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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:126%"> ="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


="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> you could ="trms">love in a goose's ="trms">world ='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'>==> a ="trms">world ‘without us’ ='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'>**


="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> ="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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:155%"> “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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