[...]br /> ="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


="large lg10" stl="font-size:130%"> ="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

="large lg14" stl="font-size:115%"> ="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

='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’


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

="large lg10" stl="font-size:124%"> 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

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> 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

="large lg6" stl="font-size:130%"> (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'>**

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> ='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 pop[...]