[...]hronic ="trms">world where there is no effective arrow of time

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">synchronization='lgc'>: the work that it takes to bring the various bits of the ="trms">world into a single archival framework='strcls'>*** (with their ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors and strategies) ='lgc'>==permit='lgc'>='lgc'>==> cohabitation of discipliness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**="trms">synchronization of the ="trms">social and ="trms">natural ="trms">worlds to the same temporality='strcls'>**
(="trms">synchronization is always at work and is ="trms">technologically determined)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> conjuring of the ="trms">social and ="trms">natural ="trms">world into forms that render themselves amenable to recording ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (imperial records) archiving changes the ="trms">world ='and'>& creates a record of it ='lgc'>--="ppl">Derrida='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sequential ='and'>& jussive (imperative)
='lgc'>+ ="trms">scientific work epitomized the developement and ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorous application of these procedures (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Serres's o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of ="trms">geometry and ="trms">greek empire)
='strcls'>***="trms">synchronization brings ="trms">material forms (commodity flow, train ="trms">travel) together and when geological and ="trms">historical time are mapped into the same time ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical ='and'>& ideological ='and'>& ="trms">material ="trms">interact (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> emerging powerful possibilities) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in art we also do a lot of ="trms">syncing and ="trms">synchronization (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this is perhaps what ="frds scrmbld">Pierre meant by saying that rese="trms"nttrm="search">archers are creating their own ="trms">science)='lgc'>]


time management, a central issue in industrialization
Babbage='lgc'>: clock='lgc'> = regulator of time

industrial ="trms">world-knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> importance of the division of the ="trms">history of the earth into equal periods of time

information drive (a drive ='strcls'>*to save as little information as possible about something='strcls'>*)

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> (="ppl">="ppl">Latour's) oligopticon='lgc'>: special places where the micro-structures of macro-="trms">phenomena are ="trms">crafted, local activities become a “bigger” issue (such as parliaments, courtrooms, offices), where ="trms">different strands of “macro-="trms">social” ="trms">phenomena are weaved
="prgrph">-they see much too little, but what they see, they see it well (='lgc'>=/= total sur="trms">veillance of panopticon)


watch (from 1800 to 1820 at least 100000 clocks and watches were produced every year)

“clockwork ocean” with waves and cycles of salinity as “balance wheels”
(="ppl">="ppl">Bowker > Graham Burnett > Fontaine Maury)

='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> imposing a ='strcls'>**temporally mediated qualitative ="trms">difference between the creator and created='strcls'>** (instantiated on the factory floor and in ="trms">nature) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> creators stood outside regular space and time (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges)

(19th century) ="trms">scientific work='lgc'> = im="trms">position of a re="trms">presentative framework of regular space and time on ="trms">social and ="trms">natural time
(="trms">science was and still is) making ="trms">society confirm to the same spatiotemporal re="trms">presentational framework it was/is “discovering” in ="trms">nature (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to the ='at'>#="trms">scientification of christian genesis in Nolan's Noah film)
='strcls'>*im="trms">position of a regular spatiotemporal re="trms">presentational framework='strcls'>*='lgc'> = (="ppl">="ppl">Bowker's) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]convergence (a key aspect of ="trms">synchronization)='lgc'>: a ="trms">cosmology (inspired by factory production) of ="trms">nature and humanity='lgc'>--to make ="trms">science, art and politics converge more and more towards the same goal, to introduce to them ='thdf'>the notion of change, progress, succession, continuity, life, submit them to the same law (of constancy and uniformity)
="lsts lst1">•in astronomy='lgc'>: (1836) “the return of the comet of Halley at its predicted time has been remarked with intense curiosity and satisfaction by astronomers, and by the public. this has now become a regular and well ordered ="trms">member of our ="trms">system” (='lgc'>=/= ="nms">ajayeb)

='strcls'>*re="trms">presentational framework of temporal regularity='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> one can ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read backward into the ="trms">past and forward into the future (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'># sequential ="trms">palindromic time)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tale of the real archive ='lgc'>: tale of stasis ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “violent care”='lgc'>: preservation of current ="trms">species and the im="trms">position of stasis='lgc'>] ='lgc'>: single law ='lgc'>: (the ="trms">fable of='lgc'>:) “perturbations and oscillations providing noise that true understanding would filter out”


="trms">fable of industry='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•how humanity had gone from being initially weak to currently king of ="trms">nature ='lgc'>: “industry='lgc'> = second ="trms">nature”

="lsts lst1">•art submits to ="trms">science
="lsts lst1">•industry recognizes ="trms">science for its regulator


chaotic spacelike, lacking direction and granularity

working of ="trms">childhood marked by staccato ="trms">syncopation (='lgc'>=/= regular rhythms)

machine regularizes “man”='lgc'>: processes ="trms">synchronizing him to industrial time
mechanical uniformity became the “="trms">natural” state of affairs


Face="trms">book within the spirit of industry ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “under the ='lgc'>[spirit of industry's='lgc'>] influence, people will begin by grouping themselves more ="trms">naturally ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] people will come closer together, mass ="trms">according to their real analogies and ="trms">according to their real ="trms">interests ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] the same ideas will circulate in all countries ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] uniformity of costumes ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] the same needs, a similar civilization, will develope everywhere ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] without confusion or violence, ="trms">relations both as complex and as easy, as peaceful and as profitable as may be” -Charles Dunoyer


ufs (unidentified flying subject)
ufo


arguments about rates of change='lgc'> = about facts of change

eternal, unchanging ="trms">present


train ="trms">traveler looking out the window
a ="ppl">Newtonian ="trms">world of abstract qualities size, shape, quanity, motion
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> space out of the window of a moving train='lgc'>: a new kind of geographical re="trms">presentation, abstract and regular


(a problem in management='lgc'>:) “time had conspired with capital to annihilate space
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Sana

='lgc'>[a ‘second ="trms">nature’ being created='lgc'>] railway (='lgc'>+ telegraph) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> commodification ='lgc'>+ ="trms">communication

in our trip to Rivage with ="frds scrmbld">Marialena we were in terested in signs in the built landscape, the “second ="trms">nature” in the ="trms">nature of Rivage, which were “concrete ="trms">embodiments of the environmental partitioning that made farming possible”

a heterogeneous collection of lived spaces and ="trms">histories
a heterogeneous collection of lives and spaces

why ="trms">translation must be a monopoly (="trms">according to railway)='lgc'>:
you need centralized bureaucracy and effective monopoly in order to operate with efficiency ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] you could not have every train running on its own (loca) time ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (Bahn railway map =) a re="trms">presentation that permit efficient operation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*an absolute time and annihilated space='strcls'>*

(industrialization ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) railway/railroads ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> basic accounting ="trms">techniques used by American business enterprise (into the 20th century)
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> infrastructural ="trms">technology='lgc'>: organizational form (accounting ="trms">techniques, reports, etc.) ="trms">synchronized with its own impact on the ="trms">world (regularizing it) providing both a ='strcls'>***="trms">material and ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical implusion='strcls'>*** (to order its forms of inquiry/activity)


='at'>@="nms">apass monday ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading
means of new infrastructural ="trms">technobody ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">techno="trms">scientific re="trms">presentations ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (dual process of) commodification (railway) ='lgc'>+ re="trms">presentation (abstract space-time)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “you need to be able to re="trms">present the ="trms">world in a ='strcls'>*coherent and standard='strcls'>* form ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ ="trms">databases='lgc'>] in order to run railways ='lgc'>[or program ="trms">language operation='lgc'>] and deal in commodities

increasingly less well-defined boundaries ='lgc'>--="ppl">Serres='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we need analytic ="trms">categories that allow us to account for the unified re="trms">presentational time and space applied to both bureaucratic and ="trms">scientific work ='lgc'>--(Sohn-Rethel)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="trms">relationship between) ='strcls'>**commodity form and the process of intellectual abstraction='strcls'>** ='lgc'>[-abstractness governs the whole orbit of commodity form='lgc'>]. when commodity is up for sale, it is by de="trms">finition not to be used; it exists in a kind of “frozen time” outside the normal flow of time. it moves in an abstract spatiotemporal ="trms">world (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= “second ="trms">nature"='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> cognitive faculty of conceptual things='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=/= concrete ="trms">world of “first ="trms">nature”)
='strcls'>*import='strcls'>* the ideal abstraction basic to ="trms">greek philosophy and to ="trms">modern ="trms">science


="trms">systematizers

nested series of regions

="trms">synchronic extension ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “trace” back records in ="trms">past='lgc'>: indian empire preceded edgyptian preceded persian preceded western. a second ="trms">world, Europe, is contained within larger ="trms">world (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= european union) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="trms">fable of the “step by step”='lgc'>:) man has step by step, broken with this ="trms">natural asian ="trms">world, and constructed, through industry and trial a ="trms">world informated by liberty ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my german orientation course, “='thdf'>that is why refugees are coming here"='lgc'>]


="trms">fable='lgc'>: ="trms">history as the tale of struggle (='lgc'>~ liberty against fatality)

(glorious) race into the future


temps
="lsts lst1">•time
="lsts lst1">•weather


(i have been working against='lgc'>:) “the irrelevance of the ="trms">past for a purified real ="trms">present (which ="ppl">="ppl">Bowker underlines in Lyell's work)

syllogism صغرى کبرى
soghra kobra

senility kohulat


='strcls'>**="trms">database
(replacing syllogism) principle of the ='strcls'>*division of labor='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">simultaneity of groups (of people) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “the succession of acts of which a single act is ="trms">composed, is the same thing as the succession of diverse works necessary to arrive at a result which is nevertheless single.” (this) succession ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> division of labor


“there is not context only text” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> when you get to Paris, upbringing and race are irrelevant to a person's actions. contemporary humanity would move completely outside the flow of ="trms">narrative time


1830s geology
="trms">history='lgc'>: a ="trms">science of singularity and secular change
earth='lgc'>: records of catastrophic events that ="trms">affected the body terrestrial (much as political events ="trms">affected the body politic)
(Lyell ='lgc'>+ Buchez ='lgc'>+ Michelet ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) (reconfigured the ="trms">world from) a ='strcls'>*tapestry of tales='strcls'>*='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> random access ="trms">memory/archive ='lgc'>[RAM='lgc'>]='strcls'>****

isotropic spatiotemporal analysis

glitterati
glitter ='lgc'>+ ="trms">literati
(framed people='lgc'>: made ="trms">fashionable and beautiful)


Lyell's time='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- time='lgc'>: passive container ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> attempt to give a chronology to the ="trms">history of the earth, to trace its o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin or deny that there is any evidence that it has o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin
="lstsrd">2- time='lgc'>: process ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> attempt to pick out certain types of changes that are invariably as="trms">sociated with the ="trms">history of the earth at any age ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> RAM='lgc'>] and are thus in a sense a feature of time itself


="ppl">="ppl">Bowker ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading consistant patterning in Lyell's ="trms">writing, finds that in his work in each disparate quotes that ="ppl">="ppl">Bowker ="trms">cites='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the part='lgc'>: (is take as) varying, ="trms">liable to be created or destroyed
="lsts lst1">•(='lgc'>=/=) the whole='lgc'>: immutable and eternal (just like Buchez's ="trms">society)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">fable of ‘="trms">nature as a whole’
='lgc'>[='lgc'>==asserting='lgc'>='lgc'>==> that no hybrid had ever achieved a permanent niche on earth='lgc'>]='strcls'>**
that ="trms">nature keeps a check on the whole process by organizing flora and fauna into “nations”
='lgc'>[='lgc'>==asserting='lgc'>='lgc'>==> nothing can survive long outside its nation='lgc'>]='strcls'>** (='lgc'>=/= cyborg)

“cycle” of years ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a region
a climatic great year ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> earth over time
“revolutions” of the earth's surface ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">species change

industrial revolution, reaching its peak as Lyell was ="trms">writing
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the stillness, the ='strcls'>***ineluctable equilibrium between creation and destruction='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>=/= other facts available to Lyell's contemporaries)

(="trms">fable, a powerful myth still stalking our collective discourse today='lgc'>:) that human time was going faster now than it ever had in the ="trms">past ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> give humanity a privileged ="trms">position within the geological record
(a ="trms">different time for geology)


='strcls'>**='lgc'>[clockwork mechanism='lgc'>]

how geology in the 19th century shaped our contemporary ideas of ="trms">database
="prgrph">-(earth is an archivist, but a bad one, it is up to the geologist to pull together information ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{ earth creates false records ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> humands create false records through mudging the earth's annals with mules, hybrids, and ="trms">monsters ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> geologist can ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read between the lines ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> true record of stasis)
the earth's archival ="trms">technology ='lgc'>+ efficient use of information ="trms">technology

astronomy was in the 19th century the ="trms">science of regularity ='lgc'>: all the apparent perturbations in the earth's orbit were reckoned to be embedded in cycles of varying duration ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> universe='lgc'> = effectively clockwork mechanism

(for an archivist ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ Lyell='lgc'>]='lgc'>:) earth='lgc'> = special kind of clock, an ='strcls'>*hourglass='strcls'>*

(astronomy ='lgc'>+ geology ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) (a contemplation of) the regular clockwork mechanism that seemed to govern both the heavens and the earth ='lgc'>[='lgc'>+ Babbage='lgc'>: judged that human ="trms">history was in its underlying tendency equally regular='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>***first and second ="trms">nature converge ="trms">onto a timeless ="trms">present and an anisotropic flow of time='strcls'>***

='strcls'>*anisotropic='lgc'>: having a physical property which has a ="trms">different value when ="trms">measured in ="trms">different directions. (wood is stronger along the grain than across it, or anisotropic filtering in computer graphic rendering at oblique viewing angles)
="prgrph">-varying in magnitude ="trms">according to the direction of ="trms">measurement. (electron scattering is anisotropic) ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> ="trms">palindromic time

='strcls'>*isotropic='lgc'>: having a physical property which has the same value when ="trms">measured in ="trms">different directions. not varying in magnitude ="trms">according to the direction of ="trms">measurement


(my project='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>**picture of earth ="trms">sciences='strcls'>**
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">stories of macrocosm in ="ppl">Olearius)

picture of earth in 1830s='lgc'>:
earth itself as a kind of large information storage device not a very efficient one, but still remarkable ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->> the inefficiencies of the storage device could be mitigated (as Beaumont and Lyell pointed out) by redundencies in the recording process ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->> these redundencies could be perceived through efficient use of the new transport infrastructure (steamboat, train, etc.) ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->> then geology would converge with astronomy in calling forth a ="trms">historical time as regular and perfect as that of the clockwork solar ="trms">system (hymned as an accurate clock)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
“archival process ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= a ="trms">natural ="trms">technology” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> from ="trms">natural to ideal='lgc'>: archive being mediated by ="trms">technology marked by clockwork regularity
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “earth='lgc'> = clock” (as="trms">sociated with the triumph of industrial ="trms">society, because it ran like clockwork ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to german pünktlich punctuality='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> industrial time ="trms">writen into Lyell's geology='lgc'>: two ="trms">methods of factory production ='strcls'>*the division of labor='strcls'>* and the ='strcls'>*parceling up of time into regular units='strcls'>* are both ="trms">writen into time that Lyell created for the new discipline of geology
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> factory ='and'>& geology were the precisely the same problem='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*organization of time='strcls'>*


census
statistical record-keeping, a central ="trms">technology for a ="trms">modern state

statistical thinking


(this is Lyell in ="ppl">="ppl">Bowker's research on ="trms">memory practices in ="trms">sciences='lgc'>:)
through a ="trms">linguistic ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor, Lyell endeavored to explain the apparent a="trms">symmetry between ="trms">past and ="trms">present. this ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor brings out the peculiar centrality of humanity in Lyell's geology and thus the centrality of human ="trms">society to his problematic


idea of the ‘="trms">book of ="trms">nature’

(Lyell's logic) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we humans have access only to a limited and random grammar of the ‘="trms">book of ="trms">nature’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*burden of proof='strcls'>* lies with those with thier set of ='strcls'>*="trms">past causes='strcls'>* to explain the ="trms">past
='lgc'>[!!='lgc'>]

Lyell's geology is a kind of ="trms">bookkeeping device that allows the storage of vast amounts of information by ="trms">sorting them into a kind of filing cabinet of ="trms">different kinds of events (='lgc'>=/= ="nms">ajayeb)
(his work revolving around an understanding of archives)

Lyell's “economy of ="trms">nature”
principle of division of labor into the profession of geology ='lgc'>+ into the economy of ="trms">nature ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> cumulative reports in a stateless ="trms">present (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> calculus of regularity out of apparent chaos and old time


true ="trms">language of geology

(from a) groundwork ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> contemplation of more general ="trms">questions ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> complicated results ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{ inde="trms">finite lapse of ages ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the existing causes of change


(='qstn'>?="frds scrmbld">Marialena contributing to) earth's archive

scriptural ="trms">authority (='lgc'>=/= ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor)


halcyon future
ایام خوب گذشته ayam-e khub-e gozashte/ayande


when the center of calculation is in place, there is no need to move

="trms">past ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge developed catastrophically, and analysis were framed in terms of catastrophes
="trms">present ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge develops uniformly and analysis are framed in terms of continual steady change


Buchez ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">science would be the ="trms">agent that converged both human and ="trms">natural ="trms">history ="trms">onto iso="trms">morphic time='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[fantasy of ="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek='lgc'>]

="trms">symmetry between the ="trms">past of the geological discipline and of the earth


='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
="ppl">Freud's penis

="large lg54" stl="font-size:112%"> inscription of records ="trms">onto skin


the changes humanity has brought are (not of physical but of a) moral ="trms">nature

strange tale! ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it is the bestial part of humanity fitting into the economy of ="trms">nature, whereas civilized humanity operates in a ="trms">different dimension to ="trms">nature ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> creating the temporary appearance of an anomaly in “="trms">nature's ="trms">book”


='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*the time of the good record keeper='strcls'>*

time of God


sybarites (an ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbanite addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses)
sycophants (='lgc'>=/= a public informer)


incalculable, irrational ="trms">past seems to Lyell full of noise and cacophony irregularity


="trms">memory ensconced in ="trms">books (='lgc'>~ filtered ="trms">memory, rational ="trms">memory, part of the archive with its very clear point of o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin in printing) freed us from instict and brutality ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to TED talk ‘big ="trms">history’ by David ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian, ="trms">fable of printed record and progress of humanity tale='lgc'>]
(="ppl">="ppl">Bowker > Babbage='lgc'>:) until the invention of printing, “the mass of mankind were in many respects almost the creatures of instict” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “flood of light over the darkened intellects of their thankless countrymen”
(the spirit of 19th century ="trms">embodied in Babbage) making the ='strcls'>***act of making information='strcls'>*** such a key variable='lgc'>:
(print rational/archival ="trms">memory ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) new space and time ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (need for) regular working of the machines of ="trms">nature and the ="trms">world ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*regularization of time and the distribution of tasks='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a mythological operation='lgc'>]='lgc'><='lgc'>== infrastructural work='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•developement of computing (='lgc'>+ machineries)
="lsts lst1">•division of labor

Buckland ='lgc'>+ Babbage ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> complete knowability of the ="trms">Book of ="trms">Nature


information and ="trms">database theory (in genomics ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a core ="trms">science of our time)
archive ='lgc'>==(is central to ‘thinking about’ ='and'>& ‘="trms">writing down’ of)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> objects being studied


information explosion of the early 19th century ='lgc'>+ new ways of describing the ="trms">past


“locality of each geologist will be the terrestrial globe” (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> locality of ="ppl">Olearius)

heroic age ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> everyone constructed complete ="trms">systems (that are thrown up and down in cataclysmic succession ='lgc'>[!='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">question of artistic research='lgc'>]


...relics of the animate creation of former ages ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">science special effects, museum of continuity,='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]


indi="trms">finite space as filled with ="trms">worlds...


colossi

earthquakes
floods
storms

tranquil variations

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“second ="trms">nature”='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•(from) ="trms">past
="lsts lst1">•analytical constructs of extended ="trms">present


='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
='strcls'>***an irregular ="trms">past and a totalizing ="trms">memory='strcls'>***
(‘chaos’ characterized of/for archive ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> human ="trms">nature)

moral duty as humans ='lgc'>[!!='strcls'>**='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to recognize stasis at the heart of disorder ='strcls'>**** (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an ancient ="trms">fable, ="trms"nttrm="search">archetype) ='strcls'>*apperceive='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ perceive in terms of a ="trms">past experience, accumulative perception='lgc'>] ="trms">synchrony in the midst of diachrony='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ look for ="trms">historical changes/roots in ="trms">languages='lgc'>]='strcls'>* ='lgc'>+ to ="trms">sync (='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">synchronization='lgc'>: to bring ="trms">social and ="trms">natural time into a unified form ='lgc'><='lgc'>--through='lgc'>-- production and storage of records)
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Marialena

the metronomic ="trms">story
the mnemonic ="trms">story


='strcls'>***spatializing time='strcls'>***
(for humanity) going out in space, to India, to the Orient, or within France to Brittany or the Pyrennees, was going backward in time (='lgc'>~ mapping ="trms">technique ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">position of “humanity” out there nowhere ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> anomalous, moral, short term ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “impact” of ="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek crew(='lgc'>~ a cult of people who have unlocked the secret of life and the universe) on the ="trms">worlds they visit='lgc'>])
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> faceless ="trms">scientist working in a vast and effective machine (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway talks about the same)


new ="trms">memory practices
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>***lie at the heart of our ways of knowing (both ourselves and the ="trms">world)='strcls'>***
="lsts lst1">•they skew our available ="trms">ontological space

it seems our contemporary ="trms">memory practice is highly prosaic ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ german='qstn'>?='lgc'>] (='lgc'>=/= baroque)


='lgc'>[='strcls'>***mythological dimensions of new ="trms">memory practices:='lgc'>] (='strcls'>*there is a compelling connection between the information revolution as an economic fact and as a statement about the ="trms">nature of universe='lgc'>:)
19th century rationalization ='lgc'>+ bureaucracy (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> dramatic new information-processing and ="trms">communication ="trms">technologies) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> today's institutions='lgc'> = ='strcls'>**to oppose entropy='strcls'>** ='at'>@="nms">apass
DNA ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= global economy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">nature of existence ='and'>& new ="trms">technology ="trms">synchronized
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">history of ="trms">science as successive decentralization of human) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>***eschatological (base of) information revolution='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>: every ="trms">material structure or energy flow (='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali's pot carrier) could be used/seen to carry information
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (mediated in 19th century='lgc'>:)
="trms">nature of the universe ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">nature of humanity ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> organization of economy

information mythology ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ “information” can ="trms">travel anywhere and be made up of anything ='lgc'>~ “everything is information"='lgc'>]='lgc'> = ="trms">interface between the ="trms">social and ="trms">natural ="trms">worlds
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ‘a general statement about the ="trms">nature of information'='lgc'> = 'a general statement about the ="trms">nature of the universe’
(="ppl">="ppl">Bowker='lgc'>:) the new ="trms">memory modality was at root an economic process of ordering ="trms">social and ="trms">natural space and time so that “objective” information can circulate freely ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> democracy, ="trms">science='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> package the ="trms">world ='lgc'>+ make it deterministic
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (we must) make information ="trms">historical (again)='strcls'>*

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="ppl">Avital's work has concerned itself ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] with the fact that ="trms">technology is irremissible. Mary Shelley projected this view of ="trms">technology with her massive, monumental, com="trms">memorative work on the ="trms">technobody, which was the nameless ="trms">monster. The problem with (or opening for) ="trms">technology is that no one is or can stay behind the wheel, finally, and no one is in charge. And the way she has tried to route and circuit the thinking of ="trms">technology='lgc'>--indeed, in a posthumanist frame='lgc'>--exposes the extent to which it belongs to the domain of testing.

the contiguous neighborhoods of broken experience and rerouted ="trms">memory

the myths of liveness

='lgc'>[my='lgc'>] problem with television='lgc'>[/news='lgc'>] is that it exists in trauma
="prgrph">-trauma undermines experience and yet acts as its tremendous retainer
='strcls'>*trauma='lgc'>: a ="trms">memory that one cannot ="trms">integrate into one's own experience, and as a catastrophic knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that one cannot ="trms">communicate to others

the black-box of talking survival

="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Robin,Robot,Robert,Robocop">Robocop='lgc'>: highly complex cyborg (who came ="trms">="trms">equipped with ="trms">memory traces, superego, id, and='lgc'>--ever displacing the ego='lgc'>--a crypt)

court's frame-by-frame analysis of video ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> recording and human ="trms">memory ='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali

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which ‘well-defined terms,’ ='strcls'>*qualities of persistence='strcls'>*, object re="trms">pository, and identifier resolvers am i using in ="nms">ajayeb.net='qstn'>?
the performance of digital objects (and identifiers) (not treated as a simple binary property)
='strcls'>*(to retrieve) human- and machine-="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readable information='strcls'>*

persistence of ="trms">cited objects (in ="nms">ajayeb.net)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]persistence='lgc'>: a pre="trms">diction about an archive's commitment and capacity to provide some ="trms">specific kind of long-term functionality

which objects in ="nms">ajayeb.net are='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•strictly unchanging
="lsts lst1">•subject to correction
="lsts lst1">•subject to significant update


='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Calvert naming strategy='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an approach='lgc'>: to invent a term (a portmanteau word واژه مرکب از دو واژه) or choose an existing word that is unusual enough (rare, archaic) to make the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader hesitate to jump to a con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion about its meaning ='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[i used a ="trms">farsi word in english='lgc'>: zolmat, pir, tarof,='lgc'>]
nothing is permanent ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we call some things/objects/identifiers naively nuanced “persistent” or “not persistant”
(important ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>** of course, it is not a thing that resists change, it is the provider of a thing that resists or, more precisely, controls change ='strcls'>**

“reproducible ="trms">science needs ="trms">citations” ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- what is my ="nms">ajayeb ="trms">relation to this='qstn'>?

(i am modifying some of ="ppl">="ppl">Calvert's term='lgc'>:)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]identifier='lgc'>: an (always breakable) as="trms">sociation
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]actionable identifier='lgc'>: an identifier that can be acted upon by widely available ="trms">interpretive ="trms">systems ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]queryable='lgc'>: effectively leading to a ="trms">story
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]content='lgc'>: abstract substance ‘usually’ found in strings
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">history='lgc'>: a ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list of (not always all the) versions, (a human-="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readable document that describes the change='qstn'>?)

(="nms">ajayeb.net must always help users) guage the persistence commitments and abilities of re="trms">positories and archives ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- element names, values, and precise semantics are in flux

='strcls'>*content variance='strcls'>* in ="nms">ajayeb.net
(how did i or didn't perform/="trms">stage setting user expectations in my ="nms">apass re="trms">presentations of ="nms">ajayeb.net)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="trms">question of) ='strcls'>*objects that grow='strcls'>*, identifier assignment policy, content moves away (varies) from its o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal state
(any) content change ='lgc'>==t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riggers='lgc'>='lgc'>==> generation of new object identifier

="trms">finite, inde="trms">finite, lifetime, subin="trms">finite

content in the ="trms">presence of versions
(="ppl">="ppl">Calvert's defining “content” without using the term “meaning”='lgc'>:)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]content='lgc'>: abstract substance, found in such strings as ="trms">writing, speech, images, and music, (='lgc'>=/= form, ='lgc'>=/= style)
content that in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes an actionalbe id string='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•ex="trms">traversuioned, offering no direct actionalbe access
="lsts lst1">•introversioned, version is opaque, shyness='qstn'>?, good for longevity, bad for inferring provenance منشاء


found in the ="trms">wild

found in ="nms">ajayeb.net='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•constructed content reference
="lsts lst1">•scholarly web
="lsts lst1">•standardized query strings
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">question of landing page ='lgc'>--with='lgc'>='lgc'>--> typed links navigable by software

how ="nms">ajayeb.net performs analysis and ="trms">prioritization of its own service de="trms">finition='qstn'>?
how ="nms">ajayeb.net ="trms">translates its politics into ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">data='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= machine-="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readable persistence statements='lgc'>]='qstn'>?
which “well-intentioned but untested” set of terms are used and addressed in ="nms">ajayeb.not='qstn'>?

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='lgc'>[(gendered, racialized, politicized, colonial,,,) ="trms">narratives of innovation='lgc'>]

(i tended to this field with ="nms">ajayeb ='lgc'>[عجایب المخلوقات='lgc'>: a context of pedagogy and librarianship='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) library and information ="trms">science ='lgc'>: ="trms">technologically intensive profession (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- also many other professions)
علوم بايگانی ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> علوم  کتابداری
(my performance and ="trms">literary ="trms">interest='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*librarianship and teaching are both professions that resist commodification because they rely on ="trms">embodied labor and personal ="trms">interaction='strcls'>*

='strcls'>*people-centric work='strcls'>* (like library ="trms">science and education)

quantitative ='lgc'>=/= qualitative
="trms">measurable ='lgc'>=/= descriptive
(objective concepts)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">="ppl">Calvert ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading) the ostensibly qualitative, ="trms">measurable, and hence objective concepts of competition and competitiveness stand in contrast with qualitative, descriptive concepts of both “culture and collaboration”


to open up some of the ‘="trms">literature of’


(="ppl">="ppl">Calvert working on) the implicit notion that competition and innovation are a ="trms">natural fit ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the “="trms">measure, controlm and automatic” rationality of US-style economic competition

difficult to commodify
difficult to describe

not taking apparent ="trms">differences (between men and women, human and ="trms">animal,,) to be timeless, necessary, or inevitable ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> descriptive ='lgc'>=/= prescriptive (descriptions not intended to be prescriptive) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*to ="trms">historicize and de="trms">naturalize concepts (of competition, innovation,,)='strcls'>*

="ppl">="ppl">Bowker ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Leigh ="ppl">="ppl">Star > ="ppl">="ppl">Calvert='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*things perceived as real are real in their consequences='strcls'>*

="trms">market competitiveness has a plethora='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ ="trms">excess, افراط ,ازدياد='lgc'>] of ="trms">measures ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> profit='lgc'>: the seller-centric proxy ="trms">measure of ="trms">consumer ="trms">interest

“our idealized notion of competition as a generator of innovation black-boxes a host of processes for competition, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding unfair practices, externalizing costs, ="trms">marketing, deception, and de="trms">skilling.”

(our idealized notion of='lgc'>:)='lgc'>{ competition ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> innovation ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--black-boxes='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a host of) processes for competition='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•unfair practices
="lsts lst1">•externalizing costs
="lsts lst1">•="trms">marketing
="lsts lst1">•deception
="lsts lst1">•de="trms">skilling
="lsts lst1">•

individua="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic and ="trms">social ="ppl">Darwinist overtones

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]inovation='lgc'>: a form of wishful thinking that aims to bring about the desired transformations without the as="trms">sociated costs in time and human effort (Suchman ='and'>& Bishop)
(‘labor-intensive artistic work’='lgc'>: noninovative creative work; deepen the ="trms">density of curiosity;)

capitalism continuously applies new ="trms">technology designed to fragment and de="trms">skill labor, so that labor becomes cheaper and subject to greater control (="ppl">Wajcman)

(sometimes) obsolescence is created through minor redesigns of ="trms">consumer commodities

“let's sell more” ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> undesirable consequences for human ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights, global trade in rare ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metals, and toxic waste disposal

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">technological determinism and optimism='lgc'>: the belief that the ="trms">present ="trms">social arrangements and ="trms">technologies were the inevitable byproducts of ="trms">historical developement, and that any problems entailed in our ="trms">technologies and their production processes can be eliminated with further ="trms">technological innovations

competetiveness and the ="trms">technological ='strcls'>*savvy='strcls'>* implicit in innovation are themselves markers of contemporary masculinity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “the enduring force of the identification between ="trms">technology and manliness is not an inherent biological sex ="trms">difference. it is instead the result of the ="trms">historical and cultural construction of gender” (="ppl">Wajcman)

a big part of the problem is that women's ="trms">technological labor (='lgc'>=/= ghost busters) is culturally invisible ='lgc'>--(="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King in her research on ="trms">writing ="trms">technologies argues)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a metonymy='lgc'>:) when ="trms">technologies are reduced to singular, stable, self-contained devices ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ ="ppl">="ppl">Star Wars='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=/= assemblages
='lgc'>[dichotomy of “enforcement ='lgc'>=/= destruction” ="ppl">="ppl">Star Wars either or='lgc'>: if you are not destroying it you are enforcing it='lgc'>]

problems that cannot be conceptualized in terms of ="trms">measures and endpoints, or which involve ho="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic, qualitative solutions, will be at a disadvantage for selection

(Cowan shows) the developement of new household tachnologies did not free women from the domestic shpere. rather, it allowed women to enter the paid labor force while leaving the gendered division of labor in the home untouched.


(makes me throw up ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) large ="trms">literature of self-determination theory (='lgc'>~ showing people are more creative and happy when their work allows them to be autonomous, related, and competent) ='lgc'>+ reward ="trms">systems cultivating competitive environments
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]autonomy='lgc'>: self-willing, volitional, being an ="trms">agent in the action ='lgc'>=/= being a “pawn”

spheres where processes and outcomes have been the name of the game (in feminized fields of education and librarianship)

labs (such as laser developement) that require collaboration with other labs

trading zones='lgc'>: a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor for understanding how cooperation between rese="trms"nttrm="search">archers enables new ="trms">scientific paradigms ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Galison

='strcls'>*the development of this or that research looks like a continuous ="trms">trajectory, but the ="trms">trajectory was actually discontinuous and ruptured. that fact that we have invented or discovered something makes that developement seem inevitable, but things could always have turned out some other way='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Cowan > ="ppl">="ppl">Calvert

competition is not a guarantor of innovation, our cultural belief in it can obscure other explanations for innovation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>for example (Wylie showing='lgc'>:) (archaeology's enshrined belief that) male-centered hunting activities dominated pre="trms">historic caloric intakes ='lgc'>==='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>==> other hypotheses for the ="trms">transition to agriculture ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> women's leading role in the development of agriculture='lgc'>--arguably the most significant innovation in human ="trms">history='lgc'>--could finally be detected


="large lg90" stl="font-size:109%"> ='lgc'>[bids for status by denying the feminized and second class aspects of library work='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***the labor of care is at the core of library work='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*teaching, like ="trms">technology, is always a ="trms">relationship, and that ="trms">relationship is undergrided by the labor of care='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">affective labor is ="trms">literally vital to the successful delivery of other kinds of services)='strcls'>***
the ways women are called on to manage their and other's feelings ='lgc'><='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">technology is ="trms">positioned in out culture as rational and precise and therefore (masculine and) unemotional ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> look at the film Lucy='lgc'>]

successful education and mentorship depend on this ="trms">skill, which, like household labor, is difficult to account for in “competitive” economic analysis


='strcls'>**="trms">articulation work='strcls'>**
the labor necessary to make ="trms">technologies fit together seamlessly ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Leigh ="ppl">="ppl">Star
(='mywrk'>my work begins in) information ="trms">systems may leave gaps in work processes that require real-time adjustments, or ‘="trms">articulation work,’ to complete the processes
(='mywrk'>my research='lgc'>: through ="nms">ajayeb i have been busy with learning to “make friends” with both ="trms">technologies and theories)

every ="trms">system is an assemblage ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Calvert applying ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's insight and think of ="trms">technologies as significant prostheses ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]librarianship='lgc'>: a work that (primarily) hooks up people with their ="trms">technologies

librarians ="trms">articulate ="trms">technologies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they help people adapt ="trms">technologies

librarian's ="trms">articulation work is both ="trms">technological and ="trms">affective ='lgc'>=/= competitive


(in ="trms">techno-capital) supressing labor costs ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> de="trms">skilling

de="trms">skilling and de-professionalization under the ="trms">intertwined guises of competitiveness and innovation

an ='thdf'>example of de="trms">skilling='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>: “to be feminized means to be made extremely vulnerable; able to be disassembled, reassembled, exploited as a reserve labor force, seen less as workers than as servers; subjected to time arrangements on and off the paid job that make a mockery of a limited work day; leading to an existence that always borders on being obs="trms">cene, out of place, and reducible to sex. de="trms">skilling is an old strategy newly applicable to formerly privileged workers.”

education has been difficult to comodify, and remains labor intensive ='lgc'>=/= innovations in online education ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> creating inroads in the de="trms">skilling and commodification of teaching labor='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•course curriculum ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> course content
="lsts lst1">•teaching ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> delivery
='strcls'>*video ="trms">technologies ='lgc'>+ ="trms">internet ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> face-to-face ="trms">interpersonal relating to be captured and reused ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new depths of commodification
='strcls'>*="trms">internet ="trms">technologies can be used to provide ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorous, a="trms">synchronous learning and mentorship, or they can be used to decrease labor costs, but they cannot do much of both ="trms">simultaneously(='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">question ='at'>@="nms">apass)


="large lg110" stl="font-size:112%"> ="ppl">="ppl">Calvert='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[...however,='lgc'>] for competition='lgc'>--='lgc'>[or any good/bad object we are working on='lgc'>] to be a useful strategy, it has to happen in a larger context of cooperation and collaboration
(='thdf'>for example ='thdf'>the notion of “future” has to happen in a larger context in which ="trms">different futurities for diverse ="trms">communities is thinkable)


="trms">method ='lgc'><='lgc'>==='lgc'>{
='lgc'>+ sensitivity to the ="trms">historical moment (multiculturalism, extreme changes in the meaning of ‘global,’ etc.)
='lgc'>+ an assemblage of tools that are ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready to hand (theoretically driven, are pleasant and effective to use, etc.)
='lgc'>+ ="trms">embody an ethical commitment to ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst2">◦emic='lgc'>: the values and meanings of those who are being studied
="lsts lst2">◦etic='lgc'>: within a way to explore the conventions, standards and infrastructures that both constrain and enable their experiences


="ppl">Leigh ="ppl">="ppl">Star
="lsts lst1">•qualitative ="trms">methods
="lsts lst1">•lateral thinking
="lsts lst1">•="trms">poetics of infrastructure
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]boundary objects='lgc'>: examines assemblages of humans and things, and how things that exist in more than one ="trms">community of practice are used in performing cooperative work


the role of practical knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in organizational life

sensitivity of an ethno="trms">methodological orientation

(="nms">apass's) intellectual capital (is not centered in their official document re="trms">positories and ="trms">databases, rather is in the largely undocumented ideas, insights, and know-how of its ="trms">members='lgc'>: ="frds scrmbld">="frds scrmbld">Lilia, ="frds scrmbld">Pierre, ="frds scrmbld">Nicolas, ="trms">Joke, ="frds scrmbld">Steven, Michele,)

exigencies of work

='strcls'>****much of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge often remains ="trms">embodied in the practice
commonly shared through conversations and ="trms">stories among small circles of colleagues and work groups ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> local vernacular ='lgc'>--convert='lgc'>='lgc'>--> other forms ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> other ="trms">members of the organization can understand ='and'>& ='strcls'>*act upon='strcls'>* together

="frds">Sina ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> richer comprehension of ="trms">socially organised work practice into the process of engineering ="trms">technological ="trms">systems

="ppl">="ppl">Calvert ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> her work is about the enduring qualities of the ="trms">book and how its resistance to commodification enables this thing we call a public library.
she is ="trms">interested in developing library-appropriate research ="trms">methods for thinking critically about old and new ="trms">technologies
="prgrph">-we ="trms">naturalize the way ="trms">technological infrastructures make ethical decisions for us ='lgc'>=/= producing ="trms">methods/ethic that allows librarians to mandate characteristics in developing ="trms">technologies which both preserve librarians’ prerogatives to make (necessary visible) ethical judgment calls ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">="ppl">Calvert
جعبه='lgc'>--"containers” continue to ="trms">dictate the name of the game (for the immensely diverse patronage of the public library)

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bi="trms">lingualism
="trms">different ="trms">languages (="trms">farsi and arabic in ="nms">ajayeb) refers to ="trms">different value ="trms">systems and to ="trms">different lived experience

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='lgc'>[="ppl">Ahmed='lgc'>]

(="trms">complaint ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=) diversity-work='lgc'> = ="trms">data-collection

we learn about the damage we cause, of how causes are understood as damage

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my old background (in computer ="trms">sciences)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•www.joelonsoftware.com (Joel Spolsky runs a company which sells bug ="trms">databases, “FogBugz”)
="lsts lst1">•wiki.c2.com
="lsts lst1">•“Structure and ="trms">Interpretation of Computer Programs”


computational process

abstract beings (processes='strcls'>*) manipulate other abstract things (="trms">data='strcls'>*)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a pattern of rules (program='strcls'>*)

programming='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">linguistic abstraction='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> engineering design='lgc'>] ='lgc'>: building a mini-="trms">language to express a problem, using a fixed computer programming ="trms">language (on a given hardware) to construct a new ="trms">language that enables describing (and hence to think) the problem ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> using='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•primitives means of combination
="lsts lst1">•primitives means of abstraction
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re="trms">presentation of ="trms">data and control (='lgc'>='lgc'><='lgc'>~='lgc'>~ individual bits of storage and primitive machine ="trms">instructions)
='lgc'>+ using the given hardware to erect ="trms">systems/utilities for the efficient implementation of resource-limited computations


distinction between “passive” ="trms">data and “active” processes ='lgc'>=/= Lisp
(procedures and ="trms">data are just abstractions, they are not really distinct) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> programming ="trms">language should have ="trms">methods for combining and abstracting procedures and ="trms">data

means of abstraction='lgc'>: by which compound elements can be named and manipulated as units


modularity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> localized part of the ="trms">system
='lgc'><='lgc'>== perception of the ="trms">system
="lsts lst1">•objective='lgc'>: viewing a large ="trms">system as a collection of distinct objects ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> concerned with how a computational object can change and yet maintain its identity
="lsts lst1">•streamous='lgc'>: information that flow in the ="trms">system ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> delayed evaluation

(='thdf'>for example) a bank account='lgc'>: has state in that the answer to the ="trms">question “Can I withdraw $100='qstn'>?” depends upon the ="trms">history of de="trms">posit and withdrawal transactions

object de="trms">composed into computational objects (each with their own time-varying local state variables) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> model

object programming='lgc'>: model real-="trms">world objects with local state by computational objects with local variables ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> identify time variation in the real ="trms">world with time variation in the computer ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> implement the time variation of the states of the model objects in the computer with assignments to the local variables of the model objects
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (how='qstn'>?) model a time function

stream='lgc'>: delayed (in="trms">finite) ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list

="large lg118" stl="font-size:100%"> stream programming='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">different abstractions such as='lgc'>: map, filter, accumulate,
="lsts lst1">•transformations of ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists
="lsts lst1">•sequence manipulations without incurring the costs of manipulating sequences as ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists
="lsts lst1">•tadriji incremental computation


random='lgc'>: statistical properties of uniform distribution


object-orientation='lgc'>: poly="trms">morphic abstract ="trms">data types ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">relational ="trms">data model



Building Abstractions with ="trms">Data

how to use='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•primitive ="trms">data (numbers)
="lsts lst1">•primitive operations (arithmetic operations)

building abstractions by combining ="trms">data objects to form compound ="trms">data ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*to increase the modularity='strcls'>* of (our) designs ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to increase/enhance the expressive power of our ="trms">language

="trms">data abstraction='lgc'>:
='strcls'>*="trms">technique of isolating='strcls'>* (the parts of a program that deal with) how ="trms">data objects are ‘re="trms">presented’ from (the parts of a program that deal with) how ="trms">data objects are ‘used’


versioning
garbage collection

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the ="trms">question of “what ='lgc'>[='not'>✕='lgc'>] can learn from ='lgc'>[Y='lgc'>]='qstn'>?”


="ppl">="ppl">Calvert on Mestiza consciousness
library and information ="trms">scientists
consciousness of the borderlands ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ in between ="trms">categories, creative/annihilating forces a person living borderlands must struggle against='lgc'>]

='strcls'>***contradictory impulse for ='strcls'>*hording='strcls'>* ='and'>& ='strcls'>*sharing='strcls'>*

="trms">categorizing, naming, describing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> power-laden practices we cannot do without

each ='strcls'>*schema='strcls'>* reveals its ="trms">priorities, legitimizes/delegitimizes, renders visible/invisible the knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge it contains/ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes

="large lg94" stl="font-size:123%"> (="ppl">="ppl">Foucault='lgc'>:) library='lgc'>: (places that preserve) discourses that one wishes to re="trms">member and keep in circulation ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Anand's jinn temporality and genealogy of human ="trms">memory='lgc'>]

mestiza ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hybrid way of knowing/acting/living, as “none of the above”
what is hybrid and impure may be ="trms">monstrous (in the ="trms">epistemologies of power) and may experience ='strcls'>*hightened visibility='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= scrutiny, study, problematization, pity)

“orphans of infrastructure” (="ppl">Leigh ="ppl">="ppl">Star)

locked in a duel with the oppressor
lived experiences of marked classes
(in each duality pair, one is called “the con="trms">situtive outside” ='lgc'>[subject/object, male/female, etc.='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> switching polarity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> valorizing feminine over masculine, black over white, nurture over ="trms">nature, emotion over reason

crossing of cultures

='strcls'>*which collectivity does the daughter of the darkskinned mother ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listen to='qstn'>?='strcls'>*

(while i was in ="nms">apass i had a shift of attention to) the ='strcls'>*labor of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge work='strcls'>* (in collective digital flesh life)

media ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= knwol="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge form

in media arts studies i learn to ask which cruicual ="trms">material limitations have been radically eased in a digital era ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> impulse to hoard/share ='lgc'>+ constant tension with the ="trms">epistemological work of ="trms">categorization and classification (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">database) ='lgc'>+ (ongoing) feminization of the field

the library and information ="trms">science knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intense expertise required to enact it ='lgc'>=/=!='qstn'>? art expertise (a ="trms">category of works that are expertise-free)

(gift of ="ppl">Marx, ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault, Lorde, ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway, ="ppl">Leigh ="ppl">="ppl">Star in) ='strcls'>*understanding subjugated ="trms">epistemologies='strcls'>*

(Lorde) master's tool dismantle the master's house='qstn'>?='lgc'> = can the ="trms">technologies and ="trms">epistemologies that have been used to organize thinking about the ="trms">world in one way succesfully uproot that way='qstn'>?

“recovering multivocality”

رسوب
='strcls'>*enact residuality
='strcls'>*residual (of transformations ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sometimes wiping away previous ="trms">techniques for dividing and describing, and substituting another set of ="trms">categories that don't easily map to the first ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> eliminating the residuum of the old order ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> case of ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> can we make overlaps and hybridities of old/new ="trms">categories='qstn'>? ='lgc'>~ ='strcls'>*residual ="trms">categories='strcls'>*='lgc'>: ="trms">affective-="trms">epistemic content that often go unclassified. ="ppl">="ppl">Calvert='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*="trms">affect='strcls'>* is too thin, too subjective to calcify into a ="trms">category. it abundantly uses its ="trms">categories in a way that offers a kaleidoscopic shuffling and reshuffling of the items='strcls'>***)='lgc'>])
='strcls'>*residuum

="large lg1" stl="font-size:118%"> ="trms">categories overlapping, non-hierarchical (“="trms">animal” ='lgc'>+ “livestock”, etc.)

truthiness
melting pot
actions (filled with ="trms">verbs)
nouns (both living and nonliving entities)

='strcls'>*score of recognizable ="trms">historical era='strcls'>*

using='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•filmic ="trms">techniques (animation, montage, time lapse)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">affective ="trms">techniques (sarcasm, intimacy)


how can we address aspects of ="nms">apass's exceptionalism='qstn'>?
(with its things='lgc'>: characters, colors, doings, values)
='strcls'>*="trms">historical/cultural ="trms">specificities of ="nms">apass='strcls'>*


enlightenment in="trms">heritances='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•quest for universality
="lsts lst1">•


apparent seamlessness and universality with the veneer روکش of helpfulness ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> purity, deny multivocality, hide the residuum produced, and ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude hybridity
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (pulling the carpet of familiarity out from under users='lgc'>:)
to replace ‘familiar generic conventions’ (='lgc'>~ universal) ='lgc'>--replace-with='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a “universal of local application” (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= residuum)

(we rely on) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]words='lgc'>: value-laden components of ="trms">language that also serve as ="trms">categories and moor لنگر us in the ="trms">symbolic, to effect the transformations of the collections

labels ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-/='lgc'>='lgc'>==> power and oppression ="trms">epistemologies ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ='strcls'>*organizing logics='strcls'>* (that remain invisible when when we change the words or sub="trms">situte new sets of ="trms">categories)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>that is why i am reluctant with only changing the ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">data ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Pierre='lgc'>: using ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">data to manipulate the organizing ="trms">apparatus ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> versions of residuality (='qstn'>?)

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='lgc'>[working on ="nms">apass milieu ="trms">data model, summer2018='lgc'>]

c.r.i. (“collective research ="trms">interface”)
='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a pathological collage

discrete object (of problem ='lgc'>[who, when, how,='lgc'>]) ="trms">interface
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> refering to something outside c.r.i. (outside the digital model)

face (slider) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> object ="trms">monster

(='qstn'>?what is lost at) linking the ="trms">symbolic space of ="trms">data-model to the qualities of the rese="trms"nttrm="search">arches of participants ='lgc'>[which are ="trms">relational, procedural, and emotional='lgc'>]

s.s.s. (scroller, slider, still-life)

discourse ='lgc'>=/= valorizing information

="frds scrmbld">Pierre's ="trms">fables='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•“nonviolent way”
="lsts lst1">•“not by chance ...”

='strcls'>*Apologue='strcls'>*

research ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">data flow
sieve ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nodes in/of residual


="trms">internal ="trms">categories='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•stickiness
="lsts lst1">•="trms">zoom
="lsts lst1">•cheat
="lsts lst1">•persistence
="lsts lst1">•repetition
="lsts lst1">•(vulgar)
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> topology='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. ramp
="lstsrd">2. nest
="lstsrd">3. skew

ramp='lgc'>: sequential, one dimensional, ‘sliders’
nest='lgc'>: fractal quality, JSON, hierarchical tree, ‘comments’
skew='lgc'>: ="trms">verb act, streching, ‘2D field picker’

(slider='lgc'>: marking everything)

semantic in flux ='lgc'>+ persistence
object re="trms">pository ='lgc'>+ identifiers


feedback ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> quasi object ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> structured knower ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">data

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='at'>#workshop in ="nms">apass 2018 Summer
...a series of ="trms">data models that was produced during a three days work session in a.pass May 2018.
The aim was to create a “filter" for the artistic research projects of each participants, in order to train in making ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta-="trms">linguistic abstractions (on a given computer hardware) to construct a “thing” that enables describing the problem of Building Abstractions with ="trms">Data, to increase/enhance the expressive/descriptive power of the ="trms">languages we use. It addresses the ="trms">question of machine/human ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readability in the digital imperative of computational ="trms">world we are inhabiting, with the particular case of a.pass artistic research environments for advanced performance studies.
="lsts lst1">•="trms">interested in computational ="trms">literacy (in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding ="trms">data-collection, librarianship) as part of our ='strcls'>*diversity-work='strcls'>* and our ='strcls'>*="trms">articulation-work='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•="trms">interested in ="trms">different ="trms">languages (english, computer, non-sign ="trms">languages, etc.) refers to ="trms">different value ="trms">systems and to ="trms">different lived experience
="lsts lst1">•="trms">interested in the ='strcls'>*labor of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge-work='strcls'>* (in collective digital flesh life)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">interested in shifts in topology (the ongoing reworking of bodily boundaries of each of our research practices)
="lsts lst1">•


TERMINOLOGY='lgc'>:

='strcls'>*="trms">articulation-work='lgc'>: the labor necessary to make ="trms">technologies fit together seamlessly

='strcls'>*diversity-work='lgc'>: a kind of work in which we learn about the damage we cause, and of how “causes” are understood as “damage”

='strcls'>*librarianship='lgc'>: a work that hooks up people with their ="trms">technologies

='strcls'>*="trms">data abstraction='lgc'>: a ='strcls'>*="trms">technique of isolating='strcls'>* (the parts of your mini-="trms">language that deal with) how ="trms">data/info objects are ‘re="trms">presented’ from (the parts of your mini-="trms">language that deal with) how ="trms">data/info objects are ‘used’ (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i addressed this in my ="trms">fable workshop in a totally ="trms">different ="trms">epistemology)

='strcls'>*model='lgc'>: your object de="trms">composed into ='strcls'>*computational compound objects='strcls'>* (each with their own time-varying local state variables)

(re="trms">presentation of ="trms">data and control over ="trms">data='lgc'>:)
='strcls'>*modular='lgc'>: localized part of the ="trms">system that are produced by the perception of the ="trms">system
='strcls'>*objective='lgc'>: viewing a large ="trms">system as a collection of distinct objects. concerned with how a computational object can change and yet maintain its identity
='strcls'>*streamous='lgc'>: information that flow in the ="trms">system. its evaluation is delayed. in="trms">finite ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list

='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">data='lgc'>: machine-="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readable persistence statements

='strcls'>*digital ="trms">interface='lgc'>: discrete object of your “research problem” that refers to something outside the cri (outside the digital model)

="large lg34" stl="font-size:129%"> ='strcls'>*topology='lgc'>: a (proposed) body-plan to investigate ="trms">questions of ='strcls'>*connectivity='strcls'>* and ='strcls'>*boundaries='strcls'>*, in order to find out what remains invariant as a result of transformation. this will direct us to propose (well-intended but not tested) ='strcls'>*transversal objects='strcls'>*.
to be able to propose='lgc'>: in the culture of each pad='lgc'>+participant='lgc'>+research what connects and joins, what delinks and disconnects.


PRACTICAL='lgc'>:

we want to find out how cri's “filter” ="trms">translates its politics into ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">data
and
what happens in linking the ="trms">symbolic space of ="trms">data-model to the (="trms">relational, procedural, emotional) qualities of the rese="trms"nttrm="search">arches of participants

we will work on the block's opening week feedbacks and process them in this diagram='lgc'>:
feedback ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> quasi object ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> structured knower ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">data
(or ="trms">technically='lgc'>:)
semantic in flux ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> persistence statements ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> object re="trms">pository ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> identifiers

(Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are spent on the creation of “quasi objects”)

i propose some (well-intended but not tested) ="trms">internal ="trms">categories='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•stickiness
="lsts lst1">•="trms">zoom
="lsts lst1">•cheat
="lsts lst1">•persistence
="lsts lst1">•repetition
="lsts lst1">•vulgar

(i will describe them later)

and these ="trms">categories produce three topologies='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. ramp
="lstsrd">2. nest
="lstsrd">3. skew

(this is a maneuver to replace the ="trms">question of ‘strategy’ to ‘topology’, the first act of making quasi-objects)

ramp='lgc'>: sequential, one dimensional, ‘sliders’
nest='lgc'>: fractal, serializable, arborescent, ‘comments’
skew='lgc'>: ="trms">verb-active, streching, ‘2D field color picker po="trms">inter’

each is “queryable” in ="trms">different ways and propose ="trms">different difficulties
each of them addapted from an existing ="trms">technologies (range sliders, commenting, color pickers)
each embeds one of='lgc'>: colors, doings, values

slider='lgc'>: marking everything with decimals
comments='lgc'>: hypertextualizing
field picker='lgc'>: sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they are all milieu-makers

ramp ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> arc of necessity
nest ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mosaic divisions
skew ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> chromatic/luminous effect (of mixture)


and also='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•to address (in a longer term) how ="nms">apass performs analysis and ="trms">prioritization of its own service de="trms">finition='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•to address (in a longer term) ="trms">historical/cultural ="trms">specificities of ="nms">apass
="lsts lst1">•to address aspects of ="nms">apass's exceptionalism (its characters, colors, doings, values)



REPORT='lgc'>:

="frds scrmbld">Geert
="trms">zoom / biger picture
perform a ="trms">zoom
="frds scrmbld">Geert and Michael knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">zoom-level
="frds scrmbld">Geert's strech-work
which cheats
vulgar='lgc'>: direct, ='lgc'>=/= suffisticated, ='lgc'>=/= nice(in a classical sense), ='lgc'>=/= institutional ="trms">code ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a cheat='lgc'>], everyday, good taste, context='qstn'>?!!
sug="trms">gested topology='lgc'>: skew ='lgc'>--changed='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nest (tow branches answering yes and no to='lgc'>: “is he cheating='qstn'>?”)

="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo
stickiness ='lgc'>~ residual (left overs of impression), we couldn't find little objects, litte stickies
="trms">zoom is tooooo wide, mega="trms">categories, “fermentation” is a ="trms">different ="trms">zoom level
cheat ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> perception/intention, value of non-doing ='qstn'>?, ‘order is cheat’, ritual ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> heal/cope
vulgar='lgc'>: ritual of popular knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">social acceptence, ="trms">communicating emotional needs, guilt on behalf of the vulgars,
sug="trms">gested topology='lgc'>: skew (with 4 axioms='lgc'>: negativity, ="trms">positivity, passivity, ritual)

="frds scrmbld">Caterina
sticky='lgc'>: difiicult to remove ="trms">categories, dirty, quality of ="trms">trape, almost negative, like honey as an ="trms">intermediary sticky for other objects to become sticky
="trms">zoom='lgc'>: Latina candition macro, ass rincles micro, herself, change of lens is what ="trms">matters not the ="trms">zoom level, the macro of the term culture itself
cheat='lgc'>: against the rule of ="trms">community/aggreement, always cheating the ="trms">system, against the game, bad ="trms">relation to the game, lazy ="trms">relation, faking='qstn'>?
vulgar='lgc'>: ordinary, insultive, perjurative, of the “people”, (="frds scrmbld">Geert='lgc'>:) a marking always coming from above, what television does='lgc'>: non-actual ='lgc'>+ ="trms">spectacle, (="frds scrmbld">Elen='lgc'>:) immoral, not o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal, not elegant, thinking in terms of the ‘same’, group forming, non-individual, twards mass formation,
sug="trms">gested topology='lgc'>: nest

="frds scrmbld">Eszter
polarized lense
confusion / being confused is ‘cheating’
stickiness absent
sug="trms">gested topology='lgc'>: nest (with two branches='lgc'>: naive ='and'>& political leader)

="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Godard">Goda
nothing sticks anymore therefor we go to swamp to stick to relevant objects
swamp as archive (refuge from the capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list) ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? cheat
constructing ‘bad example’ (='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> role model
="trms">zooming in losers of capitalism
X-ray kind of lens into the opacity of swamp
(her) treasures in the swamp ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">epistemological buried objects='lgc'>]
criticizing how capitalism ="trms">zooms for her irrelevant objects
buffoon ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vulgar
sug="trms">gested topology='lgc'>: skew (the skew is a plain around the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges, gets deeper in the middle, and a narrow way up in the center='lgc'>: the exit)

="frds scrmbld">Elen
="trms">presence of the working of subconscious ='lgc'>==provokes='lgc'>='lgc'>==> etymology
very sticki “hell yea!"s
affirmative, sometimes ="trms">technical knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
something sold (“self”) with something ="trms">morphic on it (“apparition” or ‘surat’ in ="trms">farsi)
sug="trms">gested topology='lgc'>: ramp

="frds scrmbld">Hoda
cheat='lgc'>: sharp radical formation, playing ambiguity
totalizing vision lense (“if then all...”)
“because i asked i could feel”
anti-psychological
sug="trms">gested topology='lgc'>: ramp

="frds scrmbld">Katinka
makeover slider
vulgar='lgc'>: makeover show, e-bay
statements not touching her, something else is sticki object='lgc'>: ="trms">sympathy='qstn'>?
slider='lgc'>: stack
sug="trms">gested topology='lgc'>: ramp (makeover)

="frds scrmbld">Nassia
stick='lgc'>: something bodily, heat, sweat, property of objects
="trms">zoom is the op="trms">posit of body
gaze inside ='lgc'>+ anatomy
cheating='lgc'>: on people negative / on ="trms">systems ="trms">positive
sug="trms">gested topology='lgc'>: ramp

="frds scrmbld">Laura
osmotic='lgc'> = french kiss
administered (by machine) body
the good example
beauty is invested in...
the (unchanging) core of the cuttle-fish
popular='lgc'> = vulgar
sug="trms">gested topology='lgc'>: skew (regimented floor plan)

="frds scrmbld">Maurice
cheat ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">joker, fool
cute='lgc'>: getting off the leash of institution
bear b="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurs what...
“but I am just...”
bribe economy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> honest and human
sug="trms">gested topology='lgc'>: nest

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='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
archives of open desire

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="large lg74" stl="font-size:123%"> ='at'>#drawing exercises in built environment (with Sizek ='lgc'>+ Mathews https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1542-="trms">methods-for-many-="trms">anthropo="trms">cenes-with-andrew-s-mathews)
="lstsrd">1. pick a charismatic building/statue/object on your built environment, and draw a form of it, inviting to identify details of the object that reveal aspects of its ="trms">history or use today
="lstsrd">2. compare drawings and use the drawings to tell ="trms">stories about the object and its use or importance to life in that environment
="lstsrd">3. invite to reflect on the ways that drawing infrastructure can reveal processes at multiple temporal and spatial scales

discussion ="trms">questions/="trms">writing ="trms">response ="trms">questions='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•Which features of the structure stood out, and what do these sug="trms">gest about the processes of its creation and use='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•How has its infrastructure changed over time, and how are these changes evidenced in the built form itself='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•How does your structure relate to others in its immediate vicinity, and in what ways do ="trms">relationships between structures help reveal ="trms">social ="trms">relations='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•What traces of ="trms">past events are embedded in infrastructure or its ="trms">memories, and how can we render these traces ="trms">present='qstn'>?

="large lg102" stl="font-size:107%"> drawings has to do with the incompleteness of knowing and re="trms">presenting
indeterminacy at ‘the same time’

(='qstn'>?in which locations you can get a good) human ="trms">response to='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•slow processes (soil, geology, plant form)
="lsts lst1">•fast processes (plant seasonal behavior, weather, human ="trms">responses to all of these things)

="large lg106" stl="font-size:120%"> ='strcls'>*drawing as structured ="trms">wondering/wandering='strcls'>*

use of the ='strcls'>*dramatic='strcls'>* as ="trms">method ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to entertain multiple ="trms">worldviews
to maintain irreducible complexity and to recenter ="trms">historical processes as central to understanding contemporary politics
(="trms">history and drama)
="prgrph">-facts as enacted and performed before audiences (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tradition in ="trms">science and ="trms">technology)

='strcls'>**knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is always performed, ="trms">staged, and enacted='strcls'>** ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb

how to tell the dramatic ="trms">stories

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notes from ="frds scrmbld">Sofia's seminar on documentation

the ="trms">questions i brought home with ="frds scrmbld">Kobe='lgc'>:

the ="trms">ontological ="trms">relationships between law and art, who protects who='qstn'>? what protects protection='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> which ="trms">material discursive practices make the ="trms">ontological boundaries of “protection”='qstn'>? (specially today investigating this term is more urgent in a ="trms">world saturated with toxic ="trms">vocabularies of security.) the figure of protection transforms the subjects of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and knowability ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> look at how the judge was talking about art

(="trms">question of) the production of subjectivity (of the judge himself as an active knowing ="trms">agent and the dead-master as the phantasmatic place-holder of meaning)
this is related to='lgc'>: (="trms">question of) ="trms">responsibility and individuality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> influences and efforts of the work. two ="trms">interesting moments of genesis occurred='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- in the court “his work” (Beuys) was mysteriously created
="lstsrd">2- also when Olga got a phone call from the ministry of culture, “her work” was mysteriously created
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> both the court and the phone call are mystic producers of the subjectivity of the artist dead or alive ='lgc'>[='at'>#this needs more investigation='lgc'>]

(="trms">question of) the production of significance and ="trms">difference
look at the speech-acts of the judge in the case of Beuys. which nuances of ="trms">difference are generated, estated, established, and propagated='qstn'>? we can study every syllable of the judge's speech-act. the judge goes from one ="trms">fable to another='lgc'>: ="trms">fables of significance, ="trms">fables of influence, ="trms">fables of impression, etc.

boundary-making practices in our shared struggling ="trms">world
='thdf'>the idea that art “starts” and “stops” somewhere
zeroing the artworks eco="trms">system

when is the moment (or how the moment can be marked) that the judge becomes able to say “OK, I don't know.” or “I am opinionated about this art. Let's bring an expert.”
and beyond that, I am ="trms">wondering, like that judge, when myself standing in front of an artwork (or any work) how i am able to say “I have an opinion, or, I don't know”, “i need expertise in order to look at this”='qstn'>?

="trms">questions of='lgc'>: essence (in art), subjectivity production, protection,


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with Vincent

(='qstn'>?what was the) notion of “everything is kept here” in his work

(='qstn'>?why and how) his ="trms">storytelling was all about design ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> his ="trms">stories of ="trms">responsibility and factuality
how and why in our artistic practices, production of ="trms">responsibility and factuality is hold in the terms and services of design and designer that is busy with building enhanced and efficient ="trms">communication ="trms">networks ="trms">historically rooted in the ="trms">geometries of ="trms">modernist project='qstn'>?

(='qstn'>?what is the artist's) busy-ness with design ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> related to the fathers of correction (='qstn'>?) and proper address

who (and why) wants to look at which ="trms">past with lenses and ="trms">geometries of the violent grids of the forefathers of ="trms">modernist design='qstn'>?
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ontology of document='lgc'>: an artifact with a ="trms">specific layout and design

design has to do with the proper address (='qstn'>?) which is (always) about the proper witness (='qstn'>?)
(in the case of Vincent) do you agree with the amerindian know-how that “a good designer is a dead designer”='qstn'>?

(='qstn'>?what was the) proper ="trms">affect of ="trms">history (that his work was creating)
through the ="trms">aesthetic of old and antique video projectors his colonialism belonged properly to the ="trms">past ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="trms">question of) the production of the proper witness

the architecture and flag of BOZAR plus his notion of design, are they ="trms">interesting and necessary ways of forming kinship and properly distanced ="trms">history='qstn'>?

Vincent “knew” his distance to the ="trms">past (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> do you smell a problem='qstn'>?)
in which clock he is looking at time='qstn'>? which time machine he is handed to or placed in='qstn'>? who/what is making his time model='qstn'>?
also, which segment of your practice is temporalized='qstn'>? this means also which part of your practice stands out of time='qstn'>?



with Olga

regards of the ="trms">question “what are an artwork's boundaries='qstn'>?” and it's ="trms">intersections with documents, ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists, and reports

for Olga='lgc'>:
document='lgc'> = evidence
research='lgc'> = mourning
(mourning as the passionate and de="trms">monstrative activity of expressing the state of loss or deprivation of a certain object for a certain subject, and ="trms">demand for its revival or ="trms">memorialization)

what is the feeling of the document='qstn'>?

='strcls'>*document is a ="trms">story that (usually) silences other ="trms">stories='strcls'>*
where our powers to provoke care (could/should) come from (if not from document/evidence)='qstn'>?
is document (in its form and feeling) the best way we have at our disposal to provoke the care of the generations='qstn'>? ...to mark each other with the mark of the care='qstn'>?

putting the ="trms">narrative into proper sleep
casting the names

="prgrph">-artist has turned herself into a mnemonic device ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sug="trms">gesting “amnesia” as her context
="prgrph">-artist has become a reminder and (therefore) her audiences have become ="trms">memorizers

(="trms">question of) ="trms">memory and re="trms">membering ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>the idea of ‘="trms">literal re="trms">membrance’ in her performance, re-="trms">membering, ="trms">literally bringing back the “="trms">members” of the Kurt Jooss company into the ="trms">present of her audiences
="prgrph">-the problem with her re="trms">membrance is that “there is something that is important to re="trms">member” regardless of the person/subject who re="trms">members

indisputability of the Green Table for Olga
the artist has chosen to protect The Green Table's meaning and message (due to her political and ethical commitments ='lgc'>[for ="trms">world peace='qstn'>?='lgc'>]) in a sense her subject of research remains unrese="trms"nttrm="search">arched, her values unevaluated, her moral settlements settled

how can she become ="trms">interested in de="trms">composing her research-bodies of The Green Table='qstn'>?
can we remain critically ethically ="trms">responsible in thinking about the “meaning and message” of our subject of study and still be able to de="trms">compose it in ="trms">interesting ="trms">serious ways='qstn'>? (yes yes)

="trms">questions of='lgc'>: thinking, reminding, remaining,



="frds scrmbld">Sofia's documentation
she asks “what is document today='qstn'>?”
="prgrph">-what was document yesterday (that is not anymore today)='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-how the ="trms">agency and meaning of docu is (or is not) mutating in time='qstn'>?='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-what is beyond the ="trms">question of documentation and preservation='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*durational ="trms">aesthetics='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-is document a limited way of asking ="trms">questions about what we do and our ="trms">relationship with time and duration='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[you never know what the ="trms">present brings into the future.='lgc'>]

what art cannot say that document can='qstn'>? “truth”='qstn'>?
when truth was invented where was document standing='qstn'>?

is document today a mere effect of ="trms">technologies of inscribing='qstn'>?

why we are not talking about “file”='qstn'>?
(='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to the ="trms">ontology of evidence and files in X-Files TV series)

is ‘file’ the bedrock of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading today='qstn'>?

document assumes, constructs and promises its own labor of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading
='qstn'>? document is that which ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads as referent, truthful, evident, economic value, , ,


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="large lg130" stl="font-size:125%"> ="frds scrmbld">Femke, with multiple understanders of the blended, blending ="trms">world

the ="trms">question of the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors of the body

manuality
manual understanders

for her “the point of o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin” is at stake='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the “ground” is at once desired and dis="trms">articulated for the sake of an idea of ="trms">situatedness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> politics of ="trms">positioning

placement, ="trms">world, Dasein, fall

in ="trms">CG bodies are ="trms">articulated in ="trms">differential vectors, not “grounds” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> does she want to ground the body='qstn'>?

she was mobilizing the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors of='lgc'>: body, ground, falling
how is she falling='qstn'>? in which ="trms">historically ="trms">contingent practices of grounding is she grounded, building her discourse='qstn'>?

="trms">ontology of the variable ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="trms">question of the) figure of variation
her work with the partners of crime, getting in the front line and frontiers of ="trms">CG working and practical ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors

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="frds scrmbld">Sofia's textual machine, switching between binary values of faire contract ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> staying with the polar syntax of ‘you’ and ‘them’
="prgrph">-how the rotating axis of her machine is able of creating breaks in the syntax of the contract='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-(for her machine='lgc'>: “understanding='lgc'> = an act of application”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how new forms of ='strcls'>*understanding='strcls'>* could change the ways we might achieve fair ="trms">societies='qstn'>? and not merely changing the order of sentence to visualize and objectification of unfairness and precariousness of the employment economy, in the exegesis of the ="trms">writen contract. what would it mean to install an understander (taking a risk), for ="frds scrmbld">Sofia, and not a reversal syntaxer (making aware)='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-employer and the employee as ="trms">different “="trms">species” with their ="trms">different “="trms">natural” tendencies to fuck with one another='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> zero-sum game
="prgrph">-the ="trms">question of ="trms">symbiotic relatedness (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> psychoanalysis) ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? contractual relatedness


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to emphasis on the ="trms">contingent and the contextual

the process of becoming rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer (of ="trms">science and ="trms">technology studies ='lgc'>: inquiry into the politics and practices of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge-making)

vignette (sketch, a brief ="trms">literary description, ="trms">narrate s="trms">cenes from familiar activities)

the ="trms">question is not ‘how can we care more='qstn'>?’ (as predetermined set of ="trms">affective practices) rather='lgc'>: ='strcls'>**what happens to our work when we pay attention to moments where the ="trms">question of ‘how to care='qstn'>?’ is insistent but not easily answerable='strcls'>** (‘care’ as an analytic or provocation)
="prgrph">-="ppl">="ppl">Kenney


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Manoto TV station program “sher yadet nare” شعر یادت نره ="trms">respond to the ="trms">questions of ="trms">translation (from the UK produced program “Don't Forget the Lyrics” into an ="nms">Iranian contemporary popular media culture) and ="trms">memory practices (archival ="trms">memory act performance pop quiz show mixed with ="trms">consumer culture TV broadcasting)

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='strcls'>*cognitive companions='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> coordinating multiple ="trms">agencies characteristically)
="prgrph">-tiny clay token sheep were enclosed in clay envelopes with markings indicating what was inside (='strcls'>*molding and inscribing clay='strcls'>* was the favored sensory ="trms">technology for making in Mesopotamia 5000 years ago)
="lsts lst1">•maybe your makings involves “true ="trms">writing” that companions preferentially with ="trms">language
="lsts lst1">•maybe your makings involves spinning plant and ="trms">animal fiber and feeling, tying, and untying knots
="lsts lst1">•processual affirmative re-="trms">writings
="lsts lst1">•="trms">systeming meditations
="lsts lst1">•context-sensitive pushback
="lsts lst1">•operational closure (of a ="trms">system)
="lsts lst1">•fluctuation, entrainment, blocked ="trms">synchrony
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>[="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King use of a term, how she shifts it from mechanism to ="trms">affect:='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]stigmergy='lgc'>: feeling of being in among and as the self-organizing bits that are ="trms">system-ing (='lgc'>=/= a ="trms">method of ="trms">communication in emergent ="trms">systems, mechanically defined as “indirect coordination” self-organizing termites and ants or flash mobs or political action)
='at'>@="nms">apass='lgc'>: how do you provide ="trms">different ='strcls'>*undisciplined ways of envisioning='strcls'>* new kinds of environments, artifacts and practices='qstn'>? (entangle design, ="trms">science, fact and ="trms">fiction, boundary objects, ="trms">system-ing, ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]design='lgc'>: ='strcls'>***making things that tell ="trms">stories='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= telling ="trms">stories='lgc'>])
(my encounters with) ="nms">ajayeb's vibrating particularism
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]website, talksite='lgc'>: play, trial and error, permutation and mistakes (none of it innocent or exemplary ='at'>@ERG's website) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*cognitive reassembly='strcls'>*
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{="trms">relations between developers and users to create and work out a ="trms">technical ="trms">interface ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">communicative tangle='lgc'>}
transmedia ="trms">story (with its o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins commercial and suspect, often entangled with ="trms">social critique and ="trms">social panic ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= conditions of making knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge today; we knowingly or without reflection, gather and pin together such ="trms">stories across media...)
="prgrph">-you can't take ='strcls'>*="trms">citation pools='strcls'>* for granted
="prgrph">-how we will take what each other says
companion gatherings (do not exactly cohere or con="trms">sort well) ='lgc'>==sometimes='lgc'>='lgc'>==> violation of standardization (that some believe is more equal)
(companions need to) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]learn='lgc'>: emergently sensitize and attune among new cognitive and political circumstances (in and as their very moments of unknowing, when ethical and moral ="trms">sortings are properly in flux)
(with) ="ppl">="ppl">Bateson's negative sensitivities to ="trms">systems, and with ="ppl">Katies ="ppl">King, I keep discovering just how ="trms">literal is our many being-ness in multiply embedded ="trms">sorts of biomic ="trms">sym="trms">poiesis

='lgc'>{='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">lecture='lgc'>: feeling-in-the-mouth ="trms">system, (the word-as-="trms">world inhabited by) alternate and overlapping peoples, ="trms">memories, attunements, ="trms">citation pools, ="trms">histories, ="trms">communities of practice, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges, ocean and freshwater “="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges"='lgc'>}
='lgc'>{='qstn'>?can i propose (="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King and Sandoval's) “op="trms">positional consciousness” instead of (Mouffe's) “agonistic p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">luralism"='lgc'>}

="trms">responses, abilities, infrastructures, distributed ="trms">embodiments,

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]traumas='lgc'>: intensities crowded with affiliations, loyalties, essential truths

(="ppl">="ppl">Bateson > ="ppl">Leigh ="ppl">="ppl">Star > ="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King) ='strcls'>*transcontextual='strcls'>* (transcontextual circumstances='lgc'>: moving from one context to another, one ="trms">world to another, one set of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges to another) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]boundary objects='lgc'>: workaround things, concepts, processes, even ="trms">routines that permit coordination, sometimes collaboration, without con="trms">sensus (non-conscious and conscious)='lgc'>--local, supralocaling, and global in ="trms">material topologies in which spacetime="trms">natureculture may be mixed, developmental yet transtemporal, (they don't create boundaries) ='strcls'>*they work to keep boundaries from getting in the way of collaboration='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? sleep-walking='lgc'>: ignore or even miss that there are boundaries about, or honor boundaries='lgc'> = ="trms">differences that should be honored without being stuck there='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>---='lgc'>[can i sug="trms">gest ‘en="trms">folding’ instead of ‘="trms">sym="trms">poiesis’ for artists='qstn'>?='lgc'>]

='strcls'>****="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: my transcontextual habitat='strcls'>**** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--(="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sites where people, objects, ="trms">animals, ="trms">ecological processes, academic restructurings, and scales of injustice un="trms">fold, en="trms">fold='lgc'>]

‘to feel family and parent ="trms">memories as our own’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">skill that ="trms">intertwines ="trms">historical and personal biography (sometimes trauma) as a feature of ='strcls'>*="trms">memory en="trms">coding='strcls'>*

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]auto="trms">poiesis='lgc'>: a notion, a theory of cellular organization, that makes a ="trms">fold in ="trms">history ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re="trms">formulating an orientation into an ‘experimental ="trms">epistemology’

='strcls'>*="trms">memoir animated word-="trms">worlds worm-holed='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= my ="trms">lecture-performances, ="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King's talksites ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> speculations gathering with stigmergy, recursive paradox, and a ="trms">sym="trms">poiesis of boundary objects)

='at'>#my project='lgc'>: redesigning ="nms">ajayeb's “="trms">writings” among dispersed, diffracted, and emergent ="trms">methods of attention
="prgrph">-to redesign “aboutness” (as nonre="trms">presentational ='lgc'>: recursive ="trms">relational ="trms">agency of/about reciprocities in ="trms">worldly processes)
="prgrph">-to redesign ="trms">fiction of ="trms">writing (khipu)
="prgrph">-to redesign ='at'>@="nms">apass archive ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> records of how things have happened, with whom, when, with what informational needs (instead of abstractions layered up), sometimes as ="trms">agencies, sometimes as (in Sandoval's terms) op="trms">positional and ="trms">differential consciousness, (boundary objects) storing and performing our details and ="trms">affects and ="trms">memories

punitive parsimonies of explanation='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•over-simplications of complex ="trms">systems
="lsts lst1">•pressures for ="trms">social critique
="lsts lst1">•to ="trms">travel as ="trms">social panic
="lsts lst1">•retreat to political loyalties (='lgc'><='lgc'>== confusion overwhelm cognitive schema)
="lsts lst1">•retreat to political belonging in search of trust
="lsts lst1">•

(more boundary objects='lgc'>:) many ="trms">sorting ="trms">apparatus reframings at varying grains of detail each savoring textures of disciplinary and other precisions amid noncoherent and ="trms">materializing logics
(constitutive, ="trms">agential) ='strcls'>**cuts are connections='strcls'>**
="prgrph">-to minimize damage and maximize flourishing

="trms">differential details ='lgc'>--in='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “us” ='lgc'>--in='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Bateson's living patterns ='lgc'>--in='lgc'>='lgc'>--> starfish's invertebrate radial ="trms">symmetry ='lgc'>--in='lgc'>='lgc'>--> redwood cloning timelines ='lgc'>--in='lgc'>='lgc'>--> recursive epigenesis ='lgc'>--in='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mechanism and structure in a segmenting egg ='lgc'>--in='lgc'>='lgc'>--> human affiliations of power and state and ="trms">love...



='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">differential consciousness='lgc'>: ="trms">systems justice sensitive to multiple contexts, ='strcls'>*politics of attachment='strcls'>*
='at'>@="nms">apass's environment (mix of ="trms">communities of justice and of practice)='lgc'>:
belief and disbelief, ="trms">memberships and belongings, t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riggered and assembled
='strcls'>****to commit to a well-defined structure of identity for one hour, day, week, month, year='strcls'>**** (='lgc'>=/= Manning)
='lgc'>+ transform that identity ="trms">according to the requisites of another op="trms">positional ideological tactic (if ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of power's formation require it ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that's how i became more ="nms">iranian in Europe)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">differential='lgc'>: instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another, a quality that ="trms">differentiates between similar things (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> derivatives) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">different

اخرت eschatology
study of end-times ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--now='lgc'>='lgc'>--> climate change, global restructuring, ='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-humans are often precariously enduring on the planet
(Cuban Missile Crisis...)
="prgrph">-when urgencies (become too pre="trms">dictive) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> less sensitivity to the unanticipated ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="frds scrmbld">Seba's “save the ="trms">world” =) all too human desires for control or for moral prescriptions

with ="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">systems justice='strcls'>* requires something much more complicated
="lsts lst1">•we have to work with our extended being
="lsts lst1">•find out new things about it

="prgrph">-how can we go beyond human intention and ="trms">systems of control='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-we need, and there are, many ways to minimize damage and maximize flourishing
(='strcls'>*="trms">systems humans participate in and do not control='strcls'>*)

(='qstn'>? am i part of this) “we” and “us” gathers ="trms">sympoietically these boundary objects storing details and ="trms">affects

the ="trms">fable of “if it's about everything it is about nothing” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> no!
sharpening focus ='lgc'>=/= narrowing focus

workshop for thinking
="lsts lst1">•with objects
="lsts lst2">◦moved around
="lsts lst3">◾in visual play

to take your ="trms">imaginations along other things
="lsts lst1">•so their ="trms">worlds layer and en="trms">fold and map out and crochet together
="lsts lst2">◦so that can be sensed and worked on

(='qstn'>?what are) our helpers in ="nms">apass='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•companion ="trms">imaginations='lgc'> = our collective ="trms">animalities
="lsts lst2">◦such ="trms">imaginations have ="trms">worlds that layer and en="trms">fold and map out and crochet together (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">systems humans participate in and do not control)
="lsts lst1">•our complex personhood
="lsts lst1">•our distributed being
="lsts lst1">•objects we take as cognitive companions
="lsts lst1">•our significant otherness honored in on-going attentions
="lsts lst1">•new learnings
="lsts lst1">•new ="trms">materialities
="lsts lst1">•

="large lg58" stl="font-size:126%"> (='qstn'>?what are our) ="trms">methodology of companioning with things

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what is happening to me='lgc'>: attention to knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge making practices (in the context of a ="trms">literary pleasure)
='strcls'>*sharing='lgc'> = making='strcls'>*
='strcls'>*="trms">communicating='lgc'> = making='strcls'>*
="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clues ='lgc'>--for='lgc'>='lgc'>--> contexts ='lgc'>--shapes='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how we will take what each other says

(="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King > Anzaldua='lgc'>:) who and what facilitates such movement among ="trms">worlds='qstn'>?

home='lgc'> = domination ='lgc'>+ domestication ='lgc'>+ ="trms">love


="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•why ="trms">science ="trms">fiction ="trms">matters='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•how cultural studies helps us make SF meaningful='qstn'>?
="trms">interactive possibilities of media art, commercial production, mass culture

SF='lgc'> = effect of defamiliarization
(problem with ="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek is that it is over familiar)

Janet, from a lesbian utopian future (death by disease of all the men)
Jeannine, from an alternate ="trms">present (US never entered WWII)
Jael, where “War Between the Sexes” has become deadly ="trms">literal
Joanna, the ="trms">author of the ="trms">book, Joanna Russ (in a shimmering ="trms">joking ="trms">literalization has en="trms">folded into her own ="trms">story)


my ="nms">ajayeb studies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*cultural studies='lgc'>: how cultural products are part of cultural processes='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= what makes an art work good) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> getting around the term “art”
="prgrph">-mysteries, romance novels, movies, (="trms">bestiaries,) all of them deeply commercial forms of entertainment and often produced in complicated ="trms">technical collaborations ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> and that's what makes them ="trms">interesting (='lgc'>=/= simple single ="trms">authorships)='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-genre, ="trms">formula, (style, ="trms">fashion,) are intrinsic to the ways these products are produced and the ways they are enjoyed
genre ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> subtle shifts possible across many repetitions (='lgc'>=/= something that happens only one time)
pre="trms">modern ="trms">literary forms (="trms">bestiary) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> structural variations ='lgc'>+ their pleasurable effects

fandom (collectivities of fans)='lgc'>: venues in which high intensities of engagement and collaboration occur ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">social and collaborative, (="trms">writing) reengineered with various ="trms">apparatus, ='lgc'>[pre-="trms">internet Trekkers:='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•...audio tape each episode and ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listen to the voices over and over in my bed at night, until I had the dialog ="trms">memorized
="lsts lst1">•wrote long letters about each episode several times a week, coast to coast, analyzing each in great detail, and ="trms">writing out particularly ="trms">memorable bits of repartee
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> SF media fandoms (='lgc'>=/= SF ="trms">literary fandoms), first really organized around ="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek in the late 60s, early 70s and increasingly ="trms">international, have tended to be dominated by female fans
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]poaching='lgc'>: how fans and fandoms appropriate commercial products for their own informal uses

='strcls'>*commercial exuberance='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>== media franchises (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- take advantage of the structure of multinational corporations ='lgc'>[film and tv production, ="trms">book, music and video publishing and distribution, theme parks, theaters, ="trms">book stores, and so on. tie-in novels and coffee table, graphic novels, toys and games, other paraphernalia such as telephones, t-shirts and porcelain plates, music, commercial ="trms">internet sites and catalog buying, and even scholarly works='lgc'>] ='lgc'>+ xeroxed fanfic, ="trms">fiction ="trms">written and self-published by fans,)

="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek='lgc'> = commercial media art ='lgc'>=/= “art for art's sake”
="prgrph">-commercial media art is pleasurable precisely because ='strcls'>*one instance of it is always insufficient in a very palpable way='strcls'>*
‘not enough’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">interactive ='and'>& an on-going ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> multiply collaborative process (across media)
= processes='lgc'>: people engage in varying degrees and forms of intensity and with varying collaborative possibilities ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{fandom='lgc'>: an ="trms">interactive engagement that is culturally ambiguous ='lgc'>=/= ‘="trms">society that values property,’ or ‘unique creations by single artists'='lgc'>}
(such media is) inspirational exactly because ='strcls'>*so much is left out='strcls'>*, so much invites elaboration
="lsts lst1">•gossipy pleasures
="lsts lst1">•extratextual information
="lsts lst1">•many layered ="trms">joke
="lsts lst1">•alerting the refrain of male friendship
="lsts lst1">•

like other kinds of SF ="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek also often does replicate the very aspects of culture and ="trms">society we find at the root of a range of ="trms">social injustices, racism, sexism, homophobia, and others

="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek, understood by cultural studies, is complexly contradictory, full of progressive possibilities ='lgc'>+ structures that shut down such possibility
='lgc'>--study='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cultural sites of struggles for power and for competing visions of justice

Kirk speaks Spock's funeral address and movingly says='lgc'>: “his soul was the most human.” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “human” ="trms">simultaneously creates unities across races and nationalities (as a universal term for courage or compassion), just as it also valorizes and makes superior the ="trms">species “human” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new inequality between humans and nonhumans

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wmst601fall10.blogspot.com ="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King

="trms">zoo spelled backwards

http://www.ediblegeography.com/cross-="trms">species-dining-an-="trms">interview-with-natalie-jeremijenko-and-mihir-desai/
Jeremijenko ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Sarah
edible ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures
bio-amplification that happens through the food web

the New York of...
the Brussels of...
(there is always) the ="nms">Tehran of X ='lgc'>[trees, dogs, rats, moms, thugs, etc.='lgc'>] (='lgc'>=/= the X of The ="nms">Tehran)


approach='lgc'>: targeted ="trms">drug delivery ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> doing focused ="trms">interventions ='lgc'>=/= treating the whole ="trms">system

links of how ='strcls'>*shared ="trms">interdependent transsex='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[shared rearrangement of sex and re/production='lgc'>] is un="trms">folding
="prgrph">-="trms">responding to this rearrangement not through fear of the eco-catastrophic assumptions

='strcls'>*shared ="trms">interdependent='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= dependence, independence

prefix -sphere ='lgc'>=/= -scape
bioscape ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> life and energies (not necessarily “alive”) in ="trms">relation to an imperfect spherical earth, but also its ="trms">relations to multiple other possible planes, elements, assemblages, and processes (beyond the biosphere)
(jetscapes, oilscapes, foodscapes, microwavescapes, sur="trms">veillancescapes, mountainscapes, sunscapes, waterscapes, etc.) -Kier


you could ="trms">love in a goose's ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> you are ='strcls'>*gooso="trms">morphous='strcls'>* (='lgc'>~ producing a goose body ='and'>& being produced yourself by a new identity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a not-attributing ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphic ="trms">love)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">anthropo="trms">morphic='lgc'>: to add new de="trms">finitions to what it is to be a human being='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">anthropo-="trms">zoo-genetic practice='lgc'>: practice of domestication, by adding new meanings to X, and new identities that provide these new meanings
“Lorenz is ="trms">articulated by the setting he created. The setting is ="trms">articulating new ways of talking, new ways of being human with nonhuman, human with goose, goose with human...” -="ppl">="ppl">Despret

de-passion knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a ="trms">world ‘without us’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a ="trms">world without ‘them’

='strcls'>*impoverished='lgc'>: a ="trms">world of minds without bodies, of bodies without minds, bodies without hearts, expectations, ="trms">interests, a ="trms">world of enthusiastic automata observing strange and mute creatures ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**a poorly ="trms">articulated (and poorly ="trms">articulating) ="trms">world='strcls'>**


="lsts lst1">•autological subject='lgc'>: discourses, practices, and fantasies about self-making, self-sovereignty, and the value of individual freedom as="trms">sociated with the Enlightenment project of contractual constitutional democracies
="frds scrmbld">Sven, ="frds scrmbld">Maarten,
Isabel for whom sex is disseminated
="lsts lst1">•genealogical ="trms">society='lgc'>: discourses, practices, and fantasies about various ="trms">social constraints and psychic assaults on the autological subject by various kinds of in="trms">heritances


“liberation denied, liberation achieved” ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•both visions dependent upon an all-or-nothing approach to ="trms">social change
="lsts lst1">•both visions dependent on vision and an unexamined allegiance to the concept of change
...at the self-proclaimed centers of freedom
='lgc'>--="ppl">Katie='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*how do we know ="trms">social change when we see it='qstn'>?='strcls'>*

when ‘eye candy’ begins to describe a range of visually induced ="trms">consumer pleasures

theoretical ="trms">apparatus='lgc'>:
space-plus-time (space ='lgc'>+ time) ='lgc'>=/= spacetime
="prgrph">-the additive understanding of “='lgc'>+” pictures time and space as two ="trms">geometric planes that ="trms">intersect ='lgc'>=/= ‘spacetime’ there is no need to explain how they come together, because nothing stands between them

“a woman's survival depends upon calling people into classification”
“...hair-t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigger judgments about gender lead to romance as well as lethal exchange.”

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="ppl">Verran in her work with Yoruba (West African) and Yolngu (Abo="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal Australian)

='lgc'>=/= thinking of numbers used in enumerating the real ="trms">world as helping us to work ="trms">relation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> numbers (and mathematical objects) as cognitive tools
elements of schooling ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> learning to use mathematical tools

='strcls'>*can number be considered as an inventive frontier in ="trms">social, cultural, political and moral life='qstn'>?='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--="ppl">Verran='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*number='lgc'> = ="trms">materialized ="trms">relations='strcls'>*, enumerated ="trms">materiality

people having kin ="trms">relations
people are ="trms">relations (in an ="trms">embodied sense ='lgc'>+ ="trms">semiotic in the sense of expressing a formal ="trms">relation ='lgc'>[for example wife/husband='lgc'>])

example='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•in river water ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> taking numbers as ="trms">semiotic='lgc'> = to identify numbers as the formal ="trms">relation unity/p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurality
="lsts lst1">•in working ="trms">markets ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> numbers enact ="trms">generalizing iconically in the whole/parts mode

='lgc'>--='strcls'>**='lgc'>='lgc'>--> numbers as particulars, in place and time, in ="trms">situ, realized in ="trms">specific practical ways

="ppl">Platonist account of number
intuitionist account of number
="trms">instrumenta="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list account of number
="nms">Iranian accounr of number

(="ppl">Verran's ="trms">rhetoric ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the term) ="trms">semiotic (an opaque term, both vague and highly ="trms">technical) ='lgc'>+ ="trms">material modifies

(="ppl">Verran not refering to) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">semiotic='lgc'>: the summoning up the baroque complexity of French structura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list and post-structura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list thought, and alternatively the ="trms">specific ="trms">categorical proposals of ="ppl">Peirce's philosophy and its offspring, american ="trms">pragmatism.

the paradox of ="trms">worlds as al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready/always meaningful, recognizing that doing ="trms">worlds as knowable (whether by ="trms">science or by trading) or for that ="trms">matter through Yoruba, or Yolngu knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge traditions ='lgc'>--involves='lgc'>='lgc'>--> engaging with the ="trms">world as it is here and now ='lgc'>--accepts='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*studying ‘forms of life’ and ‘="trms">language games’ as complex clots of signs and collective actions='strcls'>*

='lgc'>--="ppl">Peirce='lgc'>='lgc'>--> numbers can be='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•iconic (icons are deeply coconstitutive with clots of collective actions that generate entities)
="lsts lst1">•indexical
="lsts lst1">•="trms">symbolic (="trms">symbols and their objects enact a ="trms">relation of su="trms">pervenience امر غير مترقبه, objects are accepted as ="trms">affecting and effecting their signs but not vice-versa)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> degrees of reciprocal co-constitution of signs and collective ="trms">embodied and embedded actions in which objects come to life
='lgc'>--="ppl">Verran='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ethnographically found forms of the workings of signs

(depending on) how one understands ethnography ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> names work as icons, indexes, or ="trms">symbols

removing the stigma of Yoruba number as primitive

numbers as working indexically or ="trms">symbolically ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for examine='lgc'>: are being used to re="trms">present the ="trms">ecological health of Australia's creeks and rivers, lakes and billabongs


="trms">difference between these ="trms">relational forms='lgc'>:
the first thing we need to know about a number is whether='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•it takes the one/many form (potentially containing unity within the p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurality of a many) ='lgc'>[cardinal number ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> conserve value='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•the whole/parts form (having p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurality contained within a unity) ='lgc'>[ordinal number ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> conserve order='lgc'>]

(in) shape-shifting between='lgc'>:
one/many form
whole/parts form
="trms">symbolic/indexical mode of ="trms">semiosis
indexical/iconic mode of ="trms">semiosis
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> number works in inventive ways


thousands of Australians regularly attending their streams with bottles, thermometers, and pH meters, peering at tiny creatures they have scooped up with a net, trying to identify what they are and count their numbers

(the slogan) “you can't sustain what you haven't ="trms">measured”

numbers so enthusiastically generated by volunteers ='lgc'>--also='lgc'>='lgc'>--> contribute to constituting water as commodity, expanding possibilities for ‘doing business with water’


cordon sanitaire ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> consistency must be quantifiable
two ="trms">databases, separate institutions and websites, is counter-productive in a project assembling and disseminating information on the state of the nation's water resources='qstn'>?
='at'>@="nms">apass

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patterns of behavior
forms of style
='lgc'>--emerge='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='qstn'>?

(="ppl">Rai researching the ="trms">materiality of the ="trms">ecology of sensation of mobile phones in India helps me to think about ="nms">Iran telegram media)
new ="trms">ecology of sensation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> patterns

perspectivalism='lgc'>: (="trms">history of) the dominance of re="trms">presentationalism in the engagement with a living multiplicity at stake

each image has='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•a certain duration
="lsts lst1">•at ="trms">different scales of perception
="lsts lst1">•a non-coinciding resonant unity (a unity-in-multiplicity)
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*mutating ="trms">affect ='lgc'>=/= re="trms">presentation='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•potential occasions for a perceptual event (that exceed their actualization) ='lgc'>=/= mise en abime
="lsts lst1">•pointing the capacities of perception in multiple direction
="lsts lst1">•strike you as potential events in gradients of textual vision, haptic and mutating accross senses
="lsts lst1">•="trms">excessive information that calls for another diagram of bodily capacities
="lsts lst1">•where a machinic phylum becomes sensitive to certain forces
="lsts lst1">•

an ="trms">ecology of sensation meeting its cliche='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•Bollywood meets graphic novels at the back of a rickshaw
="lsts lst1">•Agra's Mughal-era oriental(ized) stone work turning topological and dimensional (less or more racist='qstn'>? ='lgc'>--="ppl">Rai='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to what extent is the ="trms">question relevant to what it does='qstn'>?='strcls'>**)
="lsts lst1">•Ferris wheel on Juhu beach
="lsts lst1">•the weighting machine at the local station


(="ppl">Rai ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Keenan ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> give me) new resources for ="trms">imagining justice and democracy

all habits are preindividual ='lgc'>: where the subject and population meets

photographs (photoshopped life) ='lgc'>==enable='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a hauntology to emerge in the viewing subject


a ="trms">priori conceptualism ='lgc'>=/= a practice of perception that is involved in the emergence of ="trms">ecologies


like ="ppl">Rai's photos, the image assemblages that i am making are experiments in perception given the ="trms">ecology of sensation that i am working through
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> attempts to produce an ="trms">affect that resonants with a conceptual and bodily reasoning ='lgc'>=/= philosophy

my telegram collection ='lgc'><='lgc'>== (="ppl">="ppl">Stengers) we do not know a ="trms">priori the ="trms">difference between what we must take into account and what we can ignore

(for you, X is deterministic, as are the ="trms">questions that describe it)

="large lg90" stl="font-size:101%"> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]emergence='lgc'>: the appearance of the unanalyzable totality of a new entity that renders irrelevant the intelligibility of that which produced it

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Ticineto Clough

media ="trms">technological developements ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (often and perhaps necessarily) put the transformation of being and the transformation of knowing out of ="trms">sync with one another

why Hollywood concerns me='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•reconceptualization of labor from the cinematic mode of production to the ="trms">affective mode
="lsts lst1">•the colossal projection of cinema as a guarantor of a culturally uniform ="trms">memory

relevant for artists too (they cannot ignore this) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to rethink the ="trms">ontological grounds of knowing ='lgc'>[and re="trms">presentation='lgc'>] (in the wake of) deprivileging or decentering human perception and cognition (and reconcider these artistic tools and ="trms">episteme='lgc'>:) sensation, ="trms">affect, ="trms">matter, energy

='strcls'>*digital media ="trms">technology is being redefined in terms of a subtraction of human perception as the presumed center of being and feeling='strcls'>* ='at'>@="nms">apass

(media understood in terms of) ='strcls'>*non="trms">anthropocentric ="trms">affect='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">affect='lgc'> = ="trms">transition, gateway, passages between dimensions ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ‘everything='lgc'> = media’ (='lgc'>~ entities can feel or whose vibrations can be felt by other entities)
="trms">affect ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]media='lgc'>: contractions of forces of the ="trms">world into ="trms">specific resonating milieus

="large lg106" stl="font-size:118%"> ='strcls'>**mediation='lgc'> = modulation='lgc'> = (vibration =) intensifying or deintensifying rhythmicities and forces, below and above human perception='strcls'>**

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]human perception='lgc'>: assemblage of ="trms">measuring that is irreducible to human ="trms">agency or human ="trms">agency alone ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “non-conscious ="trms">phenomena”
="prgrph">-this is ="ppl">="ppl">Barad pointing the way to an ="trms">epistemology put in terms of ="trms">measuring that ="trms">affects as it renders effects
(i need to work on such ="trms">specific ="trms">epistemology for ="nms">ajayeb)

(="nms">ajayeb's speculative reals ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> speculative grasp of what exists outside human knowing ='lgc'>=/=) cor="trms">relationism='lgc'>: impossibility of a ="trms">world without human knowing

(one of our ="trms">obligation today is) ='lgc'>[nonapocalyptic='lgc'>] ='strcls'>***recognizing a ="trms">world without us='strcls'>*** (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this is what we must ="trms">imagine and not “our future” ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Pierre)
='lgc'>[by='lgc'>] making use of ="trms">poetic, ="trms">affective, rhythmic processes of resonance (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Sarah's fermentation concert, ="frds">Sina's popup ="trms">book)

='lgc'>}='lgc'>==rethink='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*media ="trms">technologies='lgc'> = ="trms">technologies of ="trms">measure='strcls'>*


="trms">sensual mathematics
rethink the digital in terms of the “numerical dimension of the virtual”
the potential for mutation immanent to the numerical ="trms">code itself
(indeterminacies understood in terms of) new processes of quantification that recognize the “full ="trms">densely packed zones of information that are the intensive surrounds of zero and ones
Clough - Goodman - Parisi


='strcls'>*="trms">question of knowing='lgc'> = a politics of capacities='strcls'>* (that crosses every scale of ="trms">matter/energy)
='lgc'>=/= ="trms">interpellation and determination of the subject
='lgc'>=/= identity politics (politics of ="trms">difference)

control ="trms">society='lgc'> = collection of dynamic quasi-subjects (constituted by a grear number of variables) ='lgc'>=/= collection of subjects of ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right (constituted by the partial alienation of their ="trms">natural ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights to the sovereign)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]population only reveals probabi="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic regularities once considered at the mass level (='lgc'>=/= collection of controlable subjects)
(in both terms of capital and governance) ='strcls'>*modulation and mutation are operative in ="trms">relations of power='strcls'>* (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Campbell)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]publics='lgc'>: addresses of ="trms">communicated ="trms">affective states (='lgc'>=/= subjects of discourse about and argumentation over ="trms">narrative knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge with truth claims)='strcls'>****
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">matters of vitalizing information
='strcls'>*digital ="trms">technologies have been fundamental to the deterritorialization of the ="trms">relationship between individual and collectivity='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--Terranova='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (digital ="trms">technologies through provisional capture and dissemination of ="trms">affect ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) constitution of publics

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]biopolitics='lgc'>: a ="trms">matter of distributing ="trms">affective capacities unevenly across population (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is volatile)
='strcls'>***distribution of ="trms">affect reshapes ="trms">society='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>--requires='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to restore discursive argumentation (over ="trms">narrative and its truth claims ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">narrative='lgc'> = a form of truth claim='strcls'>*)

(='at'>#telegram with ="ppl">Rai, we need more analysis of... in terms) ='strcls'>*="trms">ecologies of sensation='strcls'>*='lgc'>: media assemblages with emergent properties that impel new tendencies, new forms of attention, new forms of intention, new forms of distraction, new forms of habit, new forms of practice
='strcls'>*politics of ="trms">intervention='lgc'>: a ="trms">matter of entering in the middle in order to ='strcls'>*modulate='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= (="ppl">Rai's) counter-actualization (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= criticism)='lgc'>: moving down from the extended, back to the intensive or potentiality (not merely a deconstructive practice, but) an ="trms">ontologically oriented practice, a performative ="trms">intervention brining a change of speed, rhythm, vibration ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> politics of vibration (Pia's ="trms">method)

media ="trms">technological developement ='lgc'>==deploy='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (which='qstn'>?) ="trms">ontological and ="trms">epistemological implications

to give criticism more ="trms">specificity and width

="trms">measure and media ="trms">technologies

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(="ppl">Rai) ='lgc'>[hacking jugaad practices='lgc'>] they operate within and against the plasticity (both neural and spatial) of India's “smart cities”
="prgrph">-feedbacked assemblages of ="trms">affect, ="trms">matter, policy, culture, biology, perception, value, force, sensibilities, practices, and discourses
="prgrph">-sensorial, algorithmic, ="trms">material, and territorial makeshift infrastructures enabling digital cultures in India today

cultures of pirated workarounds (jugaad) in digital ="trms">technologies
emergent digital cultures

stratified ="trms">data

='strcls'>*hacking ="trms">="trms">empiricism='lgc'>: a self-reflective practice of linking a problem to both its ="trms">ecology of sense and sensation and to its processes and dimensions of change='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•="trms">="trms">empiricism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">pragmatic experimentations in becoming other
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]hacking='lgc'>: (informalized workaround practices) inchoate unvollständig movement of workaround, informal (disorganized), extralegal, democratic, subaltern, collective repurposing of found ="trms">materials shifting ="trms">ecologies from relative stasis to absolute flux, at times and usually in the ="trms">interests of narrow class segments, in innovative and “game-changing” ways

="trms">ecologies of workaround practices

...subaltern and autonomous sensibility imprisoned and controlled by forms of monopoly and habituation

...nodes of algorithmic capital

="trms">traverse and exceed

islamophobic co-branding of Israel and India

="trms">marketing and hacking of digital cultures


="trms">social practice / hacking
="trms">pragmatic, ad hoc, ="trms">networked approach (to an obstacle)
sufficient reason proceeding through intuition as much as probability

='strcls'>**what workaround repurposes our ="trms">relation to ="trms">technology and ="trms">technique itself='qstn'>? ='lgc'><='lgc'>--="ppl">Rai='lgc'>-- collective experiment in ="trms">pragmatizing in mobile ="trms">ecologies

heterodox political economy of contemporary digital capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list control ='lgc'>+ its parasitical and autonomous pirate kingdoms (Sundaram > ="ppl">Rai)

="ppl">="ppl">Foucault ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>****knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge was not made for understanding, it was made for cutting='strcls'>****

entrepreneurial capture of digital cultures and their hacking (in India)

="prgrph">-what is the force, sense, and value of the habituation (of ="trms">CG hacking, of ="trms">pragmatic experimentation habits)='qstn'>? ='lgc'>--="frds">Sina='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="trms">question of) passage between ="trms">affective states
="prgrph">-(how can we='qstn'>?) better diagram through connecting ="trms">relations and functions of force, value, and sense in (pirated ='and'>& corporate) contemporary digital media infrastructures

(how to understand effectively the knots of) ='strcls'>***="trms">technoperceptual='strcls'>*** (becoming, ="trms">relations, assemblages, habituation)

negotiating the digital (irreducible to capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list strategies of value capture ='lgc'>~ resistance form)

the ="trms">ecology of sense and sensation that jugaad events ='lgc'>[="trms">technical animation ="trms">CG='lgc'>] operate through (and happen in) ='strcls'>*requires ="trms">specific pirate infrastructures='strcls'>*

="ppl">Rai's jugaad ='lgc'>--affirm='lgc'>='lgc'>--> becoming through a counteractualization of the infrastructures of postdigital cultures

strategic ="trms">narratives of acts of ="trms">consumption ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sources of new productivity

(Ris's notion of) ="trms">ecological='lgc'>: process-oriented ="trms">historical ="trms">materialism

="trms">interpretation by thinking ='lgc'>--through='lgc'>='lgc'>--> assemblages of action ='lgc'>--through='lgc'>='lgc'>--> assemblages of thought

collective practices of habituation

(='lgc'>[="ppl">Rai's='lgc'>] ="trms">methodology of) ='strcls'>*="trms">affect-as-capacity='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--shift='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the focus of attention away from ="trms">language (discourse and re="trms">presentation) toward habituated and emergent sensations in ="trms">historically ="trms">specific media assemblages

="large lg62" stl="font-size:110%"> transformation of tele="trms">communications in colonial and postcolonial South Asia

(="ppl">Guattari's) assemblage='lgc'>: a prepersonal practice, a kind of style, a creative mutation that binds an individual or a group consciously or unconsciously

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='strcls'>*="trms">traveling the bibliographic among knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">worlds='strcls'>*

(="ppl">Katie making a) multimedia bibliographic essay ='strcls'>*with an argument='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> working out a practice of ='strcls'>*transdisciplinary inspection='strcls'>*
(='at'>@="nms">apass, a few index of evaluation for such practice='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*how well it learns and models how to be ="trms">affected or moved='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*how well it opens up unexpected elements of one's own ="trms">embodiments in lively and re-sensitizing ="trms">world='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•(what are) ='strcls'>*its possibilities for immersive play among sensations and platforms amid media ="trms">technologies='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•(what are) ='strcls'>*its ways of participating in multi="trms">species learning or self-organization across ="trms">ecologies
="lsts lst1">•(what are its capacities for) ='strcls'>*="trms">mattering without owning the action='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> play='lgc'>]

transdisciplinary connections have been made on the basis of ='strcls'>*play='strcls'>*='lgc'>--between='lgc'>: psychiatry, mathematical, logic, ="trms">linguistic, ="trms">histories and evolution of ="trms">communication, ethology, biophysics, cybernetics, ="trms">natural ="trms">history ='lgc'>+ game industry, fine arts design, education, ="trms">semiotics, animation, new media, ="trms">children television, ="trms">system collaborations
='lgc'>--play='lgc'>='lgc'>--> restructure and ="trms">intermesh, are ="trms">recruited in nationalisms, economies, political life
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="ppl">Katie='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***what ="trms">sorts of politics might allow us to scope and scale among these, to “play” with our own consciousness='qstn'>?='strcls'>***

culture industries


="trms">questions
="prgrph">-what does it take to be an intellectual actor across knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">worlds ='and'>& a trustworthy ="trms">member of only some='qstn'>? ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Jassem
="prgrph">-='lgc'>[what is='lgc'>] to practice knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge beyond your control='qstn'>? ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Lili
="prgrph">-='lgc'>[what is='lgc'>] to sift among forms of evidence requiring tools you do not have='qstn'>? ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">="frds scrmbld">Lilia
="prgrph">-='lgc'>[what is='lgc'>] to be required to rank, evaluate, assess results of rules you have not played out (yet)='qstn'>? ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Sana


="ppl">Katie > ="ppl">="ppl">Bateson's ='strcls'>*double bind='strcls'>*
='lgc'>--="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clue='lgc'>='lgc'>--> meanings and causes of ="trms">schizophrenia (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> may speak to various conditions of bio="trms">social ="trms">systems today)
(="trms">questions at using the word ="trms">schizophrenia='lgc'>:)
="prgrph">-what of the sexism of those laying blame on the “="trms">schizophrenogenic mother”='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-what of the possiblity of gathering evidence for the effects of expressed emotion in family ="trms">systems of those with possibly linked to bipolar disorder='qstn'>? (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that is my problem with Eleanor's stuttering as ="trms">aesthetics)

double bind='lgc'>: (super confusining) transactions, entire ="trms">system of layered contra="trms">dictions mobilized over a range of ="trms">communication channels
="lsts lst1">•somthing is prohibited, punished (at one level of meaning or abstraction ='strcls'>*within a particular ="trms">communicating channel='strcls'>*)
="lsts lst1">•something else is required (at another level) that is impossible to effect if the prohibition is honored
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[this='lgc'>] happens over and over again ='lgc'>==until='lgc'>='lgc'>==> such ='strcls'>*double bind patterning='lgc'> = (becomes experienced as) “reality”='strcls'>*

='strcls'>***they all deal with (some ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges of) double bind='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">religious practices
="lsts lst1">•entertainment
="lsts lst1">•game design
="lsts lst1">•learning
="lsts lst1">•

intolerable conditions ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> creativities

(when crucial context markers distinguishing ='lgc'>[one from another='lgc'>] become unrecognizable, contradictory, or fraudulant ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) “abusive practices ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= challenging practices”
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (terror ='and'>& possibility are on the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in double bind experience =) ='strcls'>***transcontextual confusion='strcls'>*** (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- requres transcontextual gifts one may or may not have...) ='at'>@="nms">apass ='at'>#feedback='lgc'>: urgent appropriate ="trms">response
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Bateson='lgc'>='lgc'>--> double bind patterning='lgc'> = intense='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•contradictory (two order of messages each of which denies the other)
="lsts lst1">•unvoiced (making explicit checks of context impossible, inappropriate, meaningless)

“(there is nothing to determine) whether a give individual shall become a clown, a ="trms">poet, a ="trms">schizophrenic, or a combination of these” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we deal with a genus of syndromes (most of which are not conventionally regarded as pathological) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= art work='lgc'>]='at'>#feedback
="lsts lst1">•those life is enriched by transcontextual gifts (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Elen)
="lsts lst1">•those who are impoverished by transcontextual confusions (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for both there is a “double take”
a falling leaf or the ="trms">greeting of a friend is not “just that and nothing more”


(taking from ="ppl">="ppl">Bateson, ="ppl">Katie ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) play with this range of terror and possibility ='lgc'>--(with ='lgc'>+ through)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (individual ='and'>& bio="trms">social) ='strcls'>*consciousness='lgc'>: reflection ='lgc'>+ recursion='strcls'>* (at the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of apprehension)='lgc'> = environments of being ='lgc'>: context, pattern, layers of abstraction, ="trms">storytelling all have ="trms">material effects and provide ='strcls'>*="trms">materials for ="trms">agency='strcls'>*


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]play='lgc'>: ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">communicative media='strcls'>*, a double consciousness (in which the player is well aware of the artificiality of the play ="trms">situation) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= immersive fallacy='lgc'>: ='thdf'>the idea that games get better and better as they become whatever that thing “more real” is ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> implications for the meaning of='lgc'>: ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor, re="trms">presentation, evidence, ="trms">method, assessment='lgc'>]
(="trms">animal and ="trms">children learn to play ='lgc'>--learn='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) there are some ways ='strcls'>*play self ='lgc'>=/= everyday self='strcls'>* ='and'>& ='lgc'>[they learn='lgc'>] to perform this separation in ="trms">interactive cognitive and ="trms">social ="trms">communication ='strcls'>*forms of not='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: they amuse themselves by performing the ="trms">communication “this is not it”='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the puppy nips, but not hard enough to injure ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> violence='qstn'>? not. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the nip actually hurts a bit
="lsts lst1">•the teen kisses in spin the bottle, but not the person they like the most ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sex='qstn'>? not. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the kissing blush and stammer
="lsts lst1">•my body is reacting as if i am in d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger, but really i am in front of a computer ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reality='qstn'>? not.
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> double consciousness
(="ppl">Katie > ="ppl">="ppl">Bateson) ='strcls'>*play creates its own commentary in itself about itself as an intense and pleasurable ="trms">interactive dynamism='strcls'>*='lgc'> = ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">communication='lgc'>: ="trms">communicative ='lgc'>+ ="trms">neurological ='lgc'>+ hormonal

='strcls'>***good signaling ="trms">skills make nonabusive play on the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of double bind possible='strcls'>***

(="trms">skills of) transcontextual movement without falling apart
finding out='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•which bits are active
="lsts lst1">•which bits are context
="lsts lst1">•which bits can be made explicit
="lsts lst1">•which rules are perceptible
="lsts lst1">•which distributed ="trms">embodiments, cognitions, and infrastructures are in play
(these are the ="trms">skills needed for the kind of game we play in ="nms">apass)

playing/gaming (now covers)='lgc'>: gambling, economic game theory, game art, design, learning, role playing, ="trms">system theory ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*playing with our distributed being='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[="ppl">Katie's accounting for digital='lgc'>]

="prgrph">-what the hell are my hormonal plays='qstn'>? (not always in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding another person)


(for ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]wording='lgc'>:) game of cat's cradle (across a range of transmedia) pictured, described, ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">communicated, performed, extended, ='strcls'>*relayed='strcls'>*
(my image assemblages='lgc'>: ="trms">writing='lgc'>:) ="trms">techno-organic polyglot poly="trms">morphic wiring diagrams
to pattern
to relay (passing something along, relaying ='lgc'>=/= sharing)
to perceive multiform
rewarded by dopamine
t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riggered by pleasure, anticipation, yawning fields for ="trms">memory ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my ="nms">ajayeb study='lgc'>], learning and unlearning, tenacious ad="trms">dictive repetitions

tools='lgc'>: drawing, role playing, gaming, ="trms">writing, critiquing, reviewing, costuming, song="trms">writing, singing, webby ="trms">community building, techy arts, fans advocating their ="trms">interests in films
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shaping environments and contexts for ="trms">imagination and cognition

='strcls'>*wording='lgc'>: a practice of displaying ='lgc'>+ ="trms">crafting ="trms">worlds, of sharing ='lgc'>+ enjoying expertise, of noticing tiny details of connection and similarity amid the tweaks and frissons of alternative shadings across many ="trms">intertextualities of as="trms">sociation, ="trms">history, genre, care='strcls'>*

in ="trms">interface
what was obvious to one was mystery to another
what was trivial to one was a barrier to another
how do you reply in terms that are alien to you='qstn'>?

='at'>@="nms">apass
='strcls'>*actual ="trms">materialities of distributed thinking='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>--among='lgc'>-- infrastructures of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•publication
="lsts lst1">•media
="lsts lst1">•conferences
="lsts lst1">•scholarly ="trms">communication
="lsts lst1">•research results and processes
="lsts lst1">•

elegant parsimonies of explanation
clever bodies at the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of apprehension (="ppl">="ppl">Despret's Clever Hans Effect)

an ="trms">interative ="trms">agency (="ppl">Katie calls) ='strcls'>*learning to be ="trms">affected='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= “mearly the effect of...” ...ولی اون فقط داره

odor kit
a device organized in a careful pallete of small ="trms">differences
learning to be ="trms">affected ='lgc'>--entails='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a dynamic ="trms">trajectory by which we learn to register and become sensitive to what the ="trms">world is made of

body parts are progressively acquired ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">world counter-parts are being registered in a new way (= my ="nms">ajayeb studies)
='strcls'>*acquiring a body='lgc'>: a progressive enterprise that produces at once a sensory medium and a sensitive ="trms">world ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to Captain Marvel 2019 film='lgc'>]


what ="trms">sort of project of multiplicity is transdisciplinarity='qstn'>?
what ="trms">sort of double consciousness might it array in which political economies='qstn'>?

(="ppl">="ppl">Bateson's) distributed being='lgc'> = we don't end at our skin

='strcls'>***what does it mean to say to any particular group of people that we do not end at our skin='qstn'>?!='strcls'>***
what ="trms">sort of boundary object is this “skin”='qstn'>?

(Keeling > ="ppl">Katie) a ="trms">book is a wormhole ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transdisciplinary universe
='strcls'>*lyricism of surplus='strcls'>*
“the end of the ="trms">world... work with me”

="trms">agencies of valorization (of pricing, of valuing, of mobilizing labor) ='lgc'>: political economy of acquiring body parts from the skin's ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge

='strcls'>*="trms">agencies of capital='lgc'>: ="trms">worldly processes of economic ="trms">systems ="trms">articulating and distributed among, but not reproducing the powers of the state, or of ="trms">community, family, or nation='strcls'>*

='lgc'>+ other ="trms">agencies='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•sensory-motor ="trms">apparatus and ="trms">affectivities
="lsts lst1">•thinkings and ="trms">memory-images distributed across people and media

(sometimes) layered double-bind ="trms">systems ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> numbing out

queerly valorized ='lgc'>--Keeling='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
if Pam Grier is a locus of desire for both heterosexual males and for lesbians such as Lesbian Avengers’ lesbian prtygoers, then her ="trms">presence on The L Word ='lgc'>[TV series='lgc'>] is another way the series seeks to bring these populations together in a shared project of value production


="trms">phenomena='lgc'>: topological reconfigurings/entanglements/="trms">relationalities/(re)="trms">articulations
ongoing reconfis of ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'> = ="trms">agency ='lgc'>=/= attribute

national ="trms">agendas for innovation and economic ="trms">positioning

which surplus populations will be enrolled into which kinds of institutions for knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge work becomes an element of global academic restructuring
restructuring='lgc'>: politicizing funding ='lgc'>+ ...

intellectual double bind of having='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. to address many diverging audiences ="trms">simultaneously under the threat of survival
="lstsrd">2. to ="trms">author knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges as merely one of multiple ="trms">agencies with very limited control
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*posthumanities='strcls'>*

(partial and highly distributed) ="trms">authorial and receptive ="trms">agencies ='lgc'>--require='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">affective labors ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•sifting among ="trms">authoritative and alternative knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges
="lsts lst1">•clarifying affiliations
="lsts lst1">•inspiring trust

(="ppl">Ahmed's ="trms">material feminism) ='at'>@="nms">apass
whose ="trms">material was this='qstn'>?
which generations of feminisms were implicated='qstn'>?
which details were necessary to name others carefully='qstn'>?
what contexts were backdrops for which founding ="trms">gestures='qstn'>?
="trms">affective labor (in ="nms">apass)='lgc'>: frustration, forgetting, unfairness, intensity, ethics, hope, carring attention to detail

='lgc'>[let's not='lgc'>] be quite so willing to de="trms">posit our hope in the ="trms">category of “the new”


objects become sticky
objects become full of ="trms">affective value

critique
(in ="nms">apass i have been experimenting with the) effects of reducing complexity
(i am aware of both) the hard work of elegance in explanation ='and'>& of essentialism in critique
="prgrph">-strategic openings and closings of “black-boxes” (full of ="trms">memory)

wir
(="ppl">Katie ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one must ="trms">wonder) who is being evoked by this ‘we’
to what extent this ‘we’ functions to ="trms">interpellate the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader into a ="trms">community that shares a common horizon='qstn'>? (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Sven and ="frds scrmbld">Chloe ="trms">bookshop)
which side, which knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">world, in what spacetime are ‘we’ on, inside and outside of, bonding and othering='qstn'>?

='strcls'>*tacit forgetting='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= resolution
='strcls'>**what ="trms">sorts of boundary objects value irritation='qstn'>?='strcls'>** ='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo
(my irritation in ="nms">apass with tacit knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, spiritualism, Vivero, Manning, process philosophy,,,)

="ppl">Katie accounts for ="ppl">Ahmed worries that ="ppl">="ppl">Barad's ="trms">mattering and some othe black-boxing speech acts are only caricatures of whole arguments, of whole (disciplinizing='qstn'>?) archives, and that they are not conducted at the proper grain of detail, “not attributed to somebody”


attention (in time) ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•narrow the range of possibility of -ism(s)
="lsts lst1">•alter the grain of detail ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*="trms">differential focus='strcls'>*


="nms">ajayeb.net='lgc'>: an intellectual infrastructure assemblaged and stacked (extensively scaled, intensely scoped) ='lgc'>=/= disciplinized archives of references (a knowing that linkages exist and can be assumed and must be consciously made explicit as “new”)
="lsts lst1">•my “='lgc'>=/=” set the focus of lens unsed in examining ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> alter the grain of detail (deliberately and dismissingly) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a “we” is needed ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pull back ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude alternate knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">worlds
="nms">ajayeb.net/bibli='lgc'>: ="trms">bird's-eye view of the bibliographic growth

mobility and detachability of “nots” provoking frission

='at'>@ERG's new website='lgc'>: what if the ="trms">worlding here needs to scope and scale along ranges of detail, indications of shifts from one knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">world to another assemblaged through boundary objects='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-who gets to say in which knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">world='qstn'>?

="trms">routinized ="trms">rhetoric about feminism

="trms">apparatus='lgc'>: open-ended practices

='strcls'>****(ok yes) “we honestly believe that there are no ="trms">positions that are ="trms">epistemologically superior to any other” ='lgc'>--but='lgc'>='lgc'>--> at the same time ='lgc'>[="ppl">Katie and i totally='lgc'>] argue with and try to overthrow those i don't agree with='strcls'>****

neutrality (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- moral commitment) ='lgc'>=/= relativism='lgc'>: forswearing claims to absolute ="trms">epistemological ="trms">authority

(learning from ="ppl">Katie) my ="trms">technique in ="nms">ajayeb study ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i brazenly detach words from their o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal context and mobilize then all together for my own irritating purposes ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] i both reduce and add to the complexity (of globals and locals)
='strcls'>**(my play='lgc'>:) double or multiple consciousness ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: growing boundary objects
='strcls'>**(my project in ="nms">apass='lgc'>:) to be curious and value how claims to ="trms">epistemological ="trms">authority operate and how comparative relativism can be accountable ='lgc'>+ can i irritatingly passionately disagree with


democratization of oppression (='qstn'>?)

="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading across the media sustains a depth of experience that motivates more ="trms">consumption
...the economic logic of a horizontally ="trms">integrated entertainment industry

='at'>#telegram ="nms">iran (commercial ="trms">world of entertainment)
="trms">material examples of ='strcls'>*stacked realities='strcls'>* cascading over various media and ="trms">technological platforms with differing degrees of ="trms">interoperability and standardization ='lgc'>--="ppl">Katie='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*transmedia ="trms">stories='strcls'>* (inevitably commercialized)



="trms">integrationism
revolutionary action
supermacism
separatism
anarchism
political defense
rede="trms">finition of the human
to ="trms">intervene in and democratically refocus ="trms">social and psychic powers ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> place-based ="trms">ecological activism='lgc'>: self-consciously identifying and producing invigorating political and cultural planetary geographies

ethically augmented and ="trms">affected cognitive sensorium

variable and sensitized tactics and ethics of “democratics” ='lgc'>--Sandoval='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta-ideologizing='lgc'>: functions both within and against ideology
='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo='qstn'>?


(='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb is aimed at='lgc'>:) old and new media collide ='lgc'>==Jenkins='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*convergence culture='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--inhabited-by='lgc'>='lgc'>--> those who learn how to play with media, information, visualization, and who live among and produce hypertexted or ="trms">relational and relative ="trms">materialities

preemptive
proleptic
prophetic

(the way i am using the term) queer='lgc'>: to learn to be ="trms">affected by the political economies of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">worlds


(my art in ="trms">lecture and performances='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*to play with our own consciousness='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--="ppl">Katie='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to curiosly work at the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of “this is not it”, ='lgc'>[bits that are='lgc'>] some activated and activating across the tacit and the explicit

(no to) idealization
(no to) disillusionment

(="ppl">Katie asks) ='strcls'>*****which “we” gathers, locating inside of ="trms">worlding processes, as elements in reorganizations that “we” ="trms">matter in, but do not control='qstn'>?='strcls'>*****

(the game we play in artistic research='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*transcontextual movement witout falling apart='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[in ="nms">apass people do='lgc'>] sensitized transmedia knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge practices

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o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of computing goes back to 19th century insurance industry='lgc'>: ="trms">modern elimination of risks
="trms">social theory of ="trms">data ="trms">science
1820s (Babbage’s) ="trms">difference engine
="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right at the industrial revolution='lgc'>: division of labor (for Babbage was the highest human achievement)
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> welfare state
the state protects and promotes the economic and ="trms">social well-being of the citizens
we are living by the rationality of insurance industry (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> operating our lives by ="trms">technologies of information and computing)
='lgc'>[we can live with it ="trms">differently='lgc'>]
logic of progress is not the issue, logic of acceleration is the problem
(idea of) frictionless economy ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> must go faster and faster
discourse of stasis ='lgc'>=/= how to explore change='qstn'>?
not preserving end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered ="trms">species, but preserving the possibility of change

desks are information ="trms">technologies

="ppl">="ppl">Bowker > ="frds">Sina='lgc'>: every critical work (today) must in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude the centrality of ="trms">data (and calculation) in our lives

(from pre="trms">modern) ='strcls'>*describe the ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[="trms">bestiaries='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="trms">modern necessity to) ='strcls'>*calculate the ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[recognizing a calculated ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my ="trms">interest in ="ppl">Olearius='lgc'>]

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(Cameron's image of) Terminator='lgc'>: relentless unidirectional progress ='lgc'>[that you can't negotiate with='lgc'>] (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">modernity) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> destruction of cultures and ="trms">communities ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> destroy ourselves

how to live with Terminator='lgc'> = how to live with ="trms">modernity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> post="trms">modernity
(in the film the Terminator is finally terminated by a determined woman using rather old-="trms">fashioned ="trms">technology)

absolutely will not stop
inside='lgc'>: hyperalloy combat chassis, microprocessor controlled, fully armoured, very tough
outside='lgc'>: living human tissue, flesh, skin, hair, blood ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> controlled by a clinical logic='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*it cannot be reasoned with='strcls'>*, it cannot be bargained with

its ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal skeleton rises from the ashes and carries on with its ="trms">mission. the skeleton too is chopped to bits, the individual bits come to life and continue with their goal

(for ="ppl">Sardar) ="trms">modernity is the conceptual equivalent of the Terminator (incepted in European Enlightenment='lgc'>: ="trms">modernize traditional cultures and relentlessly lead mankind, screaming and protesting, by the nose towards a progressive utopia)

="trms">modernity ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> (witnessed, if not caused='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•death and elimination of numerous cultures
="lsts lst1">•destruction of countless ="trms">communities and ="trms">histories
="lsts lst1">•disappearance of hundreds of valuable ="trms">animal and plant ="trms">species
="lsts lst1">•transformed arable land into wastelands and deserts

="trms">modernity='lgc'>: the official culture of the ="trms">world
(="ppl">Nietzsche, ="ppl">Heidegger ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) it is not possible to think our way out of ="trms">modernity with the philosophical ="trms">system of thought and ="trms">language supplied by ="trms">modernity

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Vattimo's (bad) philosophy of crisis='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">history
what was traditionally referred to as “="trms">history” is now perceived as having broken down into an in="trms">finity of “="trms">histories” that can no longer be (re)combined into a single ="trms">narrative governed by a central theme
(today='lgc'>:) ="trms">history='lgc'> = a kind of ="trms">writing
="lsts lst1">•progress='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*something qualitatively ="trms">different from what precedes it='strcls'>* (a forward movement in ="trms">history) ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[now:='lgc'>] welf established ="trms">technique (of such masters as ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault, ="ppl">Deleuze, ="ppl">Derrida, ="ppl">Lyotard and ="ppl">Baudrillard='lgc'>:) to deconstruct rational ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics in order to open it, to re="trms">write it and thus to lay the foundation, in terms of a ="ppl">Marxian-inspired ="trms">historicism, of new truths for a post="trms">modernist thought
="lsts lst1">•(Vattimo's use of) nihilism as weapon to attack notions of ‘truth’ and ‘reason’ (in western ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst2">◦‘logic='lgc'> = (just another kind of) ="trms">rhetoric’
="lsts lst2">◦‘truth='lgc'> = will to power (by those who claim to be seeking truth over those who are being addressed by them)’
="lsts lst2">◦‘="trms">science and ="trms">technology='lgc'> = dominating ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical ="trms">systems’
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (eliminated any) possibility of a dialogue with cultures that are truly other as the rational ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics of ="trms">science and ="trms">technology


(='thdf'>the idea of) p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurality of cultures and discourses must become a basic premise of post="trms">modernist thought ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> widesp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read and widely p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic ="trms">religious revival ='lgc'>[='lgc'>+ ="trms">excessive indulgence in relativism='lgc'>]

(the meaning of) morality and principles of justice in a post="trms">modern ="trms">world='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[democracy's western ethos:='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•recognition of human needs
="lsts lst1">•courage
="lsts lst1">•solidarity
="lsts lst1">•justice
="lsts lst1">•prudence
="lsts lst1">•(virtue of) participating in rational discourse


(="ppl">Sardar's ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•stating the obvious with a sense of grand discovery is an essential post="trms">modern disease
="lsts lst1">•what ="trms">modern ="trms">science and ="trms">technology, free ="trms">market economy and multinational corporations are doing in the name of freedom, justice and fairness

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> despite ="trms">wonderful sentiments, and all the arguments for justice and equify, we end up with more of the same

(problem of the East with) ="trms">modernity='lgc'>: a European cultural construct based on ="trms">specific ="trms">historical legacy and condition, and its basic goal has always been to shape ="trms">science, politics, arts, morality and the ="trms">world ="trms">according to its own image and inner logic
='lgc'>+
much of post="trms">modernist thought is a sitnilar European construct and continues the old programme in a renewed attempt to justify neomarxism or new brands of liberal humanism

="prgrph">-what is a a genuine, radical departure from post="trms">modernism='qstn'>?

="trms">religiosity='lgc'>: that which transcends the ="trms">world (can be expressed in Fascism, ="trms">Communism, Nationalism, ="trms">Scientism, ="trms">Aestheticism, Nuclearism, or in several other secular ="trms">religions)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]secularism='lgc'>: a dishonest kind of ="trms">religiosity='strcls'>***

(mark of out time='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*necessity of recovering our sense of oneness with ="trms">nature='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- our total alienation
='lgc'>[='qstn'>?my artistic research is the very expression of='lgc'>] (Griffin's) post="trms">modernism ='lgc'>: a new ="trms">relationship with the ="trms">past (and the future) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- post="trms">modernism acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges, appreciates and wants to learn from the wisdom of traditional ="trms">societies ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= neoconservative ="trms">religious fundamentalism ='lgc'>=/= constructive nihilism

='lgc'>[the strive for a new ‘enchanted ="trms">science’ (='lgc'>=/= sacred ="trms">science) that='lgc'>] overcomes the separation between truth and virtue, value and fact, ethics and practical necessity

(Falk's) Disneyland post="trms">modernism='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•abstract affirmation of a ho="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic harmonious future
="lsts lst1">•homogenized uniformity (based on a colonizing logic and westernization of the globe)
="lsts lst1">•re="trms">interpret ="trms">science and ="trms">natural reality as confirmatory of a spiritual grounding for human
="lsts lst1">•ho="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic possibilities of encompassing conflict
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>***post="trms">modernism as an expression of the privileged status of the West='strcls'>***

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='strcls'>*="trms">greek gnosis is the Terminator in its guise of mystic='strcls'>* (which provided the Enlightenment with its springboard and ="trms">modernity with its ="trms">mission to subjugate non-western cultures)

arrogance and ="trms">authoritarianism are intrinsic in both ="trms">Greek rationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list and mystical thoughts='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Socrates ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> worshipped reason and was an arrogant and obnoxious man who enjoyed ridiculing ordinary folks
="lsts lst1">•Buddah ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> worshipped ="trms">nature and produced a totally ="trms">authoritarian ="trms">system of thought (as have most philosophers in western ="trms">history who have appealed to ="trms">nature for ethics)

new post="trms">modernism's value='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">ecological wisdom
="lsts lst1">•grassroots democracy
="lsts lst1">•personal and ="trms">social ="trms">responsibility
="lsts lst1">•non-violence
="lsts lst1">•decentralization
="lsts lst1">•="trms">community-based economics
="lsts lst1">•postpatriarchal values
="lsts lst1">•respect for diversity
="lsts lst1">•global ="trms">responsibility
="lsts lst1">•future focus


='strcls'>*="trms">modernity is based on a fundamental value-idea ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> secularism (a value whose op="trms">posite cannot be chosen as value)='strcls'>*

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importance of scale
archive ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> scale of the in="trms">finite

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='strcls'>*="trms">history of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>[in ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]='lgc'> = dream of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (="trms">present in the mind) of the people who are not anglophone ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">history of ="trms">science='strcls'>*

inside and outide the mental map of the ="trms">historian (of ="trms">science)

SDzVaBj492s
="ppl">Daston on ='strcls'>*disciplinary ="trms">neurosis='strcls'>* of the ="trms">history of ="trms">science

all timelines are maps (are chronologies, are provincial)
most drawings are maps (are charming)


='lgc'>[="frds">Sina:='lgc'>] ='strcls'>****can we have (="trms">imagine) ="trms">science without ="trms">modernity (not coming ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right after it)='qstn'>?='qstn'>?='strcls'>**** ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='mywrk'>my research ="trms">question (to separate the bond between ="trms">science and ="trms">modernity='qstn'>? to flow the curiosity in that direction)


='lgc'>{ ='thdf'>the idea of “="trms">science created the ="trms">modern ="trms">world ='lgc'>+ western global dominance” (='lgc'>=/= everyone else) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “understanding of ="trms">modernity='lgc'> = understanding ="trms">history of ="trms">science”
(one of rare moments that) european middle ages is conflated with the whole of middle east civilization, as pre-="ppl">Newtonian (in the eyes of W. Rostow)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cold war (maneuvering for the alliances of the newly decolonized nations)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> all the ways of knowing that were not in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded in the current Anglophone and Francophone de="trms">finition of “="trms">science='lgc'> = the ="trms">natural ="trms">sciences in English only in mid 19th century” ='lgc'>=/= elm علم, Wissenschaft

='strcls'>**there is no culture without (its own implicit ="trms">systematics of) knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='strcls'>**
="lsts lst1">•="trms">epistemological hierarchy (even without the display or existence of ='strcls'>*="trms">epistemic culture='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[dedicated to the persue of knoweldge='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> yet put pressure on ="trms">communities of learning ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ideas ='and'>& practices, for example alchemy was court ="trms">science par excellence)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">social hierarchy
="lsts lst1">•rational who can practice them why

(="ppl">Daston='lgc'>:) the stuck of hands-on knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge shoots up and then ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics plump it ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> persue of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge becomes collective (with ="trms">different pressure points)

for many cultures ='lgc'>[in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding Persian='lgc'>]='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the philology (grammer) is the queen of the ="trms">sciences
="lsts lst1">•the stricing prevalence of ='strcls'>*dispute='lgc'>: intellectual discourse ="trms">staged as agonistic duel ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (most of our) ='strcls'>***intellectual life is conducted as polemic='strcls'>***


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the more you study an environment the less your in="trms">heritiability of that environment will be (='qstn'>?)

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="trms">history='lgc'>: study of ="trms">past as it it com="trms">memorate in traces (textual, physical, etc.) ='lgc'>=/= ='lgc'>[="nms">ajayeb studies =='lgc'>] ="trms">memory studies='lgc'>: subjective com="trms">memoration of the ="trms">past, collective forms of com="trms">memorations (for example the name of streets, or monuments, or unconscious way of navigating in Tajrish square, etc.) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">present in oral ="trms">interviews
="lsts lst1">•how the ="trms">past has been en="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listed emotionally, politically, ="trms">communally,,, (in various causes='lgc'>: construction of autobiography to the construction of national myth) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> objectivity does not make sense in ="trms">memory studies='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•it in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes (not only that which cab be documented, it rather) in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes an element of the subjective ='lgc'>: how people feel about what happened in the ="trms">past, how they reconstruct events of the ="trms">past but also ="trms">narratives ='lgc'>=/= what happened in the ="trms">past ='lgc'>--="ppl">Daston='lgc'>='lgc'>--> objectivity (among ="trms">histories='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst2">◦cross-checking of sources
="lsts lst2">◦(19th century ="trms">technique of) “="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading against the grain”='lgc'>: try to discover, from the surviving sources, from what perspective they were ="trms">written (what ="trms">historical context they were embedded in)='lgc'> = “critical ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading” from the stand point of all of one might say “the illusions of ="trms">memory” which might cloud an objective impartial records of events (not accepting the ="trms">narrative that place value in the source) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]
="lsts lst2">◦securing evidence (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to archive) ='lgc'>: ="trms">intersection of objectivity with study of ="trms">history

(since 17th century) ="trms">memory has been essential to our conceptualization of what does it mean to have a self ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> why we are so concerned with ="trms">memory damage ceases (alzheimer, etc.)

="large lg90" stl="font-size:126%"> husod3oqLds


many time when we define (say “what X is”), what we are doing is to how to make a term more precise, to make something ='strcls'>*artificially operational='strcls'>*

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='strcls'>*="trms">sciences of the archive='strcls'>*
depend on longed lived collections

(since 16th century, as we know it) ="trms">modern ="trms">science's ="trms">epistemic goal='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*pre="trms">dictive accuracy='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*to elevate certainty='strcls'>* (the case in medieval Latin Europe)

="trms">books (="trms">past discoveries) ='and'>& ="trms">instruments (future discoveries) ="trms">interspersed ='lgc'>--when='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they both belong to the same practice ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> library



(="ppl">Goethe='lgc'>:) search nothing beyond the ="trms">phenomena

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="ppl">="ppl">Morris
movement of commerce's subject (='lgc'>=/= walking of the Parisian flaneur)
plaque's morbid sentimen ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> evades the reduction of signs to mere reference

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]public art='lgc'>: the art of a ="trms">world bifurcated by capital ='lgc'>--tending='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*monumentality='lgc'>: an exaggerated ="trms">literality ='lgc'>+ ="trms">excess of scale (incapable of irony)

(of image ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) textuality='lgc'>: something ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurking off that bids us engage the ambiguity

metonym

critique='lgc'>: (analogy of) a movement toward the outside

a grammatical negative can never efface what it attempts to contradict
a call for judgment hides in the defensive ="trms">gesture


criminality='lgc'>: departure from (or fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure) to recognize a law

new violence
="lsts lst1">•violence against the sovereignty of local subjects
="lsts lst1">•violence against an ="trms">internationalized regime that increasingly claimed ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive sovereignty for itself


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ethnography of capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list crisis (a project on='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•the politics of ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]transparency='lgc'>: the ideological pointing stick by which the ="trms">market has appropriated for itself the function of regulating the state (where it was the function of the state to regulate the ="trms">market)
="lsts lst1">•how capitalism (='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Morris='lgc'>] in Thailand) disguises itself as mere monetization
="lsts lst1">•how money's total and totalizing meditations have come to be experienced in the contrary idioms of immediacy and eternal ="trms">present-being
="lsts lst1">•

(='lgc'>[i am='lgc'>] learning with ="ppl">="ppl">Morris) ethnography of crisis
="prgrph">-how capitalism in Thailand disguises itself as mere monetization
="prgrph">-how money's (total and totalizing) mediations have come to be experienced in the contrary idioms of immediacy (and eternal ="trms">present-being)
="prgrph">-="trms">rhetorics of transparency and visibility (conceived in ="trms">aesthetic domains)

(="trms">narcissistic act of) tele="trms">technic encompassment


="large lg98" stl="font-size:129%"> ='strcls'>*spirit mediumship='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[auratic threshold of re="trms">presentation='lgc'>]
(the nationally renowned spirit medium) Chuchad, flamboyant media savvy
daguerreotypy='lgc'>: a demonic receiving device that had the capacity to retain and thereby diminish the photographed subject's substance
(in Thai) kaan thaay ='lgc'>[taking, wasting='lgc'>] ruup ='lgc'>[picture='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•Thai word for photography
="lsts lst1">•concomitant transformation and discharge
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> spirit practices were brought into conversation with the mass media
="lsts lst1">•conceptualized largely in terms of atavism and/or residue (repressed orgiastic impulse buried)
="lsts lst1">•(located on the periphery of) the ='strcls'>*nation's geo-body='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= state's formed public='lgc'>]


(from the perspective of rationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list Buddhist orthodoxy ='lgc'>[and in the case of ="nms">iranian superstitions, Holakouee خرافه khorafe='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) mediumship='lgc'>: (="trms">imagined as) a temporal ="trms">interruption of the nation's ="trms">modernity

="trms">communist occult practices
emasculating magic

phantasmatic triad of nation, ="trms">religion, monarch

mediums='lgc'> = state's other


='lgc'>[today='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•identification between the  local and the global (facilitated by transnational ="trms">communication ="trms">systems) compete with those of the nationalism
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*="trms">market-based discourses of civic politics in the anticipation of being seen from afar by a multinational media audience='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•

mediumship reborn as...
="lsts lst1">•circulating along with its own images
="lsts lst1">•part of an endlessly proliferating series (='lgc'>=/= double of a lost o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal) in which it merely seeks to be legible as an image of its displaced self


='lgc'>[a figure many artists today want to be='lgc'>: spirit='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*medium='strcls'>* (profession of epiphanic discovery) ='lgc'>--transmitting='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">paranoiac messages ='lgc'>--prophesying='lgc'>='lgc'>--> boundary penetration (o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginated with the state)

(revolution reduced to) the status of mise-en-s="trms">cene
bourgeois democracy
="trms">market-based discourses of civic politics

simulacral space of the new mediascape

(Chuchad's promise of authenticity ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) violent authenticity of an exposure in which mediumship's re="trms">presentations would be renounced ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">techniques of the performance themselves become the object of performative inscription='strcls'>*

="trms">history of ="trms">religious legitimacies
popu="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list conservative monk ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">religious sermon in the format of emphatically dialogic, using vernacular forms and local dialects to disseminate ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> content remaines deeply orthodox in its valorization of the foundational texts ='lgc'>+ its ritua="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list inscription='lgc'>]
='lgc'>+
medium's anti-="trms">ontological discovery
='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=>
either there is nothing to transmit or there is no means of trans="trms">mission='lgc'> = silence or white noise

Phra Phyom ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">embodiment of fame itself, a bastardized auratic ="trms">presence that is always arriving (='lgc'>~ imminent without ="trms">specification)

="prgrph">-what drew these people to this performance='qstn'>?
(seeking the) ambivalent pleasure (not without violence) of having a secret unmasked

acolyte
to ensure a line of vision between the medium and his audience

broadcasting device='lgc'> = recording device

="trms">authorship ='lgc'>--(displaced by)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a logic of ='strcls'>*tracking of traces without a subject='strcls'>* (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- reduction of re="trms">presentation and inscription)

="trms">modern mediumship ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]automatic ="trms">writing='lgc'>: (most as="trms">sociated with surrealism, in Western contexts) the ="trms">writer seeks to merely transmit his or her unconscious thoughts and, in the process, to disavow ='thdf'>the notion of ="trms">authorial ="trms">agency... ='lgc'>[it marks a more general ="trms">transitional moment in the ="trms">history of re="trms">presentation ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Morris='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] ='strcls'>***the production of meaning ceases to be a function of ="trms">writing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> actuality or facticity becomes the primary object of inscription='strcls'>***)


confessional performances
d="trms">enunciation of possession performance
un="trms">translatable utterances ='lgc'>[='strcls'>**increasing performance of un="trms">translatability, glossolalia غريبه گفتارى ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> contemporary spirit possession performances ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the truth of the spirits in the mass-mediatized ="trms">world is not referential and certainly not universal ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the truth of the spirits centers on ="trms">questions about the ="trms">difference between noise and information='lgc'>]
mediums embrace ="trms">technology
mediumship proliferates
mediums and the media provide each other with ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors
(mediums seek to escape the ="trms">relationship altogether) in forms of ecstatic nonre="trms">presentation or absolute r="trms">enunciation


Chuchad cutting his tongue ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> disavow disavowal
“='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]he rendered himself voiceless, and the only sounds he could make were those of exhalation and inhalation='lgc'>: sounds of the body as machine”
...the crowd gasped and then repeated ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> confused awe ='and'>& automatism

='lgc'>[a ="trms">fable:='lgc'>] “Chuchad placed the tongue on a piece of white paper, and the blood quickly diffused into the fibers. For a moment it appeared as though the tongue was ="trms">writing a blunt, indecipherable hieroglyph. Chuchad then held the paper to his mouth so it was covering his face and pressed the tongue back into its o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal place. This time, he seemed to be re="trms">writing, or rather, ="trms">writing in reverse, and the glyph was inscribed on the tongue as though the tongue had been transformed into paper and the paper into pen. Thus did ="trms">writ- ing make speech possible. The medium pulled the paper away, ="trms">folded it carefully, and then, with only a little blood reddening his lips, began speaking.” (="ppl">="ppl">Morris)
="lsts lst1">•tongue excision='lgc'> = performative repudiation of mediumship
="lsts lst1">•voice='lgc'> = the vehicle of a simple exteriorization
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">fable='lgc'>: ="trms">staged risk in the form of a bad example ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “object of trans="trms">mission='lgc'> = the truth”
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]confession='lgc'>: a mode of accession or conformity to the message


in Buddhism of pre="trms">modern ="trms">cosmologies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a domain of ="trms">natural signification where there is ='strcls'>*a pure identity between signifier and signified='strcls'>*

auxiliary hell جهنم کمکی

='lgc'>[a ="trms">fable:='lgc'>] scrutiny ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (meritorious beings='lgc'>:) people in ="trms">question become miraculously ="trms">="trms">equipped with ="trms">memory

recorded on luminous jewel-encrusted gold tablets

quaint traditions عجیب و جالب
(i am learning from ="ppl">="ppl">Morris how not to) reject the ="trms">cosmology as a ="trms">symptom of superstition or a relic of bygone times

ubiquity alone is inadequate to de="trms">monstrate relevance

(in the ="trms">story of Yama) in the evildoer's case, speech is not the mere ="trms">instrument of truth='lgc'>: it is both a ="trms">symptom and a cause of sin

where the law rules ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•there is no ="trms">difference between ='strcls'>*object='strcls'>* and ='strcls'>*sign='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•there is no ="trms">difference between ='strcls'>*speech='strcls'>* and ='strcls'>*voice='strcls'>*

the ="trms">language of truth (personified in the speechless ="trms">child) ='lgc'>=/= corruptions of human utterance ='lgc'>: ='lgc'>{truth's silent ideality ='lgc'>=/= sin's “over-naming"='lgc'>}

mediumship's re="trms">presentational function='lgc'>: trans="trms">mission of a referential truth ='lgc'>+ repeated registration of the mere ="trms">technique of its trans="trms">mission

(Chuchad's) ="trms">instrumental “="trms">writing”
(like Chuchad, many performance artists are today) inhabiting the era of ='strcls'>***="trms">technique's fetishization='strcls'>***='lgc'> = (="ppl">Heidegger's era of) ="trms">technology

occult returning in the guise of transparency

nationalized discourse of ="trms">modernity='lgc'>: (op="trms">positional terms of) ="trms">science ='lgc'>=/= magic

redolent of... حاکی

when ='strcls'>*observation='strcls'>* (propelled by desire ='lgc'>=/=) become a form of ='strcls'>*attention='strcls'>* (propelled by labor)

='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Morris > ="ppl">Kittler on “discourse ="trms">network” of ="ppl">Freud, ="ppl">Simmel, ="ppl">Rilke:='lgc'>] ="trms">writing='lgc'> = an exhaustion that endlessly refused to end (='lgc'>=/= miniatures of meaning)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “="trms">writing is nothing beyond its ="trms">materiality” and people who practice this act simply replace ="trms">writing machine ='lgc'>==promis='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*mystical union of ="trms">writing and delirium='strcls'>*

(from) actual magicality of script ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the re="trms">presentational capacity of inscription ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a deployment of ="trms">writing in the mode of mathematics (bureaucratic ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">poetry)

incorporation of ="trms">technologies of mass mediatization into the ="trms">language (and performance of possession ='lgc'>--by='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the discourses of lost tradition)

="prgrph">-what kind of mediation is (not simply the inscription of its ="trms">technique, but) a renewed trans="trms">mission of meaning='qstn'>?


='strcls'>**the fantasy of a return to meaning='strcls'>**


='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Morris submits that='lgc'>] (direct ="trms">marketing ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=) ='strcls'>*pyramid schemes='strcls'>* are the economic counterpart of ='strcls'>*mediumship='strcls'>*
= the mode of retailing in which the function of distribution and resale (and indeed the movement of capital) is masked in the ='strcls'>*="trms">rhetoric of directness='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]directness='lgc'>: withdrawal of an infrastructure of mediation into the person of the distributor ='lgc'>+ مستتر کردن occulting of ="trms">technique in the very moment of display
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]pyramid scheme='lgc'>: a structure in which retailers ="trms">recruit more retailers ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (mainly serves the ="trms">interests of) multinational entities parading as local entrepeneurialism

grotesquely functionalized room

abandoning the ="trms">ontology of mediumship (for...)
putatively unmediated truth (of...)


magic's ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis entailes a repetition

(='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Morris analysis of Chuchad:='lgc'>] a medium becoming) a middleman disavowing the mediations that he performed in order to produce the illusion of value, or meaning, or truth
="lsts lst1">•working only in the repression of its own operations ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> truth-effect of ="trms">marketing

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*the ="trms">market can substitute for magic='strcls'>*, the media can be itself, the very ="trms">nature of money (its abstractions and its generality) can compensate for the ="trms">differences it effaces

='strcls'>*="trms">rhetoric of asian family='strcls'>*
occult ="trms">network='lgc'>: ="trms">networks that are not publicly disclosed
(in environments that are believed not to operate as an open economy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> economies are dominated not only by particular families but by the logic of family ='lgc'>[ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive and unassailable ties between small ="trms">communities='lgc'>])
='lgc'>=/= rationalization of local economies, ="trms">market liberalization,,
="lsts lst1">•anachronistic ="trms">imaginary of transnational capitalism and the racialized family (of asian nations) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> idealized
="lsts lst1">•="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical ruse of kinship's discourse
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*neocolonial fantasy concealed in the dream of immediacy='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Amway='lgc'>: theologically informed ="trms">market liberalism='lgc'>--pursuing a noiseless ="trms">world where feedback is impossible

confessional disclosures of new capital
="trms">rhetoric of transparency
mediumship's (enthralling) dramaturgy of disclosure

(="ppl">="ppl">Morris asking) what else is transparency in the massified ="trms">world='qstn'>? a mediation so total that it has become invisible (='qstn'>?)

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="lsts lst1">•to challange them
="lsts lst1">•to break with their own ="trms">gesture
="lsts lst1">•to in="trms">herit from them

='strcls'>*="ppl">Socrates ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> alleged ="trms">epistemo-="trms">sociological enquiry (='lgc'>[the tradition of='lgc'>] asking people what they know and how they think) ='lgc'>--Savransky='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (hallmark of ="trms">social ="trms">sciences today='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*ethics of estrangement='strcls'>*='lgc'>: ‘becoming estranged’ from the realm of appearances made available by direct experience in order to ‘gain access’ to a realm of facts and causes='strcls'>**** ='lgc'>==="ppl">Whitehead='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*bifurcation of ="trms">nature='strcls'>*='lgc'>: a mode of understanding whereby experience only discloses that which is apparent, whereas the ‘relevant’ factors in the process of knowing the ="trms">world must always lie, and be sought, somewhere else
='strcls'>*='lgc'>=/= ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice in ="trms">Wonderland
='strcls'>*='lgc'>=/= ="nms">Cinderella ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">harem girl, ="trms">hallucinating with ="trms">animals, not becoming a psycho (angry), arrested='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*='lgc'>=/= William James='lgc'>: inquiry is about ='strcls'>**the way some people cultivate an expertise='strcls'>**, ='strcls'>**how they hesitate='strcls'>**, ='strcls'>**how they think='strcls'>**, ='strcls'>**how they complicate a problem='strcls'>** ='lgc'>[='at'>#feedback='lgc'>] (='thdf'>for example)
="lsts lst2">◦='strcls'>*="trms">religious experience='lgc'>: to address his ="trms">questions to the ones who know, the ones whose expertise could help him learn something new and often unexpected ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> passionate, even if problematic, experience of living in a ="trms">world where God ="trms">matters='strcls'>*
="lsts lst2">◦='strcls'>*emotional experience='lgc'>: with theater actors, who know about creating, discriminating, disclosing, and sharing emotional experiences='strcls'>*

='strcls'>***from whom should we in="trms">herit our practices, and how='qstn'>?='strcls'>***

learning from ="ppl">="ppl">Despret's ='strcls'>*anachronism='strcls'>* (her field philosophy)
اشتباه در ترتیب حقیقی وقایع

(="trms">heritage of ="ppl">Socrates) form of ="trms">epistemic and ethical bifurcation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> search for hidden causes (underlying the conduct of actors)
="ppl">Socrates's “you think you know, but actually, you don't know and you don't think” ='lgc'>==created='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>***='lgc'>[1='lgc'>]a device that inhabits thinking and produced only mental paralysis='strcls'>***

='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>:) investigators rarely ask the ="trms">question of how the people they ="trms">interview might be ="trms">interested in the ="trms">questions addressed to them

='strcls'>*relevance='lgc'> = adventure='strcls'>*
there are many examples of how a piece of abstract knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that looked like devoid of any ="trms">imaginable consequences came to ="trms">matter (acquired an importance nobody would contest)
="prgrph">-relevance may be lost in ="trms">translation
='strcls'>*="trms">ecology of dynamic and fragile patterns of relevance, of modes of ="trms">mattering for oneself and for others (Savransky)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]relevance='lgc'>: a sense that there is value beyond ourselves (something that is not ourselves, ="trms">matters) ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Stengers='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (daring to connect the) speculative ='lgc'>+ ethical ='lgc'>+ practical
(risk of) to renounce ='strcls'>*knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge as a ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right='strcls'>* ='lgc'>+ embrace ='strcls'>*knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge's achievement as an event='strcls'>*


='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
(ego engineering)


='strcls'>***='lgc'>[2='lgc'>]device of anonymity (“to protect people”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> distributes expertise, and builds induces performs an a="trms">symmetry of roles
="lsts lst1">•the imperative of de="trms">ontology
="lsts lst1">•(can be) a regime of insult

“you, the refugees” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an anonymous mass marked with ='strcls'>**an identity that they had not chosen, and from which they cannot invent themselves='strcls'>**

risk of disclosing
risk of separating
risk of isolating
risk of making people talk while silencing
risk of stealing the words
risk of of drawing the words out from the speaker
risk of retying the secret to its etymology ='lgc'>[secretus='lgc'>: to separate, to isolate='lgc'>]


(what we like to think about in ="nms">apass) to reflect on what anonymity can produce in other research ="trms">situations
='lgc'>[instead of asking “what the body does/produces='qstn'>?” ='lgc'>=/= what ="frds">Sina's body does for the spider in his room='qstn'>? what Ninja Turtles body does for Iron Man='qstn'>? what anonymous refugee body does for ="frds scrmbld">Xiri='qstn'>? what Jane Fonda body does for ="frds scrmbld">Laura='qstn'>? etc.='lgc'>]

='strcls'>***anonymity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> identity='strcls'>***
(the ="trms">position of “subject” in an investigation is created by erasing the name)
="lsts lst1">•“feel free to say anything you want” or “speak without fear"='lgc'> = your words will have no consequences
="lsts lst1">•they are always at risk of putting people in ="trms">situations where they are unlikely to be ="trms">interesting ='and'>& unlikely to be ="trms">interested

="ppl">="ppl">Despret's ="trms">interview where an exchange really meant something ='lgc'>=/= Mette's notion of nothing means anymore except the absurd ="trms">gesture that announces meaninglessness of itself


inquiry='lgc'> = experience ='and'>& experimentation, ='strcls'>*testing ='and'>& putting into continuity an ensemble of experiences='strcls'>*
Kimiavi in his film The Garden of Stones, his subject by the very fact that they are now part of the conditions of the environment in ="trms">relation to which investigator develops ="trms">skills, desires, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge or ="trms">science
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='strcls'>*inquiry='lgc'>: set of transformations that the very process of inquiry imposes, concrete and existential transformations for the objects studied just as much as the inquiring subject ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (Kimiavi's) logic of creative experimentation ='lgc'>=/= logic of logic of discovery
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='strcls'>*creative dimension (of every fieldwork)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•(it may) take the form of a device that sparks the creation of thoughts
="lsts lst1">•(it may) transform the ="trms">relationship between the enquirer and the one she is addressing
="lsts lst1">•(it may) disclose some dimensions of the ="trms">situation that were not visible or felt
="lsts lst1">•(it may) completely redefine what people actually docile
="lsts lst1">•


="trms">positivist ="trms">sociological approach='lgc'>: to discover a reality al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready given, al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready stabilized ='lgc'>+ procedures asserting this stability ='lgc'>+ ="trms">questions wanting to be neutral ='lgc'>+ a large and distributed sample ='lgc'>+ a modest investigator='lgc'>: who disappears behind the strength of the ="trms">data (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway)


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]inquiry='lgc'>: studies what it creates while studying it, and the changes it provokes (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- we know this in art, ='at'>@="nms">apass)

="prgrph">-can i no longer develop knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge behind the back of those that i have ="trms">questioned (my mother...)='qstn'>?

="nms">apass, ='at'>#feedback
it is up to them to make the connection between what they think and what determines their particular way of thinking


summoning ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">mimesis (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Marialena)


='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Pierre (from) critical analysis ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">pragmatism
='strcls'>***we do not think or act “because” of ="trms">social determination, but rather “with” them='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= better ="nms">Cinderella (learning ="trms">pragmatism from ="nms">Cinderella='lgc'>: how to think and act with the evil sisters='qstn'>?)


amateur='lgc'>: the one who develops an expertise, a ="trms">love, a taste ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Stengers='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dare to taste ='lgc'>=/= dare to know='lgc'>]
="ppl">Leibniz addressed his inquiries to the ones who know, because they have cultivated a particular ="trms">relationship (of the amateur) with the very issue he wanted to learn about (='lgc'>=/= to address inquiries to the ones who know by virtue of being a mere ="trms">authority)
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Leibniz proposed that woman should be addressed about the most important problem, that of the ="trms">love (appropriate to give God) ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] because they are competent in the ="trms">matter
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Leibniz='lgc'> = the master of abstraction ='lgc'>--made='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]abstraction='lgc'> = a politeness of thought='strcls'>**='heart'>♥, ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]politeness='lgc'> = a constraint on creation='strcls'>**
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>****(why ask women about ="trms">love='qstn'>? because) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]woman='lgc'>: the ones who refuse letting a duty to ‘speak truth’='strcls'>****
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a real ="trms">interest in thinking about and with ="trms">love (='lgc'>=/= “school of ="trms">love”)

when you do ='strcls'>*field philosophy='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]field='lgc'>: a field-to-be, a milieu, a collective, a ="trms">situation ='lgc'>=/= field as something that preexists our inquiry

(how in ="nms">apass i did field philosophy and field inquiry ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i made many times) ="trms">situation-becoming-a-field (where you can learn something) needed='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">imagination
="lsts lst1">•tact
="lsts lst1">•daring
="lsts lst1">•opportunism
="lsts lst1">•humour
="lsts lst1">•

="ppl">="ppl">Despret > Claverie on pilgrimage with the Virgin of Medjugorje
she offered to those whom she addressed the most unexpected mode of ="trms">response
she became ="trms">interested in the very sophisticated way they think
(='lgc'>=/= ="trms">social ="trms">scientist's need to determinate the causes of something ='lgc'>[designates it as an anomaly ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> impoverishing the object of study='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> asking “why people believe='qstn'>?” or “how can we explain such an odd thing as people believing in a super="trms">natural being='qstn'>?”)
(she explored and learned with people how they think ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>****how they take care of what ="trms">matters for them with thoughts='strcls'>**** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> takes the form (in the pilgrims experience) of ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]hesitation='lgc'>: a sign that identifies that thought is occuring ='and'>& this thought is taking care of something that ="trms">matters ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Attar Tazkirat al-Awliya='lgc'>]
forms of hesitation='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•openly contradictory alteration of ="trms">positions
="lsts lst1">•a critical ="trms">position (the apparition is not there)
="lsts lst1">•a ="trms">position of belief
="lsts lst1">•using semantics or syntactic devices that introduce ambivalence
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Claverie learns to hesitate with them
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Stengers='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ecological practice='lgc'>: a practice that takes into account the fact that the inquiry participates in the ‘milieu’ of those it addresses ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*the practicioner is herself taking care of what ="trms">matters with thoughts and learns to create (what ="ppl">="ppl">Despret would call) the relevant ='strcls'>*milieu of thought='strcls'>*



Matrix ="trms">world='lgc'>: “="trms">consumer victim ='lgc'>=/= resistant hacker fighter” and nothing else

if you are a student of ghosts ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> you are competent in sensing the taste of ghosts

='lgc'>{="trms">ancestors ate too much salt ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> descendants desire water='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">intersubjective ="trms">nature of re="trms">membering='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Despret > Kwon='lgc'>] true human desires are not those of an isolated individual. it is the individual who feels the desire, whereas the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of the desirem, like the spirit's phantom salt, may be with someone else, for it is in the ="trms">presence of this other that the water becomes salty ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***the desire to re="trms">member can be a desire that rises somewhere between the ="trms">past and the ="trms">present='strcls'>***
="prgrph">-="trms">agencement='lgc'>: the act of com="trms">memoration ="trms">responds to a desire, so one cannot choose whether it emanates from the one who is re="trms">membered or the one who takes charge of re="trms">membering ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the desire to be re="trms">membered ='and'>& the desire to re="trms">member hold together ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= giving ="trms">ontological ="trms">priority to the ="trms">imagination of the living='lgc'>]


what can i learn from ="nms">Tehran's ="trms">bestiary, from my mother, from unusual old ="nms">iranian ="trms">fables, from telegram ="trms">animals='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•let myself be ="trms">instructed by the events that my inquiry creates
="lsts lst1">•let myself be called by the enigma that will guide me inmy understanding of events
='strcls'>*to be ="trms">instructed ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= honouring the problem ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= following it up ='and'>& letting oneself be led by it ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice ="trms">Wonderland chasing rabbits


='strcls'>****="trms">questions do not call for explanation or elucidation, ="trms">questions call for creation='strcls'>**** ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]riddles='lgc'>: the beginnings of ="trms">stories ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> set those who are summoned by the enigma to work in a particular way='lgc'>: “what manner of living will make it possible to understand these riddless='qstn'>?”

riddle='lgc'>: key ='lgc'>+ guide

(speaking ="trms">trope saying senses ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) tropisms ='lgc'>=/= meanings

="trms">trope='lgc'> = ="trms">affects that magnetize you
forces that pass through you and steer you

what should i do with ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>?='lgc'> = what kind of meaning is requested of me='qstn'>? ='strcls'>****what is my ="trms">obligation to the meaning i am seeking='qstn'>?='strcls'>**** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= Mette's work='lgc'>]

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to bring to BOZAR project with ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Godard">Goda into my ="trms">interest in geo-feminism
the ="trms">question of naming, of taxonomy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a way of being into connectedness

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="nms">ajayeb studies = ='strcls'>**how to in="trms">herit ="trms">natural ="trms">history otherwise='strcls'>**, how to think about ="trms">natural ="trms">history, embracing other (than western) ="trms">heritages of ="trms">natural ="trms">history that enlarges the ="trms">world for us and the ones we are living with


plantation ="trms">system='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. radical simplification, elimination of whole ="trms">categories of players (in ="trms">systemic encounters)
="lstsrd">2. radical substitution, whole domains (plant life, ="trms">animal life, human labor ="trms">system in ="trms">interaction with ="trms">animals and plants and microbs) are substituted
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> radical break of connection to place
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> release of numbers ='lgc'>: value added processes based on the management of numbers

to look at the planetary shape of some of our problems

="prgrph">-s="trms">cene='lgc'> = condition of...
scenography ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘s="trms">cene’ is a visual spatial way of thinking about what makes the ‘condition’ of something

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(="ppl">="ppl">Calvert on The ="trms">Nature of ="trms">Difference ="trms">book ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Quinsy)

rise of population genomics
="lsts lst1">•efforts like Human Genome project ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> refusing to afford a genetic basis for race ="trms">categories
="lsts lst1">•tools to identify “deep ="trms">ancestry” (indicating a geographic o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin in pre="trms">history)

postracial politics

="large lg50" stl="font-size:104%"> recreational genomics ='lgc'>--mutating='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “race” out of 19th century concept of “blood quantum” that imperfectly signals complex tribal relatedness and ="trms">membership

(purchasers of) ='strcls'>**genome='lgc'> = ="trms">book of life='strcls'>** ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> racialized and medicalized subjects

='strcls'>*mutated racial discourses='strcls'>*

renaissance of race ="trms">categories

="trms">science has the ="trms">authority to establish truth claims that scholars in the humanities must reckon with
humanities scholars may avoid a ="trms">scientific debate because='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- they feel out of their depths ="trms">interpreting ="trms">scientific ="trms">data
="lstsrd">2- they resist ="trms">scientific ="trms">authority in ="trms">response to well-documented instances of ="trms">scientific exploration of people of color
="lstsrd">3- they may have surrendered to ="trms">science the work of settling ="trms">matters of fact, keeping hermeneutics and textual ="trms">matters for themselves


="trms">science and ="trms">technology studies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*tracing objects through the practices and discourses that produce them as settled ="trms">matters of fact, made, but not made up='strcls'>*

(tracking) ="trms">social and legal arrangements ='lgc'>==producing='lgc'>='lgc'>==> race


='strcls'>***="trms">science is ="trms">coded as the ="trms">interpreter of ="trms">nature in western discourse='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>that is why i have to study ="trms">science in ='mywrk'>my research on ="trms">bestiaries


Hammond ='lgc'>+ Herzig on how ="trms">scientific practices across disciplines describe and create what thereby becomes ='strcls'>*="trms">naturalized ="trms">difference='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= describing the ="trms">nature of ="trms">difference itself)

(learn from Hammond ='lgc'>+ Herzig ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->)
source ="trms">material ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> organize ='and'>& comment ='lgc'>--sustain='lgc'>='lgc'>--> argument
='lgc'>+ ="trms">questions that point the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader to discoursive moves and modes of attention of the ="trms">author (='lgc'>=/= ="frds scrmbld">Quinsy's ملانقطى pedantic exploration of racism)

(politically correcting the popular understanding of race ='lgc'>=/=) to show the unsettled and ongoing ="trms">nature of the debate. ='lgc'>[asking ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers='lgc'>] to track the rise and permutation of various features of the argument
='lgc'>[asking Captain America ='lgc'>--anatomical='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] “in what larger political, economic, and ="trms">social contexts might ears, noses, index fingers, or brains hemispheres attract attention as re="trms">liable signs of racial ="trms">difference='qstn'>?”


some wrong ideas='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•adaptation to new environments signals evolution (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= degenerating groups would eventually cease to exist)
="lsts lst1">•high mortality rates could signal problems in work and living condition
="lsts lst1">•sexual di="trms">morphism thought to be a component of degeneration
="lsts lst1">•“more often than not, the views of ="trms">society have shaped ="trms">science rather than the other way around. in this instance, it may be time for ="trms">science to reshape the views of ="trms">society.” ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- scary!='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•


="large lg82" stl="font-size:132%"> to start with political ="trms">agenda (good or bad) and fit evidence to that
political correctness (='lgc'>~ a ="trms">social ="trms">interest)
dogged persue of truth

='strcls'>*="trms">science's power to beguile اغفال ="trms">imagination='strcls'>* (for example genomics testing to discover and reveal “truths” about unknown ="trms">ancestry)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a post ="trms">World War II and post-holocaust aspiratoin='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*the al="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure here is to finally prove we are all the same under the skin, or at least that we have more in common than we had liked to admit='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- another project for making race ="trms">matter, but ="trms">differently

(="frds scrmbld">Quinsy urgently need to learn) how not to be conversation stopper


Bland ='lgc'>+ Doan's Sexology Uncensored

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scope of information ="trms">science ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]document='lgc'>: organized physical evidence

new digital ="trms">technologies renews old ="trms">questions and also old confusions between medium, message, and meaning

document
ordniary information storage and retrieval ="trms">system='qstn'>?

bibliography='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•collecting
="lsts lst1">•preserving
="lsts lst1">•organizing (arranging)
="lsts lst1">•re="trms">presenting (describing)
="lsts lst1">•selecting (retrieving)
="lsts lst1">•reproducing (copying)
="lsts lst1">•disseminating
="lsts lst1">•
(of documents)

early 20th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> documentation adopted (in europe) instead of bibliography

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]documentation='lgc'>: a set of ="trms">techniques developed to mange significant (or potentially significant) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]document='lgc'>: any expression of human thought (beyond ="trms">written texts)
='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> ='strcls'>*novel form of signifying objects='strcls'>*

objects bearing traces of...
='strcls'>*if you are informed by observation of it, you are looking at a document='strcls'>*

document='lgc'>: any ="trms">material basis for extending our knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge which is available for study or comparison
='strcls'>*capable of being used for='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*reference='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*study='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*="trms">authority='strcls'>*

1951
document='lgc'>: evidence in support of a fact
any physical or ="trms">symbiotic sign, preserved or recorded, intended to re="trms">present, to reconstruct, or to de="trms">monstrate a physical or conceptual ="trms">phenomenon
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> viewed with access to evidence
='lgc'>=/= (concerned with) text

document ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">ajayeb's text object ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pop-up ="trms">book='lgc'>]

(object)    (document='qstn'>?)
star in the sky    no
photo of star    yes
stone in river    no
stone in museum    yes
="trms">animal in ="trms">wild    no
="trms">animal in ="trms">zoo    yes


Briet's rules for determining when an object has become a document='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. there is ="trms">materiality
="lstsrd">2. there is intentionality
="lstsrd">3. the objects have to be processed (they have to be made into documents)
="lstsrd">4. there is a ="trms">phenomenological ="trms">position (the object is perceived to be a document)

indexicality='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*the quality of having been placed in an organized, meaningful ="trms">relationship with other evidence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> gives an object its documentary status='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- for who and why is this useful='qstn'>?='lgc'>]


="trms">modernist mentality='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">scientific management
="lsts lst1">•standardization
="lsts lst1">•bibliographic control
='lgc'>--as='lgc'>='lgc'>--> complementary and ="trms">mutually reinforcing bases for achieving progress

spiritual movement of ="trms">anthroposophy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cognitive aspects of the medium of the message
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> document='lgc'>: re="trms">pository of an expressed thought ='lgc'>+ spiritual character

1963
document='lgc'>: micro-thought on a flat surface (fit for physical handling, transport across space, and preservation through time)

cultural ="trms">anthropology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “="trms">material culture” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> onject as document
artifacts contribute important evidence in the documentation and ="trms">interpretation of experience

artistic research='lgc'> = ="trms">aesthetic object ='lgc'>+ signifying object

="trms">semiotics
information ="trms">sciences
="ppl">Barthes ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> object-as-sign
there is always a meaning which overflows the object's use
text='lgc'>: patterns of ="trms">social ="trms">phenomena not made of words or numerals


='lgc'>[signs have to be treated a something invented='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*="trms">social construction of meaning='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> viewer's perception of the significance and evidential مدرکى character of documents ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “relevance” is now considered to be ="trms">situational and ascribed by the viewer (in digital)
='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>== the property of being a sign is not a ="trms">natural property ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ='strcls'>***property is given to objects='strcls'>***


Wikipedia='lgc'>: all signifying objects (points to) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> forensic ="trms">aesthetic='lgc'>: all evidence='lgc'> = signifying فوری (easy ='lgc'>+ immediate) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">aesthetic object فرار (volatile)

object in evidence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> offer it as evidence by the way it is arranged, indexed, ="trms">presented
its manner ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in arranging ="trms">material so that someone may be able to make use of it as new evidence for some purpose (='lgc'>=/= finding ="trms">material that al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready is in evidence)

="large lg50" stl="font-size:116%"> what is a digital document='qstn'>?
='lgc'>--Buckland='lgc'>='lgc'>--> becomes more problematic, unless we re="trms">member the path of reasoning underlying the largely forgotten discussions of Otlet's objects and Briet's antelope


='strcls'>**documenting the antelope='strcls'>** ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">ajayeb
antelope='lgc'>: Ethiopian word for the elusive unicorn

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="ppl">="ppl">Calvert
="trms">technobibliocapital

="large lg14" stl="font-size:123%"> librarians cannot hope to really change how people seek knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in libraries (they are not ='strcls'>*information awareness office='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= news ="trms">agency)

will to knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>--manifest='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in a massive electronic ="trms">data processing project

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]library ="trms">science='lgc'>: a set of practices for producing knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in subjects ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*producing subjects through knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge production='strcls'>*

patron='lgc'>: certain kinds of subjects (='lgc'>=/= citizen), ="trms">consumers with an abiding ="trms">market rationality and an ="trms">interest in individua="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list private space

="large lg94" stl="font-size:109%"> enmeshed in practices of classification, circulation, collection

="trms">technology ='lgc'>+ libraries ='lgc'>+ capital
="lsts lst1">•capital='lgc'>: ="trms">social, political, economic, and other ="trms">relationships crystallized in things, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding ="trms">books and libraries
="lsts lst1">•biblio='lgc'>: libraries, ="trms">books, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="lsts lst1">•="trms">techno='lgc'>: ="trms">technologies (both silicon-based and not) that make producing, storing, and reproducing knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge possible and efficient

="trms">technology and capital shaping library practices ='lgc'>[and animation of ="trms">animal practices='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> emphasize ="trms">animal geography='lgc'>]

="large lg30" stl="font-size:130%"> (legacy of bibliography and ="trms">book collecting) 1930 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> library practice centered on the development of bibliographic standards emphasizing procedures for identifying and indexing ="trms">authors and tides

(21st century) democracy of texts, collaboration with autodidacticism and public education, is now giving itself over to the ='strcls'>*circulation of commodities='strcls'>*

='strcls'>**the subjects produced through 21st century librarianship are customers and ="trms">consumers='strcls'>** (who seeks content ='lgc'>=/= knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge)

new librarian ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new freedom of information ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> free ="trms">market (in the form of atomized particles of “microcontent” allowing free-floating information to be freely accessed via computers and ="trms">networks, without the censorious mediation of ="trms">embodied librarians)

libraries ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">techniques for ordering (='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> discourse of standardization)

(shifting) ways the library has operated alongside the state as a disciplinary ='and'>& ideological ="trms">apparatus
="lsts lst1">•18th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> national library
="lsts lst1">•19th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new ="trms">techniques for ordering, discourse of standardization and order (in the library) ='lgc'>+ searching and retrieval external to the mind of the librarian
="lsts lst1">•19th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[emerging understanding of the role of ="trms">literacy in worker self improvement ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'>] public library ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a project of nation, citizenship, democracy, self-betterment, universal education ='lgc'>+ concurrent with a ="trms">serious reconstitution of hierarchies of access to ="trms">books
="lsts lst1">•late 19th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> paterna="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list financial auspices of Andrew Carnegie (who funded 1689 library buildings) for the explicit objective of the self-education of
workers and immigrants ='lgc'>--purpose='lgc'>='lgc'>--> acculturation and assimilation
="lsts lst1">•Paul Otlet ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> universal decimal classification 1899
="lsts lst1">•late 20th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dreams of intelligent computers and objectivized information ="trms">science ='lgc'>: (from) library school ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> school of information management ="trms">systems
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*schematization efforts='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (20th century) library ="trms">science (continue producing itself) as a cooperative venture of flourishing information ='lgc'>[triumphant rationalism='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•standardization
="lsts lst1">•automation
="lsts lst1">•propagate
="lsts lst1">•expand

(in the name of) democratization ='and'>& civil ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights

library ='lgc'>==contribute='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to the civic sphere='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•providing the information
="lsts lst1">•providing ='strcls'>*behaviors='strcls'>* necessary for appropriate citizenship

library ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> classification ="trms">system (DDC) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> general knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge organization tool

late 20th century neo-liberal rationality ='lgc'>==intensify='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•moral directive for self-betterment (as workers)
="lsts lst1">•reorienting the ="trms">relation of subjects (toward the state and the ="trms">social) as one of ="trms">consumership
='lgc'>+ shift in the de="trms">finition of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge

="trms">technobibliocapital ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (new era of) ordering texts ='and'>& subjects

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*appreciative ='lgc'>=/= affirmative='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- learning from ="ppl">="ppl">Calvert, we can be appreciative but not affirmative='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[to be critical =='lgc'>] ='strcls'>****not to='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•dismiss X (by thinking of it as) ="trms">composed entirely of domination ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='at'>@="nms">apass, ="frds scrmbld">Pierre='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= to laud something as a timeless ideal
="lsts lst1">•evoke a sense of relief that we have X that are free (of power ="trms">relations, freely available to all, and filled with free-flowing information)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">historical ='lgc'>+ ="trms">present ='lgc'>+ future-looking ="trms">formulations of X

="lsts lst1">•reverence for libraries of long gone days...
="lsts lst1">•accolades مراسم اعطای منصب شوالیه for librarians as heroes...
="lsts lst1">•libraries as the saviors of the people...
="lsts lst1">•as just another manifestation of government intrusion (paternalism, library='lgc'>: robust civilizing ="trms">apparatuses, an ideal phil="trms">anthropic gift)...
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Calvert='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**libraries are potent resources with vast possibilities for creating the ="trms">worlds we inhabit='strcls'>** ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]library='lgc'>: (collectively produced ='lgc'>~ both collectively funded and collected from many sources) vibrant sites of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge generation ='lgc'>+ of power (for those who generate knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge through libraries in turn diffuse this knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge through other places and other people)

without a robust de="trms">finition of power ='lgc'>==="ppl">="ppl">Calvert='lgc'>='lgc'>==> librarians have been unable to see or ="trms">articulate how libraries have been in the service of disciplining subjugating power (a power that is productive not just for ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers but of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers)

..weak appeals to ="trms">market freedom

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service-dominant logic='lgc'> = an enframing act ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a way of framing the ="trms">world (which like all logics) chooses what to in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude and what to ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude from its frame of investigation and theory ='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how it enframes the ="trms">world

="trms">marketing ="trms">history ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (delineated between) “="trms">material (raw) resources ='lgc'>=/= im="trms">material (dynamic) resources”

resources-assets-capabilities

(in math)
operand='lgc'>: passive objects that are manipulated (3, 5)
operator='lgc'>: ="trms">specific actions that act upon operands (='lgc'>+, x)

importance of the operand resource
="prgrph">-the relative role of operand resources began to shift in the late 20th century as humans began to realize that ="trms">skills and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge were the most important types of resources

operand resource='lgc'>: (raw ="trms">material and land) an act is performed on them ='lgc'>=/= operant resource='lgc'>: (="trms">technologies, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, ="trms">skill) those employed to act on operand resources
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a conceptual separation with roots in ="trms">Greek philosophy='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Plato='lgc'>: “="trms">material ="trms">embodiment='lgc'> = distraction to true knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge”
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Descartes='lgc'>: privileging of mental life over physical ="trms">matter
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> we in="trms">herit this style of philosophy (in the west) that values formal abstract objectless thinking as the standard canonical way of knowing the ="trms">world

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*information age='strcls'>*='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•endorses the pre-eminence of the im="trms">material and dis="trms">embodies (mind, ="trms">skill, mental life) over the ="trms">material and ="trms">embodied (brute ="trms">matter, physicality)
="lsts lst1">•celebrate a ='strcls'>*culture of de="trms">materiality='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>=/= object oriented philosophy='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Heidegger's theory of tool-being
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Latour's displacement of the human proposed by the actor-="trms">network theory
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Merleau-Ponty's ="trms">sensual ="trms">phenomenology
="lsts lst1">•

(continental philosophy ='lgc'>+ analytical philosophy in West ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>**philosophies of access='strcls'>** to the ="trms">world ='lgc'>: they assume that the human-="trms">world gap is the privileged site of all ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorous philosophy
="trms">interest in human access to objects ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cor="trms">relationism='lgc'>: if things exists, they do so only for us='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="trms">interest in objects


(in ="trms">marketing ="trms">literature)
="lsts lst1">•operant resources='lgc'>:
human        sophisticated
cultural     strategic
active       dynamic
="trms">agentic      im="trms">material
specialized  intelligent
="trms">relational   primary
='strcls'>*in="trms">finite='strcls'>*
='lgc'>--link='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to notions of progrss and achievement in contemporary ="trms">society

="lsts lst1">•operand resources='lgc'>:
inhuman     machine-like
basic       stuff
functional  physical
inanimate   raw
inert       less important
secondary   lesser
tangible    subordinate
='strcls'>*="trms">finite='strcls'>*


service-dominant logic ='lgc'>{
="lsts lst1">•operant ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in="trms">finite ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> human's ="trms">skill
="lsts lst1">•operand ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">finite ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">world's ="trms">material

service-dominant logic ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a cut (“='lgc'>=/=”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> operant resources will take these sluggish raw inherently secondary ="trms">materials and act on them to whisk them into something valuable
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Barad='lgc'>='lgc'>--> every act of observation makes a “cut” in what is otherwise an indissolubly unauflösbare entangled ="trms">natural-cultural universe ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*every new way of observation cuts open new logics ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> undermines what is known ='lgc'>+ what can be known='strcls'>*


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]operand resources='lgc'>: resources which require action to create benefit
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> crucial scenarios where operand resources (forests, sea beds, topsoil) require the op="trms">posite of action (unused or underused) in order to create or maintain (their intrinsic) value

='strcls'>*value-in-use='lgc'>: somthing is assessed ="trms">according to the use a ="trms">consumer has for it

='strcls'>*value-in-underuse ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (tourism's) deserted beaches, unspoiled countryside, uninhabited ruins
='thdf'>for example brand management implicitly leverages the concept of ='strcls'>*value-in-underuse='strcls'>*
brands are often valuable for the very fact that they are underused ='lgc'>: when their use is confined to small ="trms">communities, enabling them to maintain their cultural capital (ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusivity or authenticity)

='strcls'>*vlaue-in-context='lgc'>: value is conceived as something that is collectively co-created by multiple actors
='thdf'>for example in service-dominant logic an operant resource like ='strcls'>*brand vlaue='strcls'>* is one which is externally-based and dynamically determined in the context (cannot be own by a single actor) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">consumers might co-derive ="trms">affective cognitive ="trms">social value in creating the brand but economic value that accrues as a result belongs entirely to the brand's shareholders='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> issue with fandom='lgc'>]
='thdf'>for example ='strcls'>*="trms">affective value='strcls'>*='lgc'>: when vlaue lies in the general sentiment of a ="trms">networked group of actors

(in ="trms">marketing's theory of value creation) the ='strcls'>*role of the ="trms">consumer='strcls'>* in the value creation process is now explicitly recognized and ="trms">articulated (incorporated) through compelling concepts such as cocreation, coproduction, ='strcls'>*prosumerism='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[an individual who both ="trms">consumes ='and'>& produces='lgc'>]
='at'>@="nms">apass collaborative environments

='lgc'>[="trms">consumer research='lgc'>]
recognizing the ways in which ="trms">consumers and ="trms">consumption are both productive and value-adding

Holbrook's topology of ="trms">consumer value
value is active='lgc'> = when it entails physical or mental manipulation of an object
value is reactive='lgc'> = when things are done by a product to the ="trms">consumer (objects act on ="trms">consumers to create value)


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Hayles

(to take) a problem-based approach ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> taking a problem and looking for solutions ='lgc'>=/= investigating problematics (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- humanities ='lgc'>[and art='lgc'>])

what are the reward structures in artistic research='qstn'>? (the way a work is recognized and validated by the field)

post="trms">literacy
the future of human ='and'>& the future of ="trms">writing are entwined
meaning='lgc'> = resistance
to be human='lgc'> = to resist ="trms">techno-="trms">language

an informed ="trms">scientific-="trms">literate and humanistically educated public ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> democracy

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(mass media) cultural standing (and standard) of live performance
paradigm of televisual ='lgc'><='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> digital

(Auslander ="trms">historicizing) liveness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">historical (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">ontological)

ideology of authenticity (in live music)

at the level of cultural economy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> theatre (live performance) ='lgc'>=/= mass media

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='lgc'>[why is contemporary art so reluctant to describe our experience of digitized life='qstn'>? ='lgc'>--Bishop='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] digital ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">code (inherently alien to human perception) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">linguistic model

="ppl">Guy ="ppl">Debord ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (='strcls'>*physical and the ="trms">social were pitched against the virtual and the re="trms">presentational='strcls'>* ='lgc'>~ “subjective ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">technological” ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ="trms">social ="trms">relations today are not mediated by monodirectional media imagery ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•favor ="trms">intersubjective exchange and homespun activities (cooking, gardening, conversation) with the aim of reinforcing a ="trms">social bond fragmented by ="trms">spectacle
="lsts lst1">•desire for face-to-face ="trms">relations against the dis="trms">embodiment of the ="trms">Internet
="lsts lst1">•retro-="trms">craftiness
="lsts lst1">•fiddly collages
="lsts lst1">•tapestries
='lgc'>--assert='lgc'>='lgc'>--> subjectivity (='lgc'>+ tactility) ='lgc'>=/= impregnable surface of the screen

reformatting
trans="trms">coding
modulation of preexisting files ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> selection strategy ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> meaningful recontextualization (of existing artifacts)

="trms">paranoid will to connect what cannot be connected
subjective rationales
arbitrary ="trms">systems (='lgc'>=/= established taxonomies)

vernacular forms of aggregation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> everyone with a personal computer today has become a de facto archivist (storing and filing thousands of documents, images, and music files, ='lgc'>+ porn)

analog in appearance ='lgc'>+ digital in structure

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eschatos='lgc'>: furthest, last (in ="trms">Greek)

theological ="trms">anthropology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the theory of the person


='qstn'>?how eschatological attitudes changed over time ='lgc'>+ how they hovered over human experience

millenarian expectation
='qstn'>?how year 1000 was perceived

="lsts lst1">•preoccupation with the time of Christ second coming
="lsts lst1">•="trms">natural and political disasters and upheavals ='lgc'>--sign='lgc'>='lgc'>--> denouncement of sacred ="trms">history


medieval='lgc'> = fear ='lgc'>+ passion (='lgc'>+ expectation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> eschatological ="trms">imagination

escapology='lgc'>: significance of immanent (catastrophic) future ="trms">history

calculations of the end
="trms">demand for reform
monastic analysis

discourse against an identifiable moment of apocalypse

="lsts lst1">•antichrist
="lsts lst1">•whore of Babylon
="lsts lst1">•angelic pope

un="trms">folding end of ="trms">history ='lgc'>[humbling of the mighty='lgc'>] ='lgc'>+ justice for the in="trms">articulate (oppressed) ='lgc'>[exhalation of the meek='lgc'>]

apocalyptic speculation about the enclosed unclean people of Gog and Magog

mystical ="trms">response
spasmodic irrationality

the fate of the individual at the moment of “personal death” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> guilt culture (fear of damnation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> life='lgc'> = ritual preparations for dying)

deathbed demons
hell in art
="trms">religious ="trms">anxiety
mechanism of ="trms">social control

(from) collective ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> individual
(from) temporal ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> atemporal or beyond time
(from) stress on spirit ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sense of ="trms">embodied or re="trms">embodied self

(shift from) tamed death='lgc'>: a death expected and prepared for, experienced in ="trms">community ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> personal death='lgc'>: the moment of death as decisive accounting for an individual self

purgatory='lgc'>: in-between time and space

afterlife ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the concept of the (="trms">embodied) human person

somato="trms">morphic='lgc'>: separated soul ="trms">imagined as bodily
ordinary piety ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•significance of physical death
="lsts lst1">•spiritual value of somatic ="trms">phenomena (namely suffering)

the sense of an ending hovers over all spiritual ="trms">writing in the middle ages

eschatology of='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. resurrection='lgc'>: a sense of last things that focuses significance in the moment at the end of time when the physical body is reconstituted and judged
='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- arise from traditions with a much less immanent sense of “last things"='lgc'>]
='lgc'>--emphasis='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst2">◦time end
="lsts lst2">◦person ="trms">embodied
="lsts lst2">◦humanity collective
="lstsrd">2. immortality='lgc'>: the experience of personal death is the moment of judgement
="lstsrd">3. apocalypse ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (coerces) ='strcls'>**what ="trms">matters is the here and now='strcls'>** ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- implying a political payoff
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> inflect and deepen the ="trms">literature (description of plague, visions of heaven and hell)

='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> three eschatology differ='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•what is the person fundamentally
="lsts lst1">•fate collective or individual
="lsts lst1">•how and whether time m="trms"nttrm="search">arches
="lsts lst1">•where the end is located
="lsts lst1">•


="large lg90" stl="font-size:110%"> medical eschatology

eschatology (in the west) is perhaps the most paradoxical (and inconsistent) aspect of ="trms">religiosity
(traditions in which) earthly experience is a moment in an eternal dreaming

Islam, Judaism, ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christianity are brooded over by the sense ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]last things='lgc'>: a sense of the end ='lgc'>[soon or distant, individual or collective='lgc'>] contradicts itself (explodes itself) ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ='strcls'>*it looks for a moment that gives significance to the course of time by finally denying (erasing, ending) that to which it offers significance='strcls'>* ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'><='lgc'>--- western european middle ages utilizes and deepens this multi="trms">fold and contradictory tradition (='lgc'>=/= deny, impoverish)

(three types of awareness='lgc'>:)
="lstsrd">1- significance of dying and afterlife ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> space time of personal collective destiny
="lstsrd">2- apocalyptic time ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lstsrd">3- eschatological ="trms">imagination ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->

purgation

purgatory time
="lsts lst1">•do pottery while you are in purgatory
="lsts lst1">•learn ice-skating while you are waiting in zamharir
="lsts lst1">•

='lgc'>{personal drama of death ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> progressive un="trms">folding of collective ="trms">history='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ultimate dis="trms">position for individual soul and body ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> ='thdf'>the notion of ='strcls'>***bliss after torment='strcls'>***

torment='lgc'>: individual glimpse of the end


="ppl">Augustine ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the imperfect but not reprobate

suffering='lgc'>: means of salvation (of we join the agony of Chris on the cross)
pain in this life ='lgc'>: inevitable accompaniment to the corrupt body whose weakness and rottenness are indication of the approach of death

an era of exile ='lgc'>--promise='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a new exodus from human fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure and corruption


='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
beautitude

Bernard's heaven

painted ="trms">embodiedness of the blessed (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- problematic ='lgc'>+ powerful)

out of time heaven in which the soul is al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready body-shaped ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> somato="trms">morphic selves before judgement


apocalyptic moment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> self-referentiality='lgc'>: when the ="trms">author reflects on the limits of their knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and expression

(all) eschatological texts (="trms">poems) in some way reflect their status as ="trms">fiction ='lgc'>--assert='lgc'>='lgc'>--> their ="trms">nature as mediating and ="trms">contingent


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="brkr">
Trans-ing xeno- unsettles the oversimplified Others necessary for the production of stratification and disallowance, without in the process destroying ="trms">difference and the ethics of encounter.

="large lg46" stl="font-size:125%"> the ="trms">ontological primacy of centers in general
the refracted image

myths of belonging as an ="trms">anthropocentric ="trms">narrative, one is worthy of personhood if she is placed in home.
='lgc'>[in the political and fantasy practices of the most in="trms">heritors of traditions of white (or not-white, the actual color is not the point) settler colonialism and its ="trms">ecologies, the introducing ="trms">species='lgc'>--in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding ourselves='lgc'>--are always bad ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the extraordinary practice of disavowal (of the ‘creatures of the empire’ ='at'>#="ppl">="ppl">Haraway) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in="trms">heriting ='thdf'>the notion of ‘belonging’ and ‘not-belonging’ (in this tradition) disavowal is almost the only way you can “keep” belonging. and one of the ways you practice disavowal and belonging is to exterminate the other (feral pigs, etc.) who “really” don't belong.='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•(which) ='strcls'>*practices of belonging='strcls'>* (are not part of (whose='qstn'>?) dreaming='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they always turn up in family ="trms">stories ='lgc'>{feral ='lgc'>=/= pest='lgc'>}
="lsts lst1">•how various kinds of ="trms">species can and cannot get on together='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•who should be killed and lived-with='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•(who exists only under the) ="trms">categories that come from the cunning of recognition ='lgc'>[="trms">categories of the traditional, of the subsistence food (ma'ash معاش), of the enacting of a culture in view of tourist public,='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•managed belongingness


In Jean ="ppl">Genet's portrayal of dusk (quoted by Minh-ha 1996:101-102), he captures the ambiguity of this ="trms">transitional time in the expression ‘entre chien et loup,’ between dog and wolf, that is, a time of day when one cannot be distinguished from the other, and he also describes it as ‘the hour of ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphoses when people ‘half hope, half fear’ that a dog will become a wolf’ (our emphasis). This quotation exemplifies the ambiguously ‘unheimlich,’ ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]


security is never secure enough


Jesus knocks at your heart's door


(="trms">history's or pig's) happy ending


absence of ambivalence (in ="trms">animals)

conditions of ad="trms">mission ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> artistic, sexual, ="trms">natural ='strcls'>*selections='strcls'>*
tickets to power-holding cliques that control the resources


phantoms of non-destruction
or
phantoms of ‘constructed adequately’


pausing dogs
mixed messages
who is wanted for dinner='qstn'>?
the moment when the message is finally received ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tech, magic, ethic, ="trms">morph

="trms">poetic ="trms">historiography

pivotal ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of ancient Greece ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- out of day-dream fantasy


='lgc'>[="ppl">Rickels='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*beauty is ="trms">interested in action
(pure) beauty re-lingering on primary ="trms">narcissism, that's why beauty must be administrated, in proper doses.

(my) ="trms">animal-findings and fairy-tale as="trms">sociations

if dogs ="trms">communicate through their trainability cats redirect lines of ="trms">communication through play. the dog waits and watches, the cat looks and looks, which when is your turn to be looked at, can be therapeutic or unnerving.

meeting the cat half-way



='lgc'>[="ppl">Ingraham='lgc'>]
the house, passed over in ="trms">history, brings with it a great many d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angers
architecture (never touches the object) is enchanted with object discourse
...all of us have been asked to “="trms">instrumentalize” architectural ='lgc'>[or art='lgc'>] theory ="trms">according to a particular building
="trms">material given a structure

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Q ='and'>& A ='qstn'>?, ="trms">interactivity, swarovski party, servants and robots ="trms">interacting with foreign bodies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> feeling at home='qstn'>? ex="trms">cited... ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> disco without bouncers and borders without border check, spaces you can seamlessly in and out, labyrinthine

i am generating some ="trms">vocabularies
parsite and parasitical, not all of them are predatory like the wolf



(Karen ="ppl">="ppl">Barad)
With all mirroring practices, biomimcry has built-in optics on the ="trms">geometry of distance from what which is other.


(="ppl">I="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigaray)
surprise (to be new)='lgc'>: not yet assimilated or disassimilated as known
our attention to that which is not yet (en)="trms">coded

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(something to consider, regarding the pigs and wolf ="trms">story, also an ="trms">interest for performances that happen in closed space;) there is a standard account that says ‘="trms">interiors’ and ‘="trms">interiority’ are linked, that the ="trms">articulation of ="trms">interior physical space enabled the development of certain kind of (initially bourgeois European) sense of subjective life='lgc'>--as something sheltered and enclosed.
='lgc'>=/= ="trms">interiority (subjectivity) is linked to the exterior ='lgc'>[="ppl">Sennett='lgc'>]

O='lgc'>-- still in the 15th century (when sex and sleeping was not ="trms">veiled under curtains) there was no cor="trms">relation between ='thdf'>the notion of privacy and the ="trms">interior
O='lgc'>-- in the mid 18th century (among European bourgeoisie) a new ideal of domesticity appeared which ="trms">dictates a new ="trms">interior space ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> separate room separate functions, segregation of domestic activities
O='lgc'>-- ="ppl">Rousseau='lgc'>: in the shelter of private domestic space subjectivity is set free (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">different kind of subjectivity (one which guards the self, something to be protected from the outside) is enabled by the development of the division of labor in ="trms">interior space) ='lgc'>[this is not merely architectural, it is also something about the clothing people wore='lgc'>: wearing ="trms">different clothes in family or in the realm of str="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angers. houses became warmer='lgc'>]

(="ppl">Simmel's) “="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban subjectivity”='lgc'>: street physical over-stimulation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> wearing a mask, you show nothing to people, you are not there. and behind this mask there is the feelings you are having, and these sensations behind the mask are your subjectivity.
it is a reaction to being exposed to ="trms">difference and complexity
the subject is divided='lgc'>: neutral on the outside / stimulated in the inside

(i don't want to become a camera)
observe (without ="trms">interacting)
observational cruising
='lgc'>[the standard account:='lgc'>] ="trms">interiority ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= reflexive detachment, reflexive withdraw

="trms">social media and exteriority

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="ppl">Sennett, “3rd ="trms">world” SPeCo62Mz2Q ='lgc'>: condition in which centralized space or distributed ="trms">communication ="trms">networks are missing
="prgrph">-a public space that is officially organized
='strcls'>*parks='lgc'>: open space that are reserved for the public='lgc'>: “where informal economy wants to be but is banned”

='strcls'>*public space='lgc'>: (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Selma on st.open project)
(21st century) ="trms">modern thought ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='strcls'>*two traditions of thinking about public realm='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- as a dialogical condition (of exchange, of political engagement) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Arendt ='and'>& ="ppl">Habermas; ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{a ="trms">communicative im="trms">material space='lgc'>} ='lgc'>: “more talk ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> more agreement, common understanding” ='lgc'>='lgc'>---='lgc'>[dialogic ='and'>& im="trms">material='lgc'>]
="lstsrd">2- as a space of ="trms">spectacle ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (goes back to 19th century) ="ppl">Baudelaire's ‘individual passers-by’ watching something on the ="trms">fold (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[old ="trms">Greek idea of ="trms">spectacle:='lgc'>] “un="trms">folding of ="trms">narrative.” a ='thdf'>bad idea of ‘how people should be physically in space’ for example, a landscape architect that creates a scenography in a park ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a witness in a s="trms">cene, watching as ="trms">spectator from out of a ="trms">situated identity in the ="trms">world), (not so new) ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban sensibility and ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban subject ="trms">matter; criticized by ="ppl">Guy ="ppl">Debord; ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{a theater with performers and ="trms">spectators, a very physical understanding of public space, ='lgc'>='lgc'>---='lgc'>[dramatic ='and'>& ="trms">material='lgc'>]='lgc'>}

="lstsrd">3- in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">integrative
many of the ="trms">differences (culture, class, ="trms">religion, etc) that cities contain can't be reconciled ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how can I talk to you and not pressing a point of ="trms">integration, rather in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion='qstn'>? (where people feel provoked to ="trms">integrate, ="trms">integrieren, an inherently passive condition)
="prgrph">-always more parallel activities that don't form a ="trms">spectacle only but are also productive
='lgc'>='lgc'>---='lgc'>[in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive ='and'>& ="trms">synchronous='lgc'>]

='strcls'>***(in the public realm='lgc'>:) ="trms">integration <='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> ="trms">spectacle

public spaces must be much smaller ='lgc'>=/= gigantism of dramatized power of the politics in large scale public places
small ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> intensity (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this i learned from Julia as well, create small spaces to show our art-works to each other, the intensity o[...]