[...]'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
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="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'>~= 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'>~= 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”
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(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)
playing/gaming (now covers)='lgc'>: gambling, economic game theory, game art, design, learning, role playing, ="trms">system theory ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*playing with our distributed being='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[="ppl">Katie's accounting for digital='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-what the hell are my hormonal plays='qstn'>? (not always in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding another person)
(for ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]wording='lgc'>:) game of cat's cradle (across a range of transmedia) pictured, described, ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">communicated, performed, extended, ='strcls'>*relayed='strcls'>*
(my image assemblages='lgc'>: ="trms">writing='lgc'>:) ="trms">techno-organic polyglot poly="trms">morphic wiring diagrams
to pattern
to relay (passing something along, relaying ='lgc'>=/= sharing)
to perceive multiform
rewarded by dopamine
t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riggered by pleasure, anticipation, yawning fields for ="trms">memory ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my ="nms">ajayeb study='lgc'>], learning and unlearning, tenacious ad="trms">dictive repetitions
tools='lgc'>: drawing, role playing, gaming, ="trms">writing, critiquing, reviewing, costuming, song="trms">writing, singing, webby ="trms">community building, techy arts, fans advocating their ="trms">interests in films
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shaping environments and contexts for ="trms">imagination and cognition
='strcls'>*wording='lgc'>: a practice of displaying ='lgc'>+ ="trms">crafting ="trms">worlds, of sharing ='lgc'>+ enjoying expertise, of noticing tiny details of connection and similarity amid the tweaks and frissons of alternative shadings across many ="trms">intertextualities of as="trms">sociation, ="trms">history, genre, care='strcls'>*
in ="trms">interface
what was obvious to one was mystery to another
what was trivial to one was a barrier to another
how do you reply in terms that are alien to you='qstn'>?
='at'>@="nms">apass
='strcls'>*actual ="trms">materialities of distributed thinking='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>--among='lgc'>-- infrastructures of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•publication
="lsts lst1">•media
="lsts lst1">•conferences
="lsts lst1">•scholarly ="trms">communication
="lsts lst1">•research results and processes
="lsts lst1">•
elegant parsimonies of explanation
clever bodies at the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of apprehension (="ppl">="ppl">Despret's Clever Hans Effect)
an ="trms">interative ="trms">agency (="ppl">Katie calls) ='strcls'>*learning to be ="trms">affected='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= “mearly the effect of...” ...ولی اون فقط داره
odor kit
a device organized in a careful pallete of small ="trms">differences
learning to be ="trms">affected ='lgc'>--entails='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a dynamic ="trms">trajectory by which we learn to register and become sensitive to what the ="trms">world is made of
body parts are progressively acquired ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">world counter-parts are being registered in a new way (= my ="nms">ajayeb studies)
='strcls'>*acquiring a body='lgc'>: a progressive enterprise that produces at once a sensory medium and a sensitive ="trms">world ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to Captain Marvel 2019 film='lgc'>]
what ="trms">sort of project of multiplicity is transdisciplinarity='qstn'>?
what ="trms">sort of double consciousness might it array in which political economies='qstn'>?
(="ppl">="ppl">Bateson's) distributed being='lgc'> = we don't end at our skin
='strcls'>***what does it mean to say to any particular group of people that we do not end at our skin='qstn'>?!='strcls'>***
what ="trms">sort of boundary object is this “skin”='qstn'>?
(Keeling > ="ppl">Katie) a ="trms">book is a wormhole ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transdisciplinary universe
='strcls'>*lyricism of surplus='strcls'>*
“the end of the ="trms">world... work with me”
="trms">agencies of valorization (of pricing, of valuing, of mobilizing labor) ='lgc'>: political economy of acquiring body parts from the skin's ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
='strcls'>*="trms">agencies of capital='lgc'>: ="trms">worldly processes of economic ="trms">systems ="trms">articulating and distributed among, but not reproducing the powers of the state, or of ="trms">community, family, or nation='strcls'>*
='lgc'>+ other ="trms">agencies='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•sensory-motor ="trms">apparatus and ="trms">affectivities
="lsts lst1">•thinkings and ="trms">memory-images distributed across people and media
(sometimes) layered double-bind ="trms">systems ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> numbing out
queerly valorized ='lgc'>--Keeling='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
if Pam Grier is a locus of desire for both heterosexual males and for lesbians such as Lesbian Avengers’ lesbian prtygoers, then her ="trms">presence on The L Word ='lgc'>[TV series='lgc'>] is another way the series seeks to bring these populations together in a shared project of value production
="trms">phenomena='lgc'>: topological reconfigurings/entanglements/="trms">relationalities/(re)="trms">articulations
ongoing reconfis of ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'> = ="trms">agency ='lgc'>=/= attribute
national ="trms">agendas for innovation and economic ="trms">positioning
which surplus populations will be enrolled into which kinds of institutions for knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge work becomes an element of global academic restructuring
restructuring='lgc'>: politicizing funding ='lgc'>+ ...
intellectual double bind of having='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. to address many diverging audiences ="trms">simultaneously under the threat of survival
="lstsrd">2. to ="trms">author knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges as merely one of multiple ="trms">agencies with very limited control
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*posthumanities='strcls'>*
(partial and highly distributed) ="trms">authorial and receptive ="trms">agencies ='lgc'>--require='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">affective labors ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•sifting among ="trms">authoritative and alternative knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges
="lsts lst1">•clarifying affiliations
="lsts lst1">•inspiring trust
(="ppl">Ahmed's ="trms">material feminism) ='at'>@="nms">apass
whose ="trms">material was this='qstn'>?
which generations of feminisms were implicated='qstn'>?
which details were necessary to name others carefully='qstn'>?
what contexts were backdrops for which founding ="trms">gestures='qstn'>?
="trms">affective labor (in ="nms">apass)='lgc'>: frustration, forgetting, unfairness, intensity, ethics, hope, carring attention to detail
='lgc'>[let's not='lgc'>] be quite so willing to de="trms">posit our hope in the ="trms">category of “the new”
objects become sticky
objects become full of ="trms">affective value
critique
(in ="nms">apass i have been experimenting with the) effects of reducing complexity
(i am aware of both) the hard work of elegance in explanation ='and'>& of essentialism in critique
="prgrph">-strategic openings and closings of “black-boxes” (full of ="trms">memory)
wir
(="ppl">Katie ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one must ="trms">wonder) who is being evoked by this ‘we’
to what extent this ‘we’ functions to ="trms">interpellate the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader into a ="trms">community that shares a common horizon='qstn'>? (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Sven and ="frds scrmbld">Chloe ="trms">bookshop)
which side, which knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">world, in what spacetime are ‘we’ on, inside and outside of, bonding and othering='qstn'>?
='strcls'>*tacit forgetting='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= resolution
='strcls'>**what ="trms">sorts of boundary objects value irritation='qstn'>?='strcls'>** ='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo
(my irritation in ="nms">apass with tacit knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, spiritualism, Vivero, Manning, process philosophy,,,)
="ppl">Katie accounts for ="ppl">Ahmed worries that ="ppl">="ppl">Barad's ="trms">mattering and some othe black-boxing speech acts are only caricatures of whole arguments, of whole (disciplinizing='qstn'>?) archives, and that they are not conducted at the proper grain of detail, “not attributed to somebody”
attention (in time) ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•narrow the range of possibility of -ism(s)
="lsts lst1">•alter the grain of detail ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*="trms">differential focus='strcls'>*
="nms">ajayeb.net='lgc'>: an intellectual infrastructure assemblaged and stacked (extensively scaled, intensely scoped) ='lgc'>=/= disciplinized archives of references (a knowing that linkages exist and can be assumed and must be consciously made explicit as “new”)
="lsts lst1">•my “='lgc'>=/=” set the focus of lens unsed in examining ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> alter the grain of detail (deliberately and dismissingly) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a “we” is needed ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pull back ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude alternate knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">worlds
="nms">ajayeb.net/bibli='lgc'>: ="trms">bird's-eye view of the bibliographic growth
mobility and detachability of “nots” provoking frission
='at'>@ERG's new website='lgc'>: what if the ="trms">worlding here needs to scope and scale along ranges of detail, indications of shifts from one knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">world to another assemblaged through boundary objects='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-who gets to say in which knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">world='qstn'>?
="trms">routinized ="trms">rhetoric about feminism
="trms">apparatus='lgc'>: open-ended practices
='strcls'>****(ok yes) “we honestly believe that there are no ="trms">positions that are ="trms">epistemologically superior to any other” ='lgc'>--but='lgc'>='lgc'>--> at the same time ='lgc'>[="ppl">Katie and i totally='lgc'>] argue with and try to overthrow those i don't agree with='strcls'>****
neutrality (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- moral commitment) ='lgc'>=/= relativism='lgc'>: forswearing claims to absolute ="trms">epistemological ="trms">authority
(learning from ="ppl">Katie) my ="trms">technique in ="nms">ajayeb study ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i brazenly detach words from their o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal context and mobilize then all together for my own irritating purposes ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] i both reduce and add to the complexity (of globals and locals)
='strcls'>**(my play='lgc'>:) double or multiple consciousness ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: growing boundary objects
='strcls'>**(my project in ="nms">apass='lgc'>:) to be curious and value how claims to ="trms">epistemological ="trms">authority operate and how comparative relativism can be accountable ='lgc'>+ can i irritatingly passionately disagree with
democratization of oppression (='qstn'>?)
="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading across the media sustains a depth of experience that motivates more ="trms">consumption
...the economic logic of a horizontally ="trms">integrated entertainment industry
='at'>#telegram ="nms">iran (commercial ="trms">world of entertainment)
="trms">material examples of ='strcls'>*stacked realities='strcls'>* cascading over various media and ="trms">technological platforms with differing degrees of ="trms">interoperability and standardization ='lgc'>--="ppl">Katie='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*transmedia ="trms">stories='strcls'>* (inevitably commercialized)
="trms">integrationism
revolutionary action
supermacism
separatism
anarchism
political defense
rede="trms">finition of the human
to ="trms">intervene in and democratically refocus ="trms">social and psychic powers ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> place-based ="trms">ecological activism='lgc'>: self-consciously identifying and producing invigorating political and cultural planetary geographies
ethically augmented and ="trms">affected cognitive sensorium
variable and sensitized tactics and ethics of “democratics” ='lgc'>--Sandoval='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta-ideologizing='lgc'>: functions both within and against ideology
='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo='qstn'>?
(='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb is aimed at='lgc'>:) old and new media collide ='lgc'>==Jenkins='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*convergence culture='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--inhabited-by='lgc'>='lgc'>--> those who learn how to play with media, information, visualization, and who live among and produce hypertexted or ="trms">relational and relative ="trms">materialities
preemptive
proleptic
prophetic
(the way i am using the term) queer='lgc'>: to learn to be ="trms">affected by the political economies of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">worlds
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(my art in ="trms">lecture and performances='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*to play with our own consciousness='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--="ppl">Katie='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to curiosly work at the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of “this is not it”, ='lgc'>[bits that are='lgc'>] some activated and activating across the tacit and the explicit
(no to) idealization
(no to) disillusionment
(="ppl">Katie asks) ='strcls'>*****which “we” gathers, locating inside of ="trms">worlding processes, as elements in reorganizations that “we” ="trms">matter in, but do not control='qstn'>?='strcls'>*****
(the game we play in artistic research='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*transcontextual movement witout falling apart='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[in ="nms">apass people do='lgc'>] sensitized transmedia knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge practices
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o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of computing goes back to 19th century insurance industry='lgc'>: ="trms">modern elimination of risks
="trms">social theory of ="trms">data ="trms">science
1820s (Babbage’s) ="trms">difference engine
="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right at the industrial revolution='lgc'>: division of labor (for Babbage was the highest human achievement)
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> welfare state
the state protects and promotes the economic and ="trms">social well-being of the citizens
we are living by the rationality of insurance industry (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> operating our lives by ="trms">technologies of information and computing)
='lgc'>[we can live with it ="trms">differently='lgc'>]
logic of progress is not the issue, logic of acceleration is the problem
(idea of) frictionless economy ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> must go faster and faster
discourse of stasis ='lgc'>=/= how to explore change='qstn'>?
not preserving end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered ="trms">species, but preserving the possibility of change
desks are information ="trms">technologies
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