[...]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
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(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
(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'>='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'>='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'>***
(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'>='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'>***
='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 totally ="trms">authoritarian ="trms">system of thought (as have most philosophers in western ="trms">history who have appealed to ="trms">nature for ethics)
new post="trms">modernism's value='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">ecological wisdom
="lsts lst1">•grassroots democracy
="lsts lst1">•personal and ="trms">social ="trms">responsibility
="lsts lst1">•non-violence
="lsts lst1">•decentralization
="lsts lst1">•="trms">community-based economics
="lsts lst1">•postpatriarchal values
="lsts lst1">•respect for diversity
="lsts lst1">•global ="trms">responsibility
="lsts lst1">•future focus
='strcls'>*="trms">modernity is based on a fundamental value-idea ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> secularism (a value whose op="trms">posite cannot be chosen as value)='strcls'>*
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importance of scale
archive ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> scale of the in="trms">finite
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='strcls'>*="trms">history of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>[in ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]='lgc'> = dream of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (="trms">present in the mind) of the people who are not anglophone ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">history of ="trms">science='strcls'>*
inside and outide the mental map of the ="trms">historian (of ="trms">science)
SDzVaBj492s
="ppl">Daston on ='strcls'>*disciplinary ="trms">neurosis='strcls'>* of the ="trms">history of ="trms">science
all timelines are maps (are chronologies, are provincial)
most drawings are maps (are charming)
='lgc'>[="frds">Sina:='lgc'>] ='strcls'>****can we have (="trms">imagine) ="trms">science without ="trms">modernity (not coming ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right after it)='qstn'>?='qstn'>?='strcls'>**** ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='mywrk'>my research ="trms">question (to separate the bond between ="trms">science and ="trms">modernity='qstn'>? to flow the curiosity in that direction)
='lgc'>{ ='thdf'>the idea of “="trms">science created the ="trms">modern ="trms">world ='lgc'>+ western global dominance” (='lgc'>=/= everyone else) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “understanding of ="trms">modernity='lgc'> = understanding ="trms">history of ="trms">science”
(one of rare moments that) european middle ages is conflated with the whole of middle east civilization, as pre-="ppl">Newtonian (in the eyes of W. Rostow)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cold war (maneuvering for the alliances of the newly decolonized nations)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> all the ways of knowing that were not in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded in the current Anglophone and Francophone de="trms">finition of “="trms">science='lgc'> = the ="trms">natural ="trms">sciences in English only in mid 19th century” ='lgc'>=/= elm علم, Wissenschaft
='strcls'>**there is no culture without (its own implicit ="trms">systematics of) knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='strcls'>**
="lsts lst1">•="trms">epistemological hierarchy (even without the display or existence of ='strcls'>*="trms">epistemic culture='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[dedicated to the persue of knoweldge='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> yet put pressure on ="trms">communities of learning ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ideas ='and'>& practices, for example alchemy was court ="trms">science par excellence)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">social hierarchy
="lsts lst1">•rational who can practice them why
(="ppl">Daston='lgc'>:) the stuck of hands-on knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge shoots up and then ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics plump it ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> persue of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge becomes collective (with ="trms">different pressure points)
for many cultures ='lgc'>[in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding Persian='lgc'>]='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the philology (grammer) is the queen of the ="trms">sciences
="lsts lst1">•the stricing prevalence of ='strcls'>*dispute='lgc'>: intellectual discourse ="trms">staged as agonistic duel ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (most of our) ='strcls'>***intellectual life is conducted as polemic='strcls'>***
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the more you study an environment the less your in="trms">heritiability of that environment will be (='qstn'>?)
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="trms">history='lgc'>: study of ="trms">past as it it com="trms">memorate in traces (textual, physical, etc.) ='lgc'>=/= ='lgc'>[="nms">ajayeb studies =='lgc'>] ="trms">memory studies='lgc'>: subjective com="trms">memoration of the ="trms">past, collective forms of com="trms">memorations (for example the name of streets, or monuments, or unconscious way of navigating in Tajrish square, etc.) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">present in oral ="trms">interviews
="lsts lst1">•how the ="trms">past has been en="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listed emotionally, politically, ="trms">communally,,, (in various causes='lgc'>: construction of autobiography to the construction of national myth) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> objectivity does not make sense in ="trms">memory studies='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•it in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes (not only that which cab be documented, it rather) in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes an element of the subjective ='lgc'>: how people feel about what happened in the ="trms">past, how they reconstruct events of the ="trms">past but also ="trms">narratives ='lgc'>=/= what happened in the ="trms">past ='lgc'>--="ppl">Daston='lgc'>='lgc'>--> objectivity (among ="trms">histories='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst2">◦cross-checking of sources
="lsts lst2">◦(19th century ="trms">technique of) “="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading against the grain”='lgc'>: try to discover, from the surviving sources, from what perspective they were ="trms">written (what ="trms">historical context they were embedded in)='lgc'> = “critical ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading” from the stand point of all of one might say “the illusions of ="trms">memory” which might cloud an objective impartial records of events (not accepting the ="trms">narrative that place value in the source) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]
="lsts lst2">◦securing evidence (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to archive) ='lgc'>: ="trms">intersection of objectivity with study of ="trms">history
(since 17th century) ="trms">memory has been essential to our conceptualization of what does it mean to have a self ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> why we are so concerned with ="trms">memory damage ceases (alzheimer, etc.)
husod3oqLds
many time when we define (say “what X is”), what we are doing is to how to make a term more precise, to make something ='strcls'>*artificially operational='strcls'>*
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='strcls'>*="trms">sciences of the archive='strcls'>*
depend on longed lived collections
(since 16th century, as we know it) ="trms">modern ="trms">science's ="trms">epistemic goal='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*pre="trms">dictive accuracy='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*to elevate certainty='strcls'>* (the case in medieval Latin Europe)
="trms">books (="trms">past discoveries) ='and'>& ="trms">instruments (future discoveries) ="trms">interspersed ='lgc'>--when='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they both belong to the same practice ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> library
(="ppl">Goethe='lgc'>:) search nothing beyond the ="trms">phenomena
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="ppl">="ppl">Morris
movement of commerce's subject (='lgc'>=/= walking of the Parisian flaneur)
plaque's morbid sentimen ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> evades the reduction of signs to mere reference
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='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]public art='lgc'>: the art of a ="trms">world bifurcated by capital ='lgc'>--tending='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*monumentality='lgc'>: an exaggerated ="trms">literality ='lgc'>+ ="trms">excess of scale (incapable of irony)
(of image ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) textuality='lgc'>: something ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurking off that bids us engage the ambiguity
metonym
critique='lgc'>: (analogy of) a movement toward the outside
a grammatical negative can never efface what it attempts to contradict
a call for judgment hides in the defensive ="trms">gesture
criminality='lgc'>: departure from (or fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure) to recognize a law
new violence
="lsts lst1">•violence against the sovereignty of local subjects
="lsts lst1">•violence against an ="trms">internationalized regime that increasingly claimed ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive sovereignty for itself
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ethnography of capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list crisis (a project on='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•the politics of ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]transparency='lgc'>: the ideological pointing stick by which the ="trms">market has appropriated for itself the function of regulating the state (where it was the function of the state to regulate the ="trms">market)
="lsts lst1">•how capitalism (='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Morris='lgc'>] in Thailand) disguises itself as mere monetization
="lsts lst1">•how money's total and totalizing meditations have come to be experienced in the contrary idioms of immediacy and eternal ="trms">present-being
="lsts lst1">•
(='lgc'>[i am='lgc'>] learning with ="ppl">="ppl">Morris) ethnography of crisis
="prgrph">-how capitalism in Thailand disguises itself as mere monetization
="prgrph">-how money's (total and totalizing) mediations have come to be experienced in the contrary idioms of immediacy (and eternal ="trms">present-being)
="prgrph">-="trms">rhetorics of transparency and visibility (conceived in ="trms">aesthetic domains)
(="trms">narcissistic act of) tele="trms">technic encompassment
='strcls'>*spirit mediumship='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[auratic threshold of re="trms">presentation='lgc'>]
(the nationally renowned spirit medium) Chuchad, flamboyant media savvy
daguerreotypy='lgc'>: a demonic receiving device that had the capacity to retain and thereby diminish the photographed subject's substance
(in Thai) kaan thaay ='lgc'>[taking, wasting='lgc'>] ruup ='lgc'>[picture='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•Thai word for photography
="lsts lst1">•concomitant transformation and discharge
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> spirit practices were brought into conversation with the mass media
="lsts lst1">•conceptualized largely in terms of atavism and/or residue (repressed orgiastic impulse buried)
="lsts lst1">•(located on the periphery of) the ='strcls'>*nation's geo-body='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= state's formed public='lgc'>]
(from the perspective of rationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list Buddhist orthodoxy ='lgc'>[and in the case of ="nms">iranian superstitions, Holakouee خرافه khorafe='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) mediumship='lgc'>: (="trms">imagined as) a temporal ="trms">interruption of the nation's ="trms">modernity
="trms">communist occult practices
emasculating magic
phantasmatic triad of nation, ="trms">religion, monarch
mediums='lgc'> = state's other
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='lgc'>[today='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•identification between the local and the global (facilitated by transnational ="trms">communication ="trms">systems) compete with those of the nationalism
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*="trms">market-based discourses of civic politics in the anticipation of being seen from afar by a multinational media audience='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•
mediumship reborn as...
="lsts lst1">•circulating along with its own images
="lsts lst1">•part of an endlessly proliferating series (='lgc'>=/= double of a lost o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal) in which it merely seeks to be legible as an image of its displaced self
='lgc'>[a figure many artists today want to be='lgc'>: spirit='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*medium='strcls'>* (profession of epiphanic discovery) ='lgc'>--transmitting='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">paranoiac messages ='lgc'>--prophesying='lgc'>='lgc'>--> boundary penetration (o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginated with the state)
(revolution reduced to) the status of mise-en-s="trms">cene
bourgeois democracy
="trms">market-based discourses of civic politics
simulacral space of the new mediascape
(Chuchad's promise of authenticity ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) violent authenticity of an exposure in which mediumship's re="trms">presentations would be renounced ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">techniques of the performance themselves become the object of performative inscription='strcls'>*
="trms">history of ="trms">religious legitimacies
popu="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list conservative monk ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">religious sermon in the format of emphatically dialogic, using vernacular forms and local dialects to disseminate ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> content remaines deeply orthodox in its valorization of the foundational texts ='lgc'>+ its ritua="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list inscription='lgc'>]
='lgc'>+
medium's anti-="trms">ontological discovery
='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=>
either there is nothing to transmit or there is no means of trans="trms">mission='lgc'> = silence or white noise
Phra Phyom ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">embodiment of fame itself, a bastardized auratic ="trms">presence that is always arriving (='lgc'>~ imminent without ="trms">specification)
="prgrph">-what drew these people to this performance='qstn'>?
(seeking the) ambivalent pleasure (not without violence) of having a secret unmasked
acolyte
to ensure a line of vision between the medium and his audience
broadcasting device='lgc'> = recording device
="trms">authorship ='lgc'>--(displaced by)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a logic of ='strcls'>*tracking of traces without a subject='strcls'>* (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- reduction of re="trms">presentation and inscription)
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="trms">modern mediumship ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]automatic ="trms">writing='lgc'>: (most as="trms">sociated with surrealism, in Western contexts) the ="trms">writer seeks to merely transmit his or her unconscious thoughts and, in the process, to disavow ='thdf'>the notion of ="trms">authorial ="trms">agency... ='lgc'>[it marks a more general ="trms">transitional moment in the ="trms">history of re="trms">presentation ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Morris='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] ='strcls'>***the production of meaning ceases to be a function of ="trms">writing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> actuality or facticity becomes the primary object of inscription='strcls'>***)
confessional performances
d="trms">enunciation of possession performance[...]