[...]stream of information that has no evident structure or coherence ='lgc'>+ extracting from that disjunct texture (artwork, chaotic syntax of dreams, indecipherable ="trms">present,) some ="trms">interpretive clarity (feedback)
="ppl">Freud ='lgc'>+ Cezzaine ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> design a countermodel of attentiveness that surmounts an ='strcls'>***inhibition of the peripheral='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>=/= notion of selection ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> finding out what one al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready knows)
='strcls'>****diffuse attention ='lgc'>=/= critical attention='strcls'>**** (a faculty in which the observer is led to reject some of the ideas that occur to him after perceiving them)
(at the turn of the century) experience='lgc'>: compulsory ="trms">consumption of information
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(from) the experience of deindividualtion (in piazza) ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a more controllable form of loneliness (bedroom)
='lgc'>[this='lgc'>] p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lural hybrid space of Roman square (="ppl">="ppl">Crary on ="ppl">Freud's re="trms">presentation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= a ="trms">spectacle ="trms">society ='lgc'>: a patchwork of fluctuating effects in which individuals and groups continually reconstitute themselves (either creativity or reactively) ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Guy ="ppl">Debord's) seamless regime of separation, ominous collective mobilization
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="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari's Varuna and Mitra ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lacking a mythology of conflict (='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Singh's analysis)
forming a milieu of ="trms">interiority ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> double ="trms">articulation that makes the State ="trms">apparatus into a stratum
State's operates by='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•seizes (immediate, magical capture)
="lsts lst1">•binds (preventing all combat ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pre="trms">supposing a juridical ="trms">integration of war)
“chess (pieces are ="trms">coded)='lgc'> = a game of State”
chess='lgc'>: an institutionalized, regulated, ="trms">coded war, pure strategy ='lgc'>=/= Go='lgc'>: pure ="trms">semiology
(what is game's form of ="trms">interiority)
nonsubjectified machine assemblage
...returning from the outside with that inconceivable thing, an army
magical-despotic State (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Eszter)
Genghis ="ppl">Khan didn't understand the ="trms">phenomenon of the city ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> war machine='lgc'>: a pure form of exteriority
magic violence
military institution
="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari='lgc'>: State has no war machine of its own; it can only appropriate one in the form of a military institution
machine='lgc'>: ="trms">ontology of production
State thinkers='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Goethe
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Hegel
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Euclid (finding a foundation for the enterprise) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> logos='lgc'>: the law over the nomos (from Proto-Indo-European nem-='lgc'>: distribute)='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{="ppl">Euclidian space='lgc'>: a sufficient number of dimensions, by which one reintroduces parallelism between two vectors, treating multiplicity as though it were immersed in this homogeneous and striated space of reproduction='lgc'>}
="lsts lst1">•Archimedes (an operative projective descriptive ="trms">geometry)
="lsts lst1">•Durkheim ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to give the republic a secular model of thought
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•
political ="trms">differentiation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> State ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= distinct organs of power (='lgc'>=/= chief رئیس قبیله) ='lgc'>==!='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>==> economic development
(="frds scrmbld">Laura='lgc'>:) keep the ="trms">social body from crystallizing ='lgc'>=/= (concern of the State='lgc'>:) to conserve
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]war='lgc'>: a mode of a ="trms">social state that wards off and prevents the State; that which limits exchange, maintains them in the framework of alliances ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (critical ="trms">epistemologies='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*war replaces “exchange” with “alliances”='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[sometimes leadership='lgc'>] inhibits the installation of stable powers, in favor of a fabric of immanent ="trms">relations (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> could we say that about ="nms">Iran today='qstn'>?)
diffusion of prestige
(="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari='lgc'>:)
types/organs that center around organs of power='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•rhizome
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>=/= aborescent
family (aborescent type that centers around organs of power ='lgc'>--structuring='lgc'>='lgc'>--> centralized ="trms">societies) ='lgc'>=/= pack (bands, rhizome)
State ='lgc'>=/= perpetual blackmail by abandonment or betrayal (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">Iran)
='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'>{
="lsts lst1">•large-scale projects
="lsts lst1">•constitution of surpluses
="lsts lst1">•organization of the cor="trms">responding public functions
="lsts lst1">•on-the-spot emergence (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> kinda magical, and ="trms">monstrous, miraculous)
war machine='lgc'>: a counter-State mechanism
realized completely in='lgc'>: the “barbaric” assemblages of nomadic warriors (='lgc'>=/= “savages” assemblages of primitive ="trms">societies)
="prgrph">-problem='lgc'>: it cannot relay
="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari ask='lgc'>: so, why did the State triumph='qstn'>?
the ="trms">fable of Urstaat='lgc'>: the State clearly dates back to the most remote ages of humanity
law of the State ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">interior and exterior, Sovereignty only reigns over what it is capable of ="trms">internalizing, of appropriating locally
='lgc'>=/= the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights of segmentary ="trms">societies
_='lgc'>~='strcls'>*neoprimitivism='strcls'>*='lgc'>~_
poly="trms">morphous war machine
commercial circuit...
="trms">religious creation...
(="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari's) space='lgc'>:
='strcls'>*smooth='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•vectorial ↗️⤴️↘️↞
="lsts lst1">•projective 📹
="lsts lst1">•topological 🐍 (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">geometrical)
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*space is occupied without being counted='strcls'>*
='lgc'>=/=
='strcls'>*striated='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•metric -|-|-|-|-
="prgrph">-
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*space of counted without being occupied='strcls'>*
“minor ="trms">science” (in which, model are='lgc'>:)
="lstsrd">1. hydraulic ='lgc'>=/= hylo="trms">morphic
="lstsrd">2. of becoming and heterogeneity
="lstsrd">3. goes from a curvilinear declination to the formation of spirals and vortices on an inclined plane (='lgc'>=/= from straight line to its parallels) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vortical
="lstsrd">4. ='strcls'>*****problematic(='lgc'>='lgc'>==> event ='lgc'>--to go from a problem to the accidents that both condition and resolve it ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>[all kinds of='lgc'>] deformations, transmutations, passages to the limit, each figure designates an “event”) ='lgc'>=/= theorematic(='lgc'>='lgc'>==> essence ='lgc'>--theorematic='lgc'>: to go by ="trms">specific ="trms">differences from a genus to its ="trms">species, or by deduction from a stable essence to the properties deriving from it) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> make your model problematic, not affirmed by theoretical bullshit! ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my performances are about trying to find a way of not being theorematic while doing theory='lgc'>]='strcls'>***** (and they say ‘problematic’ the problem it is not an “obstacle”)
='lgc'>=/= “royal ="trms">science”='lgc'>: reducing the “problem-element” and subordinate it to the “theorem-element.” State needs to subordinate hydraulic force ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> prevent turbulence (='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Middle East ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? distributed turbulence across a smooth space ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- fucked up='lgc'>], ='lgc'>[in smooth space:='lgc'>] vortical movement that can rise up at any point)
="lsts lst1">•civil
="lsts lst1">•static
="lsts lst1">•ordinal
/="trms">matter ='lgc'>--assigned-to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> content
/form ='lgc'>--assigned-to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> expression
='lgc'>='lgc'>~= hylo="trms">morphic='lgc'>: implying both a form that organizes ="trms">matter and a ="trms">matter prepared for the form (='lgc'>=/= hydraulic) ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ='strcls'>*a ="trms">society divided into governors and governed='strcls'>*
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> State ="trms">science (appropriates and transforms the elements of='lgc'>:)
='lgc'>=/= “nomadic ="trms">science” (Homeland TV series sug="trms">gesting US government is a nomadic ="trms">science='lgc'>: viewpoint of ="trms">affections ='lgc'>+ nomadic operation of rogue CIA operatives ='lgc'>+ presidential decentralized power dynamic)
="lsts lst1">•becoming
="lsts lst1">•heterogeneity
="lsts lst1">•in="trms">finitesimal
="lsts lst1">•passage
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in tune with the connection between content and expression, ='strcls'>***essentially laden with singularities='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my ="trms">lectures='qstn'>? an art, a ="trms">technique, a ="trms">science ='lgc'>: following the connections between singularities of ="trms">matter and traits of expression, they seize or determine singularities in the ="trms">matter ='lgc'>=/= constituting a general form)
='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*chaotic ="trms">science='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what kind of figure of engineer='qstn'>? ='at'>@="frds">Sina)
='strcls'>*the problemata='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vortices ='and'>& projections ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> chaotic ="trms">imagination='lgc'>]
(projected into an abstract knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mapping knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges)
State ="trms">science ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek
imposes its form of Sovereignty on the inventinos of nomad ="trms">sciencet
to administrate projections ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> submit (war machine) to civil and metric rules that strictly limit, control, localize (nomad ="trms">science)
“rhythm ='lgc'>=/= turbulence”
cursing of a river='strcls'>*
Gothic conquered a smooth space ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the cutting of the stone (='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? digital) ='lgc'>+ ‘plane of projection’='lgc'>: a plane limit, a series of successive approximations or placings-in-variations
='lgc'>=/= Romanesque remained striated space ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vault depends on the juxta="trms">position of parallel pillars
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='lgc'>--D='lgc'>+G='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***one does not re="trms">present, one engenders and ="trms">traverses='strcls'>***
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*to engender='lgc'>: give you a baby from behind. ='strcls'>*to ="trms">traverse='lgc'>: zigzagging='lgc'>]
='lgc'>--democracy='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one re="trms">presents visually
='lgc'>--="frds">Sina='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one sug="trms">gests chaotically
roadways (well-centralized administration) ='lgc'>=/= bridges (active, dynamic, collective experimentation)
lobby='lgc'>: a group with fluid c="trms">ontours, whose ="trms">position is very ambiguous in ="trms">relation to the State it wishes to influence
(for Ibn Khaldun='lgc'>:) war machine='lgc'>: families or lineages ='lgc'>+ esprit de corps
pouvoir (monopoly of an organic power) ='lgc'>=/= puissance (a vortical body in a nomad space)
(to address the) vague='lgc'> = vagabond, nomadic, ="trms">morphological essences (='lgc'>=/= ideal, royal, imperial essences)='lgc'> = haecceities
='lgc'>{='thdf'>for example the circle is an organic, ideal, fixed essence, but roundness is a vague and fluent essence, distinct both from the circle and things that are round (a vase, a wheel, a sun)='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> State is perpetually producing and reproducing ideal circles ='lgc'>=/= war machine makes something round
="frds scrmbld">Agnes drawings ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> proto="trms">geometry
="frds scrmbld">Agnes='lgc'> = drwaing and linking up smooth space
(is Finn in Adventure Time a man of State ot nomadic ="trms">scientist='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) journey-men's as="trms">sociations
nomadic ='lgc'><='lgc'>==form='lgc'>== masons, carpenters, smiths
labor ='lgc'><='lgc'>== regulating the movement of the flow of labor, assigning it channels and conduits, forming corporations, relying on forced manpower ="trms">recruit
(plane of) consistency ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= com="trms">position ='lgc'>=/= (place of) organization ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= formation
='strcls'>***everything is about the division of labor='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this is the most critical about ="nms">apass)
State='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•repress the nomad
="lsts lst1">•repress the minor ="trms">science
="lsts lst1">•oppose vague essences (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> visa and ="trms">integration)
="lsts lst1">•operative ="trms">geometry of the trait
='lgc'>=/= nomad imply a division of labor opposed to the norms of State
="frds scrmbld">Steven='lgc'>: a dynamic connection between support and ornament ='lgc'>=/= ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alex's hylo="trms">morphic schema (the search for laws in extracting constants ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an invariable form for variables ='lgc'>[for ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alex='lgc'>: the invariable de="trms">finition of artistic research for variable artists='lgc'>])
compars ='lgc'>=/= dispars
(let's go) from ="trms">matter-form ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">material-force(= placing the variables themselves in a state of continous variation)
='lgc'>[="frds">Sina='lgc'>: let's go instead of thinking about ‘flow’ ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘force'='lgc'>]
force (is full of)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•equations “=”
="lsts lst1">•adequations (change in the meaning of a term depending upon context)
="lsts lst1">•inequations “='lgc'>=/=”
="lsts lst1">•="trms">differential equations (functions ='lgc'>+ derivatives ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> useful for modeling and simulating physical ="trms">phenomena) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> solution of a ="trms">differential equation is a function ='lgc'>=/= algebraic equations (solution of an algebraic equation is a value)
="lsts lst1">•
(distribution of ="trms">matter in='lgc'>:)
space of pillars
striated by the fall of bodies
verticals of gravity
parallel layers
quantitative and ="trms">scientific oppsositions (such as='lgc'>: speed/slowness, quick/weighty, celeritas/gravitas)
='lgc'>=/= qualitative oppsositions
='lgc'>=/= mythological structures
(i am basically ="trms">interested in the law of falling bodies)
(my ="trms">lectures='lgc'>: an art of) following ='lgc'>=/= flowing
="prgrph">-one never follows in order to reproduce
="prgrph">-in following, one is in search of singularities of a ="trms">matter
(my whole work has been about the art of being carried away by the vortical flow of texts)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="nms">ajayeb ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= a vertical field across which singularities are scattered like so many accidents (i see them as ‘problems,’ and my job is to follow them)
global theory of waves
(="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari romanticizing the royal ="trms">science='lgc'>:) “reproducing implies the performance of a fixed point of view that is external to what is reproduced” (='lgc'>--no='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it is about saying what you say attached to a temporary fixed point ='lgc'>[for example an identity='lgc'>], in order to be able to be proven wrong)
="trms">categorical apo="trms">dictic ="trms">apparatus
='lgc'>[="trms">category='lgc'> = intrinsic concepts='lgc'>]
content is (not='qstn'>?) always conformist (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- Julia was never)
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="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alex='lgc'>: imperium of true thinking ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> capture, seizure, binding, constituting the efficacy of a foundation (= myth) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]logos='lgc'>: sanction of a ground
="trms">modern state='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*realized reason='strcls'>*, the rational and reasonable organization of a ="trms">community
="prgrph">-what are the exchanges that take place between the State and reason
="trms">modern state reason ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “the more you obey, the more you will be master” (for you will be only obeying pure reason) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> philosophy assigned itself the role of ground
common sense='lgc'>: the unity of all faculties at center
(in the archaic model imperial State='lgc'>:) ="trms">poet='lgc'> = image trainer ='lgc'>=/= (toady's) artist='lgc'>: (="ppl">Deleuzian) ='strcls'>*private thinker='strcls'>* (making counterthought, destroy images) ='lgc'>=/= public professor
="prgrph">-problem with private thinker is that it exaggerates ="trms">interiority when it is a ="trms">question of outside thought ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">question of how ='strcls'>**to place the thought in an immediate ="trms">relation with the outside, with the forces of the outside='strcls'>** (to make thought a war machine='qstn'>?)
(="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alex in search of) maxim ='lgc'>=/= aphorism (always awaits its meaning from a new external force, a final force that utilizes it) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- my ="trms">interest
(='qstn'>?which) image inspired by State ="trms">apparatus
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='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">method='lgc'>: the striated space of the cogitatio universalis ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> path (='lgc'>=/= bridge)
thought ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= vampire (has no image)
(in the smooth space of Zen) the arrow does not go from one point to another but is taken up at any point, to be sent to any other point, and tends to permute with the ="trms"nttrm="search">archer and the target (='at'>#my bow and arrow ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it takes no aim but hopes the arrow will stick somewhere)
="prgrph">-whenever a “thinker” shoots an arrow, there is a man of the State, a shadow or an image of a man of the State, that counsels and admonishes him, and wants to assign him a target or aim (='at'>#my bow and arrow ="trms">joke ='at'>@="nms">apass)
pathetic texts='lgc'>: thought becomes pathos (='lgc'>=/= logos ='lgc'>=/= mythos)
(a lot of ="trms">poetry today is like this='lgc'>:)
(an antidialogue between brother and sister='lgc'>:) one ='strcls'>*speaks before knowing='strcls'>* while the other ='strcls'>*relays before having understood='strcls'>*
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the necessity of not having control over ="trms">language ='lgc'>~ (="frds scrmbld">Chloe='lgc'>:) the necessity of being a foreigner in one's own tongue
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “bring something incomprehensible into the ="trms">world” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in the form of exteriority
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the becoming woman of the thinker ='lgc'>~ the becoming thought of the woman
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="frds scrmbld">Chloe =) the Gemüt ='lgc'>[feeling, heart, soul, mind='lgc'>] that refuses to be controlled ='lgc'>==forms='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a war machine ='lgc'>: a thought grappling with exterior forces instead of being gathered up in an ="trms">interior form
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> operating by relay ='lgc'>=/= forming an image ='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Robin,Robot,Robert,Robocop">Rob='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a thought that appeals to government ministry
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> event-thought ='lgc'>=/= subject-thought
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> problem-thought ='lgc'>=/= essence-thought, theorem
striating of mental space ='lgc'>=/= ="frds">Sina's textures and ="trms">lectures
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Pierre='lgc'>: is horizon a striation='qstn'>?
="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari='lgc'>: a horizonless milieu ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> smooth space
the true name of race='lgc'>: bastard, mixed-blood
="prgrph">-a race is defined not by its purity but rather by the impurity conferred upon it by a ="trms">system of domination
='lgc'>[(aspects of) war machine or='lgc'>] machine='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•spatiogeographic
="lsts lst1">•arithmatic
="lsts lst1">•="trms">affective
principle ='lgc'>=/= consequence
="prgrph">-in nomads life what is a principle and what is only a consequence='qstn'>?
='lgc'>{migrant ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> goes principally='lgc'>}='lgc'>=/=='lgc'>{nomad ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> goes as a consequence='lgc'>}
='lgc'>{(sedentary) road ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> parcel out a closed space to people='lgc'>}='lgc'>=/=='lgc'>{(nomadic) ="trms">trajectory ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> distributes people or ="trms">animals in an open space, indi="trms">finite and non="trms">communicating='lgc'>}
(space) in the manner of a vortex
migrant leaves behind a milieu that has become a="trms">morphous or hostile
forest and house ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> both striated='qstn'>?
pigs ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">pragmatism or expertise
="prgrph">-the pigs ="trms">story might not predict the coming of the nomad wolf, but it constitutes the principles of architecture for which an incoming is striated. striated space is the result of the pigs ="trms">story
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does mysticism always requires deprivation of life='qstn'>? mysticism ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? ="trms">symbolism
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]godzilla='lgc'>: dramatization of where the mountain recedes, of the earth deterritorializing itself ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> providing the nomad with a territory
='strcls'>*vectors of deterritorialization and local operations='strcls'>* that='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•wolf adds to the forest
="lsts lst1">•godzilla adds to Tokio
="lsts lst1">•
='at'>#video concept
in tiktok comedy style, a group of ="nms">iranians (talking ="trms">Farsi, all acted by one person='qstn'>?) are personifying a govermental ="trms">response to a godzilla who is roaming in the city.
localized ='lgc'>=/= delimited
='lgc'>[the spot where the forest recedes='lgc'>] or the desert advances
گرگ در جنگل / آل در بیابان
.... .\ ____ _
... \_____
. .... \ __ __
.... . \ ____
. ...\ _ ___ _
assigned direction ='lgc'>=/= direction of the crossing
(for ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari) ="trms">religion='lgc'>: a ="trms">technique of converting the absolute, making the absolute appear in a particular place ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the sacred place of ="trms">religion is fundamentally a center that repels the ='strcls'>*obscure nomos='strcls'>*='lgc'>[= Bayazid بایزید='lgc'>]
vagabond monotheism
Sascha's ="trms">relation to the absolute through the space of the machine
electrically tampered ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= electrically tamed
از چادر نشین به هجرت reterritorialization of the spiritual ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> همدستی مهاجر با چادر نشین ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> war machine
/='strcls'>*='lgc'>[khawarij خوارج during the first fitna فتنه اول ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> arbitration ='lgc'>=/= war machine in which anyone can be Imam='lgc'>]
...when ="trms">religion becomes a war machine (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> absolute deterritorialization) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Isis
...a ="trms">society reduced to the military enterprise ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Avengers
...gravitational verticals ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> forest
...="trms">generalized parallels ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> agriculture
three little pigs can be nomads='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> creating the house and then leave it (as an empty stronghold)
="trms">animal raising for the most part outside the control of sedentaries
orient='lgc'>: absence of State-form (!)
various components plied by escape vectors ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> despotic formation (in orient)
oriental State (sheltered in striated space) ='lgc'>=/= nomad war machine
revolution ='lgc'>--western='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transformation of the State
revolution ='lgc'>--eastern='lgc'>='lgc'>--> abolition of the State
the empires of the orient, africa, america run against wide-open smooth spaces that penetrate them and maintain gaps between their component (='strcls'>*the nomos does not become countryside='strcls'>*, the countryside does not ="trms">communicate with the town, large-scale ="trms">animal raising is the affair of the nomads, etc.) ='lgc'>=/= Black Panther's fantasy of the african State
psychoanalysis of the dream of the State ='qstn'>? and its ="trms">relation to its reality
(to establish) a zone of ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights over an entire exterior ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> rage ='and'>& innocence
Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> war machine striated final merged in a cyber-flux with its human counterpart ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">nature dominated (battle to occupy the smooth space)
='lgc'>[what now people want in ="nms">Iran='lgc'>: not the smooth space a deterritorializing State, rather:='lgc'>]
capture of flows
(need for) fixed paths
well-defined directions ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> restrict speed, regulate circulation, relativized movement
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> polics='lgc'> = management of the public ways ='lgc'>=/= fluidity of messages and masses
silk road...
="nms">Iran State='lgc'> = smooth ='lgc'>+ striated
State ="trms">translates='lgc'>: “moving bodies” ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “moved bodies”
” ” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ” “
="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek transportation ="trms">system
sedentary kind of tey-ol-arz طی الارض
what homeless/drunk people do in cities ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reconstitution of a smooth space='lgc'> = a manner of being in space as though it were smooth
='strcls'>***rebellious space is always smooth space='strcls'>***
virtual space is neither striated nor smooth space
multiplication of relative movements ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> smooth space ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the sea becomes the place of the ‘fleet in being’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nomadism accompanying a ="trms">worldwide war machine
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Jassem's rebellious ="trms">nature ='lgc'>=/= ="frds scrmbld">Pierre's staying with the striated space (with the trouble, with the institution, )
decimal grouping ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> comes from the nomads
three major types of organization='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. lineal
="lstsrd">2. territorial
="lstsrd">3. numerical
number ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> lineage
spatium (="trms">differentiated space with depth and levels) ='lgc'>=/= extensio (immanent center, divisible homologous parts, and ="trms">symmetrical and reversible ="trms">relations)
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
numbering of numbers
census
taxation
election
(="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari are wrong about numbers serving to gain mastery over ="trms">matter ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Verran's work on number in Africa)
State='lgc'> = a teritorial principle (of deterritorialization that links the number to metric magnitudes) ='lgc'>--D='lgc'>+G='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “we don't believe that the conditions of independence or autonomy of the number can be found in the State (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari leftist tendency to purity the State)
(operating war machine ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) numbering number ='lgc'>: autonomous arithmetic organization
='strcls'>*numbers appear as soon as one distribute something in space ='lgc'>=/= distribution of space (that is more the State's business)='strcls'>*
independence of the number in ="trms">relation to space ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> concrete ="trms">nature of smooth space
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> number='lgc'>: a means of moving ='lgc'>=/= means of counting
='strcls'>*middle ages curse sheets and taxa='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">geometry of smooth space
="lsts lst1">•a minor, operative ="trms">geometry
='lgc'>=='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh='lgc'>: ="trms">geometry of the trait between the rumers of the ="trms">world, senses, and ="trms">writing
vector ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> directional number ='lgc'>=/= dimentional number ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? metric number
directions are everywhere
rhythmic ='lgc'>=/= harmonic (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> setar / is my whole work about harmonic='qstn'>? ="trms">horror-nic)
order of displacement
concentration-camp ="trms">society='lgc'>: ‘people='lgc'> = deterritorialized numbers’ (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fantasy of full despotism in The Handmaid's Tale)
='strcls'>**the ="trms">question is not one of good or bad but of ="trms">specificity='strcls'>** (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- when i say who what artists say could have a chance of being disputed)
complex='lgc'> = ="trms">articulated
the Roman legion was a number made up of numbers, ="trms">articulated in such a way that the segments become mobile, and the figures ="trms">geometrical, changing, transformational
logistics='lgc'>: the art of external ="trms">relations
Genghis ="ppl">Khan ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> com="trms">position of the steppe
Moses ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> com="trms">position of the desert
nomads as ="trms">child stealers
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(commissars, diplomats, spies, strategists, logisticians) cannot be explained away as a “whim of the sultan”
special numerical body
slave-infidel-foreigner is the one who becomes a soldier and believer while remaining deterritorialized in ="trms">relation to the lineages and the State ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> نظامالملک سیاستنامه
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='strcls'>*nomads have no ="trms">history, they only have ="trms">geometry='strcls'>*
Iron Man's ="trms">technological de="trms">finition='lgc'>: “weapon (destroying people) ='lgc'>=/= tool (producing goods)”
weapon ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> projection, anything that throws or is thrown
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Pierre ='strcls'>*='thdf'>the notion of “problem” is related to the war machine='strcls'>*
introjective='lgc'>: preparing a ="trms">matter from a distance, in order to bring it to a state of equilibrium or to appropriate it for a form of ="trms">interiority
(projection='lgc'>: appropriate it for a form of exteriority)
='at'>#bow and arrow ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hunt (when speed is as="trms">sociated primarily with the hunted ="trms">animal) ='lgc'>=/= war (speed is an independent variable)
prey ='lgc'>=/= enemy
prey ='lgc'>=/= motor
(='at'>#bow and arrow does ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*abstracts ='thdf'>the idea of motor and applying it to itself='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">generalize ='thdf'>the idea of prey by applying it to the enemy)
the economy of hunted ="trms">animal
eco="trms">system ="trms">situated at the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> garden of eden / heaven
eco="trms">system ="trms">situated at the end ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> apocalypse / end-time
discovery of a projecting and projectile ="trms">system ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> war machine
war machine
breeding ='lgc'>+ training
in="trms">situtes an entire economy of violence
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*a way of making violence durable='strcls'>*
two ideal models motor='lgc'>:
work ='lgc'>=/= free action
="lsts lst1">•(let's) work='lgc'>: tool meets resistance
="lsts lst1">•free action='lgc'>: operates only upon the mobile body itself, is not ="trms">consumed in its effect(='qstn'>?), continues from one moment to the next ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> style of artistic research='lgc'>]. the way in which the elements of the body escape gravitation to occupy absolutely a nonpunctuated space
weapon is moving
tool is moved
tool pre="trms">supposes work, tool does not define work
='strcls'>***the principle behind all ="trms">technology is to de="trms">monstrate that a ="trms">technical element remains abstract='strcls'>***, remains entirely undetermined ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> as long as one does not relate it to an assemblage it pre="trms">supposes
tool
="prgrph">-one cannot speak of weapons or tools before defining the constituent assemblages they pre="trms">suppose and enter into ='at'>@OSP
the tool is essentially tied to a gensis, a displacement, and an expenditure of force (whose laws reside in work) ='lgc'>=/= weapon concerns only the exercise or manifestation of force in space and time (in conformity with free action)
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when speed added to displacement ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='qstn'>?
tools ='and'>& weapons='lgc'> = consequences ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/=='qstn'>? causes
the morning star and the battle-axes
variable assemblages of human, ="trms">animal, and thing
='strcls'>*assemblage='strcls'>*='lgc'>: (passional) com="trms">positions of desire='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ="trms">natural determination, spontaneous determination='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--D='lgc'>+G='lgc'>='lgc'>--> there is no desire, but assembling/assembled desire
assemblage ='lgc'>==(bring into play)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]passion='lgc'>: effectuations of desire that differ ="trms">according to the assemblage ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= Germany='lgc'>]
man-="trms">animal-weapon
man-horse-bow
assemblage of speed
...
(what Game of Thrones TV series missed='lgc'>:) military of men ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> homosexual eros replaces the ="trms">zoosexual eros of horesman ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> اسب امام حسین='lgc'>]
State ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'>{(training of) worker ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (apprenticeship of) soldier='lgc'>}
='lgc'>{="trms">affect='lgc'>: active discharge of emotion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> projectile ='lgc'>~ weapon='lgc'>}='lgc'>=/=='lgc'>{feeling='lgc'>: displaced, retarded, resisting emotion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> introceptive ='lgc'>~ tool='lgc'>}
martial arts='lgc'>: the not-doing of the warrior ='lgc'>~ the undoing of the subject
effectuated in the void (='lgc'>=/= nothingness)
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form-="trms">matter ='lgc'>=/= motif-support
(the support is as mobile as the motif)
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goldsmith's and silversmith's is the barbarian art par excellence
picto-ideographic
short war
live messages
='lgc'>[text that is='lgc'>] ornamental (a way of en="trms">coding) ='lgc'>=/= scriptural (="trms">according to a sacred ="trms">writing)
tools
weapons
signs
jewellery
jewellery/sign ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> expression
model ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> free action / work
direction ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> projection / introception (='at'>#bow and arrow)
(for ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>***architecture and cooking have an af="trms">finity with the State ='lgc'>=/= music and ="trms">drugs have ="trms">differential traits ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> on the side of the nomadic war machine
="trms">schizophrenic taste for the tool that moves it away from work and towards free action ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">schizophrenic taste for the weapon that turns it into a means for peace (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- i prefer not to do this)
everything is ambiguous
rebel='lgc'>: a ="trms">transitional figure of worker-solder (drawing the worker, on the one hand, and the soldier, on the other), a shared line of flight='lgc'>: “i seek a weapon ='and'>& i am looking for a tool”
‘line of flight’='lgc'>: ="trms">communication with smooth space
='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: to figure a trans="trms">historical assemblage (that is untimely ='lgc'>=/= eternal ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">historical) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> encounter the myth anew ='lgc'>=/= demystification='lgc'>: re-conquer the myth
the empire
="lsts lst1">•="trms">communicates with
="lsts lst1">•conquer
="lsts lst1">•="trms">integrates with
="trms">communication (of secret) ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> adaptation, propagation
saber ='lgc'>=/= sword
the flow of ="trms">matter-movement
conveying singularities and traints of expression
assemblage ='lgc'>--="trms">differentiates='lgc'>='lgc'>--> phyla (major taxonomic class) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= flow ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> division into many ="trms">different phylas ='lgc'>+ introducing selective discontinuities
="trms">technological vitalism
='strcls'>*refract ="trms">differentiates='strcls'>*, retains, selects, draws together, causes to converge, invents
region of vague and ="trms">material essences ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> essences that are vagabond yet ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorous ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">situate fuzzy aggregates ='lgc'>=/= fixed distinct and formed essences
corporeality='lgc'> = formed and perceived thinghood
="lsts lst1">•inseparable from processes of transformation
="lsts lst1">•inseparable from expressive qualities
vague='lgc'> = ="trms">intermediary ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> autonomous, stretching itself between things and thoughts ='lgc'>--establish='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new ="trms">relations (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this is what Manning has adopted from ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari)
variable intense ="trms">affects
topological ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">geometrical
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hylo="trms">morphic model ='lgc'>=/= active and ="trms">affective... (="trms">matter-flow can only be followed)
hylo="trms">morphic='lgc'>: imposing a form upon ="trms">matter ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">materiality possessing a nomos ='lgc'>: ="trms">material traits of expression constituting ="trms">affects (='thdf'>for example surrendering to the wood, then following where it leads by connecting operations to a ="trms">materiality...)
="prgrph">-the critique of the hylo="trms">morphic schema is based on the existence between form and ="trms">matter, of a zone of medium and ="trms">intermediary dimension, of energetic... ='lgc'>[and what about digital ="trms">technology='qstn'>?='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we need more artisan (follows the ="trms">matter) ='lgc'>=/= artist (invents/breaks the ="trms">matter)
='strcls'>*artisan='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one who is determined in such a way as to follow a flow of ="trms">matter, of ='strcls'>*machinic phylum='strcls'>* (='at'>@OSP, ='thdf'>for example ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurgist='lgc'> = one who works inside the mold, the consciousness of thought of the ="trms">matter-flow ='lgc'>+ ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal the correlate of this consciousness)
='lgc'>[follow a flow of ="trms">matter='lgc'> = to itinerate, to ambulate='lgc'>]
artisan ='lgc'>=/= farmer
artisan ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">animal raiser
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]artisan='lgc'>: take up ="trms">craft activity ='lgc'>+ follow the ="trms">matter-flow as pure productivity
continous development of form, chromaticism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a form proper to ="trms">matter ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? not in middle east='lgc'>: ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurgist ='lgc'>=/= ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosist ="trms">poet ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> chaotic ='lgc'>=/= harmonic, nomadic='lgc'>]
not everything is ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal, but ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal is everywhere (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what would X-Men say about this)
='lgc'>--D='lgc'>+G='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*thought is born more from ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal than from stone='strcls'>*(!!)
="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurgy is minor ="trms">science, vague ="trms">science, ="trms">phenomenology of ="trms">matter
="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal is neither a thing not an organism, but a ='strcls'>*body without organs='strcls'>*
(on the ="trms">symbolic value of ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal and its cor="trms">respondence with an organic soul but on the immanent power of corporeality)
smiths (="frds">Sina, OSP='qstn'>?)
their space is neither the striated space of the sedentary nor the smooth space of the nomad (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my room and computer desktop) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#tent, in the manner of a cave or a hole
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*they are cave dwellers not by ="trms">nature by by artistry and need='strcls'>*
="trms">internal itinerancy, their vague essences ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> their ="trms">relation to others
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*smith='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[follows the flow of ="trms">matter ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (surplus value='lgc'>:) ‘resist the State’, Tamar Yaen ="frds scrmbld">Pierre ="frds">Sina ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Godard">Goda='lgc'>]
='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*migrant='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[existence depends upon and constrained by the logic of the State (with its boundaries and borders) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (surplus value='lgc'>:) ‘residual gold in the ruins’, ="frds scrmbld">Hoda ="frds scrmbld">Sana Rui Flavio ="frds scrmbld">Quinsy ="frds scrmbld">Elen='lgc'>]
='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*nomad='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[occupies and inhabits smooth space beyond or bellow the State ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (surplus value='lgc'>:) ‘alternative’, Deborah ="frds scrmbld">Xiri ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo Isabel ="frds scrmbld">Aela ="frds scrmbld">Agnes='lgc'>]
='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*="trms">pastoral transhuman='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[rotates through a circuit ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (surplus value='lgc'>:) ‘="trms">erotic in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusivity'='lgc'>]
vital forms of nonorganic life
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
your strength and your nothingness
transpierce ='lgc'>=/= scaling
excavate ='lgc'>=/= striating
...vagabond sign of itinerancy سيارى
from hole to hole
a line of variation
='strcls'>***the hybrid ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurgist, a weapon- and toolmaker, ="trms">communicates with the sedentaries and with the nomads at the same time='strcls'>***
phylum='lgc'>:
='lgc'>--connected-to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nomad space
='lgc'>--conjugates-with='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sedentary space
(we have both='lgc'>:)
='strcls'>*war machine='strcls'>*='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•opening
="lsts lst1">•rhizome
="lsts lst1">•gaps
="lsts lst1">•detours
="lsts lst1">•holes
="lsts lst1">•stems
='lgc'>=/=
='strcls'>*state ="trms">apparatus='strcls'>*='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•capture phylum
="lsts lst1">•play the lines of flight
="lsts lst1">•into ="trms">code
="lsts lst1">•into form
war machine collides with States and cities (forces of striation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> war
="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari ask='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-how will the State appropriate the war machine='qstn'>?
(appropriate='lgc'>: subordinates it to its political aims)
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from encasement قفسه ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (forms of) appropriation تصاحب
Genghis ="ppl">Khan and his followers were able to hold out for a long time by partially ="trms">integrating themselves into the conquered empires, while at the same time maintaining a smooth space on the steppes to which the imperial centers were subordinated
Timur who constructed a fantastic war machine turned back against the nomads, but who, by that very fact, was ="trms">obliged to erect a State ="trms">apparatus all the heavier and more unproductive since it existed only as the empty form of appropriation of that machine
the peace of terror or survival
="prgrph">-the postfascist figure that takes peace as its object directly
="prgrph">-we have seen war machine assign its objective a peace still more terrifying than fascist death
='strcls'>*the un="trms">specified enemy='strcls'>* we have seen it put its counterguerrilla elements into place
two poles of war machine='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. it takes war for its object and forms a line of destruction prolongable to the limits of the universe
="lstsrd">2. when it, with in="trms">finitely lower qualities, has as its object not war but the drawing of a ='strcls'>*creative line of flight='strcls'>* (the com="trms">position of a smooth space and of the movement of people in that space)
an ideological, ="trms">scientific, or artistic movement can be a potential war machine, to the precise extent to which it draws, in ="trms">relation to aphylum, a plane of consistency, a creative line of flight, a smooth space of displacement
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="ppl">Daston ="trms">history of reason
="ppl">Daston asking='lgc'>: how reason became rationality='qstn'>?
rationality (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= universal calculus of) ='lgc'>=/= reasoning
="lsts lst1">•(a more) ancient ideal ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reasoning ='lgc'>[with recourse to the faculty of judgement='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•="trms">modern ideal ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (cold war) rationality='lgc'>: a ="trms">finite well-defined set of rules that can be applied unambiguously in ="trms">specified settings without recourse to the faculty of judgement
cold war='lgc'>: crystalline ='lgc'>+ generality ='lgc'>+ con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusivess could cope with a ="trms">world on the brink
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> algorithmic rules as the core of rationality
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sacrifice of ='lgc'>[precious to philosophers='lgc'>] ‘insight’ and ‘understanding’ ascpects of reason
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> automatic='lgc'>: you don't need to understand them to execute them
='strcls'>*the posiblity of a mechanical mind='strcls'>*
Turing's ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]programming='lgc'>: constructing ="trms">instruction tables
(1794 early French revolution) universal school for future French citizen with arithmetic ='lgc'>[3 ='lgc'>+ 4='lgc'> = 7='lgc'>] at its core ='lgc'>--teach='lgc'>-> “exactitude of the mind” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">children are going to learn='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the meaning of self evidence ='lgc'>[of arithmetic pro="trms">positions='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•the meaning of justified belief
="lsts lst1">•formation of ideas
="lsts lst1">•judgement
="lsts lst1">•reasoning
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--foundation='lgc'>='lgc'>--> quanitative ="trms">science of a human realm
first re="trms">liable calculator ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> 1850
rationality عقلانيت
="lsts lst1">•="trms">history of ever more sophisticated mechanical computers
="lsts lst1">•how rules themselves became increasingly identified with algorithms
="lsts lst1">•how algorithms became increasingly identified with mindlessness
="ppl">Kant ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">science as mechanical ="trms">skill that can be mastered by diligence and determinate rules
tacit knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'>: a manul labor ='lgc'>[="trms">styles of knowing='lgc'>] that cannot be captured by algorithms
='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to Encyclopedie (Did="trms">erot)...
de="trms">skilling calculation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> economic rationality (economic rationalization)='lgc'>: you take the task, de="trms">compose it into simplest possible steps, you divide the labor, you hire the least ="trms">skilled and cheapest labor possible ='lgc'>==Babbage='lgc'>='lgc'>==> increase the efficiency and the costs
="lsts lst1">•game theory
="lsts lst1">•rational choice theory
(="trms">memory ='lgc'>+ understanding ='lgc'>+ judgement ='lgc'>+ ="trms">imagination)
='strcls'>*judgement (="ppl">Daston) and ="trms">imagination (="frds">Sina) are ="trms">integral to the exercise of reason='strcls'>*
reason in rationality='lgc'>: algorithmic rule governed ='lgc'>=/=
="lsts lst1">•passions اشتياق تعصب
="lsts lst1">•fantasy وسواس
="lsts lst1">•sloppy thinking درهم وبرهم
="lsts lst1">•ignorance بى خبرى
="lsts lst1">•superstition خرافه
="lsts lst1">•self-deception خود فريبى
the human factor
there is something about human that has always been in odds with reason
Nozick (='lgc'>~ Terminator) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the rules of procedures that constitute rationality would be valid, would be efficacious, but algorithmic. executed by machine, but opaque to human understanding
='lgc'>~ ="ppl">Wittgenstein ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to follow a rule='lgc'>: a practice taught by example ='lgc'>=/= precept
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*to understand rules in an algorithmic sense='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= model, maxim, tacit knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
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="ppl">Daston ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> there is no simple way, in which ="trms">historical context determines the form and content of the thinkable. but (as in the case of algorithmic rules and cold war rationality) ="trms">historical circumstances do light up some parts of the intellectual landscape and darken others
our current understanding of what it means to be rational owes a great deal to the power of place and time
="lsts lst1">•for ="ppl">Kant='lgc'>: judgement='lgc'> = highest faculties ='lgc'>=/= for ="trms">modern (us) judgement is problematic
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='lgc'>[the ="trms">horror of the contemporary German art:='lgc'>] to deliberate='lgc'>: کنکاش سنجیده و عمدی ='lgc'>=/= ="frds scrmbld">Janina
(art of ='lgc'>[ironic='lgc'>] deliberation ='lgc'>=/= chaotic venture, ="frds">Sina's ="trms">lecture-performances)
deliberation='lgc'>: thinking then doing it ='lgc'>=/= doing then thinking about what you have done (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">communication, intimacy)
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="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics of ="trms">natural law
="ppl">Daston's ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor='lgc'>: trying to understand why is it so persistant (almost irresistible) that we ='strcls'>**extract ="trms">social and moral norms from ="trms">nature='strcls'>** (rather than jumping up saying that it is a doomed idea)
='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> got to ="trms">fable; ikhvano safa court of ="trms">animals; panchatantra Kelile Demne='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•to merge ="trms">natural and ="trms">social orders together
="lsts lst1">•to make ="trms">nature meaningful
="lsts lst1">•to invoke ="trms">nature to buttress human values of='lgc'>: true, good, beautiful
="lsts lst1">•
devil='lgc'> = collective human ="trms">imagination of chaos
formless and lawless
land of no promises
="trms">past is no guide to the future
at the mercy of chance
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the axiom of ="trms">modern thought='lgc'>: ="trms">society ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">nature ='lgc'>[of which trespassings are rife='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[='at'>#="trms">fable='lgc'>]
to extract some ="trms">sort of politics from='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•beehive
="lsts lst1">•physics of liver
="lsts lst1">•evolutionary theory
="lsts lst1">•organic specialization ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--="ppl">Aristotle='lgc'>='lgc'>--> slavery='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•
="lstsrd">1. how conceptions of ="trms">natural order sustains ="trms">specific norms ='and'>& the model of any kind of norm ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="trms">historical ='lgc'>+ ="trms">="trms">empirical
="lstsrd">2. appeal to ="trms">nature capture something profound about values in general regardless of their ="trms">specific context ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- philosophical
(the human) impulse to ='strcls'>*make ="trms">nature meaningful='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> psychological ='lgc'>+ ="trms">epistemological ='lgc'>+ ethical necessity
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(1)
(="trms">specific) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">nature='lgc'>: the ="trms">ontological identity card ='lgc'>: that which makes a particular thing what it is (what makes skwerl a skwerl)
='thdf'>the idea of ='strcls'>***fixed ="trms">natural kind ='lgc'>==inspire='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='thdf'>the ideal of justice='strcls'>***
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>the idea of organic specialization ='lgc'>[organ='lgc'>: ‘tool’ in ="trms">greek; for ="ppl">Aristotle='lgc'>: “injustice='lgc'> = violation of specialization” (of citizen's tools or honors) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- an order of ="trms">nature='lgc'>]
rose wanna be skwerl ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="trms">bestiary
“good consist in each being striving to be the best of its kind not the best of all”
(2)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">nature='lgc'>: the will of God (='lgc'>~ edict of God) ='lgc'>--="ppl">Augustine='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “sodomy='lgc'> = crime against ="trms">nature (='lgc'>~ against God='lgc'>: the ="trms">author of ="trms">nature)” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> un="trms">natural ='lgc'>=/= sacrilege توهين به مقدسات='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•a Roman custom (and a Roman intuition)='lgc'>: when you are in a place you try to adapt to the local ways of doing things ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- (with ="ppl">Augustine) we are preserved in a pro="trms">verb ='lgc'>[='at'>#="trms">integration='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--grant='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">nature with supreme ="trms">authority as God's proxy
seeking norms in ="trms">nature ='lgc'>--="ppl">Daston='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•is this (examples) why we should stop it (at best ="trms">nature ="trms">authority is borrowed whether overtly from God or covertly from ="trms">social conventions ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> it is redundent and we don't need it)
="lsts lst1">•it is a d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous weapon in the arsenal of the most repressive and aggressive elements of ="trms">society
content of norms ='lgc'>=/= ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]normativity='lgc'>: a justificatoin that gives any and all norms their force ='lgc'>: the quality of telling us what should be (='lgc'>=/= describing how things actually are)
“the starry heavens above ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= the moral law within” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Kant's awe='lgc'>: the regularity (of both human law and ="trms">natural law)
حيرت awe ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>==evoke='lgc'>== the cosmic='lgc'>: all encompassing order ='and'>& exquisitely designed ornament='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">horror ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>==evoke='lgc'>== the un="trms">natural (="nms">ajayeb)='lgc'>]
='strcls'>**the recognition of an order='strcls'>** ='lgc'>--="ppl">Daston='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the key to all kinds of norms (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> awe='lgc'> = ="trms">wonder ='lgc'>+ fear ='lgc'>+ respect)
(ancient ="trms">greek ="trms">cosmopolitan ="trms">traverler ethnographer) Herodotus's ="trms">fable of ‘custom is king of all’ ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- داریوش perian king Darius's ="trms">anthropological experiment='lgc'>: ="trms">Greeks won't eat their father's dead body, they burn it ='lgc'>=/= Indians won't burn their father's dead body, they eat it
="lsts lst1">•chaos='lgc'>: ="trms">nature without order
="lsts lst1">•anarchy='lgc'>: ="trms">society without order
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">past is no guide to ="trms">present and future ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*there are no regularities (of human promises or ="trms">natural cycles) to support either justice or knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='strcls'>*
why duplicate the moral order with an analogical ="trms">natural order='qstn'>?
why turn to ="trms">nature for your raw ="trms">materials (to construct moral order for themselves)='qstn'>?
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ...
are we now in the ="trms">position to reclaim norms from ="trms">nature='qstn'>?
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> yes ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">nature exemplifies so many ="trms">different kinds of order='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•order of the stars and plant ='lgc'>=/= order of weather
="lsts lst1">•order of ="trms">specific ="trms">natures ='lgc'>=/= order of universal ="trms">natural laws
="lsts lst1">•order of local ="trms">ecologies ='lgc'>=/= order of ="trms">cosmological unities of gravitation
="lsts lst1">•
which ="trms">nature='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> any order of ="trms">nature can be countered with examples of another order equally ="trms">natural ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="ppl">Daston='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">nature='lgc'>: re="trms">pository (or wunderkammer) of all ="trms">imaginable orders='strcls'>****
terror ='lgc'>+ randomness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> most effective weapon of ="trms">dictators (you never know when it strikes again)
="prgrph">-="trms">horror of ="ppl">Kafka's bureaucracy[...]