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="trms">traverse and exceed

islamophobic co-branding of Israel and India

="trms">marketing and hacking of digital cultures


="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> ="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)

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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:113%"> 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)

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> 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)

="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> “(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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:118%"> ='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'>: gambli[...]