[...]="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)
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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
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="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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archives of open desire
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='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'>?
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)
='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,
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'>?
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='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,
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="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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="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">•
(='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
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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
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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
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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)
='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
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(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
='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)
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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
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[...]