[...]rs 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'>***
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='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">•
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="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'>?
="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
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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 cultivated a particular ="trms">relationship (of the amateur) with the very issue he wanted to learn about (='lgc'>=/= to address inquiries to the ones who know by virtue of being a mere ="trms">authority)
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Leibniz proposed that woman should be addressed about the most important problem, that of the ="trms">love (appropriate to give God) ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] because they are competent in the ="trms">matter
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Leibniz='lgc'> = the master of abstraction ='lgc'>--made='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]abstraction='lgc'> = a politeness of thought='strcls'>**='heart'>♥, ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]politeness='lgc'> = a constraint on creation='strcls'>**
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>****(why ask women about ="trms">love='qstn'>? because) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]woman='lgc'>: the ones who refuse letting a duty to ‘speak truth’='strcls'>****
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a real ="trms">interest in thinking about and with ="trms">love (='lgc'>=/= “school of ="trms">love”)
when you do ='strcls'>*field philosophy='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]field='lgc'>: a field-to-be, a milieu, a collective, a ="trms">situation ='lgc'>=/= field as something that preexists our inquiry
(how in ="nms">apass i did field philosophy and field inquiry ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i made many times) ="trms">situation-becoming-a-field (where you can learn something) needed='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">imagination
="lsts lst1">•tact
="lsts lst1">•daring
="lsts lst1">•opportunism
="lsts lst1">•humour
="lsts lst1">•
="ppl">="ppl">Despret > Claverie on pilgrimage with the Virgin of Medjugorje
she offered to those whom she addressed the most unexpected mode of ="trms">response
she became ="trms">interested in the very sophisticated way they think
(='lgc'>=/= ="trms">social ="trms">scientist's need to determinate the causes of something ='lgc'>[designates it as an anomaly ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> impoverishing the object of study='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> asking “why people believe='qstn'>?” or “how can we explain such an odd thing as people believing in a super="trms">natural being='qstn'>?”)
(she explored and learned with people how they think ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>****how they take care of what ="trms">matters for them with thoughts='strcls'>**** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> takes the form (in the pilgrims experience) of ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]hesitation='lgc'>: a sign that identifies that thought is occuring ='and'>& this thought is taking care of something that ="trms">matters ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Attar Tazkirat al-Awliya='lgc'>]
forms of hesitation='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•openly contradictory alteration of ="trms">positions
="lsts lst1">•a critical ="trms">position (the apparition is not there)
="lsts lst1">•a ="trms">position of belief
="lsts lst1">•using semantics or syntactic devices that introduce ambivalence
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Claverie learns to hesitate with them
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Stengers='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ecological practice='lgc'>: a practice that takes into account the fact that the inquiry participates in the ‘milieu’ of those it addresses ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*the practicioner is herself taking care of what ="trms">matters with thoughts and learns to create (what ="ppl">="ppl">Despret would call) the relevant ='strcls'>*milieu of thought='strcls'>*
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Matrix ="trms">world='lgc'>: “="trms">consumer victim ='lgc'>=/= resistant hacker fighter” and nothing else
if you are a student of ghosts ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> you are competent in sensing the taste of ghosts
='lgc'>{="trms">ancestors ate too much salt ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> descendants desire water='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">intersubjective na[...]