[...]sitions
="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'>*



="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> 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 ="trms">nature of re="trms">membering='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Despret > Kwon='lgc'>] true human desires are not those of an isolated individual. it is the individual who feels the desire, whereas the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of the desirem, like the spirit's phantom salt, may be with someone else, for it is in the ="trms">presence of this other that the water becomes salty ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***the desire to re="trms">member can be a desire that rises somewhere between the ="trms">past and the ="trms">present='strcls'>***
="prgrph">-="trms">agencement='lgc'>: the act of com="trms">memoration ="trms">responds to a desire, so one cannot choose whether it emanates from the one who is re="trms">membered or the one who takes charge of re="trms">membering ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the desire to be re="trms">membered ='and'>& the desire to re="trms">member hold together ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= giving ="trms">ontological ="trms">priority to the ="trms">imagination of the living='lgc'>]


what can i learn from ="nms">Tehran's ="trms">bestiary, from my mother, from unusual old ="nms">iranian ="trms">fables, from telegram ="trms">animals='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•let myself be ="trms">instructed by the events that my inquiry creates
="lsts lst1">•let myself be called by the enigma that will guide me inmy understanding of events
='strcls'>*to be ="trms">instructed ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= honouring the problem ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= following it up ='and'>& letting oneself be led by it ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice ="trms">Wonderland chasing rabbits


='strcls'>****="trms">questions do not call for explanation or elucidation, ="trms">questions call for creation='strcls'>**** ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]riddles='lgc'>: the beginnings of ="trms">stories ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> set those who are summoned by the enigma to work in a particular way='lgc'>: “what manner of living will make it possible to understand these riddless='qstn'>?”

riddle='lgc'>: key ='lgc'>+ guide

(speaking ="trms">trope saying senses ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) tropisms ='lgc'>=/= meanings

="trms">trope='lgc'> = ="trms">affects that magnetize you
forces that pass through you and steer you

what should i do with ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>?='lgc'> = what kind of meaning is requested of me='qstn'>? ='strcls'>****what is my ="trms">obligation to the meaning i am seeking='qstn'>?='strcls'>**** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= Mette's work='lgc'>]

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to bring to BOZAR project with ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Godard">Goda into my ="trms">interest in geo-feminism
the ="trms">question of naming, of taxonomy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a way of being into connectedness

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="nms">ajayeb studies = ='strcls'>**how to in="trms">herit ="trms">natural ="trms">history otherwise='strcls'>**, how to think about ="trms">natural ="trms">history, embracing other (than western) ="trms">heritages of ="trms">natural ="trms">history that enlarges the ="trms">world for us and the ones we are living with


plantation ="trms">system='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. radical simplification, elimination of whole ="trms">categories of players (in ="trms">systemic encounters)
="lstsrd">2. radical substitution, whole domains (plant life, ="trms">animal life, human labor ="trms">system in ="trms">interaction with ="trms">animals and plants and microbs) are substituted
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> radical break of connection to place
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> release of numbers ='lgc'>: value added processes based on the management of numbers

to look at the planetary shape of some of our problems

="prgrph">-s="trms">cene='lgc'> = condition of...
scenography ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘s="trms">cene’ is a visual spatial way of thinking about what makes the ‘condition’ of something

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(="ppl">="ppl">Calvert on The ="trms">Nature of ="trms">Difference ="trms">book ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Quinsy)

rise of population genomics
="lsts lst1">•efforts like Human Genome project ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> refusing to afford a genetic basis for race ="trms">categories
="lsts lst1">•tools to identify “deep ="trms">ancestry” (indicating a geographic o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin in pre="trms">history)

postracial politics

recreational genomics ='lgc'>--mutating='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “race” out of 19th century concept of “blood quantum” that imperfectly signals complex tribal relatedness and ="trms">membership

(purchasers of) ='strcls'>**genome='lgc'> = ="trms">book of life='strcls'>** ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> racialized and medicalized subjects

='strcls'>*mutated racial discourses='strcls'>*

renaissance of race ="trms">categories

="trms">science has the ="trms">authority to establish truth claims that scholars in the humanities must reckon with
humanities scholars may avoid a ="trms">scientific debate because='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- they feel out of their depths ="trms">interpreting ="trms">scientific ="trms">data
="lstsrd">2- they resist ="trms">scientific ="trms">authority in ="trms">response to well-documented instances of ="trms">scientific exploration of people of color
="lstsrd">3- they may have surrendered to ="trms">science the work of settling ="trms">matters of fact, keeping hermeneutics and textual ="trms">matters for themselves


="trms">science and ="trms">technology studies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*tracing objects through the practices and discourses that produce them as settled ="trms">matters of fact, made, but not made up='strcls'>*

(tracking) ="trms">social and legal arrangements ='lgc'>==producing='lgc'>='lgc'>==> race


='strcls'>***="trms">science is ="trms">coded as the ="trms">interpreter of ="trms">nature in western discourse='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>that is why i have to study ="trms">science in ='mywrk'>my research on ="trms">bestiaries


Hammond ='lgc'>+ Herzig on how ="trms">scientific practices across disciplines describe and create what thereby becomes ='strcls'>*="trms">naturalized ="trms">difference='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= describing the ="trms">nature of ="trms">difference itself)

(learn from Hammond ='lgc'>+ Herzig ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->)
source ="trms">material ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> organize ='and'>& comment ='lgc'>--sustain='lgc'>='lgc'>--> argument
='lgc'>+ ="trms">questions that point the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader to discoursive moves and modes of attention of the ="trms">author (='lgc'>=/= ="frds scrmbld">Quinsy's ملانقطى pedantic exploration of racism)

(politically correcting the popular understanding of race ='lgc'>=/=) to show the unsettled and ongoing ="trms">nature of the debate. ='lgc'>[asking ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers='lgc'>] to track the rise and permutation of various features of the argument
='lgc'>[asking Captain America ='lgc'>--anatomical='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] “in what larger political, economic, and ="trms">social contexts might ears, noses, index fingers, or brains hemispheres attract attention as re="trms">liable signs of racial ="trms">difference='qstn'>?”


some wrong ideas='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•adaptation to new environments signals evolution (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= degenerating groups would eventually cease to exist)
="lsts lst1">•high mortality rates could signal problems in work and living condition
="lsts lst1">•sexual di="trms">morphism thought to be a component of degeneration
="lsts lst1">•“more often than not, the views of ="trms">society have shaped ="trms">science rather than the other way around. in this instance, it may be time for ="trms">science to reshape the views of ="trms">society.” ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- scary!='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•


to start with political ="trms">agenda (good or bad) and fit evidence to that
political correctness (='lgc'>~ a ="trms">social ="trms">interest)
dogged persue of truth

='strcls'>*="trms">science's power to beguile اغفال ="trms">imagination='strcls'>* (for example genomics testing to discover and reveal “truths” about unknown ="trms">ancestry)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a post ="trms">World War II and post-holocaust aspiratoin='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*the al="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure here is to finally prove we are all the same under the skin, or at least that we have more in common than we had liked to admit='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- another project for making race ="trms">matter, but ="trms">differently

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> (="frds scrmbld">Quinsy urgently need to learn) how not to be conversation stopper


Bland ='lgc'>+ Doan's Sexology Uncensored

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="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%">
scope of information ="trms">science ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]document='lgc'>: organized physical evidence

new digital ="trms">technologies renews old ="trms">questions and also old confusions between medium, message, and meaning

document
ordniary information storage and retrieval ="trms">system='qstn'>?

bibliography='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•collecting
="lsts lst1">•preserving
="lsts lst1">•organizing (arranging)
="lsts lst1">•re="trms">presenting (describing)
="lsts lst1">•selecting (retrieving)
="lsts lst1">•reproducing (copying)
="lsts lst1">•disseminating
="lsts lst1">•
(of documents)

="large lg5" stl="font-size:137%"> early 20th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> documentation adopted (in europe) instead of bibliography

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]documentation='lgc'>: a set of ="trms">techniques developed to mange significant (or potentially significant) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]document='lgc'>: any expression of human thought (beyond ="trms">written texts)
='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> ='strcls'>*novel form of signifying objects='strcls'>*

objects bearing traces of...
='strcls'>*if you are informed by observation of it, you are looking at a document='strcls'>*

document='lgc'>: any ="trms">material basis for extending our knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge which is available for study or comparison
='strcls'>*capable of being used for='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*reference='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*study='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*="trms">authority='strcls'>*

1951
document='lgc'>: evidence in support of a fact
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