[...]f the bodies in ="nms">Tehran
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> possibility of subjective reflection (in a ="ppl">Cartesian sense) ='and'>& as="trms">sociation of discrete elements
distraction ='lgc'><='lgc'>--sug="trms">gesting='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">sublimation
(from ="ppl">Descartes to ="ppl">Kant) consciousness/cogito='lgc'> = ground of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and certitude (= self-="trms">present subject) ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">Schopenhauer recognizing) ending the un="trms">questioned foundational ="trms">priority of consciousness ='lgc'>==> attention (emerges as a problem)
broken attention
(idea for video documentation='lgc'>: a lagging mirror attached in front of the camera's lenses)
(a ="trms">fable)
looking out the window
perceive a landscape
light of consciousness
distribute over the landscape
then i try
to apprehend a single tree branch
the consciousness that the rest of the landscape was deployed then fades
diminishes into as="trms">sociational debris
into disappearance of re="trms">presentations
real nexus of psychic life
permeated colored enlivened feelings
distribution of feelings
the gradual un="trms">folding
efforts of attention
are forms of volitional activity
impulsive energy to individual imagery
permit them to fade away
therefore, the tree branch, the window, is a process
Dilthey
in ="ppl">Peirce='lgc'>:
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]attention='lgc'> = anti-optical act of selection ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= (in traditional ="trms">epistemological thought) singling out a contemplative object='lgc'>], “the power by which thought at one time is connected with and made to relate to thought at another time”
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*firstness='lgc'>: self-immediacy, absolute ="trms">presence (before synthesis and ="trms">differentiation) ='lgc'>~ nonreferenciality (='lgc'>=/= perception, attention ="trms">consumed/constituted in time ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= continuous quantity='lgc'> = ='strcls'>*secondness)
using a more act-oriented term “thought” instead of “consciousness”
dis="trms">sociation
anaesthesia
="trms">hallucination
multiple selves
='lgc'>--James='lgc'>='lgc'>--> temporal model of mind='lgc'>: ‘stream’
(='lgc'>=/= scenic model of mind)
='lgc'>[this was part of a larger institutional field in which ="trms">scientific psychology generally was abandoning ‘elemental’ conceptions of consciousness in favour of operational or functional models='lgc'>]
='lgc'>==> observer='lgc'>: an artist confronted with the primordial chaos of sensation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (ethics of) overlapping common choices (made of autonomous subjects ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> you can see James seeking to lessen the shock of recent works in ="trms">science and psychology for an American middle-class ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readership='lgc'>])
(William James='lgc'>:) irreducible p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurality of experience ='lgc'>==> (think in terms of) fluidity and immobilization
='mywrk'>my work is usually unformed and informal='lgc'>: a speaking properly in terms of irradiated strata, an aggregate
emergence of increasingly powerful ="trms">technologies and institutions that would determine and enforce ='strcls'>*externally='strcls'>* the objects of attention for mass population ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">history of cinema
="lsts lst1">•disciplinary framework='lgc'>: it is the aim of the teacher to fix the attention of the pupils ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> habit of attention becomes amenable to the will of the teacher
attention was an indispensable component of the “normal” and “rational” subject of the late 19th century industrial ="trms">society, yet had a disturbing proximity to “pathological” and “irrational” effects.
="prgrph">-="ppl">="ppl">Crary
="ppl">Simondon, mold ='and'>& modulation
="ppl">Deleuze, on ="trms">fold
by the end of 19th century attention became an inadequate simulation of (an Archimedean) point of stability from which consciousness could know the ="trms">world ='lgc'>[rather='lgc'>] it opened to flux and absence (='lgc'>=/= perceptual fixity, certainty of ="trms">presence) ='lgc'>==> subject-object scattered provisional existence
(extreme model of a) ='strcls'>*="trms">technology of attention='strcls'>* ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Zoumana ='lgc'>[spiritism, ='strcls'>*action at a distance='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> curse, ,='lgc'>]
hypnosis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> unsettling outlines of of a subject whose makeup could evade both intellectual and institutional mastery ='lgc'>+ precariousness and malleability of (what had been thought of as) consciousness
hypnosis adjacent to attention='qstn'>?! intense refocusing and narrowing of attention ='lgc'>+ inhibition of motor ="trms">responses
focalization='lgc'>: concentrating one's attention on some ="trms">specific object
sustained looking at a single point (i used to do as a ="trms">child) ='lgc'>==> dramatic reorganization of consciousness
="ppl">="ppl">Crary in his ="trms">book, Suspension of Perception, shows how high ="trms">science and peripheral pseudo="trms">science never had clear-cut distinctions in the 19th century. that there were a complex and shifting ="trms">relation of ="trms">mutual exchange between the “luminous” physics with a huge range of other “darker” ideas about ‘action in a distance’ enacted in spiritism
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Zoumana
hypnosis ='and'>& sug="trms">gestion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> automatic processes (inferior, more instinctual, continuous with ="trms">animality), “mental decapitation” ='lgc'>=/= ration elicit patient with conscious participating will power ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Star Wars will of the weaker and less independent, powerful ="trms">natures exercise over weaker ones, jedi ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> strance states (of the weaker ones)='lgc'>: being ="trms">instrument of undisguised power ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Stengers='lgc'>='lgc'>--> deviant types of behavioural control='lgc'>]
(hypnosis still being rese="trms"nttrm="search">arched on but) ideologically could not be acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged as a constitutive part of human ="trms">sciences
='lgc'>==> (stigmata of critical ="trms">position ='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali; follow it in ="ppl">Marxism='lgc'>]='lgc'>:)
volitional human action modified by external forces
="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali's tacit appeal to state secret, military secret ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> importance of low-level effects of sug="trms">gestion and influence in contemporary global culture (="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali's ="trms">interest)
the role ‘sug="trms">gestion’ plays in a ="trms">society of ="trms">communication ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the effects of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">fashion
="lsts lst1">•="trms">mimesis
="lsts lst1">•mass psychology
="lsts lst1">•media-related contagions
='lgc'>+ influences of all kind ='lgc'>==> “="trms">oblige” us
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>the ='thdf'>assumption that attention can be controlled for ="trms">specific ends
(over a hundred years) underpinning institutional strategies has been the ="trms">position that ='strcls'>*human subjects have determinate psychological capacities and functions that might be susceptible to ="trms">technological management='strcls'>*
attention has been both='lgc'>: strategy of control ='and'>& locus of resistance and drift
(by the end of 20th century) the attentive subject is part of an ‘="trms">internalization’ of disciplinary imperative ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> individuals are made more directly ="trms">responsible for their own efficient or profitable utilization
="ppl">="ppl">Foucault's ="trms">society of discipline
="ppl">Guy ="ppl">Debord's ="trms">society of ="trms">spectacle
(="ppl">Guy ="ppl">Debord's) ='strcls'>*="trms">spectacle='lgc'>: a development of a ="trms">technology of separation='strcls'>*, ='lgc'>[multiple strategies of isolation='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (capitalism's restructuring of) ="trms">society without ="trms">community
='lgc'>+
(="ppl">="ppl">Foucault's) ='lgc'>[production of='lgc'>] docile bodies ='lgc'>~='lgc'>{ body='lgc'> = political force ='lgc'>}
='lgc'>+
(='lgc'><== Weber's) inner isolation of individual ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>==> capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">modernity='lgc'>]
management of attention is masscultural forms has to do (less with the visual contents and much more) with a larger ='strcls'>**strategy of the individual='strcls'>** ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="trms">spectacle='lgc'>:
='lgc'>[='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> looking at images='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (construction of conditions that) individuate, immobilize, separate subjects
='lgc'>}='lgc'>==>
attention ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> operation of noncoercive forms of power
(="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>:) optical/="trms">technological objects ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> arrangement of bodies in space (='lgc'>--="trms">modernism='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">techniques of separation)
television ='lgc'>+ personal computer ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> anti-nomadic procedures (that fix and striate) ='lgc'>==> rendering bodies controllable and useful ='lgc'>+ simulation of choices and ="trms">interactivity
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (Williams='lgc'>: a ="trms">technological and logic of) ='strcls'>*mobile privatization='strcls'>*
(through the assessment of the works of ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari, and now popular ="trms">narratives) the ="trms">relation between human and machine is based on ="trms">internal, ="trms">mutual ="trms">communication, and no longer on usage or action (='lgc'>~ human operator linked to a machine as an exterior object) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~/=='qstn'>? companion ="trms">species='lgc'>]
irresistible imperative of ="trms">communication ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> continuous effects of control
panoptic ="trms">techniques ='and'>& attentive imperatives (function reciprocally)
classical power='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•repression
="lsts lst1">•ideology
="lsts lst1">•
="trms">modern power='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•normalization
="lsts lst1">•modulation
="lsts lst1">•modelling
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*information that bear on='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦="trms">language
="lsts lst2">◦perception
="lsts lst2">◦desire
="lsts lst2">◦movement
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> by way of microassemblages
(= ='strcls'>*subjectification='strcls'>*)
="prgrph">-the shape of absentmindedness in my performances is skewed by the attentive imperative of ="trms">modern subjectification='qstn'>? something unfocused, ='strcls'>**something ="trms">folds back against itself='strcls'>** ='lgc'>=/= “processing” a stream of heterogeneous stimuli (in film, radio, television, cyberspace)
="prgrph">-my audience felt an uncomfortable sense of their own inattentiveness (in my performances of the experience of dis="trms">sociation, of temporality incompatible with capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list patterns of flow). what is they are asking me is to give a stream of heterogeneous stimuli ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>****how temporality is inhabited='strcls'>****
to diffuse (="trms">societies of ="trms">spectacle) into (a single) ="trms">integrated ="trms">society of ="trms">spectacle (='lgc'>==> separate, isolated, but not introspective individuals)
(film and television in competition with) ='strcls'>*daydream='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a domain of resistance ="trms">internal to any ="trms">system of coercion ='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
(='qstn'>?is capitalism's contemporary arrangement allowing/playing an) oscillation between ="trms">spectacular attentiveness and the free play of subjective absorption
='lgc'>~ info/telematic ="trms">systems simulating the possibility of drift ='lgc'>==> modes of sedentarization
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">="ppl">Crary asks) how creative modes of trance, inattention, daydream, and fixation can flourish in the ="trms">interstices of these circuits='qstn'>? ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Sven ...amid ="trms">technological forms of boredom ='lgc'>~ ='strcls'>*="trms">modern boredom='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cognitive and perceptual synthesis. boredom is involved with the intensification of a sense of selfhood='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> romantic (turned inside out='qstn'>?)='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*perception without awareness='strcls'>* (vilified in art and criticism)
='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> automaticity='lgc'>: performance under conditions of divided attention
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Manet='lgc'>: disengagement of perception from a model of ="trms">interiority
Manet's painting discloses some of the important recon="trms">figurations of the status of the observer (that had occurred by the middle of 19th century)
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my ="ppl">Olearius video ="trms">figuratively re="trms">positions the observing subject outside of the term of which ="trms">system of vision='qstn'>?
="trms">world ="trms">present to the subject in ="trms">relations of reflection='qstn'>?
...three observers by the virtue of their unmediated, unobstructed self-="trms">presence
='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*romanticism='lgc'>: (maintained) resistance to externality='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[compare Manet's balcony with Goya's painting Majas on a Balcony='lgc'>]
(Manet's palette cor="trms">responding to) the luminous wavelengths of a new ="trms">technological life="trms">world...
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Manet dramatizing (but not lamenting) the evaporation of a cohesive ="trms">world...
(finely assembled) architecture of solitude and separation ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] in a space of a newly ="trms">modern individual autonomy
="trms">modernization of ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban space ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (crucial component of the) regime of perceptual adaptability
diagram='lgc'> = optical ="trms">system ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ocular ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ ='strcls'>*rationalizable spatial account of vision='strcls'>*='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vision as reflexive ='lgc'>: property of a subject figured as a ="trms">geometric point (='lgc'>=/= ambiguity and disorganization of ="trms">intersubjective ="trms">relations)
diagram ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> coherence
(vison, it is not a coin with double sides, it is rather a labyrinth ='lgc'>--="ppl">Lacan='lgc'>='lgc'>--> desiring subject ='lgc'>=/= point-to-point optical ="trms">system)
='strcls'>*palpable immediacy of a ="trms">modernized ="trms">presence='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to grasp and inhabit it, then dissolution into self-absorption)
(='qstn'>?="frds scrmbld">Sven plays with that) ='strcls'>*nebulous obscurity of ="trms">presence='strcls'>*
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uncertain content of the ="trms">interior
(in Manet='lgc'>:) attentive='lgc'>: fluctuating ="trms">membrane, delicate pattern of ="trms">folding and un="trms">folding on to the ="trms">world
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> rhythm of opening and closing (this “="trms">social dispersion of ="trms">modernity” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> impassive autosufficiency of the individual observer='lgc'>] has become part of European subjectivity, it is good='lgc'>[='qstn'>?!='lgc'>], and i miss it in middle east post="trms">modernism)
Manet tentative splitting of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•figural re="trms">presentational facts
="lsts lst1">•facts of autonomous pictorial substance
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> now a European tradition)
(a movement towards “formlessness” very ="trms">different than eastern chaotic ="trms">imagination)
Manet's confident inattention to the object and its coherence
fastening together and grounding ="trms">narrative content
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='lgc'>[Manet (and many other 1880 pa="trms">inters) ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] problem of ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]realism='lgc'>: a ="trms">question of tenuous ="trms">relation between perceptual synthesis and dis="trms">sociation
='lgc'>=/= ="trms">question of ="trms">mimesis
achieving a ='strcls'>*reality-effect='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= to hold something together, to “contain” things, ='strcls'>***to ward of experiences of dis="trms">integration='strcls'>***
(the reality-effect is processed and achieved ="trms">differently in ="nms">Iran. how='qstn'>? how ="nms">iranian artists differ from the perceptual logic of ="trms">modernity='qstn'>?)
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(='lgc'>[Elmira and ="frds scrmbld">Foad's='lgc'>] engagement with the) ambiguities of visual attentiveness
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perceptual logic of ="trms">modernity (='lgc'>: two powerful tendencies at work)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*binding together of vision='strcls'>* ='lgc'>{an obsessive holding together of perception to maintain the viability of a functional real ="trms">world='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sealed
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*dynamic of (psychic/economic) exchange='strcls'>* ='lgc'>{dynamic of flux/dispersal='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> barely contained
(Manet's) faciality (a site of pictorial effect)='lgc'>: casual a="trms">morphousness, a surface that no longer discloses ="trms">interiority or self-reflection
(within 19th ='lgc'>+ 20th century ="trms">modernity) face='lgc'>: (par excellence) the substance of expression of the signifier ='lgc'>--(D='lgc'>+G)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list faciality='strcls'>** (exists to serve a signifying ="trms">formula)='lgc'>: the means by which the signifier takes control, the ways it organizes a certain mode of individuated subjectification and collective madness of a ='strcls'>*machine without any content='strcls'>* (="ppl">="ppl">Crary > ="ppl">Guattari)
="prgrph">-who returns to the more tightly bound order of faciality='qstn'>? when and why='qstn'>?
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">articulated hierarchy of ="trms">socialized body
...relative ="trms">integrity of the face ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a larger mode of conformity to a dominant reality
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Geert
(="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari='lgc'>:) when head ceases to be ="trms">coded by the body ='lgc'>==> ‘face’ () ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘body (='lgc'>+ head)’ ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ multidimensional polyvocal corporeal ="trms">code='lgc'>] over="trms">coded by what we call the Face
(////we have to escape the face and facialization!)
indication of bodies in my peers projects in ="nms">apass='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-kinds of subduing and constrain necessary for the construction of an ='strcls'>*organized and inhibited corporeality='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Laura's project)
="prgrph">-="trms">instruments of domestication
fixed pictorial (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a holding action) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">social organization
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study object of ="trms">="trms">empirical ="trms">sciences around 1880='lgc'>: perceptual field newly de="trms">composed into various abstract units of sensation ='lgc'>+ related possibilities of synthesis
='lgc'>+ newly invented nervous disorders (hysteria, etc.)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (busy with) fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures of the ="trms">integrity of perception ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> disas="trms">sociated fragments ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (impairment a="trms">symbolias='lgc'>:)
='strcls'>*agnosia='strcls'>*='lgc'>: inability to make any conceptual or ="trms">symbolic identification of an object ='lgc'>~ visual information experienced with a primal strangeness='lgc'>:
“perceptual field ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">pragmatic plasticity”
flat perception, no determination of depth object
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> labelled as pathological ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= my amazon project='lgc'>--was a form agnosia='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•resistance to ="trms">consuming the ="trms">world in a productive or ="trms">social way
="lsts lst1">•rejection of habitual or conventional patterns of organized perceptual information='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-this is part of the ="trms">phenomenology of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='strcls'>***
de="trms">symbolization of perception ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Foad
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='lgc'>{for Janet:='lgc'>} attention='lgc'>: power of mental synthesis (='lgc'>~ the power of subject to form new perception, to have ="trms">memories)
='lgc'>{for ="ppl">Freud:='lgc'>} attention='lgc'>: dynamic activity of repression
“='lgc'>[a='lgc'>] ="trms">society recognizes itself and its own ="trms">positivity through the morbid and pathological forms it identifies and invents” (="ppl">="ppl">Crary ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault)
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subjectivity='lgc'>: provisional assembly of mobile and mutable components ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> attentiveness='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•conscious/voluntary ='lgc'>{task-oriented, higher behaviour='lgc'>}
="lsts lst1">•automatic/passive ='lgc'>{areas of habitual activity, daydreaming, reverie, ="trms">somnambulant states='lgc'>}
(the state of) the seated woman
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='lgc'>[19th century regime of facility='lgc'>]
Clark's “face of ="trms">fashion” (= Manet's blanks), ="trms">fashion would keep one's face from any identity (='lgc'>==> ‘the look’='lgc'>: public, outward, blase, impassive, not bored, not tired, not disdainful, not quite focused on anything)
impersonality ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->(="ppl">Benjamin's ="trms">modernity='lgc'>:) public space in which, for the first time, individuals are ="trms">systematically habituated not to return the gaze of the other ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> “chi dadash!='qstn'>?” or “was guckst du='qstn'>?!"='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-for three centuries, the meaning of human face was explained in terms of ="trms">rhetoric of ="trms">language. in 19th century suddenly face occupies a precarious ="trms">position='lgc'>: it is belonging to a human being as a='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•physiological organism
="lsts lst1">•privatized, ="trms">socialized individual subject
='lgc'>--="ppl">Darwin='lgc'>='lgc'>--> split status of face='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">symptom of an organism's anatomical and physiological functioning
="lsts lst1">•the mark of the success or fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure of a process of self-mastery and control (in the ="trms">social construction of a normative individual)
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