[...]rotects 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
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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'>?
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with Olga
regards of the ="trms">question “what are an artwork's boundaries='qstn'>?” and it's ="trms">intersections with documents, ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists, and reports
for Olga='lgc'>:
document='lgc'> = evidence
research='lgc'> = mourning
(mourning as the passionate and de="trms">monstrative activity of expressing the state of loss or deprivation of a certain object for a certain subject, and ="trms">demand for its revival or ="trms">memorialization)
what is the feeling of the document='qstn'>?
='strcls'>*document is a ="trms">story that (usually) silences other ="trms">stories='strcls'>*
where our powers to provoke care (could/should) come from (if not from document/evidence)='qstn'>?
is document (in its form and feeling) the best way we have at our disposal to provoke the care of the generations='qstn'>? ...to mark each other with the mark of the care='qstn'>?
putting the ="trms">narrative into proper sleep
casting the names
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="prgrph">-artist has turned herself into a mnemonic device ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sug="trms">gesting “amnesia” as her context
="prgrph">-artist has become a reminder and (therefore) her audiences have become ="trms">memorizers
(="trms">question of) ="trms">memory and re="trms">membering ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>the idea of ‘="trms">literal re="trms">membrance’ in her performance, re-="trms">membering, ="trms">literally bringing back the “="trms">members” of the Kurt Jooss company into the ="trms">present of her audiences
="prgrph">-the problem with her re="trms">membrance is that “there is something that is important to re="trms">member” regardless of the person/subject who re="trms">members
indisputability of the Green Table for Olga
the artist has chosen to protect The Green Table's meaning and message (due to her political and ethical commitments ='lgc'>[for ="trms">world peace='qstn'>?='lgc'>]) in a sense her subject of research remains unrese="trms"nttrm="search">arched, her values unevaluated, her moral settlements settled
how can she become ="trms">interested in de="trms">composing her research-bodies of The Green Table='qstn'>?
can we remain critically ethically ="trms">responsible in thinking about the “meaning and message” of our subject of study and still be able to de="trms">compose it in ="trms">interesting ="trms">serious ways='qstn'>? (yes yes)
="trms">questions of='lgc'>: thinking, reminding, remaining,
="frds scrmbld">Sofia's documentation
she asks “what is document today='qstn'>?”
="prgrph">-what was document yesterday (that is not anymore today)='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-how the ="trms">agency and meaning of docu is (or is not) mutating in time='qstn'>?='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-what is beyond the ="trms">question of documentation and preservation='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*durational ="trms">aesthetics='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-is document a limited way of asking ="trms">questions about what we do and our ="trms">relationship with time and duration='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[you never know what the ="trms">present brings into the future.='lgc'>]
what art cannot say that document can='qstn'>? “truth”='qstn'>?
when truth was invented where was document standing='qstn'>?
is document today a mere effect of ="trms">technologies of inscribing='qstn'>?
why we are not talking about “file”='qstn'>?
(='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to the ="trms">ontology of evidence and files in X-Files TV series)
is ‘file’ the bedrock of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading today='qstn'>?
document assumes, constructs and promises its own labor of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading
='qstn'>? document is that which ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads as referent, truthful, evident, economic value, , ,
="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'>?
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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'>~= 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'>~=='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'>~= 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">•
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(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...
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='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[...]