[...]gination as psychological='lgc'>: an inspiration, invention, recombination from within (and not from without) (="frds scrmbld">Elen finds herself in this tradition='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> concept of an autonomous psychological subject

so persian subject wanted the  so much to be there, when there was no flower, that the went to a zone of beyond, picked some ="trms">schizo-flowers and came back ='lgc'>{this is ="ppl">Sa'di='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">iranian ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics
="prgrph">-i am more ="trms">interested in the blooming of flowers, also ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical understanding of their ="trms">morphogenesis. this tag line can be a subject of a phd study. for the last thousand years the ="nms">iranian ="trms">literature has been busy with this, how to describe flowers
='strcls'>*="nms">iranians believe in image


="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> sufis, ="nms">iranian philosophers, ... ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> so poluted concepts and words


attachment to the ="trms">world ='lgc'><='lgc'>--...(intelligible, barzakh)...='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">presence of God
(who knows what the ‘="trms">presence of God’ means. let's not assume we know.)

="ppl">Sohrevardi argues that the ="trms">imagination effectively the indipendent real of images

فتوحات fotuhat ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> illuminations

the ="trms">imagination realm exercises its ruling property over every thing and non-thing. it gives form to absolute nonexistence , to the impossible, to the necessary, and to possibility. it makes existence nonexistence existent. (="ppl">Ibn ="ppl">Arabi < ="ppl">="ppl">Marks)


majmu al bahrain مجموع البحرین, confluence of two oceans, to set two oceans in motion that flow side by side together, with a barzakh between
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#my بحرین theory, wave surface theory of ="trms">language
(to be careful with the figure of) wave ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">questioning the textual case while then ="trms">morphing into the un="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readablity of its own answer


Giovanni Pico de M="nms">irandola='lgc'>: phantasy can strive to draw the senses to things celestial ... but if, yeslding to the senses, phantasy shall decline to apply itself to the business of virtue, so great is its power that it afflicts the body and beclouds the mind, and finally brings it about that man divests himself of humanity
(='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Aela='qstn'>?)

="trms">imagination ="trms">according to='lgc'>:
="ppl">Kant ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Hume combining and synthesizing ="trms">agent
="prgrph">-what new ="trms">materialism has to say about the ="trms">imaginal='qstn'>?
Jungian ="trms"nttrm="search">archetype ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> extra-individual, suprasensory ="trms">world
Frankfurt school ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Althusser saw collective unconscious as fascistic


='strcls'>*(my) ="trms">material practices of unlearning='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•pretending i don't know ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> enactment / acting
="lsts lst1">•(to try) forgetting ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> clearance / erasure
="lsts lst1">•sleep-walking ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> closing the eyes of certain perceptive ="trms">stories, and become available to another
="lsts lst1">•the “let's not assume...” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “in advance” of a the assumption
="lsts lst1">•


contemporary Western thought, tired of the sovereign subject, is trying to conceive of an extra-subjective reality that binds individuals ethically to others and to ="trms">history ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this is totally ="nms">apass ='lgc'>:)
="prgrph">-contemporary Western thought (evident in ="ppl">Butler, ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault, and many others) is seeking a politically efficacious concept of the collective ="trms">imaginary='strcls'>*** (a ="trms">positive conception of alterity, of an outside that inspires the ="trms">imagination to create)

="nms">ajayeb for me is an alterity (of an quasi outside='lgc'>--not quite inside) that inspires the ="trms">imagination to create (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">imagination is always creative)
="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: alterity of a ="trms">world that inspired (and inspires) ="trms">storytelling and ="trms">imagination (to create beings)


since ="ppl">Sohrevardi the islamic philosophy has abandoned substantialism for process

="ppl">="ppl">Sadra's approach='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•process ="trms">ontology
="lsts lst1">•critique of abstraction
="lsts lst1">•celebration of singularity

God='lgc'> = neccessary being واجب الوجود

(tashkhis-e vojud تشخیص وجود) modulation of being ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> individuation (تشخص tashakhos)
ذات مخصوص, فرد مشخص معین, وجود جزئی اشیاء ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> موجودی است که از نظر قانونی می تواند موضوع حق قرار بگیرد
='lgc'>=/= شخص ناپیدا ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">hayula
='lgc'>[tashkhis (everyday ="trms">gesture of recognition of something gheir-shakhsi) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='qstn'>? tashakhos='lgc'>]

(="ppl">Simondon='lgc'>:) individuation is ="trms">prior to individuals, and individuals are simply ="trms">symptoms or effects of individuation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> very processual

harkat-e johari حرکت جوهریtranssubstantiation, trans-substantial movement
='strcls'>*harkat-e johari respects the potential for intensification ='lgc'>[= the capacity to know, act, and fully participate in the flow of being ='lgc'>--and='lgc'>='lgc'>--> continual intensification;='lgc'>] in all things (in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding ="nms">hayula)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Miyazaki's faceless ="trms">monster's ‘act of beiong’ (is efficaciously real in a Sadrian way)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="ppl">="ppl">Sadra's great re="trms">figuration is that he ="trms">formulates the ‘act of being’ itself as the most real
="prgrph">-="ppl">Miyazaki's ="trms">monster (and ="ppl">Attar's San'an) is moved by ="trms">love, it is the energy that ="trms">traverses and transforms them; it is the best thing to be moved by. before, they are, in themselves, illusory and perishing
="prgrph">-="ppl">Miyazaki's ="trms">monster episode animation expresses how substance yields to process ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> خونابه اى plasmaticness of the animated line='lgc'>: freedom from ossification استخوانى شدن (='at'>#="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs), the ability to dynamically assume any form (Gunning) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> change occurring واقع from within ='lgc'>+ propelled سوق from without

="ppl">="ppl">Sadra's ="trms">matter='lgc'>: place of nonexistence and absence (='lgc'>=='qstn'>? ="nms">hayula)
="nms">hayula='lgc'>: form of the ="trms">natural, elemental body

in ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the plant(‘s form) (= vegetal soul) is ="trms">animal
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">animal(‘s form ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? surat صورت) (= sensate substance) is human
="lsts lst1">•the human...


physical acts of perception

(a typical account='lgc'>:) the stronger the ="trms">imaginal soul, the less distracted it is by the body, the more manifestly ="trms">imaginal images will appear

fotuhat فتوحات  or tazkirat تذکره is the ="trms">stories of the intensity of their being, actualization, and certainty of effect
(="ppl">Attar's stuff, ="trms">articulate ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra)

saryan-e vojud سریان وجود, ='strcls'>*flow of being='strcls'>* (across the perceptible entities we encounter='lgc'>:) ='lgc'>[the ="trms">imaginal power working through them:='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•hear a person's say
="lsts lst1">•notice a weed growing
="lsts lst1">•smelling a...
="lsts lst1">•cognizing an image...
="lsts lst1">•touching a pig's nose ='lgc'>[San'anian='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•

bodily senses can contact the divine ="trms">presence, make contact, make a call (in ="ppl">Hafez, San'an's miscall)

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="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">imaginal realm is populated by singularities, every changing and in="trms">finite
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">imaginal faculty is of extreme ="trms">presence, of intensification
(in this case ‘realm’ and ‘faculty’ bleed into each other's ="trms">categories)


(let's get) creatively ="trms">imaginal

accurate and attractive

='strcls'>***="trms">imagination is (de="trms">finitely) not closing your eyes and dreaming, but being completely ="trms">present to the ="trms">world, committed to it and ="trms">affected by it='strcls'>*** (to perceive something in its intense singularity)


مشاهده moshahede='lgc'> = contemplation

the infinate flux of visible ="trms">phenomena (Kracauer)

قلمکار calico-="trms">world
چلوار

kaleidoscopic mountains

what was ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra looking (moshahede) at='qstn'>?

="lsts lst1">•linear modeling of time ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> clock time
="lsts lst1">•intensive model of time ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> movement across the “real” axis


effectively panpsychist='lgc'>: every entity is conscious, has a soul, and potential to intensify; minds in a ="trms">world of minds


="large lg30" stl="font-size:135%"> ="ppl">Whitehead's concept of transformative togetherness
="trms">ontological vitalism='lgc'>: exist ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> consciousness


reality precedes abstraction ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
for ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra “point of view” is a distraction (for vojud وجود)
="lsts lst1">•perspectives
="lsts lst1">•names
="lsts lst1">•quiddity
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> because the ="trms">positing of names and description is in cor="trms">respondence to concepts and universal meanings, not in cor="trms">respondence to existential identities and external/concrete forms (="ppl">="ppl">Sadra)
='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Avital and ="ppl">Kohn ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> but they do in amazonian forest ="trms">semiotics
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my point of departure with ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra. i am tracing trans="trms">figurative signs of the flesh in practices of ="trms">storytelling ='lgc'>--(or not)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra emphasizes that ="trms">imagination is better able to grasp Being='lgc'>: concepts are too static to capture/grasp the act of being (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> are they='qstn'>?! we have to deal with them anyway='lgc'>: ="trms">wild facts, ="trms">fables of practice, images are concepts, etc.)

ماهيت quiddity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that which is understood (='lgc'>=/= being ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that which is experienced)
quiddity in ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra is like the habits that ="ppl">Peirce and ="ppl">Bergson grudgingly accept as necessary for thought, though they need to be swept away for creativity to emerge. hence the importance of intuition for ="ppl">Bergson and ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra, and of induction for ="ppl">Peirce. (="ppl">="ppl">Marks)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (my departure='lgc'>:) a point of research branch for me='lgc'>: “to swept away quiddity”, is another ="trms">story possible='qstn'>?


images have the power to multiply ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> and other “sticky” things='qstn'>?

(like ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra and ="ppl">="ppl">Marks) i also prefer images that do not simply confirm general ="trms">categories of what can be thought but undermine them with singularities that stimulate the ="trms">imagination (='lgc'>=/= The Black Mirror tv series)


(destructive delusions, ideological images,) true visions and ="trms">hallucinations ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the disappointment in hearing the deja vu
="prgrph">-deja vu is the dream of re="trms">membering


the divine outside
an immanentized ="trms">imaginal real to be the source of truthful visions


to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read Qur'an (or any text) as if it has been revealed to you


the visions of the ="trms">imaginal are nonstatice images of things in their act of becoming


="prgrph">-is my ="nms">ajayeb a ="trms">modern ="trms">interpreter of the islamic ="trms">imaginal realm='qstn'>?
the ="nms">ajayeb is about the lesser elite stances of the islamicated ="trms">imagination ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">imaginal ="trms">ecological consciousness
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]


='strcls'>*="trms">imagination in rational thought ='lgc'>[logocentrism='lgc'>]='lgc'>:
myth, ="trms">symbol, and ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors used as part of rational dialogue
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> other ways of bringing the unthought ='lgc'>[beyond='lgc'>] into the thinkable ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">tasavof
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> other ways of bringing the far into the wondrous (='lgc'>~ the active ="trms">imaginal) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> as a basis for practical concepts ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">ajayeb
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> beyond the official discourse


a time-="trms">specific (="trms">contingent) truth that intensifies as more people engage with it
='lgc'>[like all the concepts and ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors we are working and patterning in ="nms">apass='lgc'>]

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Malabou's plasticity (='lgc'><='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>-- différance)
the subject is plastic (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= malleable, ='lgc'>=/= elastic), it never springs back into its o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal form, it can explode
='lgc'>[we are now dealing with a (highly adaptable, flexible, and disciplined) rational autonomous subject in a post-industrial and global ="trms">world='lgc'>]
="trms">neuronal subject
mojud-e dahri-e ma'ghul

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='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] اسم اعظمِ
esme a'zam

reality has an autor ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">author always has a proper name

="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice (in ="trms">wonderland)='lgc'>: words can have many meanings
="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>: the ="trms">question is='lgc'>: which one (of many meanings) is to be ='lgc'>{the master (meaning)='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> problem of art criticism in ="nms">iran ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*let's resource ="trms">aesthetics='strcls'>* / in ="nms">iran we need more “making-with” and “make-kin” rather than “criticize” or “grounding” (of criticism) or...

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]master='lgc'>: one with power to dispose something, male head of house, conqueror, a man ="trms">skilled in something ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*one holding this title='strcls'>*
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]to ="trms">author='lgc'>: to have the power to o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginate, to name ='lgc'>[='at'>#Beyzai seeking to produce ="trms">natural ="nms">iranian knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'>] (="ppl">Sohrevardi who learned to ="trms">write and speak, also must decipher a text, the ="trms">book of ="trms">nature, ="trms">authored legitimately by islamicated in="trms">heritances...)
="prgrph">-="ppl">="ppl">Haraway discussing women's travail to construct a voice, to have ="trms">authority, to ="trms">author a text, to tell a ="trms">story
="prgrph">-modes of telling (that we adopt in our attempt to produce ="trms">authority)

(اسم اعظم esme a'zam ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) knowers='lgc'>--on top ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (usual tricks) to recede while substituting a fetish (of self) ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> subject and object can cohabit without the master-slave domination


sexist ="trms">science


="large lg46" stl="font-size:129%"> ='qstn'>?am i laying='lgc'>: a foundation for an ="trms">epistemological ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]

='qstn'>?do ="nms">iranians need this='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•theories which are the ="trms">heritage of ="trms">Greek ="trms">science (and of the ="trms">scientific revolution of the 17th century)
="lsts lst1">•an ="trms">epistemology (informing our inquiries) be a family ="trms">member to existing theories (of re="trms">presentation and philosophical-realism ='lgc'>[that which Holakouee promotes for “="trms">modern” ="nms">iranian='lgc'>]) (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to avoid the problem of ="trms">epistemological anarchism='lgc'>: an ="trms">epistemology that justifies not taking a stand on the ="trms">nature of things is of little use to women trying ='strcls'>**to build a shared politics='strcls'>** ='lgc'>[="frds scrmbld">Mehdi is angry at the sculpture ="trms">community because they ="trms">embody that fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure='lgc'>])
="lsts lst1">•(to adopt) a radical form of ="trms">epistemology that denies the possibility of access to a real ="trms">world and an objective standpoint
="lsts lst1">•noninvasive knowing (such as ="ppl">Sa'di) and pre="trms">diction and control (='at'>#="ppl">Olearius)
="lsts lst1">•(="trms">authority and power, as Beyzai is after,) to name/give the ="trms">world a new identity, a new ="trms">story
="lsts lst1">•accurate rendering of an idio="trms">syncratic process of sensory overlap and as="trms">sociation
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]biology='lgc'>: ="trms">modern o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin ="trms">story
biology tell tales about o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins, about genesis, and about ="trms">nature

biologizing


='lgc'>[what is the word made of, what is the flesh made of='lgc'>]
='strcls'>***(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway highlights) an in="trms">herited knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge through the paternal line='lgc'>: the ='strcls'>*word='strcls'>* was ="ppl">Aristotle's Galileo's Bacon's ="ppl">Newton's Linnaeus's ="ppl">Darwin's; the ='strcls'>*flesh='strcls'>* was woman's ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> and the word was made flesh, ="trms">naturally

(in Europe, from 15th to 18th century, transformations of ='lgc'>[both='lgc'>] ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors ='lgc'>[and ="trms">social ="trms">systems='lgc'>]='lgc'>:) female ="trms">nature ='lgc'>--from='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nurturing mother ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> patient-resournce
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list forms of patriarchy='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*merchant تاجر seeing dialectic of apocalypse='strcls'>* (TV series such as West ="trms">World, etc.)


='lgc'>[the ="trms">book of ="trms">nature='lgc'>]
="trms">nature is ="trms">authored (by somebody)

(power ='lgc'>+) autorship ='lgc'>==(fabricates)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> reality


Milton's justification of the ways of God, ='lgc'>[to tell ="trms">stories='lgc'>]

='strcls'>*(how many times we='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>] are) forced to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read a ="trms">book in a ="trms">language that signifies our lack, our ="trms">difference='strcls'>*

two ="trms">rhetorical strategies for contesting (جنگیدن برای) a voice (-to set the terms of speech that define good knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge)='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- re="trms">interpreted the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin ="trms">story to get it ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right the second time
="lstsrd">2- rebelliously proclaimed a totally new ="trms">story


(="ppl">Olearius does the same with ="nms">iran and his european audience,) ='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Haraway on='lgc'>] Barash “reveal to the popular audience the inner voice of biology, the cake of ="trms">nature under the icing of culture, the biogrammer of genes structuring the message of the organism='lgc'>--all that ="trms">modern people structuring the message of the organism='lgc'>--all so that ="trms">modern people might come to know themselves and fulfill their potential. Barash maintains that biology is the most powerful tool in the humanist project to know and achieve the self.”


phallic ="trms">language


="trms">sociobiologica reasoning (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- so dominant)

="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">sociobiology promises more than knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the self; it also promises, like all humanisms, human unity, a real togetherness of ="trms">nature beneath the merely ="trms">verbal icing of culture
in the (="trms">rhetoric of persuasion by) patriline ='lgc'>[/ patrilineal naming='lgc'>] of ="trms">sociobiology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[the “ultimate message” of ="trms">sociobiology in='lgc'>] (Planet of The Apes, Terminator,) ="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•a doctrine of necessary biological determinism of all the chief forms of domination which are especially driven by the motors of ruthless competition and dominance
="lsts lst1">•(the identification of) the proper expert
="lsts lst1">•cracking the ="trms">code of ="trms">nature's secret voice
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*knowing how to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read the word, how to access the value of the coin ='lgc'>==gives='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the power of determination to those who use those tools='strcls'>*
='strcls'>***(='qstn'>?how and which objects of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge become/are) a tool in the search for the self ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ending regularly in the discovery of the totalitarian object='lgc'>: ="trms">nature, gene, word

='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Nicolas ='lgc'>{(the ="trms">question of) sulf-fulfillment made possible by revealing the common coin, the medium of exchange, the equivalent that defines reality, the generator of meaning='lgc'>}

skin-encapsulated egos
(epidermis)

="trms">code-gene-coin-word

(in Barash's evolutionary biology='lgc'>:) parental investment ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cost-benefit analysis

(capillarity of power ="trms">relations)

the import of the ="trms">questions

='strcls'>****
the ="trms">rhetoric of expert ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the expert touching the elephant ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{"the experts, then, were assembled to mediate and ="trms">interpret the marital squabble between scince and humanism and to show their higher unity. and they spoke='lgc'>--individually, ="trms">authoratively, joined in debate by the power of editors and panel moderators='lgc'>--in the ="trms">rhetoric to which we have his version of the ="trms">history of ="trms">science adopted, so that the legitimate lineage could be established.”


logic of __='lgc'>[domination, determinism, , ,='lgc'>] embeded in (="trms">fashioning) the tool of __='lgc'>[word, , ,='lgc'>]


red-baiting='lgc'>: those who oppose the truth of a selfish ="trms">world are self-deceiving MArxists


setting the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal terms of discourse ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- dont't!

="trms">rhetorical in="trms">heritance (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='mywrk'>my research)


somatize our oppression. ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda

“what we must begin to give voice to as ="trms">scientists and feminists is that there is no such thing, or place, as underneath it all.” (="ppl">Leigh ="ppl">="ppl">Star)
(='at'>@="nms">apass) locus for research='lgc'>: us who speak to each other is the changing, moving, complex web of our ="trms">interactions, in light of the ="trms">language, power structures, ="trms">natural environments (="trms">internal and external), and beliefs that weave it in time


='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Marialena, (strategies emerging from/for) ...feminists to begin with the ="trms">heritage of names in a patriarchal voice


Museum of Comparative ="trms">Zoology


='strcls'>* facts are theory laden ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> theories are value laden ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> values are ="trms">history laden ='strcls'>*

="lsts lst1">•="trms">animal model research is full of illogical shoddy evidence and special pleading (Lila Leibowitz ='and'>& Ruth Bleier)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">relations of aggression and gender (Freda Salzman)
="lsts lst1">•similarities in ="trms">sociobiology and bio="trms">sociology (Marian Lowe ='and'>& Ruth Habbard)
="lsts lst1">•lateralization in ="trms">neurophysiology (="ppl">Leigh ="ppl">="ppl">Star)
="lsts lst1">•medicalization of moral-political issues through transsexual surgery (Janice Raymond)

="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>**everything is a cultural institution='strcls'>** (="trms">animal studies applied to humans, ="trms">science is a cultural institution)
="lsts lst1">•up="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right stance and times of divergence between ape and hominid lines have been arenas of mortal combat in evolutionary theory more than once


how ="trms">science becomes official

“evidence becomes a hero of mine”

the heavy hero's burden of telling the hard truth ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">story sold well in ="nms">iran's intellectualism
(i have become ="trms">interested instead in extended bibliographies, ='strcls'>*to see our alternatives='strcls'>*)


خیس خیس

="trms">language plays a major role in generating reality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what plays major role in generating reality and legitimator of new realities in ="nms">iran='qstn'>?

research ="trms">question of ="trms">storytelling='lgc'>:
='strcls'>***what are the rules of ="trms">interpretation that make any ="trms">story unequivocally ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readable='qstn'>?


(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway shows) the ="trms">epistemological and political problems of humanism and realism latent (or patent) in feminism


two things i am teaching myself (since 3 or 4 years)='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- how to hold someone else's speech ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> دیگری چه گفت؟
="lstsrd">2- how to sustain a discussion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> چطور بحث را عوض نکردن؟


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='strcls'>*bad geography='lgc'>: insult, tohin, similar to trauma, they don't have an concret external object (yet they create them), it is a register of an event, ="trms">affectual implosion of a percept
insult dones't exist out there, (tohin kardan vojud khareji nadarad), it is in the inside ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is that why ="nms">tasavof works and labors with insult='qstn'>?

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(also in ="nms">apass, dancers and choreographers, are the ="trms">children of ="trms">modernism art of De Kooning) reaching inward to find within the body that ="trms">sublime thing (="ppl">Deleuze calls) the ='strcls'>*figural='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= (="nms">iranian miniature's) ="trms">sublimity of the in="trms">finite (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="frds scrmbld">Aela testing this, under ‘mysticism'='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> state of constant openness ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> transformative ="trms">relation between self and other)='lgc'>]

we can trace the (seductive power of) fana فنا in contemporary media art (="frds scrmbld">Hoda's ="trms">sublime digital-rhythmic ="trms">embodiments='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transcendental desires remain ="trms">questionable)

doctrine of the minimal='lgc'>: smallest unit is the atom or point ='lgc'>=/=
doctrine of Zaher/Baten='lgc'>: smallest unit is the ="trms">fold='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">zoo="trms">morphic ="trms">writing, in="trms">finitesimal

(mysticism='lgc'>:) a ="trms">system of ="trms">measurement based (not on the point, rather) on the ="trms">fold

="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> extensive universe of the in="trms">finite ='lgc'>=/=
="nms">tasavof ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intensive universe of the in="trms">finitesimal

apotropaic, turning away evil ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=
="trms">memory sticks, ward off the fear of ="trms">data loss

...the letter ceases to be a ='strcls'>*figure='strcls'>* and becomes a ='strcls'>*field='strcls'>*

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='at'>#comparative ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of Hedayat's The Bene="trms">dictions (Afringan آفرینگان) and ="ppl">Sohrevardi's ghorbat gharbia (رساله غربةالغربیة)

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='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali's knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is like ‘face recognition’ (='lgc'>~ cannot say how he cognizes a “know” yet he does)
="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali='lgc'>: daneshe hozuri ='lgc'>+ politics (which is a secular know="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, Sachlich, based on scales, ="trms">measures, and divisions)
='strcls'>*intellect (='qstn'>? can never be merely='lgc'>:)
non-pro="trms">positional knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= daneshe hozuri دانش حضوری
='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> ='thdf'>the idea of non-mediation and direct awareness ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> ="trms">internal ="trms">memory (='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>->='qstn'>? belief)
='lgc'>=/= descriptive knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, pro="trms">positional knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of pro="trms">positions (“know-that”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> explicit knowing ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- why am i practicing this='qstn'>? (i say things like “this is this...”) and yet not transfering without the ‘knowing subject’ (depending on close ="trms">interaction, shared understanding, trust, and even ="trms">love. in combination with my performances that are like that, thinking on the fly ='lgc'>=/= storage and retrieval of conceptual knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge) ='lgc'>[in ="nms">ajayeb.net i pretend i am ="trms">coding ="trms">articulated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in explicit aggregation and appropriable without the ‘knowing subject’ but it is not. it is also part of something personal, distributive, and contextual='lgc'>], ='lgc'>[my education in setar was tacit and cognitive apprenticeship, ="trms">situated cognition,='lgc'>]
='lgc'>=/= “know-how”, procedural knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, tacit ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">embodied characteristic of the expert who acts without explicitly reflecting on conditions of its involvement (body's nervous ="trms">system ='lgc'>+ endocrine ="trms">system دستگاه درون‌ریز)
“know-who” (knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of ="trms">networks)


(="ppl">="ppl">Gibson's) affordance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">relational account of perception (='lgc'>=/= en="trms">coding of environmental features into the perceiver's mind), preconditions for activity

(effects ='lgc'>=/=) effectivity='lgc'>: abilities that determines what one could do and the ="trms">interactions that could take place

‘perceived affordance’='lgc'>: perception of an object's utility ='lgc'>=/= object's itself

affordance ='lgc'><='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mental re="trms">presentations (models, schemata, etc.)

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='at'>#idea for a performance for ghorbat gharbia
one performer eyes closed in a room or laboratory research lab speaking the text while engaging through touch (throwing, fixing, putting, dropping) with the ="trms">different optics and ="trms">technologies, objects and ="trms">positioned tools in the room (color, catapult, optical ="trms">systems, laser, array of transparencies and opacities, etc.)
performer='lgc'>: ="frds">Sina
director='lgc'>: ="frds scrmbld">Foad

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="large lg38" stl="font-size:118%"> (pre="trms">historic)
your mother='lgc'>: violence
your father='lgc'>: tool
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> human

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="ppl">Geroulanos on emergence of an atheism disengaged from humanism during the second quarter of the 20th century

1925 to 1950

...in nonsecular horizon of existence and thought
conceptual reorganization of human in atheism

(19th century was marked by) “death of god” = man after the era of catastrophe ='lgc'>: the age of ="trms">World War I, the rise of Nazism, Stalinism, ="trms">World War II, and the immediate postwar period

(philosophical and political) centrality of man='lgc'> = a conception dating to ="ppl">Descartes and proceeding through the tradition of ="trms">natural law, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and nineteenth-century liberalism and ="ppl">Marxism

rejection of central premises of post-Enlightenment, liberal, and ="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list European thought

(how='qstn'>?) approach anew the ="trms">codes addressing human life and significance

new nonhumanist atheism came to be expressed at ="trms">different times in existentia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, hyper-ethical, or cynical terms, in nondoctrinaire ="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, reactionary, ultra="trms">modernist, or even down="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right antipolitical principles

(shift away from classical atheism and humanism ='lgc'><='lgc'>==) three movements='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. an ='strcls'>*atheism that would not be humanist='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: an atheism mistrustful of secular دنيوى, egalitarian تساوى, and transformative commitments
="lstsrd">2. a ='strcls'>*negative philosophical ="trms">anthropology='strcls'>*
="lstsrd">3. ='strcls'>*critiques of humanism='strcls'>*


(1)
(traditionally) atheism='lgc'> = secularism ='lgc'>+ humanism
absence of god in 19th century thinkers ="ppl">Feuerbach, Comte, ="ppl">Marx, Proudhon='lgc'>:
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> possibility of a good life and proper ="trms">society
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Feuerbach's ="trms">anthropotheism='lgc'>: “god='lgc'> = projection of human ="trms">nature ="trms">onto the heavens,” nothing more than man's re="trms">presentation of his own essence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the task of the ="trms">modern era was the realization and humanization of god ='lgc'>: (transformation and dissolution of) theology ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">anthropology
="lsts lst1">•Comte='lgc'>: ="trms">positivist project for ="trms">science and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">religion of humanity, explicitly ="trms">religious atheism
="lsts lst1">•Proudhon='lgc'>: humanisme

='lgc'>{liberalism='lgc'>: humanism, and idealism had become moral and political expectations of the secular education projects='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]humanism='lgc'>: what could reach, reveal, and cultivate the ='strcls'>*proper and ethical='strcls'>* humanum of man ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]man='lgc'>: irreducible, perfectible bearer and guarantor of dignity, equality, and freedom

="ppl">Levinas's ‘an atheism that is not humanist’='lgc'>: the exaltation of an obedience and a faithfulness that are not obedience or faithfulness to anyone

opening up an apocalyptic ="trms">imagination
destroying the cultural optimism that had marked the turn of the twentieth century

ground for ethics, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, and hope

(Kojeve, ="ppl">Bataille, reconceiving) atheism='lgc'>: a way out of any and all ideological ="trms">systems
theological ="trms">questions ='lgc'>+ mistrust of political hopes
to replace god with a political messianism, nation or state,
“disenchantment of the ="trms">world='lgc'> = death knell for man” (='qstn'>?)

nonhumanist atheism='lgc'>: determined op="trms">position to foundational concepts of man, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, and truth (='lgc'>=/= critically rethinking problems of ="trms">anthropotheism, of transcendence, of ="trms">finitude)

critique of idealism='lgc'> = critique of transcendence
1920s='lgc'>: atheist humanism='lgc'> = idea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list arguments about the capacity of the human mind (to transcend and objectively pattern the things that ="trms">compose the ="trms">world around it)

might and violence of ideologies relied on de="trms">finitions of humanity (that made this violence not only plausible and rational, but almost necessary ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">communism and colonialism)

="ppl">Sartre's postwar minimal humanist commitment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “existentialism='lgc'> = humanism”
="prgrph">-call or claim to fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure of foundations and of man's status in the universe ultimately called up a new ethical command ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> call for man to decide and to commit politically (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> atheism ='lgc'>+ political humanisms ='lgc'>+ old ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical commitment)

atheist political theology
Kojeve, ="ppl">Bataille, ="ppl">Sartre, Koyre, ="ppl">Heidegger, ="ppl">Adorno
mysticism of progress, self-perfection, and ="trms">history
their anti-utopian and antiprogressivist claims and that found expression in='lgc'>: ="ppl">Blanchot (The Most High), ="ppl">Bataille (Summa Atheologica), Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus), Beckett (Endgame)
="trms">figuration of ="trms">finitude
critique of dreams of transparency
replace transcendence with ="trms">excess or escape (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- mystical background...)
='lgc'>=/= un-self-conscious humanist mysticism

secular ="trms">interwar Europe's raising the human subject to all-powerful status ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">techno-="trms">scientific apocalypse ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> waste of hope in the self and in the ="trms">rhetoric of equality and humanism


="large lg34" stl="font-size:121%"> (2)
philosophical antihumanism
human in suspension and deny that it owns or controls his own ="trms">specificity and particularity

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> negative theology
denial to man of ="trms">positive knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of divine ="trms">nature
withdrawal from the possibility of first defining what is ="trms">specifically human
='lgc'>=/= ="trms">world deemed ="trms">anthropocentric and subjectivist
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*re="trms">formulates the ="trms">question of man, locating him in conceptual ="trms">systems led by notions, such as Being, reality, ="trms">society, or ="trms">language='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to define him “negatively”)
="lsts lst1">•problematization of human subjectivity

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">modern determinations of “the human”
(Did="trms">erot in Encyclopedie='lgc'>:) “man='lgc'>: a sensing, reflecting, thinking being, which freely ="trms">traverses the surface of the earth, which appears at the head of all other ="trms">animals over which it reigns, which lives in ="trms">society, which has invented the ="trms">sciences and the arts, which has its own notions of good and evil, which gives itself masters, which makes its own laws, etc.”
="lsts lst1">•="trms">anthropocentrism of ="trms">modern thought (Did="trms">erot ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “why do we not introduce man into our work the way he is placed in the universe='qstn'>? why do we not make him a common center='qstn'>?”)
="lsts lst1">•(18th and 19th century) offering a hierarchy and linking the human to a privileged one among them='lgc'>--to reason, understanding, sensation, the passions, consciousness, the intellect

he can no longer claim to be capable of ="trms">scientifically understanding the entire ="trms">world

(="ppl">Kant in Logic, ='at'>@="nms">apass, three core ="trms">questions guiding his critical project='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•what do i know='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what may i hope for='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what ought i do='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what is man='qstn'>?

='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]humanism='lgc'>: mobilization of a foundationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list concept of man

='lgc'>=/= tradition of identifying man with a certain feature, aspect, or property that ="trms">embodies or expresses his ="trms">nature
='lgc'>=/= the ="ppl">Platonic-christian idea that man possesses an eternal soul
='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Feuerbachian-="ppl">Marxist approach that sees Man as his own goal
='lgc'>=/= ='thdf'>the idea of a human ="trms">nature that is given, foundational, single, or ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readily available

“death of man”
="ppl">Heidegger's Letter on Humanism
Kojeve's second note on “the end of ="trms">history”
="ppl">Althusser
="ppl">="ppl">Foucault's con="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding chapter to The Order of Things
="ppl">Derrida's The Ends of Man

(existentia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list en="trms">trapment of man in his ="trms">world, ='at'>#alienation)

(in Being and Time) ="ppl">Heidegger's Dasein ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•stripping man's shared element down to its being-there
="lsts lst1">•subsumes and displaces the humanity of man
="lsts lst1">•rejection of the I as an absolute, independent subject that approaches a ="trms">world largely separate from it
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> from ontic determination ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ontico-="trms">ontological determination ='lgc'>[of human='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*the humanity of Dasein remains and must be understood as derivative of both its ontic and ="trms">ontological status

="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical pre="trms">supposition (that he cannot claim to be capable of fully describing or understanding ="trms">natur) ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
(human approached and understood only in terms of) ='strcls'>*results='strcls'>* or ='strcls'>*side-effects='strcls'>* (of ="trms">language, existence, ="trms">history, ="trms">phenomena)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•in ="trms">phenomena='lgc'>: man finds himself thrown in the ="trms">world of ="trms">phenomena and life; he is not grounded in some transcendental ="trms">fashion (="ppl">Heidegger, Kojeve, Malraux, ="ppl">Sartre, Beaufret)
="lsts lst1">•in ="trms">language='lgc'>: he is an ="trms">interpreter of signs and ="trms">symbols that form part of greater ="trms">systems independent of his individual will
="lsts lst1">•in ="trms">history='lgc'>: he is constructed and operates within cultural, ="trms">religious, and philosophical limits imposed on him
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>[and='lgc'>] these ="trms">systems are not consequences of man's creative activity, desire, or will
they are domains in which he finds himself
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*the human in man comes to mean less and less='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*we can only know what his approach to others (and other things) can reveal='strcls'>*



emergence of the new nonhumanist atheism ='lgc'>+ the negative philosophical ="trms">anthropology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> French antihumanism's assault on='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•contemporary humanisms
="lsts lst1">•the legacies and utopian hopes of the Enlightenment
="lsts lst1">•liberal-bourgeois thinking grounded in human ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights and individual autonomy
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Marxist humanism with its critique of liberalism and its expectations of a superior
humanity
="lsts lst1">•(human perfection ='and'>& ="trms">social harmony)


(="ppl">Geroulanos's account of primary constellations of) humanism='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•christian humanism
="lsts lst1">•Renaissance educational humanism (founded on a return to ancient ="trms">Greek models)
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Humboldt's reconceptualization of Renaissance humanism (in 19th century Germany)
="lsts lst1">•Enlightenment humanism (from Montesquieu through ="ppl">Rousseau and Condorcet)
="lsts lst1">•19th century liberal humanism (frequently based on ="trms">natural law, autonomy over one's own body and mind, and human ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list humanisms (with its commitment to contractarian ="trms">social theory)

Encyclopedie's attack on theological knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge

19th century construction of ="trms">modern humanism (="trms">sociopolitical goals of a “human ="trms">nature”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> left-leaning, often democratic, (but certainly) utopian ="trms">sociopolitical mentality

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]ideology='lgc'>: a thinking that does not critique, nor even think its provenance from and proper ="trms">relation to reality ='lgc'>--="ppl">Nancy='lgc'>='lgc'>--> humanism='lgc'> = the machine par excellence through which a ="trms">community produces meaning for itself, “the ="trms">system that produces meaning” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “we” (="trms">community's raison d'etre)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[humanism is='lgc'>] arbitrary, auto-productive, and all but tautological


='lgc'>{every political/philosophical movement='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. rejected bourgeois humanism as insufficient, egotistical, and corrupt
="lstsrd">2. claimed for itself a privileged access to the dignity of man
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="ppl">Geroulanos='lgc'>='lgc'>--> structure of a ='strcls'>*rejection of mainstream thought and policy='strcls'>* for not taking into account (and hence devaluing) the goals of one's ="trms">anthropo-theologico-political commitment

wreckage of WWII ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> man could not find meaning either in faith or in his own knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and construction of the ="trms">world

_...dive into the depths of human solitude and suffering


(like existentialism and the Western ="ppl">Marxist tradition,) human ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights came to operate as a “humanism from below” ='lgc'>=/= generic and top-down humanisms (='lgc'>~ monopoly of violence that states held over their individual subjects)

(="ppl">Geroulanos not arguing that antihumanism was the driving force or the secret heart of intellectual movements and philosophies, nor claiming that it was a single movement, concept, idea, or trend; rather) antihumanism is what emerged from, shaped, and configured a major matrix of concerns


problem with secular humanist utopias ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> forging of a ‘new man’ through the mobilization of a ="trms">specific a ="trms">priori de="trms">finition of man required (both)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•man's divinization خداسازى
="lsts lst1">•man's purge پاکسازى

essentia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list de="trms">finitions of man ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> biologistic, ="trms">scientistic, political, ="trms">religious, mora="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list projects ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•lay claim on universality
="lsts lst1">•="trms">prioritize themselves over any such universality

="large lg46" stl="font-size:108%"> ideologies continue to disguise a ='strcls'>*politics of the will='strcls'>* as a universalism

antihumanism='lgc'> = antiredemptive, antimora="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, antimessianist ="trms">worldview

='lgc'>+ proliferation of ="trms">tropes ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dooming contemporary man to an existence without meaning or future='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•last man (="ppl">Nietzsche, Camus, ="ppl">Blanchot)
="lsts lst1">•death of Man (Malraux, Kojeve, ="ppl">Blanchot, ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault)
="lsts lst1">•devirilization of man (Kojeve, ="ppl">Bataille, Queneau)
="lsts lst1">•terror (Marlaux, ="ppl">Bataille, Kojeve, ="ppl">Merleau-Ponty)
="lsts lst1">•

Kojeve and Jean Wahl ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> antifoundational realism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new ="trms">anthropology

antihumanism
a precondition of thought
a fluid matrix of ideas
a philosophical attitude

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Malraux's (="trms">literary-="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical pursuits ='lgc'>[echoes ="ppl">Nietzsche ='lgc'>+ intellectual Left='lgc'>]) ="trms">heritage to us (to artists)='lgc'>: the alternative to bourgeois individualism ='lgc'>[can be achieved='lgc'>] through commitment to a justice based on a quasi-="ppl">Marxist notion of human dignity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ='strcls'>*uprooted, cultured, and powerless individual='strcls'>* who struggled against the nation-driven, ="trms">science-executed destruction wrought by (arid and morally bankrupt) ="trms">modern warfare ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to forensic architecture, ="nms">apass='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (='thdf'>the idea that death of man can be averted through) ='strcls'>***a recognition of the heroism of the resistance='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>+ turn to human creativity

how i have used a non-western voice (“i am from outside the west”) to provide for myself an escape from political ="trms">categorization ='lgc'>+ claiming the knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of an insider and enjoying the analytical clarity of distance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i make claims both ='strcls'>*expertise in='strcls'>* and cool-headed ='strcls'>*distance from='strcls'>* the essence of europe

(="trms">technique of) epistolary exchange


(to think of ="ppl">Kantian ="trms">cosmopolitanism a) a genuine model for commitment ='lgc'>=/= outdated illusion

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research ="trms">method (a ="trms">heritage of surrealism='lgc'>:) exquisite corpse ="trms">technique ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (unpre="trms">dictable and) innocent inventiveness

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for ="ppl">Sohrevardi and ="ppl">Avicenna='lgc'>: ="trms">nature='lgc'> = chah چاه shahr gheyravan (="trms">material of ="trms">nature/="trms">world='lgc'>: ghir قیر) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> zolmatkade ظلمت کده 

='at'>#comparative ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of stranded
ghorbat gharbia ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Crusoe

="lsts lst1">•daryaye sabz دریای سبز  (green sea)='lgc'> = donyaye mahsusat دنیای محسوسات (="trms">phenomenological ="trms">world)
="lsts lst1">•دایه daye='lgc'> = nafse nabati (vegetal self)- khahar sister='lgc'> = alame made عالم ماده (="nms">hayula هیولا) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (you should) wrap it in azab عذاب
="lsts lst1">•woman='lgc'> = shahvani شهوانی carnal, pas-mandani پسماندنی (the one who stays, Lot's wife leaving the catastrophic city ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= mashmul-e azab مشمول عذاب) ='lgc'>=/= salek سالک ="trms">wonderer='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ba shahvat nemitavan soluk kard ='lgc'>=/= queer mysticism
="lsts lst1">•maghak مغاک ghaar chah قعر چاه (where abe hayat is آب حیات ='lgc'>=/= abe heyvan آب حیوان)='lgc'> = riazat ریاضت

from the spiritual point of view we are always at the bottom of the pit


="brkr">

="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigid bodies
http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2014/en_us/index.html='qstn'>?=contextId=BULLETNODES
A ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigid body is a polygonal or NURBS surface converted to an unyielding shape. Unlike conventional surfaces, ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigid bodies collide rather than pass through each other during animation. To animate ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigid body motion, you use fields, keys, expressions, ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigid body constraints, or collisions with particles.
Maya has two kinds of ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigid bodies='lgc'>--active and passive. An active ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigid body reacts to dynamics='lgc'>--fields, collisions, and springs='lgc'>--not to keys. A passive ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigid body can have active ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigid bodies collide with it. You can key its ="trms">Translate and Rotate attributes, but dynamics have no effect on it.



notes on The ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigid Bodies / (="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics of 3D)
the simulacrum / ideal / image ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Plato
mystic ="trms">geometry ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Pythagoras (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mathematization of the real, real ‘is’ math)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what does it mean to perform 3D for these two thinkers='qstn'>?

fire simulation in Maya ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cotton touching fire in Islamic philosophy

(<)>  ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{
() manifest image ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shader/topology/raytracing
<> underlying (="trms">scientific='qstn'>?) image ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> C='lgc'>+='lgc'>+ / physics engine / object oriented programming

the mode of production in current 3D-biz creates a ="trms">sort of cultural collateral or collateral culture (term by ="ppl">Lazzarato). 3D practices are arising as series of activities, not recognized as “work,” rather involved in defining and fixing artistic/cultural standards, tastes, norms, and strategically public opinion.
“is this real or fake='qstn'>?” (you have to click)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> when the productive mediation is smashed to pieces and replaced by this ="trms">question.
either it is ‘made’ or ‘real’
='lgc'>[structural imposibility, a double bind, ...='lgc'>]
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the image-warrior who violently asks us to choose between the visible and the invisible
( ='lgc'><-)='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>--(='lgc'>-> )

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='thdf'>the notion of “general purpose toolkit”
synthesis, patches,
environment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> media
="trms">interface ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> physical
="trms">dataflow programming, rapid prototyping, indeterministic machine paradigms,
one-dimensional array of values
telemetry (duri-sanj دوری سنج)

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an evange="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list builds a monument
softimage monument
virtual='qstn'>?



movement and stillness in houdini='qstn'>?
who the 3d software, as an ="trms">ontological device to recreate and study and understand being, is devided or made-up='qstn'>? the presebce of ='thdf'>the notion of movement in it and essence. what is movement and apparition='qstn'>?
='lgc'>[we can have a workshop that teaches houdini just through movement. or a non-movement approuch to 3D making.='lgc'>]


nonre="trms">presentational maya
="trms">epistemology and cognitive approuch to space and ="trms">matter

="trms">ontology of ="trms">matter in maya

="trms">worlding in autodesk industry (look at the trailers, tutorials, and so on.)
="trms">historical view='qstn'>?


i see maya and other 3D apps as visualization ="trms">technologies en="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listed as ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors by ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway and as ="trms">languages that actively ="trms">intertwine in the production of ="trms">literary value


friction, forms of masks (shaders='qstn'>?), and play, and the dance of Dis-tanz
the separations and partings
nearness

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transforming and transformative ="trms">agencies

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“="trms">matter refers to the ="trms">materiality/="trms">materialization of ="trms">phenomena” (="ppl">="ppl">Barad)
="prgrph">-let's look at my 3D-related practices again and investigate their ="trms">ontological implications and rework how ="trms">matter is defined, ='lgc'>[="trms">matter, force, ="trms">interdependency, appearance,,, ="trms">phenomena, meaning,='lgc'>] ="ppl">Delanda-='lgc'>[intensification, ="trms">articulation, flow-of,='lgc'>]


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='at'>#="frds scrmbld">Femke workshop='lgc'>: on ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigging and skinning, ="trms">writing ="trms">stories cultivating creation and creatures before their enrollment in George Lucas film, speculating on the inorganic skeletal ="trms">animacies

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(Brey > ="ppl">="ppl">Ihde='lgc'>:) ='lgc'>[="trms">technology:='lgc'>] a special class of artifacts (='thdf'>for example telescopes, probes, hearing aids, etc) that are capable of engaging in ‘="trms">symbiotic’ ="trms">relationships with the human body. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] means through which the environment is experienced and acted on.


essential ambiguity of ="trms">technology / of ="trms">material human-="trms">technology ="trms">relations

hermeneutic fluency (and the special enigma) of the connection between text and ="trms">world

='strcls'>*="trms">bird's-eye='lgc'>=='qstn'>?/!='lgc'>~navigational='lgc'>='lgc'>~/='qstn'>?=.'='lgc'><-="trms">phenomenological
='lgc'>[...in front of the open (blank) page (of the ="trms">book) (we teach ="trms">children to take the) ="trms">position of the industria="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, the ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban planner, or the ="ppl">Cartesian philosopher ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> outside the page is outside and inside the page is inside ='lgc'>]='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Eunkyung's scriptural enterprise ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Derridean proper space of ="trms">writing
="prgrph">-the panopticon as observing ="trms">instrument for human ="trms">sciences is embeded in the page of the ="trms">book we open. part of this tradition ='lgc'>=/= first person shooter

(="ppl">="ppl">Ihde on) game-bodies='lgc'>: (on multistability ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ‘modes of navigation’ ='lgc'>[macro ="trms">phenomenological conditions, modeling observational possibilities, ='lgc'>]='lgc'>:
='lgc'>[1='lgc'>]- third person (pretended) overhead view looking down a map-like ="trms">world and plotting your course, one says “I go to X.” he calls it “the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ="trms">position” (usually a western navigator) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> using ="trms">instrumental mediations to ="trms">translate this (overhead) ="trms">position, star patterns are with the north star
='lgc'>[2='lgc'>]- first person shooter, take your body as stable ="trms">position, one says='lgc'>: “X is coming to me.” (usually a south pacific navigator) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ="trms">phenomena as ="trms">instruments, dynamic motion of star patterns are without the north star
='lgc'>[3='lgc'>]-



every major culture/civilization watches the ='strcls'>*movements of heaven='strcls'>*
="trms">technologies of temporality, lunar calendars (mostly migratory or non-agricultural people who were into smaller cycles) and solar calendars (people who were into lager cycles), knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of repeated patterns of environmental ="trms">phenomena
from stonehenge ='lgc'>[= stabilizer of perception, ='at'>#stone telling the movement of heavens;='lgc'>] to chip (, devices to record cycles) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">techno="trms">science has changed (="trms">phenomenologically merely) in scale
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>] ="trms">science is always ="trms">science-mediated-through-="trms">instrument ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> regarding ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: ='at'>#model is the principal ="trms">instrument of (="trms">modern) ="trms">science.='lgc'>]='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> am I in which model-shift='qstn'>? (how='qstn'>? and why='qstn'>?)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•idealized models ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> my “art"='lgc'>] (='lgc'><='lgc'>--)to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> heuristic models ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> my ="trms">lectures='lgc'>] ='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•computational models ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> my ="trms">CG period='lgc'>] (='lgc'><='lgc'>--)to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">phenomenological models ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> my ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>] ='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•fantasy models ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> my ='qstn'>?='lgc'>] (='lgc'><='lgc'>--)to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> theoretical models ='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•re="trms">presentational models ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= my images='qstn'>?='lgc'>] (='lgc'><='lgc'>--)to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">epistemological models ='qstn'>?
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]

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like the blind man's cane or probe, means through which the environment is perceived and acted on, how is the 3D computer simulations an ="trms">embodiment ="trms">relation='qstn'>? what are the (dis)="trms">embodied habituations of the hacker='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> philosophy of action ='lgc'>: how 3D work as an (dis)="trms">embodied artifact change our ="trms">relation to the ="trms">world='qstn'>? or, which ="trms">world is experienced as perceived through ="trms">embodied artifact of the 3D='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•re="trms">presentations of the location
="lsts lst1">•="trms">question of orientation
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">epistemological studies of ="trms">scientific ="trms">instrumentation

(="ppl">Feenberg, passivity missing in ="ppl">="ppl">Ihde)
(my own ="trms">interest in shyness and the) passive dimensions of body='lgc'>--lived experience of being the object of action='strcls'>***

="ppl">Feenberg (reflecting on medical ="trms">situations forward='lgc'>:) we live our body not only as actors in the ="trms">world, but also as beings who invite action on our bodies by others
dependent body ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> highly ="trms">technologized experience

="trms">instrumentalized status of ="trms">modernism, in which the ‘dependent body’ belongs to ="trms">childhood
purified “humans” ='lgc'>: the subject distinguished from its ="trms">instrumentalities

sex='lgc'>: construction of the dependent subjectivized bodies
(="ppl">Sartre ='and'>& ="ppl">Merleau-Ponty='lgc'>:) person becomes a thing in the ="trms">world of the other

lived-body ='lgc'>=/= body ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> also the concern of ="ppl">I="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigaray and ="ppl">Butler='lgc'>]
(this is ="ppl">Husserl's Körper and Leib)
='lgc'>~ machine-infused ="trms">neuro-physical body
="lsts lst2">◦kin="trms">aesthetic sensations
="lsts lst2">◦="trms">presentational sensations
="lsts lst2">◦“="trms">internal” perception
="lsts lst2">◦“subject” -body
="lsts lst2">◦organ of perception / organ of action /
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (identity of the ego ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) the (existentia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list visua="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list and strange) idea of='lgc'>: “I am my body"='lgc'>--body in terms of “I can” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> self-movement
(="trms">intra-action ='lgc'>=/= that sensations are freestanding complexes and ="trms">internally ="trms">differentiated entities that can be identified and studied “before” the action)
='strcls'>*perception (is an act='lgc'>:) “animating” the ="trms">data of sensation (='qstn'>?)

the extended body signifies itself through ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= acts through='lgc'>] the ="trms">technical mediation

the impersonal and atomizing (commonplace) as="trms">sociations with ='thdf'>the notion of dis="trms">embodiment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>the idea that in online involvement ="trms">relations are abridged and trivialized, that there is a lack of commitment and risk, and moral engagement is impossible, and so on.

='strcls'>*what would be a ="trms">situated account of the (lived-)body in ="trms">CG='qstn'>?

“the ringing of the cell phone that embarrasses us in the middle of a ="trms">lecture” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> extended body

plasticity and poly="trms">morphism of our bodies (online) ='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Ihde='lgc'>]

programmers working in other programmers’ works (='lgc'>--not ="trms">imaginative engagement with the other, rather) ='lgc'>--through='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">interfaces and ="trms">folds in ="trms">interpretation ='lgc'>{tutorial voices, screen videos, scripts, help files, layers of ="trms">codes and tools on each other, nested ="trms">folders on one's own computer, named ="trms">categories by oneself, horde of text files and renders, etc='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> these are (en-/de-)crypting extended bodies constructed of ="trms">language
subjectively constructed ="trms">phenomenon of the ="trms">communed ="trms">fold ="trms">interpreted ='lgc'>: the 3D computer programm
(='lgc'>=/= romantic refusal of all mediation)

="prgrph">-what is the ="trms">nature of the ="trms">technology involved in ="trms">CG='qstn'>?

="lsts lst1">•what is the source of the somatic sense of place, if not the body (since ="trms">Greeks) and ="trms">animality (since ="ppl">Deleuze ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Guattari), in the case of ="trms">CG='qstn'>? ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{the way a good farmer will pick up soil and feel the dirt in his hands='lgc'>}
(="trms">Greek word) ‘soma’ refers to a corpse (in ="ppl">Homer,) not a living body (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#lived-body)
Neither the living body as an entity nor the Mind as an entity had a name.
for ="ppl">Aristotle, ‘thinking’ part of the soul, had an existence from any connection to the body.
“to experience the ="trms">world is the very ="trms">nature of body inside out.” (="ppl">="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian ="ppl">Hubert > John Schumacher)


a ="trms">community whose ="trms">members are aware of each others’ passive ="trms">presence is ="trms">different forms
(active ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">present)

these are issues of ="trms">social subject in a ="trms">technically mediated ="trms">world

to look at ="trms">CG ="trms">embodiment ="trms">relations='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">fold (="ppl">="ppl">Ihde)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">skill (="ppl">Merleau-Ponty)
="lsts lst1">•theory of affordance (="ppl">="ppl">Gibson)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">intra-action (="ppl">="ppl">Barad)
="lsts lst1">•detour (="ppl">="ppl">Latour)

(="ppl">Merleau-Ponty's) ‘body schema’ ='lgc'>: space of the body='lgc'> = 'space of ="trms">situation,’ orientation towards possible (not only existing) tasks ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> aspects of the external/virtual ="trms">world
body understood in terms of their ability to enter into one's projects ='lgc'>=/= spatial location
='lgc'>[what is the body schema of the hacker in ="trms">CG='qstn'>? (an external ="trms">world where there is no near or far.) what is experienced as their ="trms">Gestalt='qstn'>? which grasp is automatically localized='qstn'>? what are their ="nms">phantom limbs='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> body immediately known to self='lgc'>]


(body as the) ="trms">system of possible actions, a virtual body with its ="trms">phenomenal “place” defined by its task and ="trms">situation. “My body is wherever there is something to be done.”

kinaestheses, proprioception,

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what ‘play’ does to ‘ego’='qstn'>?

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(='lgc'>[is for ="frds scrmbld">="frds scrmbld">Lilia (='qstn'>? like ="ppl">Wittgenstein) all ‘certainties'='lgc'>] grounded in the) certainty of the body
='lgc'>{pain ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> certainty='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> trauma ='lgc'>+ ="trms">memory

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(="ppl">="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian ="ppl">Hubert > ) Rudofsky “un="trms">fashionable human body” (='at'>#="trms">veil)

Thomas Friedman “The Golden Straitjacket”
="lsts lst1">•political-economic garment of globalization era ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Straitjacket
(Cold War era='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•Mao ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> suit
="lsts lst1">•Nehru ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> jacket
="lsts lst1">•Russian ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fur
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•Islam ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hejab

(Tasavof='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{for which the body does not remain concrete and ="trms">material, and soul is ambiguous and poly="trms">morphic='lgc'>}, Pythagorean='lgc'>:) veli='lgc'>: soul can clothe itself in ="trms">different bodies ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Aristotle='lgc'>:) soul is the form of a particular living body ='lgc'>{ soul='lgc'> = organization of the body ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “..there seems to be no case in which the soul can act or be acted on without involving the body” ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Descartes='lgc'>:) soul='lgc'> = enlightened machine (='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? proper organization of the brain)


='strcls'>***The body is a special image ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">body image

body, the priveleged image, the ="trms">world of consiousness (through self-reference), the brain's primary frame of reference ='lgc'>[-constructed with libidinal intensity='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a map of ="trms">narcissistic investment='lgc'>] (='lgc'>=/= body without organs)
="lsts lst1">•condition of the subject's access to spatiality (of the ='lgc'>[numero-computationally='qstn'>?='lgc'>] built environment)
="lsts lst1">•anatomy is always “="trms">imaginary anatomy”
="lsts lst1">•the (body-)ego is a formation of ="nms">body image through primary ="trms">narcissim (in terms of Oedipus complex)
="lsts lst1">•="nms">body image also incorporate external objects (implements and ="trms">instruments ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intimate, vital, even libidinally cathected parts of the body) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the “detachable” parts of the body='lgc'>: urine, faeces, saliva, sperm, blood, vomit, hair, nails, skin='lgc'>--all retain something of the cathexis and value of a body

="prgrph">-for ="ppl">Bergson='lgc'>: an image that one know from within by ="trms">affections, rather than from without by perceptions='lgc'>: body ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “my body” is the center of actions ='lgc'>==births='lgc'>='lgc'>==> re="trms">presentation
="prgrph">-for ="ppl">Whitehead='lgc'>: “self-knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of our bodily event” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (organic) conception of ="trms">nature
="prgrph">-masculinity='lgc'>: body subordinate to the mind ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=>='lgc'>{ body='lgc'>: site for feminist critique
="prgrph">-for contemporary feminism (="ppl">Grosz)='lgc'>: body is neither a biological nor a ="trms">sociological ="trms">category, but rather a point of overlap between physical, ="trms">symbolic, and ="trms">material conditions

the ideological re="trms">presentations of a “real” precultural body
='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> idealized in terms of abstract ="trms">geometry, rendered primal in primates,,,='lgc'>]

“The theory of the body is al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready a theory of perception.” ="ppl">Merleau-Ponty

(in his studies on body, ="ppl">="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian ="ppl">Hubert quotes John Schumacher quoting) James ="ppl">="ppl">Gibson='lgc'>: “The optical information to specify the self, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding the head, body, arms, and hands, accompanies the optical information to specify the environment. The two sources of information coexist. The one could not exist without the other. When a man sees the ="trms">world, he sees his nose at the same time; or rather, the ="trms">world and his nose are both ="trms">specified and his awareness can shift....The ="trms">supposedly separate realms of the subjective and objective are actually only poles of attention.” (The ="trms">Ecological Approach to Visual Perception)


="trms">sensuality is co-making


rituals and ="trms">technologies are links between bodies and ="trms">societies
(="trms">social) ="trms">techniques for the inscription of locality into bodies
="trms">technology as an exteriorization of the functions of the body='qstn'>?

="trms">CG stands for='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•computer graphics
="lsts lst1">•computer games
="lsts lst1">•creature generator
="lsts lst1">•="trms">categorial grammar ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “='lgc'>='lgc'>==>”, “='lgc'>=/=”, etc
="lsts lst1">•conceptual graphs ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> graph-based knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge re="trms">presentation and reasoning model
="lsts lst1">•computational ="trms">geometry ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> geo-info-="trms">sys design
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*computational ="trms">gesture='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> extracorporeal ="trms">material culture
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•(complete governance, chaotic God, commanding general, common ground, center of gravity,)
="lsts lst1">•

the well-="trms">="trms">equipped invalid (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">embodiment, ="ppl">Virilio)

(="ppl">="ppl">Foucault's radical exploration of='lgc'>:) body='lgc'> = (subject to the effects of) ="trms">rhetoric of ="trms">technical reason
="trms">techniques of punishment (, a “political ="trms">technology”) ='lgc'>: “an art of unbearable sensations” ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “an economy of suspended ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights”

="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari='lgc'>: “We know nothing about a body until we know what it can do, in other words, what its ="trms">affects are, how they can or cannot enter into com="trms">position with other ="trms">affects, with the ="trms">affects of another body...” (what are the ="trms">affects of the ="trms">CG bodies='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-for them the “body” is a discontinuous and non-totalized series of processes, organs, flows, energies, corporeal substances and incorporeal events, intensities and durations, a surface of intensities='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*pure simulacra without o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginals='strcls'>*


="trms">erotogenic zones, sexuality, ="ppl">Freud, auto-="trms">erotic ="trms">internalization, clinamen

(the formally female cyborg / ="trms">techno-="trms">monster of the Ghost in the Shell='lgc'>:) the (masculinist) fantasy of leaving the body behind and reconstituting it as a a ="trms">technical object under human control as both a desire for perfect knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and total power and at the same time as a way of escape... ='lgc'>[="ppl">="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian ="ppl">Hubert='lgc'>] ='at'>#="ppl">="ppl">Haraway
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">question of the “soul” is ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read as the ="trms">question of (certain ="trms">technology of) power over bodiess

(traits of) cyborg='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. boundary transgression
="lstsrd">2. the recognition and re-scripting of myth
="lstsrd">3. simulations of identity
="lstsrd">4. coalitions of af="trms">finity


re="trms">embodiment of intelligence


="ppl">Hubert > ="ppl">Serres='lgc'>: “My body (I cannot help it) is not plunged into a single, ="trms">specified space. It works in ="ppl">Euclidean space, but it only works there. It sees in a projective space; it touches, caresses, and feels in a topological space; it suffers in another; hears and ="trms">communicates in a third; and so forth, as far as one wishes to go. ="ppl">Euclidean space was chosen in our work-oriented cultures because it is the space of work='lgc'>--of the mason, the surveyor, or the architect. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] My body lives in as many spaces as the ="trms">society, the group, or the collectivity have formed='lgc'>: the ="ppl">Euclidean house, the street and its ="trms">network, the open and closed garden, the church or the enclosed spaces of the sacred, the school and its spatial varieties containing fixed points, and the complex ensemble of flow-charts, those of ="trms">language, of the factory, of the family, of the political party, and so forth. Consequently my body is not plunged into one space but into the ="trms">intersection or the junctions of this multiplicity.” (Hermes, pp 44-45) (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Aela)

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(feminist open-source ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>?) I am actually coming from a masculinist closed-source culture-thing, that is to say, my background is in masculinist black-boxed concepts of being and beyond, that means i have a ="trms">different ="trms">relationship with ="trms">interference and parasitism
="lsts lst1">•how and when a concept becomes black-boxed='qstn'>? by which processes='qstn'>?
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Sven='lgc'>: what ="trms">matters is the input/output, stimulus/="trms">response ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “black-box of the beyond” (='at'>#zolmat ="trms">writing)='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transfer characteristics, ="trms">data-flow, the ="trms">ontology of the “="trms">internal working” ='lgc'>: “open” exchanges inforamtion about its ="trms">interactions ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> open-source is part of the tradition of ="trms">anthropo="trms">cene ="trms">system thinking='lgc'>: ="trms">network synthesis, ="trms">system engineering, theory of the organism, evolutionary theory, thermodynamics, and ="trms">world ="trms">system perspective

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what are the nodes of energy in ="trms">interdigitalities ="trms">intra-actions in human-machine ="trms">relations='qstn'>?

='strcls'>***we are belonging to a set of cultures that regularly believes in the idiom of='lgc'>: organism ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">technology
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this little ="trms">ontological dichotomous device is doing ="trms">serious ="trms">worldings, making and destroying ="trms">worlds

="trms">technologies of descriptive practices
="trms">technology is descriptive practice
="trms">technology='lgc'>: anything describable as a ="trms">technology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> idiom اصطلاح

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age of stone, and ="trms">stories for computers

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(='at'>#workshop in Stuttgart 11.04.2017 with ="frds scrmbld">Femke http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/possiblebodies.="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigging)
provisional sketch for a workshop on “="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigging,” notes and nodes


on the notion and practice of ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rig in ="trms">CG
(="trms">CG as in “computational ="trms">gesture”)

='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
on ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigging and skinning='lgc'>: ="trms">stories for cultivating creation and creatures of the industrial empire.
a practice in='lgc'>: ="trms">rhetoric of ="trms">technical reasoning in inorganic skeletal ="trms">animacies.


="lsts lst1">•I begin with the ="trms">position that believes in the essential ambiguity of ="trms">technology
="lsts lst1">•let's look at some terms and notions and the ways they are enacted, practiced, and ="trms">embodied, and to practice some hermeneutic fluency in ="trms">phenomenological conditions in what we call character animation


KEYWORDS='lgc'>: soft bodies, skin, skinnig, ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rig, ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigging, unwrapping, ="trms">fold, ="trms">CG, animation, locomotion, kinectics, skeleton, mechanics, ="trms">interface, ="trms">technology,


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="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs are about='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-ways of arranging space, time and ="trms">matter ='lgc'>: like a sentence, that sticks words sequentially together in a certain way. ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rig would be a way those elements are attached to one another in time and space.
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one-dimenisional skeletal ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs are generally ="trms">intereseting for ='mywrk'>my research, because of the ="trms">specific sequential order that many forms of culture take. (for example, “tradition” is from that famility of ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs, a string of things in a particular order and not another. ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to totem columns='lgc'>]. “="trms">language” is another one.)
="lsts lst2">◦what are the degrees of flexibilty, stretch and tention between the nodes in a ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rig='qstn'>?
="lsts lst2">◦what a substitution in a string-="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rig might change the ways that being is animated, and therefore change the meaning='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-that means='lgc'>: change the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rig, and you will change the ways space and time are arranged
="prgrph">-that means='lgc'>: thinking about ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs is like thinking about the ="trms">language, or better='lgc'>: ="trms">ontological commitments embedded in ="trms">language. and since we are ="trms">interested in ="trms">materiality ='lgc'>[that means='lgc'>: ="trms">material human-="trms">technology ="trms">relations='lgc'>], i would ask='lgc'>: what are the ="trms">material objects that this ="trms">language commits us to='qstn'>? to be more exact='lgc'>: what are the ="trms">material objects that the ="trms">language-="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rig commits the ="trms">CG-hacker to='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-="trms">ontologi[...]