[...]ute 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


="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> “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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:121%"> (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

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

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%">
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

="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> 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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="large lg5" stl="font-size:118%"> 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">ontol[...]