[...]s, 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

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

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)

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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, 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'><== 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,)

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> ="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'>==> ="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'>==> new inequality between humans and nonhumans

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wmst601fall10.blogspot.com ="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King

="trms">zoo spelled backwards

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