[...]d but not tested) lss="trms">internal lss="trms">categories<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•stickiness
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<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">zoom
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<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•cheat
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<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•persistence
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<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•repetition
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<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•vulgar
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(i will describe them later)
and these lss="trms">categories produce three topologies<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lstsrd clss="lstsrd">1. ramp
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<lstsrd clss="lstsrd">2. nest
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<lstsrd clss="lstsrd">3. skew
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(this is a maneuver to replace the lss="trms">question of ‘strategy’ to ‘topology’, the first act of making quasi-objects)
ramp<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> sequential, one dimensional, ‘sliders’
nest<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> fractal, serializable, arborescent, ‘comments’
skew<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="trms">verb-active, streching, ‘2D field color picker polss="trms">inter’
each is “queryable” in lss="trms">different ways and propose lss="trms">different difficulties
each of them addapted from an existing lss="trms">technologies (range sliders, commenting, color pickers)
each embeds one of<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> colors, doings, values
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slider<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> marking everything with decimals
comments<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> hypertextualizing
field picker<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> splss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading
<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> they are all milieu-makers
ramp <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> arc of necessity
nest <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> mosaic divisions
skew <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> chromatic/luminous effect (of mixture)
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and also<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•to address (in a longer term) how lss="nms">apass performs analysis and lss="trms">prioritization of its own service delss="trms">finitionlss='qstn'>?
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<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•to address (in a longer term) lss="trms">historical/cultural lss="trms">specificities of lss="nms">apass
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<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•to address aspects of lss="nms">apass's exceptionalism (its characters, colors, doings, values)
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REPORT<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
lss="frds scrmbld">Geert
lss="trms">zoom / biger picture
perform a lss="trms">zoom
lss="frds scrmbld">Geert and Michael knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge lss="trms">zoom-level
lss="frds scrmbld">Geert's strech-work
which cheats
vulgar<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> direct, <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> suffisticated, <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> nice(in a classical sense), <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> institutional lss="trms">code <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> a cheat<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>, everyday, good taste, contextlss='qstn'>?!!
suglss="trms">gested topology<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> skew <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>changed<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> nest (tow branches answering yes and no to<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “is he cheatinglss='qstn'>?”)
lss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Leonardo">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Leo
stickiness <lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc> residual (left overs of impression), we couldn't find little objects, litte stickies
lss="trms">zoom is tooooo wide, megalss="trms">categories, “fermentation” is a lss="trms">different lss="trms">zoom level
cheat <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> perception/intention, value of non-doing lss='qstn'>?, ‘order is cheat’, ritual <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> heal/cope
vulgar<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> ritual of popular knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> lss="trms">social acceptence, lss="trms">communicating emotional needs, guilt on behalf of the vulgars,
suglss="trms">gested topology<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> skew (with 4 axioms<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> negativity, lss="trms">positivity, passivity, ritual)
lss="frds scrmbld">Caterina
sticky<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> difiicult to remove lss="trms">categories, dirty, quality of lss="trms">trape, almost negative, like honey as an lss="trms">intermediary sticky for other objects to become sticky
lss="trms">zoom<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Latina candition macro, ass rincles micro, herself, change of lens is what lss="trms">matters not the lss="trms">zoom level, the macro of the term culture itself
cheat<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> against the rule of lss="trms">community/aggreement, always cheating the lss="trms">system, against the game, bad lss="trms">relation to the game, lazy lss="trms">relation, fakinglss='qstn'>?
vulgar<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> ordinary, insultive, perjurative, of the “people”, (lss="frds scrmbld">Geert<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) a marking always coming from above, what television does<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> non-actual <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> lss="trms">spectacle, (lss="frds scrmbld">Elen<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) immoral, not olss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal, not elegant, thinking in terms of the ‘same’, group forming, non-individual, twards mass formation,
suglss="trms">gested topology<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> nest
lss="frds scrmbld">Eszter
polarized lense
confusion / being confused is ‘cheating’
stickiness absent
suglss="trms">gested topology<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> nest (with two branches<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> naive lss='and'>& political leader)
lss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Godard">Goda
nothing sticks anymore therefor we go to swamp to stick to relevant objects
swamp as archive (refuge from the capitalss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list) <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc>lss='qstn'>? cheat
constructing ‘bad example’ (lss='qstn'>?) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> role model
lss="trms">zooming in losers of capitalism
X-ray kind of lens into the opacity of swamp
(her) treasures in the swamp <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">epistemological buried objects<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
criticizing how capitalism lss="trms">zooms for her irrelevant objects
buffoon <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> vulgar
suglss="trms">gested topology<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> skew (the skew is a plain around the lss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges, gets deeper in the middle, and a narrow way up in the center<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> the exit)
lss="frds scrmbld">Elen
lss="trms">presence of the working of subconscious <lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>provokes<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> etymology
very sticki “hell yea!"s
affirmative, sometimes lss="trms">technical knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
something sold (“self”) with something lss="trms">morphic on it (“apparition” or ‘surat’ in lss="trms">farsi)
suglss="trms">gested topology<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> ramp
lss="frds scrmbld">Hoda
cheat<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> sharp radical formation, playing ambiguity
totalizing vision lense (“if then all...”)
“because i asked i could feel”
anti-psychological
suglss="trms">gested topology<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> ramp
lss="frds scrmbld">Katinka
makeover slider
vulgar<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> makeover show, e-bay
statements not touching her, something else is sticki object<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="trms">sympathylss='qstn'>?
slider<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> stack
suglss="trms">gested topology<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> ramp (makeover)
lss="frds scrmbld">Nassia
stick<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> something bodily, heat, sweat, property of objects
lss="trms">zoom is the oplss="trms">posit of body
gaze inside <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> anatomy
cheating<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> on people negative / on lss="trms">systems lss="trms">positive
suglss="trms">gested topology<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> ramp
lss="frds scrmbld">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Laura
osmotic<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>french kiss
administered (by machine) body
the good example
beauty is invested in...
the (unchanging) core of the cuttle-fish
popular<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>vulgar
suglss="trms">gested topology<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> skew (regimented floor plan)
lss="frds scrmbld">Maurice
cheat <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">joker, fool
cute<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> getting off the leash of institution
bear blss="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurs what...
“but I am just...”
bribe economy <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> honest and human
suglss="trms">gested topology<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> nest
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<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>title<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
archives of open desire
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lss='at'>#drawing exercises in built environment (with Sizek <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> Mathews https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1542-lss="trms">methods-for-many-lss="trms">anthropolss="trms">cenes-with-andrew-s-mathews)
<lstsrd clss="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 lss="trms">history or use today
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<lstsrd clss="lstsrd">2. compare drawings and use the drawings to tell lss="trms">stories about the object and its use or importance to life in that environment
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<lstsrd clss="lstsrd">3. invite to reflect on the ways that drawing infrastructure can reveal processes at multiple temporal and spatial scales
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discussion lss="trms">questions/lss="trms">writing lss="trms">response lss="trms">questions<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•Which features of the structure stood out, and what do these suglss="trms">gest about the processes of its creation and uselss='qstn'>?
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<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•How has its infrastructure changed over time, and how are these changes evidenced in the built form itselflss='qstn'>?
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<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•How does your structure relate to others in its immediate vicinity, and in what ways do lss="trms">relationships between structures help reveal lss="trms">social lss="trms">relationslss='qstn'>?
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<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•What traces of lss="trms">past events are embedded in infrastructure or its lss="trms">memories, and how can we render these traces lss="trms">presentlss='qstn'>?
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drawings has to do with the incompleteness of knowing and relss="trms">presenting
indeterminacy at ‘the same time’
(lss='qstn'>?in which locations you can get a good) human lss="trms">response to<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•slow processes (soil, geology, plant form)
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<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•fast processes (plant seasonal behavior, weather, human lss="trms">responses to all of these things)
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ls clss='strcls'>*ls>drawing as structured lss="trms">wondering/wanderingls clss='strcls'>*ls>
use of the ls clss='strcls'>*ls>dramaticls clss='strcls'>*ls> as lss="trms">method <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> to entertain multiple lss="trms">worldviews
to maintain irreducible complexity and to recenter lss="trms">historical processes as central to understanding contemporary politics
(lss="trms">history and drama)
lss="prgrph">-facts as enacted and performed before audiences (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> tradition in lss="trms">science and lss="trms">technology)
ls clss='strcls'>**ls>knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is always performed, lss="trms">staged, and enactedls clss='strcls'>**ls> <lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>lgc> lss='mywrk'>my work on lss="nms">ajayeb
how to tell the dramatic lss="trms">stories
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notes from lss="frds scrmbld">Sofia's seminar on documentation
the lss="trms">questions i brought home with lss="frds scrmbld">Kobe<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
the lss="trms">ontological lss="trms">relationships between law and art, who protects wholss='qstn'>? what protects protectionlss='qstn'>? <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> which lss="trms">material discursive practices make the lss="trms">ontological boundaries of “protection”lss='qstn'>? (specially today investigating this term is more urgent in a lss="trms">world saturated with toxic lss="trms">vocabularies of security.) the figure of protection transforms the subjects of knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and knowability <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> look at how the judge was talking about art
(lss="trms">question of) the production of subjectivity (of the judge himself as an active knowing lss="trms">agent and the dead-master as the phantasmatic place-holder of meaning)
this is related to<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> (lss="trms">question of) lss="trms">responsibility and individuality <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> influences and efforts of the work. two lss="trms">interesting moments of genesis occurred<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lstsrd clss="lstsrd">1- in the court “his work” (Beuys) was mysteriously created
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<lstsrd clss="lstsrd">2- also when Olga got a phone call from the ministry of culture, “her work” was mysteriously created
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<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> both the court and the phone call are mystic producers of the subjectivity of the artist dead or alive <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>lss='at'>#this needs more investigation<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
(lss="trms">question of) the production of significance and lss="trms">difference
look at the speech-acts of the judge in the case of Beuys. which nuances of lss="trms">difference are generated, estated, established, and propagatedlss='qstn'>? we can study every syllable of the judge's speech-act. the judge goes from one lss="trms">fable to another<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="trms">fables of significance, lss="trms">fables of influence, lss="trms">fables of impression, etc.
boundary-making practices in our shared struggling lss="trms">world
lss='thdf'>the idea that art “starts” and “stops” somewhere
zeroing the artworks ecolss="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. lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Let's bring an expert.”
and beyond that, I am lss="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”lss='qstn'>?
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lss="trms">questions of<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> essence (in art), subjectivity production, protection,
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with Vincent
(lss='qstn'>?what was the) notion of “everything is kept here” in his work
(lss='qstn'>?why and how) his lss="trms">storytelling was all about design <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> his lss="trms">stories of lss="trms">responsibility and factuality
how and why in our artistic practices, production of lss="trms">responsibility and factuality is hold in the terms and services of design and designer that is busy with building enhanced and efficient lss="trms">communication lss="trms">networks lss="trms">historically rooted in the lss="trms">geometries of lss="trms">modernist projectlss='qstn'>?
(lss='qstn'>?what is the artist's) busy-ness with design <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> related to the fathers of correction (lss='qstn'>?) and proper address
who (and why) wants to look at which lss="trms">past with lenses and lss="trms">geometries of the violent grids of the forefathers of lss="trms">modernist designlss='qstn'>?
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">ontology of document<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> an artifact with a lss="trms">specific layout and design
design has to do with the proper address (lss='qstn'>?) which is (always) about the proper witness (lss='qstn'>?)
(in the case of Vincent) do you agree with the amerindian know-how that “a good designer is a dead designer”lss='qstn'>?
(lss='qstn'>?what was the) proper lss="trms">affect of lss="trms">history (that his work was creating)
through the lss="trms">aesthetic of old and antique video projectors his colonialism belonged properly to the lss="trms">past <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> (lss="trms">question of) the production of the proper witness
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the architecture and flag of BOZAR plus his notion of design, are they lss="trms">interesting and necessary ways of forming kinship and properly distanced lss="trms">historylss='qstn'>?
Vincent “knew” his distance to the lss="trms">past (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> do you smell a problemlss='qstn'>?)
in which clock he is looking at timelss='qstn'>? which time machine he is handed to or placed inlss='qstn'>? who/what is making his time modellss='qstn'>?
also, which segment of your practice is temporalizedlss='qstn'>? this means also which part of your practice stands out of timelss='qstn'>?
with Olga
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regards of the lss="trms">question “what are an artwork's boundarieslss='qstn'>?” and it's lss="trms">intersections with documents, lss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists, and reports
for Olga<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
document<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>evidence
research<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>mourning
(mourning as the passionate and delss="trms">monstrative activity of expressing the state of loss or deprivation of a certain object for a certain subject, and lss="trms">demand for its revival or lss="trms">memorialization)
what is the feeling of the documentlss='qstn'>?
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>document is a lss="trms">story that (usually) silences other lss="trms">storiesls clss='strcls'>*ls>
where our powers to provoke care (could/should) come from (if not from document/evidence)lss='qstn'>?
is document (in its form and feeling) the best way we have at our disposal to provoke the care of the generationslss='qstn'>? ...to mark each other with the mark of the carelss='qstn'>?
putting the lss="trms">narrative into proper sleep
casting the names
lss="prgrph">-artist has turned herself into a mnemonic device <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> suglss="trms">gesting “amnesia” as her context
lss="prgrph">-artist has become a reminder and (therefore) her audiences have become lss="trms">memorizers
(lss="trms">question of) lss="trms">memory and relss="trms">membering <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss='thdf'>the idea of ‘lss="trms">literal relss="trms">membrance’ in her performance, re-lss="trms">membering, lss="trms">literally bringing back the “lss="trms">members” of the Kurt Jooss company into the lss="trms">present of her audiences
lss="prgrph">-the problem with her relss="trms">membrance is that “there is something that is important to relss="trms">member” regardless of the person/subject who relss="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 clss='lgc'>[lgc>for lss="trms">world peacelss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>) in a sense her subject of research remains unreselss="trms"nttrm="search">arched, her values unevaluated, her moral settlements settled
how can she become lss="trms">interested in delss="trms">composing her research-bodies of The Green Tablelss='qstn'>?
can we remain critically ethically lss="trms">responsible in thinking about the “meaning and message” of our subject of study and still be able to delss="trms">compose it in lss="trms">interesting lss="trms">serious wayslss='qstn'>? (yes yes)
lss="trms">questions of<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> thinking, reminding, remaining,
lss="frds scrmbld">Sofia's documentation
she asks “what is document todaylss='qstn'>?”
lss="prgrph">-what was document yesterday (that is not anymore today)lss='qstn'>?
lss="prgrph">-how the lss="trms">agency and meaning of docu is (or is not) mutating in timelss='qstn'>?ls clss='strcls'>*ls>
lss="prgrph">-what is beyond the lss="trms">question of documentation and preservationlss='qstn'>? <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>durational lss="trms">aestheticsls clss='strcls'>*ls>
lss="prgrph">-is document a limited way of asking lss="trms">questions about what we do and our lss="trms">relationship with time and durationlss='qstn'>? <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>you never know what the lss="trms">present brings into the future.<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
what art cannot say that document canlss='qstn'>? “truth”lss='qstn'>?
when truth was invented where was document standinglss='qstn'>?
is document today a mere effect of lss="trms">technologies of inscribinglss='qstn'>?
why we are not talking about “file”lss='qstn'>?
(<lgc clss='lgc'>-<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>lgc> lss='gtrw'>go to the lss="trms">ontology of evidence and files in X-Files TV series)
is ‘file’ the bedrock of lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading todaylss='qstn'>?
document assumes, constructs and promises its own labor of lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading
lss='qstn'>? document is that which lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads as referent, truthful, evident, economic value, , ,
lss="frds scrmbld">Femke, with multiple understanders of the blended, blending lss="trms">world
the lss="trms">question of the lss="trms">lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors of the body
manuality
manual understanders
for her “the point of olss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin” is at stakelss='qstn'>? <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> the “ground” is at once desired and dislss="trms">articulated for the sake of an idea of lss="trms">situatedness <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> politics of lss="trms">positioning
placement, lss="trms">world, Dasein, fall
in lss="trms">CG bodies are lss="trms">articulated in lss="trms">differential vectors, not “grounds” <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> does she want to ground the bodylss='qstn'>?
she was mobilizing the lss="trms">lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors of<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> body, ground, falling
how is she fallinglss='qstn'>? in which lss="trms">historically lss="trms">contingent practices of grounding is she grounded, building her discourselss='qstn'>?
lss="trms">ontology of the variable <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> (lss="trms">question of the) figure of variation
her work with the partners of crime, getting in the front line and frontiers of lss="trms">CG working and practical lss="trms">lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors
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lss="frds scrmbld">Sofia's textual machine, switching between binary values of faire contract <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> staying with the polar syntax of ‘you’ and ‘them’
lss="prgrph">-how the rotating axis of her machine is able of creating breaks in the syntax of the contractlss='qstn'>?
lss="prgrph">-(for her machine<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “understanding<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>an act of application”) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> how new forms of ls clss='strcls'>*ls>understandingls clss='strcls'>*ls> could change the ways we might achieve fair lss="trms">societieslss='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 lss="trms">writen contract. what would it mean to install an understander (taking a risk), for lss="frds scrmbld">Sofia, and not a reversal syntaxer (making aware)lss='qstn'>?
lss="prgrph">-employer and the employee as lss="trms">different “lss="trms">species” with their lss="trms">different “lss="trms">natural” tendencies to fuck with one anotherlss='qstn'>? <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> zero-sum game
lss="prgrph">-the lss="trms">question of lss="trms">symbiotic relatedness (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> psychoanalysis) <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc>lss='qstn'>? contractual relatedness
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to emphasis on the lss="trms">contingent and the contextual
the process of becoming reselss="trms"nttrm="search">archer (of lss="trms">science and lss="trms">technology studies <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> inquiry into the politics and practices of knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge-making)
vignette (sketch, a brief lss="trms">literary description, lss="trms">narrate slss="trms">cenes from familiar activities)
the lss="trms">question is not ‘how can we care morelss='qstn'>?’ (as predetermined set of lss="trms">affective practices) rather<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> ls clss='strcls'>**ls>what happens to our work when we pay attention to moments where the lss="trms">question of ‘how to carelss='qstn'>?’ is insistent but not easily answerablels clss='strcls'>**ls> (‘care’ as an analytic or provocation)
lss="prgrph">-l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Kenneyl>l>
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Manoto TV station program “sher yadet nare” شعر یادت نره lss="trms">respond to the lss="trms">questions of lss="trms">translation (from the UK produced program “Don't Forget the lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Lyrics” into an lss="nms">Iranian contemporary popular media culture) and lss="trms">memory practices (archival lss="trms">memory act performance pop quiz show mixed with lss="trms">consumer culture TV broadcasting)
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ls clss='strcls'>*ls>cognitive companionsls clss='strcls'>*ls> (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> coordinating multiple lss="trms">agencies characteristically)
lss="prgrph">-tiny clay token sheep were enclosed in clay envelopes with markings indicating what was inside (ls clss='strcls'>*ls>molding and inscribing clayls clss='strcls'>*ls> was the favored sensory lss="trms">technology for making in Mesopotamia 5000 years ago)
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•maybe your makings involves “true lss="trms">writing” that companions preferentially with lss="trms">language
lsts>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•maybe your makings involves spinning plant and lss="trms">animal fiber and feeling, tying, and untying knots
lsts>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•processual affirmative re-lss="trms">writings
lsts>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">systeming meditations
lsts>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•context-sensitive pushback
lsts>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•operational closure (of a lss="trms">system)
lsts>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•fluctuation, entrainment, blocked lss="trms">synchrony
lsts>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•
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<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>l clss="ppl">Katiel> l clss="ppl">Kingl> use of a term, how she shifts it from mechanism to lss="trms">affect:<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>stigmergy<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> feeling of being in among and as the self-organizing bits that are lss="trms">system-ing (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> a lss="trms">method of lss="trms">communication in emergent lss="trms">systems, mechanically defined as “indirect coordination” self-organizing termites and ants or flash mobs or political action)
lss='at'>@lss="nms">apass<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> how do you provide lss="trms">different ls clss='strcls'>*ls>undisciplined ways of envisioningls clss='strcls'>*ls> new kinds of environments, artifacts and practiceslss='qstn'>? (entangle design, lss="trms">science, fact and lss="trms">fiction, boundary objects, lss="trms">system-ing, <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>design<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> ls clss='strcls'>***ls>making things that tell lss="trms">storiesls clss='strcls'>***ls> <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> telling lss="trms">stories<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>)
(my encounters with) lss="nms">ajayeb's vibrating particularism
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>website, talksite<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> play, trial and error, permutation and mistakes (none of it innocent or exemplary lss='at'>@ERG's website) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>cognitive reassemblyls clss='strcls'>*ls>
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>lss="trms">relations between developers and users to create and work out a lss="trms">technical lss="trms">interface <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">communicative tangle<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc>
transmedia lss="trms">story (with its olss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins commercial and suspect, often entangled with lss="trms">social critique and lss="trms">social panic <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>lgc>=lgc> conditions of making knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge today; we knowingly or without reflection, gather and pin together such lss="trms">stories across media...)
lss="prgrph">-you can't take ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">citation poolsls clss='strcls'>*ls> for granted
lss="prgrph">-how we will take what each other says
companion gatherings (do not exactly cohere or conlss="trms">sort well) <lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>sometimes<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> violation of standardization (that some believe is more equal)
(companions need to) <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>learn<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> emergently sensitize and attune among new cognitive and political circumstances (in and as their very moments of unknowing, when ethical and moral lss="trms">sortings are properly in flux)
(with) l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Batesonl>l>'s negative sensitivities to lss="trms">systems, and with l clss="ppl">Katiel>s l clss="ppl">Kingl>, I keep discovering just how lss="trms">literal is our many being-ness in multiply embedded lss="trms">sorts of biomic lss="trms">symlss="trms">poiesis
<lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>lss="trms">lecture<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> feeling-in-the-mouth lss="trms">system, (the word-as-lss="trms">world inhabited by) alternate and overlapping peoples, lss="trms">memories, attunements, lss="trms">citation pools, lss="trms">histories, lss="trms">communities of practice, knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges, ocean and freshwater “lss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges"<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc>
<lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>lss='qstn'>?can i propose (l clss="ppl">Katiel> l clss="ppl">Kingl> and Sandoval's) “oplss="trms">positional consciousness” instead of (Mouffe's) “agonistic plss="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">luralism"<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc>
lss="trms">responses, abilities, infrastructures, distributed lss="trms">embodiments,
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>traumas<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> intensities crowded with affiliations, loyalties, essential truths
(l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Batesonl>l> > l clss="ppl">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Leigh l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Starl>l>l> > l clss="ppl">Katiel> l clss="ppl">Kingl>) ls clss='strcls'>*ls>transcontextualls clss='strcls'>*ls> (transcontextual circumstances<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> moving from one context to another, one lss="trms">world to another, one set of knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges to another) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>boundary objects<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> workaround things, concepts, processes, even lss="trms">routines that permit coordination, sometimes collaboration, without conlss="trms">sensus (non-conscious and conscious)<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>local, supralocaling, and global in lss="trms">material topologies in which spacetimelss="trms">natureculture may be mixed, developmental yet transtemporal, (they don't create boundaries) ls clss='strcls'>*ls>they work to keep boundaries from getting in the way of collaborationls clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>lgc>=lgc>lss='qstn'>? sleep-walking<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> ignore or even miss that there are boundaries about, or honor boundaries<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>lss="trms">differences that should be honored without being stuck there<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>-lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>can i suglss="trms">gest ‘enlss="trms">folding’ instead of ‘lss="trms">symlss="trms">poiesis’ for artistslss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
ls clss='strcls'>****ls>lss="nms">ajayeb<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> my transcontextual habitatls clss='strcls'>****ls> <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>(l clss="ppl">Katiel> l clss="ppl">Kingl>)<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> sites where people, objects, lss="trms">animals, lss="trms">ecological processes, academic restructurings, and scales of injustice unlss="trms">fold, enlss="trms">fold<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
‘to feel family and parent lss="trms">memories as our own’ <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> a lss="trms">skill that lss="trms">intertwines lss="trms">historical and personal biography (sometimes trauma) as a feature of ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">memory enlss="trms">codingls clss='strcls'>*ls>
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>autolss="trms">poiesis<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> a notion, a theory of cellular organization, that makes a lss="trms">fold in lss="trms">history <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> relss="trms">formulating an orientation into an ‘experimental lss="trms">epistemology’
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">memoir animated word-lss="trms">worlds worm-holedls clss='strcls'>*ls> (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>lgc>=lgc> my lss="trms">lecture-performances, l clss="ppl">Katiel> l clss="ppl">Kingl>'s talksites <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> speculations gathering with stigmergy, recursive paradox, and a lss="trms">symlss="trms">poiesis of boundary objects)
lss='at'>#my project<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> redesigning lss="nms">ajayeb's “lss="trms">writings” among dispersed, diffracted, and emergent lss="trms">methods of attention
lss="prgrph">-to redesign “aboutness” (as nonrelss="trms">presentational <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> recursive lss="trms">relational lss="trms">agency of/about reciprocities in lss="trms">worldly processes)
lss="prgrph">-to redesign lss="trms">fiction of lss="trms">writing (khipu)
lss="prgrph">-to redesign lss='at'>@lss="nms">apass archive <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> records of how things have happened, with whom, when, with what informational needs (instead of abstractions layered up), sometimes as lss="trms">agencies, sometimes as (in Sandoval's terms) oplss="trms">positional and lss="trms">differential consciousness, (boundary objects) storing and performing our details and lss="trms">affects and lss="trms">memories
punitive parsimonies of explanation<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•over-simplications of complex lss="trms">systems
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<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•pressures for lss="trms">social critique
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<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•to lss="trms">travel as lss="trms">social panic
lsts>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•retreat to political loyalties (<lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>lgc> confusion overwhelm cognitive schema)
lsts>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•retreat to political belonging in search of trust
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<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•
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(more boundary objects<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) many lss="trms">sorting lss="trms">apparatus reframings at varying grains of detail each savoring textures of disciplinary and other precisions amid noncoherent and lss="trms">materializing logics
(constitutive, lss="trms">agential) ls clss='strcls'>**ls>cuts are connectionsls clss='strcls'>**ls>
lss="prgrph">-to minimize damage and maximize flourishing
lss="trms">differential details <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>in<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> “us” <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>in<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Batesonl>l>'s living patterns <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>in<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> starfish's invertebrate radial lss="trms">symmetry <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>in<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> redwood cloning timelines <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>in<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> recursive epigenesis <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>in<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> mechanism and structure in a segmenting egg <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>in<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> human affiliations of power and state and lss="trms">love...
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>lss="trms">differential consciousness<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="trms">systems justice sensitive to multiple contexts, ls clss='strcls'>*ls>politics of attachmentls clss='strcls'>*ls>
lss='at'>@lss="nms">apass's environment (mix of lss="trms">communities of justice and of practice)<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
belief and disbelief, lss="trms">memberships and belongings, tlss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riggered and assembled
ls clss='strcls'>****ls>to commit to a well-defined structure of identity for one hour, day, week, month, yearls clss='strcls'>****ls> (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> Manning)
<lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> transform that identity lss="trms">according to the requisites of another oplss="trms">positional ideological tactic (if lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of power's formation require it <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> that's how i became more lss="nms">iranian in Europe)
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">differential<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another, a quality that lss="trms">differentiates between similar things (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> derivatives) <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> lss="trms">different
lsts>
اخرت eschatology
study of end-times <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>now<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> climate change, global restructuring, <lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lss="prgrph">-humans are often precariously enduring on the planet
(Cuban Missile Crisis...)
lss="prgrph">-when urgencies (become too prelss="trms">dictive) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> less sensitivity to the unanticipated <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> (lss="frds scrmbld">Seba's “save the lss="trms">world” =) all too human desires for control or for moral prescriptions
with l clss="ppl">Katiel> l clss="ppl">Kingl> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">systems justicels clss='strcls'>*ls> requires something much more complicated
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•we have to work with our extended being
lsts>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•find out new things about it
lsts>
lss="prgrph">-how can we go beyond human intention and lss="trms">systems of controllss='qstn'>?
lss="prgrph">-we need, and there are, many ways to minimize damage and maximize flourishing
(ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">systems humans participate in and do not controlls clss='strcls'>*ls>)
(lss='qstn'>? am i part of this) “we” and “us” gathers lss="trms">sympoietically these boundary objects storing details and lss="trms">affects
the lss="trms">fable of “if it's about everything it is about nothing” <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> no!
sharpening focus <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> narrowing focus
workshop for thinking
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•with objects
lsts>
<lsts clss="lsts lst2">◦moved around
lsts>
<lsts clss="lsts lst3">◾in visual play
lsts>
to take your lss="trms">imaginations along other things
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•so their lss="trms">worlds layer and enlss="trms">fold and map out and crochet together
lsts>
<lsts clss="lsts lst2">◦so that can be sensed and worked on
lsts>
(lss='qstn'>?what are) our helpers in lss="nms">apass<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•companion lss="trms">imaginations<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>our collective lss="trms">animalities
lsts>
<lsts clss="lsts lst2">◦such lss="trms">imaginations have lss="trms">worlds that layer and enlss="trms">fold and map out and crochet together (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">systems humans participate in and do not control)
lsts>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•our complex personhood
lsts>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•our distributed being
lsts>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•objects we take as cognitive companions
lsts>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•our significant otherness honored in on-going attentions
lsts>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•new learnings
lsts>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•new lss="trms">materialities
lsts>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•
lsts>
(lss='qstn'>?what are our) lss="trms">methodology of companioning with things
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what is happening to me<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> attention to knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge making practices (in the context of a lss="trms">literary pleasure)
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>sharing<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>makingls clss='strcls'>*ls>
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">communicating<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>makingls clss='strcls'>*ls>
lss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clues <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>for<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> contexts <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>shapes<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> how we will take what each other says
(l clss="ppl">Katiel> l clss="ppl">Kingl> > Anzaldua<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) who and what facilitates such movement among lss="trms">worldslss='qstn'>?
home<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>domination <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> domestication <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> lss="trms">love
l clss="ppl">Katiel> l clss="ppl">Kingl><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•why lss="trms">science lss="trms">fiction lss="trms">matterslss='qstn'>?
lsts>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•how cultural studies helps us make SF meaningfullss='qstn'>?
lsts>
lss="trms">interactive possibilities of media art, commercial production, mass culture
SF<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>effect of defamiliarization
(problem with l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Starl>l> Trek is that it is over familiar)
Janet, from a lesbian utopian future (death by disease of all the men)
Jeannine, from an alternate lss="trms">present (US never entered WWII)
Jael, where “War Between the Sexes” has become deadly lss="trms">literal
Joanna, the lss="trms">author of the lss="trms">book, Joanna Russ (in a shimmering lss="trms">joking lss="trms">literalization has enlss="trms">folded into her own lss="trms">story)
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my lss="nms">ajayeb studies <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>cultural studies<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> how cultural products are part of cultural processesls clss='strcls'>*ls> (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> what makes an art work good) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> getting around the term “art”
lss="prgrph">-mysteries, romance novels, movies, (lss="trms">bestiaries,) all of them deeply commercial forms of entertainment and often produced in complicated lss="trms">technical collaborations <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> and that's what makes them lss="trms">interesting (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> simple single lss="trms">authorships)<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lss="prgrph">-genre, lss="trms">formula, (style, lss="trms">fashion,) are intrinsic to the ways these products are produced and the ways they are enjoyed
genre <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> subtle shifts possible across many repetitions (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> something that happens only one time)
prelss="trms">modern lss="trms">literary forms (lss="trms">bestiary) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> structural variations <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> their pleasurable effects
fandom (collectivities of fans)<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> venues in which high intensities of engagement and collaboration occur <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">social and collaborative, (lss="trms">writing) reengineered with various lss="trms">apparatus, <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>pre-lss="trms">internet Trekkers:<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•...audio tape each episode and lss="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 lss="trms">memorized
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<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•wrote long letters about each episode several times a week, coast to coast, analyzing each in great detail, and lss="trms">writing out particularly lss="trms">memorable bits of repartee
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<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> SF media fandoms (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> SF lss="trms">literary fandoms), first really organized around l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Starl>l> Trek in the late 60s, early 70s and increasingly lss="trms">international, have tended to be dominated by female fans
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>poaching<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> how fans and fandoms appropriate commercial products for their own informal uses
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>commercial exuberancels clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>lgc> media franchises (<lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc> take advantage of the structure of multinational corporations <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>film and tv production, lss="trms">book, music and video publishing and distribution, theme parks, theaters, lss="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 lss="trms">internet sites and catalog buying, and even scholarly works<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> xeroxed fanfic, lss="trms">fiction lss="trms">written and self-published by fans,)
l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Starl>l> Trek<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>commercial media art <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> “art for art's sake”
lss="prgrph">-commercial media art is pleasurable precisely because ls clss='strcls'>*ls>one instance of it is always insufficient in a very palpable wayls clss='strcls'>*ls>
‘not enough’ <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">interactive lss='and'>& an on-going <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> multiply collaborative process (across media)
= processes<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> people engage in varying degrees and forms of intensity and with varying collaborative possibilities <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>fandom<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> an lss="trms">interactive engagement that is culturally ambiguous <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> ‘lss="trms">society that values property,’ or ‘unique creations by single artists'<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc>
(such media is) inspirational exactly because ls clss='strcls'>*ls>so much is left outls clss='strcls'>*ls>, so much invites elaboration
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•gossipy pleasures
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<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•extratextual information
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<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•many layered lss="trms">joke
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<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•alerting the refrain of male friendship
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like other kinds of SF l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Starl>l> Trek also often does replicate the very aspects of culture and lss="trms">society we find at the root of a range of lss="trms">social injustices, racism, sexism, homophobia, and others
l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Starl>l> Trek, understood by cultural studies, is complexly contradictory, full of progressive possibilities <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> structures that shut down such possibility
<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>study<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> cultural sites of struggles for power and for competing visions of justice
Kirk speaks Spock's funeral address and movingly says<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “his soul was the most human.” <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> “human” lss="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 lss="trms">species “human” <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> new inequality between humans and nonhumans
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wmst601fall10.blogspot.com l clss="ppl">Katiel> l clss="ppl">Kingl>
lss="trms">zoo spelled backwards
http://www.ediblegeography.com/cross-lss="trms">species-dining-an-lss="trms">interview-with-natalie-jeremijenko-and-mihir-desai/
Jeremijenko lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">Sarah
edible lss="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures
bio-amplification that happens through the food web
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the Brussels of...
(there is always) the lss="nms">Tehran of X <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>trees, dogs, rats, moms, thugs, etc.<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> the X of The lss="nms">Tehran)
approach<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> targeted lss="trms">drug delivery <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> doing focused lss="trms">interventions <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> treating the whole lss="trms">system
links of how ls clss='strcls'>*ls>shared lss="trms">interdependent transsexls clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>shared rearrangement of sex and re/production<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> is unlss="trms">folding
lss="prgrph">-lss="trms">responding to this rearrangement not through fear of the eco-catastrophic assumptions
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>shared lss="trms">interdependentls clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> dependence, independence
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prefix -sphere <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> -scape
bioscape <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> life and energies (not necessarily “alive”) in lss="trms">relation to an imperfect spherical earth, but also its lss="trms">relations to multiple other possible planes, elements, assemblages, and processes (beyond the biosphere)
(jetscapes, oilscapes, foodscapes, microwavescapes, surlss="trms">veillancescapes, mountainscapes, sunscapes, waterscapes, etc.) -Kier
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you could lss="trms">love in a goose's lss="trms">world <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> you are ls clss='strcls'>*ls>goosolss="trms">morphousls clss='strcls'>*ls> (<lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc> producing a goose body lss='and'>& being produced yourself by a new identity <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> a not-attributing lss="trms">anthropolss="trms">morphic lss="trms">love)<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">anthropolss="trms">morphic<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> to add new delss="trms">finitions to what it is to be a human beingls clss='strcls'>*ls>
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>lss="trms">anthropo-lss="trms">zoo-genetic practice<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> practice of domestication, by adding new meanings to X, and new identities that provide these new meanings
“lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Lorenz is lss="trms">articulated by the setting he created. The setting is lss="trms">articulating new ways of talking, new ways of being human with nonhuman, human with goose, goose with human...” -l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Despretl>l>
de-passion knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> a lss="trms">world ‘without us’ <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> a lss="trms">world without ‘them’
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>impoverished<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> a lss="trms">world of minds without bodies, of bodies without minds, bodies without hearts, expectations, lss="trms">interests, a lss="trms">world of enthusiastic automata observing strange and mute creatures <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Despretl>l><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>**ls>a poorly lss="trms">articulated (and poorly lss="trms">articulating) lss="trms">worldls clss='strcls'>**ls>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•autological subject<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> discourses, practices, and fantasies about self-making, self-sovereignty, and the value of individual freedom aslss="trms">sociated with the Enlightenment project of contractual constitutional democracies
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lss="frds scrmbld">Sven, lss="frds scrmbld">Maarten,
Isabel for whom sex is disseminated
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•genealogical lss="trms">society<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> discourses, practices, and fantasies about various lss="trms">social constraints and psychic assaults on the autological subject by various kinds of inlss="trms">heritances
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“liberation denied, liberation achieved” <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•both visions dependent upon an all-or-nothing approach to lss="trms">social change
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<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•both visions dependent on vision and an unexamined allegiance to the concept of change
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...at the self-proclaimed centers of freedom
<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>l clss="ppl">Katiel><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>how do we know lss="trms">social change when we see itlss='qstn'>?ls clss='strcls'>*ls>
when ‘eye candy’ begins to describe a range of visually induced lss="trms">consumer pleasures
theoretical lss="trms">apparatus<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
space-plus-time (space <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> time) <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> spacetime
lss="prgrph">-the additive understanding of “<lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc>” pictures time and space as two lss="trms">geometric planes that lss="trms">intersect <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=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-tlss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigger judgments about gender lead to romance as well as lethal exchange.”
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l clss="ppl">Verranl> in her work with Yoruba (West African) and Yolngu (Abolss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal Australian)
<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> thinking of number[...]