[...]ss (='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)

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> 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

="large lg6" stl="font-size:106%"> ='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'>]

="large lg6" stl="font-size:119%"> ‘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’

="large lg1" stl="font-size:134%"> ='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

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)


="large lg14" stl="font-size:101%"> 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

="large lg10" stl="font-size:132%">
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

="large lg10" stl="font-size:101%"> de-passion knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a ="trms">world ‘without us’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a ="trms">world without ‘them’

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> ='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


="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> “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 unexa[...]