[...]e 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”


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


="large lg1" stl="font-size:128%"> (='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

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> 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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="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%">
(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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:160%"> (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 wh[...]