[...]='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)
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='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
(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
='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)
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)
form-="trms">matter ='lgc'>=/= motif-support
(the support is as mobile as the motif)
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
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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
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="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
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
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...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
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="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)
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
="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
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
(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'>*
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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='lgc'>: negation of regularity, destruction of order, institutionalized anarchy
="prgrph">-one of the most dehumanizing experiences='lgc'>: being completely subject to the will of another (='lgc'>~ slavery) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> this is the most pleasurable experience in sex and sado masochism='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•="trms">nature never insults (its inhumanity)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">nature provides the raw ="trms">material for meaning ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='strcls'>*because we are ="trms">embodied organisms we must incarnate our orders='strcls'>* (='lgc'>~ we must find a way to display them to ourselves)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">animals can feel terror, but only humans can feel ="trms">horror='lgc'>: the emotion that registers a deep disruption of an order (no ="trms">matter what kind, a two-headed baby ='lgc'>[="trms">natural ="trms">monster='lgc'>] or a mother who kills her two babies ='lgc'>[moral ="trms">monster='lgc'>])
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itchy eyes
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16th and 17th centuries
times of extraordinary ="trms">religious, economic, and intellectual upheaval (Europe was deluged by novelties of all kinds='lgc'>: ="trms">birds of paradise, armadillos, anomalies='lgc'>: solar eclipse, comet, narwhal tusk, etc.)
(="ppl">Daston >) Bacon ='lgc'>[standing on an extremely unstable ="trms">scientific ground='lgc'>] used ="trms">monsters and marvels (as a ="trms">sort of intellectual hygiene) to jolt people out of their assumptions about the ="trms">natural ="trms">world
='lgc'>=/= Aristotelian ="trms">natural philosophy
='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> anomaly took center ="trms">stage of ="trms">scientific explanations ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= art's investment in the exceptional
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> curiosity becomes a virtue ='lgc'>=/= vice
="lsts lst1">•="trms">nature is allowed to ="trms">joke
="lsts lst1">•="trms">nature has the freedom to experiment ='lgc'>=/= God
='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ended by='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•18th century's ='strcls'>*division of labor='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•19th century's ='strcls'>*institution of ="trms">science='strcls'>*
(two-headed cat's) deformations ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> terrifying ='lgc'>+ electrifying
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">bestiary='lgc'> = Telegram media from God='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•sign of end
="lsts lst1">•sign of fecundity, creativity, variety of ="trms">nature
.../="trms">horror/="trms">wonder/="trms">horror/="trms">wonder/="trms">horror/="trms">wonder/...
“everyone was trafficking in marvels in the 17th century”
="ppl">Daston
... ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> pre="trms">modern sci ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> age of ="trms">wonder ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">modern ="trms">science ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ...
cabinets of curiosity
(="ppl">Daston's) chambers of ="trms">wonders
="lsts lst1">•to overwhelm you
="lsts lst1">•to impress the ambassador
for ="ppl">Aristotle, philosophy starts with ="trms">wonder, but you make it disappear as soon as possible (“="trms">wonder='lgc'> = sign of ignorance” of the unlettered and il="trms">literate)
genre of ="trms">natural ="trms">history involving the marvels of insects ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> domesticate the emotion of ="trms">wonder for things we can explain
="ppl">Daston ='lgc'>=/= (early 20th century) morose and elegiac discourse about the disenchantment of the ="trms">world
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pessimism ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= realism
(optimism ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= idealism)
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(to move from) eternal truths ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> eternal archives
(an ="trms">aesthetic='lgc'>:) archival monuments
despite computer's hype and undeniable capacity and flexibility of computerize ="trms">databases, the practices of collecting, inventorying, describing, image-making, collating, and publishing have remaining stable since the monumental projects of 19th century: corpus inscriptionum[...]