[...]e function of distribution and resale (and indeed the movement of capital) is masked in the ='strcls'>*="trms">rhetoric of directness='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]directness='lgc'>: withdrawal of an infrastructure of mediation into the person of the distributor ='lgc'>+ مستتر کردن occulting of ="trms">technique in the very moment of display
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]pyramid scheme='lgc'>: a structure in which retailers ="trms">recruit more retailers ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (mainly serves the ="trms">interests of) multinational entities parading as local entrepeneurialism

grotesquely functionalized room

abandoning the ="trms">ontology of mediumship (for...)
putatively unmediated truth (of...)


magic's ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis entailes a repetition

(='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Morris analysis of Chuchad:='lgc'>] a medium becoming) a middleman disavowing the mediations that he performed in order to produce the illusion of value, or meaning, or truth
="lsts lst1">•working only in the repression of its own operations ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> truth-effect of ="trms">marketing

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*the ="trms">market can substitute for magic='strcls'>*, the media can be itself, the very ="trms">nature of money (its abstractions and its generality) can compensate for the ="trms">differences it effaces

='strcls'>*="trms">rhetoric of asian family='strcls'>*
occult ="trms">network='lgc'>: ="trms">networks that are not publicly disclosed
(in environments that are believed not to operate as an open economy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> economies are dominated not only by particular families but by the logic of family ='lgc'>[ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive and unassailable ties between small ="trms">communities='lgc'>])
='lgc'>=/= rationalization of local economies, ="trms">market liberalization,,
="lsts lst1">•anachronistic ="trms">imaginary of transnational capitalism and the racialized family (of asian nations) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> idealized
="lsts lst1">•="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical ruse of kinship's discourse
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*neocolonial fantasy concealed in the dream of immediacy='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Amway='lgc'>: theologically informed ="trms">market liberalism='lgc'>--pursuing a noiseless ="trms">world where feedback is impossible

confessional disclosures of new capital
="trms">rhetoric of transparency
mediumship's (enthralling) dramaturgy of disclosure

(="ppl">="ppl">Morris asking) what else is transparency in the massified ="trms">world='qstn'>? a mediation so total that it has become invisible (='qstn'>?)

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="lsts lst1">•to challange them
="lsts lst1">•to break with their own ="trms">gesture
="lsts lst1">•to in="trms">herit from them

='strcls'>*="ppl">Socrates ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> alleged ="trms">epistemo-="trms">sociological enquiry (='lgc'>[the tradition of='lgc'>] asking people what they know and how they think) ='lgc'>--Savransky='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (hallmark of ="trms">social ="trms">sciences today='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*ethics of estrangement='strcls'>*='lgc'>: ‘becoming estranged’ from the realm of appearances made available by direct experience in order to ‘gain access’ to a realm of facts and causes='strcls'>**** ='lgc'>==="ppl">Whitehead='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*bifurcation of ="trms">nature='strcls'>*='lgc'>: a mode of understanding whereby experience only discloses that which is apparent, whereas the ‘relevant’ factors in the process of knowing the ="trms">world must always lie, and be sought, somewhere else
='strcls'>*='lgc'>=/= ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice in ="trms">Wonderland
='strcls'>*='lgc'>=/= ="nms">Cinderella ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">harem girl, ="trms">hallucinating with ="trms">animals, not becoming a psycho (angry), arrested='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*='lgc'>=/= William James='lgc'>: inquiry is about ='strcls'>**the way some people cultivate an expertise='strcls'>**, ='strcls'>**how they hesitate='strcls'>**, ='strcls'>**how they think='strcls'>**, ='strcls'>**how they complicate a problem='strcls'>** ='lgc'>[='at'>#feedback='lgc'>] (='thdf'>for example)
="lsts lst2">◦='strcls'>*="trms">religious experience='lgc'>: to address his ="trms">questions to the ones who know, the ones whose expertise could help him learn something new and often unexpected ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> passionate, even if problematic, experience of living in a ="trms">world where God ="trms">matters='strcls'>*
="lsts lst2">◦='strcls'>*emotional experience='lgc'>: with theater actors, who know about creating, discriminating, disclosing, and sharing emotional experiences='strcls'>*

='strcls'>***from whom should we in="trms">herit our practices, and how='qstn'>?='strcls'>***

learning from ="ppl">="ppl">Despret's ='strcls'>*anachronism='strcls'>* (her field philosophy)
اشتباه در ترتیب حقیقی وقایع

(="trms">heritage of ="ppl">Socrates) form of ="trms">epistemic and ethical bifurcation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> search for hidden causes (underlying the conduct of actors)
="ppl">Socrates's “you think you know, but actually, you don't know and you don't think” ='lgc'>==created='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>***='lgc'>[1='lgc'>]a device that inhabits thinking and produced only mental paralysis='strcls'>***

='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>:) investigators rarely ask the ="trms">question of how the people they ="trms">interview might be ="trms">interested in the ="trms">questions addressed to them

='strcls'>*relevance='lgc'> = adventure='strcls'>*
there are many examples of how a piece of abstract knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that looked like devoid of any ="trms">imaginable consequences came to ="trms">matter (acquired an importance nobody would contest)
="prgrph">-relevance may be lost in ="trms">translation
='strcls'>*="trms">ecology of dynamic and fragile patterns of relevance, of modes of ="trms">mattering for oneself and for others (Savransky)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]relevance='lgc'>: a sense that there is value beyond ourselves (something that is not ourselves, ="trms">matters) ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Stengers='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (daring to connect the) speculative ='lgc'>+ ethical ='lgc'>+ practical
(risk of) to renounce ='strcls'>*knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge as a ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right='strcls'>* ='lgc'>+ embrace ='strcls'>*knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge's achievement as an event='strcls'>*


='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
(ego engineering)


='strcls'>***='lgc'>[2='lgc'>]device of anonymity (“to protect people”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> distributes expertise, and builds induces performs an a="trms">symmetry of roles
="lsts lst1">•the imperative of de="trms">ontology
="lsts lst1">•(can be) a regime of insult

“you, the refugees” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an anonymous mass marked with ='strcls'>**an identity that they had not chosen, and from which they cannot invent themselves='strcls'>**

risk of disclosing
risk of separating
risk of isolating
risk of making people talk while silencing
risk of stealing the words
risk of of drawing the words out from the speaker
risk of retying the secret to its etymology ='lgc'>[secretus='lgc'>: to separate, to isolate='lgc'>]


(what we like to think about in ="nms">apass) to reflect on what anonymity can produce in other research ="trms">situations
='lgc'>[instead of asking “what the body does/produces='qstn'>?” ='lgc'>=/= what ="frds">Sina's body does for the spider in his room='qstn'>? what Ninja Turtles body does for Iron Man='qstn'>? what anonymous refugee body does for ="frds scrmbld">Xiri='qstn'>? what Jane Fonda body does for ="frds scrmbld">Laura='qstn'>? etc.='lgc'>]

='strcls'>***anonymity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> identity='strcls'>***
(the ="trms">position of “subject” in an investigation is created by erasing the name)
="lsts lst1">•“feel free to say anything you want” or “speak without fear"='lgc'> = your words will have no consequences
="lsts lst1">•they are always at risk of putting people in ="trms">situations where they are unlikely to be ="trms">interesting ='and'>& unlikely to be ="trms">interested

="ppl">="ppl">Despret's ="trms">interview where an exchange really meant something ='lgc'>=/= Mette's notion of nothing means anymore except the absurd ="trms">gesture that announces meaninglessness of itself


inquiry='lgc'> = experience ='and'>& experimentation, ='strcls'>*testing ='and'>& putting into continuity an ensemble of experiences='strcls'>*
Kimiavi in his film The Garden of Stones, his subject by the very fact that they are now part of the conditions of the environment in ="trms">relation to which investigator develops ="trms">skills, desires, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge or ="trms">science
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='strcls'>*inquiry='lgc'>: set of transformations that the very process of inquiry imposes, concrete and existential transformations for the objects studied just as much as the inquiring subject ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (Kimiavi's) logic of creative experimentation ='lgc'>=/= logic of logic of discovery
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='strcls'>*creative dimension (of every fieldwork)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•(it may) take the form of a device that sparks the creation of thoughts
="lsts lst1">•(it may) transform the ="trms">relationship between the enquirer and the one she is addressing
="lsts lst1">•(it may) disclose some dimensions of the ="trms">situation that were not visible or felt
="lsts lst1">•(it may) completely redefine what people actually docile
="lsts lst1">•


="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> ="trms">positivist ="trms">sociological approach='lgc'>: to discover a reality al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready given, al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready stabilized ='lgc'>+ procedures asserting this stability ='lgc'>+ ="trms">questions wanting to be neutral ='lgc'>+ a large and distributed sample ='lgc'>+ a modest investigator='lgc'>: who disappears behind the strength of the ="trms">data (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway)


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]inquiry='lgc'>: studies what it creates while studying it, and the changes it provokes (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- we know this in art, ='at'>@="nms">apass)

="prgrph">-can i no longer develop knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge behind the back of those that i have ="trms">questioned (my mother...)='qstn'>?

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> ="nms">apass, ='at'>#feedback
it is up to them to make the connection between what they think and what determines their particular way of thinking


summoning ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">mimesis (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Marialena)


='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Pierre (from) critical analysis ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">pragmatism
='strcls'>***we do not think or act “because” of ="trms">social determination, but rather “with” them='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>~= better ="nms">Cinderella (learning ="trms">pragmatism from ="nms">Cinderella='lgc'>: how to think and act with the evil sisters='qstn'>?)

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amateur='lgc'>: the one who develops an expertise, a ="trms">love, a taste ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Stengers='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dare to taste ='lgc'>=/= dare to know='lgc'>]
="ppl">Leibniz addressed his inquiries to the ones who know, because they have[...]