[...]m ="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)



="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> ="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'>~= ="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

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


(='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

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(="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'>?

="large lg5" stl="font-size:127%"> ="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'>~= 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[...]