[...]lity 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">•

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> 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

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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)

="large lg10" stl="font-size:108%"> ='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

='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

="large lg6" stl="font-size:115%"> ...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

="large lg6" stl="font-size:115%"> (how to understand effectively the knots of) ='strcls'>***="trms">technoperceptual='strcls'>*** (becoming, ="trms">relations, assemblages, habituation)

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”


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

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> playing/gaming (now covers)='lgc'>: gambli[...]