ="trms">question for ="frds scrmbld">Eunkyung's drawing ="trms">skills and practice='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*="trms">craft is more important than art(='qstn'>?) (="ppl">Sennett)
...='thdf'>the notion that the work art breaks the conventions of practice, that it is something that makes an ="trms">epistemic break. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> emphasis on innovation (something new)='lgc'>--that is a reflection of ="trms">sort of 19th century bourgeois ideas of about making art.
="lsts lst1">•privileging the creative act over the ="trms">craftsman act
="lsts lst1">•in innovation the “innovator” is separated from the “mass” ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">craftsmanship is collective and additive ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (in ="trms">craftsmanship) the performance is myself
="lsts lst1">•creativity being a form of individuation or separation (='at'>@the exploratory shift in ="frds scrmbld">Eunkyung's work that ="frds scrmbld">Pierre highlighted)
='strcls'>*** ="trms">craft-work is about additive ="trms">skill; it is about building on what you know rather than throwing it out ='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>=/= capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list logic of progress, creativity in the sense that ‘something’ where before was ‘nothing’) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">different way of building quality (into practices and objects)
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="ppl">Bakhtin's dialogic, to become a ="trms">skilled ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listener ='lgc'>: ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening='lgc'> = ="trms">response (='lgc'>=/= simply answering) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (when we speak) we give other people talismans that are not (perfectly) clear to us='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----we penetrate and unpack what someone doesn't have the words clearly and ="trms">response to what they intend ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “common understanding,” “make something work,”
cooperation is about getting deeper into something
conditions that more ="trms">skills are required (and not the op="trms">posite)
in ="trms">modernity everything seams to need to be ="trms">verbalized. what happens to the un="trms">verbalized, the unprogrammatic='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> can you have an implicit ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right which can't be ="trms">verbalized='qstn'>? maybe no, maybe this is the limit of the ="trms">social...
purposiveness='lgc'>: when you hear somebody go “i am going to put clearly what we all want...” you have submitted to that person (almost ="trms">erotic) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “they really know who they are” ='lgc'>==> you become a ="trms">spectator to their de="trms">finiteness
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who the fuck='lgc'> = theology
how the fuck='lgc'> = ="trms">="trms">empiricism
what the fuck='lgc'> = ="trms">ontology
how the what the fuck='lgc'> = ="trms">epistemology
why what the fuck='lgc'> = ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics
why the fuck='lgc'> = ethics
why give a fuck='lgc'> = teleology
the fuck itself='lgc'> = ="trms">phenomenology
fucked up='lgc'> = pathology
fuck all='lgc'> = nihilism
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="frds scrmbld">Aela to ="frds scrmbld">Sven='lgc'>: “everytime you disappoint me you gain in depth” (5 April 2017)
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(06.04.2017) ='prcnt'>%notes after my ="nms">apass endweek ="trms">presentation='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•my implicit focus and energy on the body and its organs of ="trms">gesture that animates us
="lsts lst1">•="trms">loving telling you what i ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read
="lsts lst1">•giving you what i don't fully understand ='lgc'>=/= gift from above
="lsts lst1">•(in ="trms">lecture) to allow ="trms">language ="trms">greet the un="trms">verbalized
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(it is about) organizing my ="trms">memory
(it is about) that which comes to (my) mind, and “things” coming to minds
(it is about) the things I am told
__='lgc'>[these are perhaps other names of cognition, ="trms">affect, ="trms">memory, ="trms">semiotics, ="trms">history, in="trms">heritance, ="trms">figuration, ="trms">interface, thing-="trms">relations, huntology,='lgc'>]
__in our shared space where we let eachother in the effect of our ="trms">languages, I want to practice what comes to mind when I stand in front of you and your work, ask myself ‘what else’ comes to mind='qstn'>? in a sense, my project on ="nms">ajayeb is that kind of training
also in ="nms">apass i want “to catch you in your acts”
it is my privilege to recognize you (as...)
asking='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- what do I know='qstn'>?
="lstsrd">2- what am I told='qstn'>?
="lstsrd">3- (how getting good at to) explain what somebody else said
="lstsrd">1- the first ="trms">question has no clear answer, what i know is not placed somewhere in me, [...]