[...]br /> ="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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="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> 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)


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

="large lg18" stl="font-size:106%"> ='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’

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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

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

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

(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'>*

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="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

="large lg14" stl="font-size:109%"> ='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)

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)

="large lg22" stl="font-size:108%"> 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 prohibition is honored
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[this='lgc'>] happens over and over again ='lgc'>==until='lgc'>='lgc'>==> such ='strcls'>*double bind patterning='lgc'> = (becomes experienced as) “reality”='strcls'>*

='strcls'>***they all deal with (some ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges of) double bind='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">religious practices
="lsts lst1">•entertainment
="lsts lst1">•game design
="lsts lst1">•learning
="lsts lst1">•

intolerable conditions ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> creativities

(when crucial context markers distinguishing ='lgc'>[one from another='lgc'>] become unrecognizable, contradictory, or fraudulant ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) “abusive practices ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= challenging practices”
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (terror ='and'>& possibility are on the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in double bind experience =) ='strcls'>***transcontextual confusion='strcls'>*** (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- requres transcontextual gifts one may or may not have...) ='at'>@="nms">apass ='at'>#feedback='lgc'>: urgent appropriate ="trms">response
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Bateson='lgc'>='lgc'>--> double bind patterning='lgc'> = intense='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•contradictory (two order of messages each of which denies the other)
="lsts lst1">•unvoiced (making explicit checks of context impossible, inappropriate, meaningless)

“(there is nothing to determine) whether a give individual shall become a clown, a ="trms">poet, a ="trms">schizophrenic, or a combination of these” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we deal with a genus of syndromes (most of which are not conventionally regarded as pathological) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= art work='lgc'>]='at'>#feedback
="lsts lst1">•those life is enriched by transcontextual gifts (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Elen)
="lsts lst1">•those who are impoverished by transcontextual confusions (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for both there is a “double take”
a falling leaf or the ="trms">greeting of a friend is not “just that and nothing more”


(taking from ="ppl">="ppl">Bateson, ="ppl">Katie ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) play with this range of terror and possibility ='lgc'>--(with ='lgc'>+ through)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (individual ='and'>& bio="trms">social) ='strcls'>*consciousness='lgc'>: reflection ='lgc'>+ recursion='strcls'>* (at the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of apprehension)='lgc'> = environments of being ='lgc'>: context, pattern, layers of abstraction, ="trms">storytelling all have ="trms">material effects and provide ='strcls'>*="trms">materials for ="trms">agency='strcls'>*


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]play='lgc'>: ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">communicative media='strcls'>*, a double consciousness (in which the player is well aware of the artificiality of the play ="trms">situation) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= immersive fallacy='lgc'>: ='thdf'>the idea that games get better and better as they become whatever that thing “more real” is ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> implications for the meaning of='lgc'>: ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor, re="trms">presentation, evidence, ="trms">method, assessment='lgc'>]
(="trms">animal and ="trms">children learn to play ='lgc'>--learn='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) there are some ways ='strcls'>*play self ='lgc'>=/= everyday self='strcls'>* ='and'>& ='lgc'>[they learn='lgc'>] to perform this separation in ="trms">interactive cognitive and ="trms">social ="trms">communication ='strcls'>*forms of not='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: they amuse themselves by performing the ="trms">communication “this is not it”='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the puppy nips, but not hard enough to injure ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> violence='qstn'>? not. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the nip actually hurts a bit
="lsts lst1">•the teen kisses in spin the bottle, but not the person they like the most ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sex='qstn'>? not. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the kissing blush and stammer
="lsts lst1">•my body is reacting as if i am in d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger, but really i am in front of a computer ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reality='qstn'>? not.
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> double consciousness
(="ppl">Katie > ="ppl">="ppl">Bateson) ='strcls'>*play creates its own commentary in itself about itself as an intense and pleasurable ="trms">interactive dynamism='strcls'>*='lgc'> = ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">communication='lgc'>: ="trms">communicative ='lgc'>+ ="trms">neurological ='lgc'>+ hormonal

='strcls'>***good signaling ="trms">skills make nonabusive play on the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of double bind possible='strcls'>***

(="trms">skills of) transcontextual movement without falling apart
finding out='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•which bits are active
="lsts lst1">•which bits are context
="lsts lst1">•which bits can be made explicit
="lsts lst1">•which rules are perceptible
="lsts lst1">•which distributed ="trms">embodiments, cognitions, and infrastructures are in play
(these are the ="trms">skills needed for the kind of game we play in ="nms">apass)

playing/gaming (now covers)='lgc'>: gambling, economic game theory, game art, design, learning, role playing, ="trms">system theory ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*playing with our distributed being='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[="ppl">Katie's accounting for digital='lgc'>]

="prgrph">-what the hell are my hormonal plays='qstn'>? (not always in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding another person)


(for ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]wording='lgc'>:) game of cat's cradle (across a range of transmedia) pictured, described, ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">communicated, performed, extended, ='strcls'>*relayed='strcls'>*
(my image assemblages='lgc'>: ="trms">writing='lgc'>:) ="trms">techno-organic polyglot poly="trms">morphic wiring diagrams
to pattern
to relay (passing something along, relaying ='lgc'>=/= sharing)
to perceive multiform
rewarded by dopamine
t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riggered by pleasure, anticipation, yawning fields for ="trms">memory ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my ="nms">ajayeb study='lgc'>], learning and unlearning, tenacious ad="trms">dictive repetitions

tools='lgc'>: drawing, role playing, gaming, ="trms">writing, critiquing, reviewing, costuming, song="trms">writing, singing, webby ="trms">community building, techy arts, fans advocating their ="trms">interests in films
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shaping environments and contexts for ="trms">imagination and cognition

='strcls'>*wording='lgc'>: a practice of displaying ='lgc'>+ ="trms">crafting ="trms">worlds, of sharing ='lgc'>+ enjoying expertise, of noticing tiny details of connection and similarity amid the tweaks and frissons of alternative shadings across many ="trms">intertextualities of as="trms">sociation, ="trms">history, genre, care='strcls'>*

in ="trms">interface
what was obvious to one was mystery to another
what was trivial to one was a barrier to another
how do you reply in terms that are alien to you='qstn'>?

='at'>@="nms">apass
='strcls'>*actual ="trms">materialities of distributed thinking='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>--among='lgc'>-- infrastructures of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•publication
="lsts lst1">•media
="lsts lst1">•conferences
="lsts lst1">•scholarly ="trms">communication
="lsts lst1">•research results and processes
="lsts lst1">•

elegant parsimonies of explanation
clever bodies at the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of apprehension (="ppl">="ppl">Despret's Clever Hans Effect)

an ="trms">interative ="trms">agency (="ppl">Katie calls) ='strcls'>*learning to be ="trms">affected='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= “mearly the effect of...” ...ولی اون فقط داره

odor kit
a device organized in a careful pallete of small ="trms">differences
learning to be ="trms">affected ='lgc'>--entails='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a dynamic ="trms">trajectory by which we learn to register and become sensitive to what the ="trms">world is made of

body parts are progressively acquired ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">world counter-parts are being registered in a new way (= my ="nms">ajayeb studies)
='strcls'>*acquiring a body='lgc'>: a progressive enterprise that produces at once a sensory medium and a sensitive ="trms">world ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to Captain Marvel 2019 film='lgc'>]


what ="trms">sort of project of multiplicity is transdisciplinarity='qstn'>?
what ="trms">sort of double consciousness might it array in which political economies='qstn'>?

(="ppl">="ppl">Bateson's) distributed being='lgc'> = we don't end at our skin

='strcls'>***what does it mean to say to any particular group of people that we do not end at our skin='qstn'>?!='strcls'>***
what ="trms">sort of boundary object is this “skin”='qstn'>?

(Keeling > ="ppl">Katie) a ="trms">book is a wormhole ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transdisciplinary universe
='strcls'>*lyricism of surplus='strcls'>*
“the end of the ="trms">world... work with me”

="large lg34" stl="font-size:106%"> ="trms">agencies of valorization (of pricing, of valuing, of mobilizing labor) ='lgc'>: political economy of acquiring body parts from the skin's ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge

='strcls'>*="trms">agencies of capital='lgc'>: ="trms">worldly processes of economic ="trms">systems ="trms">articulating and distributed among, but not reproducing the powers of the state, or of ="trms">community, family, or nation='strcls'>*

='lgc'>+ other ="trms">agencies='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•sensory-motor ="trms">apparatus and ="trms">affectivities
="lsts lst1">•thinkings and ="trms">memory-images distributed across people and media

(sometimes) layered double-bind ="trms">systems ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> numbing out

queerly valorized ='lgc'>--Keeling='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
if Pam Grier is a locus of desire for both heterosexual males and for lesbians such as Lesbian Avengers’ lesbian prtygoers, then her ="trms">presence on The L Word ='lgc'>[TV series='lgc'>] is another way the series seeks to bring these populations together in a shared project of value production


="trms">phenomena='lgc'>: topological reconfigurings/entanglements/="trms">relationalities/(re)="trms">articulations
ongoing reconfis of ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'> = ="trms">agency ='lgc'>=/= attribute

national ="trms">agendas for innovation and economic ="trms">positioning

which surplus populations will be enrolled into which kinds of institutions for knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge work becomes an element of global academic restructuring
restructuring='lgc'>: politicizing funding ='lgc'>+ ...

intellectual double bind of having='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. to address many diverging audiences ="trms">simultaneously under the threat of survival
="lstsrd">2. to ="trms">author knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges as merely one of multiple ="trms">agencies with very limited control
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*posthumanities='strcls'>*

(partial and highly distributed) ="trms">authorial and receptive ="trms">agencies ='lgc'>--require='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">affective labors ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•sifting among ="trms">authoritative and alternative knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges
="lsts lst1">•clarifying affiliations
="lsts lst1">•inspiring trust

(="ppl">Ahmed's ="trms">material feminism) ='at'>@="nms">apass
whose ="trms">material was this='qstn'>?
which generations of feminisms were implicated='qstn'>?
which details were necessary to name others carefully='qstn'>?
what contexts were backdrops for which founding ="trms">gestures='qstn'>?
="trms">affective labor (in ="nms">apass)='lgc'>: frustration, forgetting, unfairness, intensity, ethics, hope, carring attention to detail

='lgc'>[let's not='lgc'>] be quite so willing to de="trms">posit our hope in the ="trms">category of “the new”


objects become sticky
objects become full of ="trms">affective value

critique
(in ="nms">apass i have been experimenting with the) effects of reducing complexity
(i am aware of both) the hard work of elegance in explanation ='and'>& of essentialism in critique
="prgrph">-strategic openings and closings of “black-boxes” (full of ="trms">memory)

wir
(="ppl">Katie ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one must ="trms">wonder) who is being evoked by this ‘we’
to what extent this ‘we’ functions to ="trms">interpellate the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader into a ="trms">community that shares a common horizon='qstn'>? (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Sven and ="frds scrmbld">Chloe ="trms">bookshop)
which side, which knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">world, in what spacetime are ‘we’ on, inside and outside of, bonding and othering='qstn'>?

='strcls'>*tacit forgetting='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= resolution
='strcls'>**what ="trms">sorts of boundary objects value irritation='qstn'>?='strcls'>** ='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo
(my irritation in ="nms">apass with tacit knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, spiritualism, Vivero, Manning, process philosophy,,,)

="ppl">Katie accounts for ="ppl">Ahmed worries that ="ppl">="ppl">Barad's ="trms">mattering and some othe black-boxing speech acts are only caricatures of whole arguments, of whole (disciplinizing='qstn'>?) archives, and that they are not conducted at the proper grain of detail, “not attributed to somebody”


attention (in time) ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•narrow the range of possibility of -ism(s)
="lsts lst1">•alter the grain of detail ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*="trms">differential focus='strcls'>*


="nms">ajayeb.net='lgc'>: an intellectual infrastructure assemblaged and stacked (extensively scaled, intensely scoped) ='lgc'>=/= disciplinized archives of references (a knowing that linkages exist and can be assumed and must be consciously made explicit as “new”)
="lsts lst1">•my “='lgc'>=/=” set the focus of lens unsed in examining ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> alter the grain of detail (deliberately and dismissingly) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a “we” is needed ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pull back ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude alternate knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">worlds
="nms">ajayeb.net/bibli='lgc'>: ="trms">bird's-eye view of the bibliographic growth

mobility and detachability of “nots” provoking frission

='at'>@ERG's new website='lgc'>: what if the ="trms">worlding here needs to scope and scale along ranges of detail, indications of shifts from one knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">world to another assemblaged through boundary objects='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-who gets to say in which knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">world='qstn'>?

="trms">routinized ="trms">rhetoric about feminism

="trms">apparatus='lgc'>: open-ended practices

='strcls'>****(ok yes) “we honestly believe that there are no ="trms">positions that are ="trms">epistemologically superior to any other” ='lgc'>--but='lgc'>='lgc'>--> at the same time ='lgc'>[="ppl">Katie and i totally='lgc'>] argue with and try to overthrow those i don't agree with='strcls'>****

neutrality (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- moral commitment) ='lgc'>=/= relativism='lgc'>: forswearing claims to absolute ="trms">epistemological ="trms">authority

(learning from ="ppl">Katie) my ="trms">technique in ="nms">ajayeb study ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i brazenly detach words from their o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal context and mobilize then all together for my own irritating purposes ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] i both reduce and add to the complexity (of globals and locals)
='strcls'>**(my play='lgc'>:) double or multiple consciousness ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: growing boundary objects
='strcls'>**(my project in ="nms">apass='lgc'>:) to be curious and value how claims to ="trms">epistemological ="trms">authority operate and how comparative relativism can be accountable ='lgc'>+ can i irritatingly passionately disagree with


democratization of oppression (='qstn'>?)

="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading across the media sustains a depth of experience that motivates more ="trms">consumption
...the economic logic of a horizontally ="trms">integrated entertainment industry

='at'>#telegram ="nms">iran (commercial ="trms">world of entertainment)
="trms">material examples of ='strcls'>*stacked realities='strcls'>* cascading over various media and ="trms">technological platforms with differing degrees of ="trms">interoperability and standardization ='lgc'>--="ppl">Katie='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*transmedia ="trms">stories='strcls'>* (inevitably commercialized)



="trms">integrationism
revolutionary action
supermacism
separatism
anarchism
political defense
rede="trms">finition of the human
to ="trms">intervene in and democratically refocus ="trms">social and psychic powers ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> place-based ="trms">ecological activism='lgc'>: self-consciously identifying and producing invigorating political and cultural planetary geographies

ethically augmented and ="trms">affected cognitive sensorium

variable and sensitized tactics and ethics of “democratics” ='lgc'>--Sandoval='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta-ideologizing='lgc'>: functions both within and against ideology
='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo='qstn'>?


(='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb is aimed at='lgc'>:) old and new media collide ='lgc'>==Jenkins='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*convergence culture='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--inhabited-by='lgc'>='lgc'>--> those who learn how to play with media, information, visualization, and who live among and produce hypertexted or ="trms">relational and relative ="trms">materialities

preemptive
proleptic
prophetic

(the way i am using the term) queer='lgc'>: to learn to be ="trms">affected by the political economies of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">worlds


(my art in ="trms">lecture and performances='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*to play with our own consciousness='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--="ppl">Katie='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to curiosly work at the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of “this is not it”, ='lgc'>[bits that are='lgc'>] some activated and activating across the tacit and the explicit

(no to) idealization
(no to) disillusionment

(="ppl">Katie asks) ='strcls'>*****which “we” gathers, locating inside of ="trms">worlding processes, as elements in reorganizations that “we” ="trms">matter in, but do not control='qstn'>?='strcls'>*****

(the game we play in artistic research='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*transcontextual movement witout falling apart='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[in ="nms">apass people do='lgc'>] sensitized transmedia knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge practices

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o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of computing goes back to 19th century insurance industry='lgc'>: ="trms">modern elimination of risks
="trms">social theory of ="trms">data ="trms">science
1820s (Babbage’s) ="trms">difference engine
="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right at the industrial revolution='lgc'>: division of labor (for Babbage was the highest human achievement)
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> welfare state
the state protects and promotes the economic and ="trms">social well-being of the citizens
we are living by the rationality of insurance industry (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> operating our lives by ="trms">technologies of information and computing)
='lgc'>[we can live with it ="trms">differently='lgc'>]
logic of progress is not the issue, logic of acceleration is the problem
(idea of) frictionless economy ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> must go faster and faster
discourse of stasis ='lgc'>=/= how to explore change='qstn'>?
not preserving end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered ="trms">species, but preserving the possibility of change

="large lg30" stl="font-size:125%"> desks are information ="trms">technologies

="ppl">="ppl">Bowker > ="frds">Sina='lgc'>: every critical work (today) must in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude the centrality of ="trms">data (and calculation) in our lives

(from pre="trms">modern) ='strcls'>*describe the ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[="trms">bestiaries='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="trms">modern necessity to) ='strcls'>*calculate the ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[recognizing a calculated ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my ="trms">interest in ="ppl">Olearius='lgc'>]

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(Cameron's image of) Terminator='lgc'>: relentless unidirectional progress ='lgc'>[that you can't negotiate with='lgc'>] (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">modernity) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> destruction of cultures and ="trms">communities ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> destroy ourselves

how to live with Terminator='lgc'> = how to live with ="trms">modernity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> post="trms">modernity
(in the film the Terminator is finally terminated by a determined woman using rather old-="trms">fashioned ="trms">technology)

absolutely will not stop
inside='lgc'>: hyperalloy combat chassis, microprocessor controlled, fully armoured, very tough
outside='lgc'>: living human tissue, flesh, skin, hair, blood ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> controlled by a clinical logic='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*it cannot be reasoned with='strcls'>*, it cannot be bargained with

its ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal skeleton rises from the ashes and carries on with its ="trms">mission. the skeleton too is chopped to bits, the individual bits come to life and continue with their goal

(for ="ppl">Sardar) ="trms">modernity is the conceptual equivalent of the Terminator (incepted in European Enlightenment='lgc'>: ="trms">modernize traditional cultures and relentlessly lead mankind, screaming and protesting, by the nose towards a progressive utopia)

="trms">modernity ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> (witnessed, if not caused='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•death and elimination of numerous cultures
="lsts lst1">•destruction of countless ="trms">communities and ="trms">histories
="lsts lst1">•disappearance of hundreds of valuable ="trms">animal and plant ="trms">species
="lsts lst1">•transformed arable land into wastelands and deserts

="trms">modernity='lgc'>: the official culture of the ="trms">world
(="ppl">Nietzsche, ="ppl">Heidegger ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) it is not possible to think our way out of ="trms">modernity with the philosophical ="trms">system of thought and ="trms">language supplied by ="trms">modernity

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Vattimo's (bad) philosophy of crisis='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">history
what was traditionally referred to as “="trms">history” is now perceived as having broken down into an in="trms">finity of “="trms">histories” that can no longer be (re)combined into a single ="trms">narrative governed by a central theme
(today='lgc'>:) ="trms">history='lgc'> = a kind of ="trms">writing
="lsts lst1">•progress='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*something qualitatively ="trms">different from what precedes it='strcls'>* (a forward movement in ="trms">history) ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[now:='lgc'>] welf established ="trms">technique (of such masters as ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault, ="ppl">Deleuze, ="ppl">Derrida, ="ppl">Lyotard and ="ppl">Baudrillard='lgc'>:) to deconstruct rational ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics in order to open it, to re="trms">write it and thus to lay the foundation, in terms of a ="ppl">Marxian-inspired ="trms">historicism, of new truths for a post="trms">modernist thought
="lsts lst1">•(Vattimo's use of) nihilism as weapon to attack notions of ‘truth’ and ‘reason’ (in western ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst2">◦‘logic='lgc'> = (just another kind of) ="trms">rhetoric’
="lsts lst2">◦‘truth='lgc'> = will to power (by those who claim to be seeking truth over those who are being addressed by them)’
="lsts lst2">◦‘="trms">science and ="trms">technology='lgc'> = dominating ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical ="trms">systems’
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (eliminated any) possibility of a dialogue with cultures that are truly other as the rational ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics of ="trms">science and ="trms">technology


(='thdf'>the idea of) p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurality of cultures and discourses must become a basic premise of post="trms">modernist thought ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> widesp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read and widely p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic ="trms">religious revival ='lgc'>[='lgc'>+ ="trms">excessive indulgence in relativism='lgc'>]

(the meaning of) morality and principles of justice in a post="trms">modern ="trms">world='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[democracy's western ethos:='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•recognition of human needs
="lsts lst1">•courage
="lsts lst1">•solidarity
="lsts lst1">•justice
="lsts lst1">•prudence
="lsts lst1">•(virtue of) participating in rational discourse


(="ppl">Sardar's ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•stating the obvious with a sense of grand discovery is an essential post="trms">modern disease
="lsts lst1">•what ="trms">modern ="trms">science and ="trms">technology, free ="trms">market economy and multinational corporations are doing in the name of freedom, justice and fairness

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> despite ="trms">wonderful sentiments, and all the arguments for justice and equify, we end up with more of the same

(problem of the East with) ="trms">modernity='lgc'>: a European cultural construct based on ="trms">specific ="trms">historical legacy and condition, and its basic goal has always been to shape ="trms">science, politics, arts, morality and the ="trms">world ="trms">according to its own image and inner logic
='lgc'>+
much of post="trms">modernist thought is a sitnilar European construct and continues the old programme in a renewed attempt to justify neomarxism or new brands of liberal humanism

="prgrph">-what is a a genuine, radical departure from post="trms">modernism='qstn'>?

="trms">religiosity='lgc'>: that which transcends the ="trms">world (can be expressed in Fascism, ="trms">Communism, Nationalism, ="trms">Scientism, ="trms">Aestheticism, Nuclearism, or in several other secular ="trms">religions)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]secularism='lgc'>: a dishonest kind of ="trms">religiosity='strcls'>***

="large lg22" stl="font-size:101%"> (mark of out time='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*necessity of recovering our sense of oneness with ="trms">nature='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- our total alienation
='lgc'>[='qstn'>?my artistic research is the very expression of='lgc'>] (Griffin's) post="trms">modernism ='lgc'>: a new ="trms">relationship with the ="trms">past (and the future) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- post="trms">modernism acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges, appreciates and wants to learn from the wisdom of traditional ="trms">societies ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= neoconservative ="trms">religious fundamentalism ='lgc'>=/= constructive nihilism

='lgc'>[the strive for a new ‘enchanted ="trms">science’ (='lgc'>=/= sacred ="trms">science) that='lgc'>] overcomes the separation between truth and virtue, value and fact, ethics and practical necessity

(Falk's) Disneyland post="trms">modernism='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•abstract affirmation of a ho="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic harmonious future
="lsts lst1">•homogenized uniformity (based on a colonizing logic and westernization of the globe)
="lsts lst1">•re="trms">interpret ="trms">science and ="trms">natural reality as confirmatory of a spiritual grounding for human
="lsts lst1">•ho="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic possibilities of encompassing conflict
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>***post="trms">modernism as an expression of the privileged status of the West='strcls'>***


='strcls'>*="trms">greek gnosis is the Terminator in its guise of mystic='strcls'>* (which provided the Enlightenment with its springboard and ="trms">modernity with its ="trms">mission to subjugate non-western cultures)

arrogance and ="trms">authoritarianism are intrinsic in both ="trms">Greek rationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list and mystical thoughts='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Socrates ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> worshipped reason and was an arrogant and obnoxious man who enjoyed ridiculing ordinary folks
="lsts lst1">•Buddah ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> worshipped ="trms">nature and produced a totally ="trms">authoritarian ="trms">system of thought (as have most philosophers in western ="trms">history who have appealed to ="trms">nature for ethics)

new post="trms">modernism's value='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">ecological wisdom
="lsts lst1">•grassroots democracy
="lsts lst1">•personal and ="trms">social ="trms">responsibility
="lsts lst1">•non-violence
="lsts lst1">•decentralization
="lsts lst1">•="trms">community-based economics
="lsts lst1">•postpatriarchal values
="lsts lst1">•respect for diversity
="lsts lst1">•global ="trms">responsibility
="lsts lst1">•future focus


='strcls'>*="trms">modernity is based on a fundamental value-idea ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> secularism (a value whose op="trms">posite cannot be chosen as value)='strcls'>*

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importance of scale
archive ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> scale of the in="trms">finite

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='strcls'>*="trms">history of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>[in ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]='lgc'> = dream of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (="trms">present in the mind) of the people who are not anglophone ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">history of ="trms">science='strcls'>*

inside and outide the mental map of the ="trms">historian (of ="trms">science)

SDzVaBj492s
="ppl">Daston on ='strcls'>*disciplinary ="trms">neurosis='strcls'>* of the ="trms">history of ="trms">science

all timelines are maps (are chronologies, are provincial)
most drawings are maps (are charming)


='lgc'>[="frds">Sina:='lgc'>] ='strcls'>****can we have (="trms">imagine) ="trms">science without ="trms">modernity (not coming ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right after it)='qstn'>?='qstn'>?='strcls'>**** ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='mywrk'>my research ="trms">question (to separate the bond between ="trms">science and ="trms">modernity='qstn'>? to flow the curiosity in that direction)


='lgc'>{ ='thdf'>the idea of “="trms">science created the ="trms">modern ="trms">world ='lgc'>+ western global dominance” (='lgc'>=/= everyone else) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “understanding of ="trms">modernity='lgc'> = understanding ="trms">history of ="trms">science”
(one of rare moments that) european middle ages is conflated with the whole of middle east civilization, as pre-="ppl">Newtonian (in the eyes of W. Rostow)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cold war (maneuvering for the alliances of the newly decolonized nations)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> all the ways of knowing that were not in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded in the current Anglophone and Francophone de="trms">finition of “="trms">science='lgc'> = the ="trms">natural ="trms">sciences in English only in mid 19th century” ='lgc'>=/= elm علم, Wissenschaft

='strcls'>**there is no culture without (its own implicit ="trms">systematics of) knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='strcls'>**
="lsts lst1">•="trms">epistemological hierarchy (even without the display or existence of ='strcls'>*="trms">epistemic culture='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[dedicated to the persue of knoweldge='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> yet put pressure on ="trms">communities of learning ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ideas ='and'>& practices, for example alchemy was court ="trms">science par excellence)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">social hierarchy
="lsts lst1">•rational who can practice them why

(="ppl">Daston='lgc'>:) the stuck of hands-on knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge shoots up and then ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics plump it ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> persue of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge becomes collective (with ="trms">different pressure points)

for many cultures ='lgc'>[in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding Persian='lgc'>]='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the philology (grammer) is the queen of the ="trms">sciences
="lsts lst1">•the stricing prevalence of ='strcls'>*dispute='lgc'>: intellectual discourse ="trms">staged as agonistic duel ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (most of our) ='strcls'>***intellectual life is conducted as polemic='strcls'>***


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the more you study an environment the less your in="trms">heritiability of that environment will be (='qstn'>?)

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="large lg14" stl="font-size:112%"> ="trms">history='lgc'>: study of ="trms">past as it it com="trms">memorate in traces (textual, physical, etc.) ='lgc'>=/= ='lgc'>[="nms">ajayeb studies =='lgc'>] ="trms">memory studies='lgc'>: subjective com="trms">memoration of the ="trms">past, collective forms of com="trms">memorations (for example the name of streets, or monuments, or unconscious way of navigating in Tajrish square, etc.) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">present in oral ="trms">interviews
="lsts lst1">•how the ="trms">past has been en="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listed emotionally, politically, ="trms">communally,,, (in various causes='lgc'>: construction of autobiography to the construction of national myth) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> objectivity does not make sense in ="trms">memory studies='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•it in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes (not only that whic[...]