[...]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'>[='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'>]

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> ='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'><== 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...

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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'>==> 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'>==> 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'>?

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="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)

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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, analyz[...]