[...]iring 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">•
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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,,,)
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="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”
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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'>*
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="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
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='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
="ppl">="ppl">Bowker > ="frds">Sina='lgc'>: every critical work (today) must in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude the centrality of ="trms">data (and calculation) in our lives
(from pre="trms">modern) ='strcls'>*describe the ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[="trms">bestiaries='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="trms">modern necessity to) ='strcls'>*calculate the ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[recognizing a calculated ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my ="trms">interest in ="ppl">Olearius='lgc'>]
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(Cameron's image of) Terminator='lgc'>: relentless unidirectional progress ='lgc'>[that you can't negotiate with='lgc'>] (='lgc'>~= ="trms">modernity) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> destruction of cultures and ="trms">communities ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> destroy ourselves
how to live with Terminator='lgc'> = how to live with ="trms">modernity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> post="trms">modernity
(in the film the Terminator is finally terminated by a determined woman using rather old-="trms">fashioned ="trms">technology)
absolutely will not stop
inside='lgc'>: hyperalloy combat chassis, microprocessor controlled, fully armoured, very tough
outside='lgc'>: living human tissue, flesh, skin, hair, blood ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> controlled by a clinical logic='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*it cannot be reasoned with='strcls'>*, it cannot be bargained with
its ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal skeleton rises from the ashes and carries on with its ="trms">mission. the skeleton too is chopped to bits, the individual bits come to life and continue with their goal
(for ="ppl">Sardar) ="trms">modernity is the conceptual equivalent of the Terminator (incepted in European Enlightenment='lgc'>: ="trms">modernize traditional cultures and relentlessly lead mankind, screaming and protesting, by the nose towards a progressive utopia)
="trms">modernity ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> (witnessed, if not caused='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•death and elimination of numerous cultures
="lsts lst1">•destruction of countless ="trms">communities and ="trms">histories
="lsts lst1">•disappearance of hundreds of valuable ="trms">animal and plant ="trms">species
="lsts lst1">•transformed arable land into wastelands and deserts
="trms">modernity='lgc'>: the official culture of the ="trms">world
(="ppl">Nietzsche, ="ppl">Heidegger ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) it is not possible to think our way out of ="trms">modernity with the philosophical ="trms">system of thought and ="trms">language supplied by ="trms">modernity
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Vattimo's (bad) philosophy of crisis='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">history
what was traditionally referred to as “="trms">history” is now perceived as having broken down into an in="trms">finity of “="trms">histories” that can no longer be (re)combined into a single ="trms">narrative governed by a central theme
(today='lgc'>:) ="trms">history='lgc'> = a kind of ="trms">writing
="lsts lst1">•progress='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*something qualitatively ="trms">different from what precedes it='strcls'>* (a forward movement in ="trms">history) ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[now:='lgc'>] welf established ="trms">technique (of such masters as ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault, ="ppl">Deleuze, ="ppl">Derrida, ="ppl">Lyotard and ="ppl">Baudrillard='lgc'>:) to deconstruct rational ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics in order to open it, to re="trms">write it and thus to lay the foundation, in terms of a ="ppl">Marxian-inspired ="trms">historicism, of new truths for a post="trms">modernist thought
="lsts lst1">•(Vattimo's use of) nihilism as weapon to attack notions of ‘truth’ and ‘reason’ (in western ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst2">◦‘logic='lgc'> = (just another kind of) ="trms">rhetoric’
="lsts lst2">◦‘truth='lgc'> = will to power (by those who claim to be seeking truth over those who are being addressed by them)’
="lsts lst2">◦‘="trms">science and ="trms">technology='lgc'> = dominating ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical ="trms">systems’
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (eliminated any) possibility of a dialogue with cultures that are truly other as the rational ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics of ="trms">science and ="trms">technology
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(='thdf'>the idea of) p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurality of cultures and discourses must become a basic premise of post="trms">modernist thought ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> widesp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read and widely p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic ="trms">religious revival ='lgc'>[='lgc'>+ ="trms">excessive indulgence in relativism='lgc'>]
(the meaning of) morality and principles of justice in a post="trms">modern ="trms">world='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[democracy's western ethos:='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•recognition of human needs
="lsts lst1">•courage
="lsts lst1">•solidarity
="lsts lst1">•justice
="lsts lst1">•prudence
="lsts lst1">•(virtue of) participating in rational discourse
(="ppl">Sardar's ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•stating the obvious with a sense of grand discovery is an essential post="trms">modern disease
="lsts lst1">•what ="trms">modern ="trms">science and ="trms">technology, free ="trms">market economy and multinational corporations are doing in the name of freedom, justice and fairness
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> despite ="trms">wonderful sentiments, and all the arguments for justice and equify, we end up with more of the same
(problem of the East with) ="trms">modernity='lgc'>: a European cultural construct based on ="trms">specific ="trms">historical legacy and condition, and its basic goal has always been to shape ="trms">science, politics, arts, morality and the ="trms">world ="trms">according to its own image and inner logic
='lgc'>+
much of post="trms">modernist thought is a sitnilar European construct and continues the old programme in a renewed attempt to justify neomarxism or new brands of liberal humanism
="prgrph">-what is a a genuine, radical departure from post="trms">modernism='qstn'>?
="trms">religiosity='lgc'>: that which transcends the ="trms">world (can be expressed in Fascism, ="trms">Communism, Nationalism, ="trms">Scientism, ="trms">Aestheticism, Nuclearism, or in several other secular ="trms">religions)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]secularism='lgc'>: a dishonest kind of ="trms">religiosity='strcls'>***
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(mark of out time='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*necessity of recovering our sense of oneness with ="trms">nature='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- our total alienation
='lgc'>[='qstn'>?my artistic research is the very expression of='lgc'>] (Griffin's) post="trms">modernism ='lgc'>: a new ="trms">relationship with the ="trms">past (and the future) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- post="trms">modernism acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges, appreciates and wants to learn from the wisdom of traditional ="trms">societies ='lgc'>~= neoconservative ="trms">religious fundamentalism ='lgc'>=/= constructive nihilism
='lgc'>[the strive for a new ‘enchanted ="trms">science’ (='lgc'>=/= sacred ="trms">science) that='lgc'>] overcomes the separation between truth and virtue, value and fact, ethics and practical necessity
(Falk's) Disneyland post="trms">modernism='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•abstract affirmation of a ho="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic harmonious future
="lsts lst1">•homogenized uniformity (based on a colonizing logic and westernization of the globe)
="lsts lst1">•re="trms">interpret ="trms">science and ="trms">natural reality as confirmatory of a spiritual grounding for human
="lsts lst1">•ho="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic possibilities of encompassing conflict
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>***post="trms">modernism as an expression of the privileged status of the West='strcls'>***
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='strcls'>*="trms">greek gnosis is the Terminator in its guise of mystic='strcls'>* (which provided the Enlightenment with its springboard and ="trms">modernity with its ="trms">mission to subjugate non-western cultures)
arrogance and ="trms">authoritarianism are intrinsic in both ="trms">Greek rationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list and mystical thoughts='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Socrates ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> worshipped reason and was an arrogant and obnoxious man who enjoyed ridiculing ordinary folks
="lsts lst1">•Buddah ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> worshipped ="trms">nature and produced a tota[...]