[...]agile, important, hard work of asking ="trms">questions of the ="trms">world in such a way that you might have half a chance of knowing if you are wrong='strcls'>***
you get it “there” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (you have a chance of) figuring out something else='strcls'>*
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(sustainable life ways that involve) breeds ='lgc'>=/= factory farming
="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's problem with veganism's moral, who="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic, complex claim that they make on us (also a necessary kind of contemporary witness)='lgc'>: that people's practices with ="trms">animals as food and fiber and work ="trms">animals, turning into nothing but museum pieces at best. vegans deadly ="trms">imagination sometimes don't get what they kill='lgc'>: most kinds of ="trms">animals that have long ="trms">histories in close as="trms">sociation with people.
there is no ="trms">relationship to this ="trms">world that does not involve extensive killig (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway)
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up-to-the-minute ="trms">technologies
complicated issues around security ="trms">apparatuses and ="trms">different national struggles
="trms">histories of dispossession and genocide
“do you believe='qstn'>?"='lgc'> = "do you believe in a ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list of dogma='qstn'>?”
totally wrong ="trms">question='lgc'>: do you believe in God='qstn'>?
='lgc'>[should i go to Berlin after ="nms">apass='qstn'>?='lgc'>] a parochial person دهاتی (in the pressure of the ="trms">seriously elite places)='lgc'>: you could be here, you could succeed here, but never belong here
="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's ‘="trms">literal’ makings='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•“companion” is about whom you are at table ="trms">literally='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•to be homo sapiens is to be in multi="trms">species ="trms">interdependencies ="trms">literally='strcls'>*
my issue with the image of the free floating meaning ="trms">network popular in artists’ thinking='lgc'>: yes meanings foreground and background. they swirl, but they don't swirl at random
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MOU (="trms">memorandum of understanding)='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Esta ='lgc'>+ ="frds scrmbld">Zoumana ='lgc'>+ ="frds scrmbld">Hoda
='strcls'>*="trms">memorandum='lgc'>: ="trms">memo, reminder, note, تذکره ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> passport ='lgc'>: آنچه موجب یادآوری شود ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> آنچه موجب دخول شود
a legal document describing an agreement between parties less formal than a contract
='lgc'>[1994 U.S.-North Korea nuclear pact, the MOU between Bush and Kerry for 2004 debates,='lgc'>]
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batlagh باتلاق
it is (perhaps the most) important to help transform (your or my) ‘wounded-="trms">child’ to ‘="trms">wonder-="trms">child’ (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda)
='lgc'>[the image of the ="trms">wonder-="trms">child in all ='mywrk'>my workings='lgc'>]='strcls'>***
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="lsts lst1">•accumulative='lgc'>: gradual increase as a whole, someone/something doing the accumulating, emphasis on the process of accumulating
="lsts lst1">•cumulative='lgc'>: nongradual successive additives, as="trms">sociated with that which is accumulated, emphasis on the result
ad- (“in addition”) plus cumulare, “heap up”, from cumulus, “heap”
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='lgc'>[we need='lgc'>] ability to move from ‘close attention’ to ‘="trms">gestures’ and actions on the ="trms">material ="trms">world, all the way to an as="trms">sortment of ‘artifacts’ able to enhance cognition, sensitivity, and ="trms">sociality
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="ppl">="ppl">Stewart
surge of signs ='lgc'>+ capital ='lgc'>+ sensoriums of public culture ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">matter ='and'>& image
images, when circulating things, suddenly enter the senses ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">literally make sense ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> look and smell of an incipient vitality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> immanent intensity or force ='lgc'>~ ="trms">affect
='at'>#my coin='lgc'>: two-sidedness of things, virtual meeting actual, seeping ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of potentiality
common sensate ="trms">affect ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shock ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “continuous trembling that haunts the stable gaze” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> images and sensibilities that constantly exceed (reason, order, and common sense) ='at'>#telegram
="trms">Affect, is about something is happening, something capable of impact
="lsts lst1">•sometging half noted out of the corner of the eye
="lsts lst1">•something in the commonsense ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•
(that which escapes/exceeds enclosure) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it can be put into words='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to become a figure of vitality and even freedom='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>]='strcls'>*** ='at'>@="nms">Iranians
='lgc'>[i welcome the reprieve (rokhsat, رخصت, a temporary relief) from='lgc'>] ="trms">symbolic gridlock
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“="trms">affect gathers its force to make image touch ="trms">matter” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> image's power is the power of synaesthesia ='lgc'>=/= collection of named “feelings” (invented in discourses of morals, ideals, and known subjectivities)
(let's study how ='lgc'>[in ="nms">Iran='lgc'>] raw ="trms">materials are formed and exceeded ='lgc'>-- sudden and lingering intensity of things) (which darvaze/دروازه/gate we can't and which سوراخ سوزن / surakh-e suzan / hole of needle we pass through)
='lgc'>[i am having always multiple ="trms">books open, at least two, is that how connection occur for me='qstn'>? ='at'>#="trms">simultaneity='lgc'>]
(="ppl">="ppl">Stewart) “I re="trms">member ="trms">childhood as a collection of arresting images”
that hinge on sensory details and open ="trms">onto luminous s="trms">cenes of ="trms">affect ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Feherlofia/Fehérlófia 1981, Son of the White Horse film. (we must resist calling this film “psychedelic”)
“='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]family as a ="trms">viscerality through screen images of”
...sudden, repetitive eruption of images of alcoholism, accidents, violence, cancers
='strcls'>*="trms">technologies of family, church, law, and nation='strcls'>* (lay confident claim to ="trms">affect as a capturable content of known and expected “feelings,” but ="trms">affect itself='lgc'>--that which surges into view along the jumpy border of the actual and the virtual='lgc'>--is their raw ="trms">material and their only renewable resource. ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart)
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(a sidestep='qstn'>? what) brings an uncanny, alien ="trms">presence into the field of vision
='strcls'>*an object insists on being seen='strcls'>* (through the tricks of trauma, through the seductions of compulsive beauty,, , ) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">aesthetic event of the senses ='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda='lgc'>]
="trms">spectacular graphics of disaster
watching='lgc'>: inhabiting the power of the tuned-in ="trms">spectator; becoming an active participant in ='lgc'>[TV's='lgc'>] logic of image (production and) recognition
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> catharsis of mean-spirited
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> festering (cherkin چرکین) alienation
='lgc'>--='strcls'>*='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vitality of the game itself
the image on the screen ='lgc'><='lgc'>--(game)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the walking simulacrum of ="trms">social life
the loop of the citizen as ="trms">consumer
='strcls'>***="trms">Mimesis in a State of Shock='strcls'>*** ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda
="prgrph">-the link between shock and a cushioned re="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluse is direct, seductive, and ="trms">mimetic
“When ="trms">affect makes its jump between the visible thing, the idea, and the ="trms">social sensibility, it can leave in its wake uncanny connections between otherwise disparate states of arrest, like shock and re="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluse گوشه نشينی” (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart)
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda='lgc'>: ="trms">affect jumps into view as the shock of an unassimilated trauma
cocoon room
holing up in your living room ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “out there” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> search for the arresting ="trms">presence
spectrality and concrete substance
(='qstn'>?when am i) “relaxing” the jumpy move of ="trms">affect
='strcls'>*="ppl">="ppl">Stewart's “jump of ="trms">affect”
tactile image ='lgc'>--(satisfies)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> move of ="trms">affect ='lgc'>--(actualizes)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> something tempting/haunting
="prgrph">-="trms">affecting ="trms">presence at rest
="prgrph">-='lgc'>[in glamour magazines='lgc'>] models frozen in time and space stare back at you in a s="trms">cene that ="trms">stages the jump from fantasy to actual body/image and back
="prgrph">-jump from ideal to ="trms">matter to ideal
="prgrph">-what to wear as the magic of ="trms">affect itself
copy ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= contact
movies, ads, malls, car phones, daydreams,
="trms">modernity's ="trms">mimetic machine
(“middle class” ='lgc'>[or what people thinking as “="nms">Iranians"='lgc'>] is not just a “norm” it is a) ='strcls'>*womblike space of ="trms">affect='strcls'>* (where sentimentality and ="trms">interiority becomes tactile, where ideals and ="trms">materiality grow to ="trms">excess,) (imploding under the weight of its own ="trms">literal ="trms">embodiment,,,)
="prgrph">-(it is an ="trms">affective space) where the hegemonic claim ='strcls'>*to channel trauma into beauty='strcls'>* is actualized='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•sensible, solid accumulation, family values, colorful decor, ="trms">techno-gadgets, daily lottery,
="lsts lst1">•constant stimulation of the senses (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> syn="trms">aesthetic images, sounds, touches, and smells)
="lsts lst1">•circuitry of circulation itself
تأثر ta'asor, نتیجهی عواطف natije-y avatef
="trms">affect (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= vitality/hope) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= (nightmare image of) soical entropy
the big, beautiful, basic, intensely sensate commodity-to-live-in
in ="nms">Iran='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•(the ‘public space’ or) “outside” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a “="trms">wilding” s="trms">cene of crime, chaos, ="trms">drug-addled ="trms">monsters, d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger, disease, and decay
="lsts lst1">•“inside” ='lgc'>--overflowing-with='lgc'>='lgc'>--> s="trms">cenes of ="trms">aesthetic connection
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">anxiety is the ground over which they (both) march
(="trms">modernist) image-="trms">affect of the new and clean and up-to-date
the feeling of being in the middle of something big and inevitable, watching it un="trms">fold
='at'>#my dreams
the labor of looking
“Movies made for women ="trms">imagine a picture='lgc'>--perfect s="trms">cene of an Inside='lgc'>--a Home filled with tangible objects that Mean or a Self filled with the intricate dramas of dreams launched, wounded, and finally satisfied or left behind. ="trms">Affect itself is laid out on the carpet like a beautiful fetish that it is okay to ="trms">love.”
(the ='at'>#telegram is littered with image-="trms">written signs of personal/public disaster)
the surge of ="trms">affect toward the s="trms">cene of abjection ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> abjection itself is felt as a contagion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Navid's comments turned into stickers
="prgrph">-fascination of catastrophe
="prgrph">-something pleads to be touched
="prgrph">-the act of looking at the telegram's forward='lgc'>: my desire is your desire and we are all together in the mass desire
="prgrph">-images on telegram offer ="trms">affects to ="trms">mime, lines of vitality to follow, intimate secrets to plumb, tips to imbibe for safety or good health or the search for things new and vibrant with collective envy
="prgrph">-browsing telegram, we're trudging the rough terrain of bodies, ="trms">sensuous accumulation, impact
“Sometimes when you hear someone scream it goes in one ear and out the other. Sometimes it passes ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right into the middle of your brain and gets stuck there.”
(cryptic and as) crystal clear as a scream
='lgc'>[a ="trms">question or something else='lgc'>] lodged in a tactile sensate ="trms">anxiety ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">aesthetic s="trms">cene (of the senses) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> s="trms">cene ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shape
(="trms">anxiety has to do with the sensate and tactile and opens ="trms">onto asthetic)
(some do this all the time ='lgc'>[unknown shock of ="trms">anxiety in the morning='lgc'>]='lgc'>:) morning ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mourning ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sudden d="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read and start scanning () () ='lgc'>[='lgc'>], (trauma as an) everyday walking path
traumatic realism='lgc'>: a figuring that, like traumatic ="trms">memory, fails to re="trms">present the inflicting force as an object in a ="trms">symbolic order and therefore feels compelled to ="trms">literally re-="trms">present it over and over, ='strcls'>*miming the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal haunting impact.='strcls'>* (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart > Hal Foster)
="prgrph">-the subject surging to bear an ="trms">affect, surging toward an actualization, passionate connection of the subject who goes with the flow in an intoxicated moment (='lgc'>=/= sober distance)
(="frds scrmbld">Hoda's impact of) shocked subjectivity (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the real understood as traumatic) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> conjure up ="trms">memories of death ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">communal grieving
='lgc'>{referential vs. simulacral ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readings ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda, ="frds scrmbld">Marialena (‘referential object for’ / ‘empathetic object in’ /or ‘criticality of’ ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- i don't agree with these clear cuts of ”/"='lgc'>]; what is “the reality of suffering and death” (or “reality and suffering of death”) for ="frds scrmbld">Hoda='qstn'>? (="frds scrmbld">Xiri's ="trms">interest in her) object's “total ="trms">integration” into the political economy='lgc'>}
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(="ppl">="ppl">Stewart's) signs of the senses
satisfaction in the making of sign-shrine
(="trms">question of satisfaction at ="frds scrmbld">Hoda='lgc'>:) satisfaction as a force, and end, in itself spoken through the b="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right, blunt, sensate ="trms">aesthetics of the sign
="prgrph">-something slashes ='lgc'>[= a wound made by cutting='lgc'>] at itself and spits at the ="trms">world (/ politics of slashing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">poetics of slashing / the young girls who “cut” themselves so they can feel alive or, ="trms">literally “come to their senses”) ='lgc'>-- dramas of surge and arrest ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> They do not ask for ="trms">interpretation or construct the subject who would assign them a meaning, ='lgc'>[they refuse='lgc'>] reference to “underlying ="trms">systems” of signification that make them ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readable as texts
="prgrph">-something refuses to disappear
="prgrph">-(="frds scrmbld">Hoda's land is) the land of sheer circulations ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (the ="trms">question of) equilibriums ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how can she with her audience (let's say “we”) enter the un="trms">natural calm of another form of arrest='qstn'>? to feel the s="trms">cene resist synaesthesia
a state of the senses making contact with pen and paper (and matches)
(my enduring ="trms">love of watching images, my) optical eye
“='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] young ="trms">embodiments of a ="trms">modern middle-ground-in-the-making came face-to-face with an otherness that compelled a closer look” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> violently ="trms">affective contact
surged toward the s="trms">cene of their confident ex="trms">citement
impact ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the ="trms">social
='at'>#="trms">storytelling, compelled to repeat the event as the sentience of it still re="trms">verberated in their senses
a grounded ="trms">writing, that sends people bouncing, takes place as a threshold, hits the senses as a set of provocations, or ="trms">presents as ='strcls'>*a problematic sensed in circuits of reaction al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready set in motion='strcls'>* ='at'>@="nms">apass
(working with ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart) ="trms">writing ="trms">affect ='at'>#workshop
a practice of ="trms">writing ourselves into our ="trms">worlds as ='strcls'>*emergent and disparate ensembles='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we need the speculative concept of ="trms">worlding (a term that wins philosophy, criticism, digital studies, and cultural study) in ="nms">Tehran urgently
="prgrph">-the workshop offers a process of sharing, hearing, ="trms">questioning, and proposing='lgc'>--for oneself and for the sake of others ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to start to think through a project or concept by working with words
="prgrph">-we will learning how to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read closely and to give feedback that is most useful for the ="trms">authors
="prgrph">-working with ="trms">questions='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•How do forms of ="trms">writing change cultural theory='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•What ="trms">questions do forms of ="trms">writing raise about subjects and objects, forms of attention, the possibility of thinking through description='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•How do you describe a s="trms">cene, a character, an event, a ="trms">situation, a collective sensibility, a ="trms">difference, a ="trms">world='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•What does it mean to add ="trms">density and texture to description='qstn'>?
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armies of ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors and metonymies that are to justify war
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“there is something quite special about the recently discovered entities such as climate. these entities cause us to reflect on our very place on Earth and in the ="trms">cosmos” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> hyperobjects (“seem to force something on us”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i say every object does that, and it is not recent='lgc'>: ="nms">="nms">ajayeb al makhlughat is about the description of that force
hyperobjects ="ppl">="ppl">Morton
="prgrph">-an object that is “hyper” in ="trms">relation to some other entity
="prgrph">-they are ="trms">viscous='lgc'>: they “stick” to beings that are involved with them
="prgrph">-they are “nonlocal” ='lgc'>: local manifestation of hyperobject ='lgc'>=/= hyperobject
="prgrph">-they exhibit their effects ="trms">interobjectively ='lgc'>: they can be detected in a space that consists of ="trms">inter="trms">relationships between ="trms">aesthetic properties of objects\
='lgc'>=/= apocalyptic environmentalism
='lgc'>=/= the possibility of transcendental leaps “outside” physical reality
='lgc'>=/= that we are “embedded” in a “life="trms">world”
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high-dimrnsional phase space
invisible to humans for stretches of time
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]hypocrisy ='lgc'><='lgc'>== the conditions of the impossibility of a ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">language= account for things while remaining uncontaminated by them, (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= an “outside”)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">Lacanian truth='lgc'>:) “there is no ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">language” ='lgc'>=/= post="trms">modernism's “everything is a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor” ='lgc'>=/= some ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors are better than others ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ='strcls'>*there is nowhere to stand outside of things='strcls'>*
the time of hyperobjects is a time of hypocrisy ='lgc'>=/= cynicism
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]weakness ='lgc'><='lgc'>== the gap between ="trms">phenomenon and thing
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]lameness ='lgc'><='lgc'>== the fact that all entities are fragile
="trms">imagination as='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Hume='lgc'>: a bundling of as="trms">sociations
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Kant='lgc'>: the possibility for synthetic judgments a ="trms">priori
="lsts lst1">•object-oriented ="trms">ontology='lgc'>: immanence of thinking to the physical, radically displacing the human by insisting that my being is not everything it is cracked up to be='lgc'>--the being of a paper cup is as profound as mine
which hyperobject you are caught in='qstn'>?
image of ="trms">writing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shy, retiring octopuses that squirt out a dissembling (mask, cloak, vortäuschen) ink as they withdraw into the ="trms">ontological shadow
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figure of ='strcls'>*mill='strcls'>* (the characters and ="trms">technologies and ideas of the ages mill around in a state of a mild, semiblissful confusion) ='lgc'>=/= ="frds scrmbld">Eszter's vortex
my intimate impressions “personal"='lgc'> = footprints of hyperobjects, distorted as they always must be by the entity in which they make their mark
="trms">situatedness is now a very uncanny place to be, like being the protagonist of a ="ppl">Wordsworth ="trms">poem of a character in Blade Runner
='strcls'>*cool impersonality of the ="trms">scientific ="trms">language='strcls'>* (now is deprived of its ideological status)
the concept of the ‘="trms">world’ is no longer operational
can we think environmentally without ='thdf'>the idea of ‘the end of the ="trms">world’='qstn'>?
(="ppl">="ppl">Morton asking for) a geophilosophy that doesn't think simply in terms of human events and human significance
="ppl">="ppl">Morton='lgc'>: global warming ='lgc'>=/= climate change
if one takes the ‘climate change’ as a substitute for ‘global warming’ is like “cultural change” as a substitute for Renaissance, or “change in living conditions” as a substitute for Holocaust
acronyms, abbreviations='lgc'>:
="acrnms">dialoc دیالوک ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> decrease in appropriate levels of concern
="acrnms">tomas توماس ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> terrain of media and the ="trms">sociopolitical realm
="acrnms">cohhatg کوهاج ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> coincidence of human ="trms">history and terrestrial geology
="acrnms">hhatg حج ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> human ="trms">history and terrestrial geology
="acrnms">pb پی بی ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> philosophy's bandwidth
="acrnms">sdwa صدوا ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> substances decorated with accidents ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="acrnms">ldwa لدوا ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lumps decorated with accidents ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> featureless lumps, and those things have accidental properties, like cupcakes decorated with colored sprinkles (arayesh آرایش) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this thinking still continues, despite the fact that ‘thought has al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready made it irrelevant’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="acrnms">thamii تامی, (='thdf'>for example ="trms">birds for ="ppl">Attar are merely decorative features of ="ppl">Attar's ="trms">social, psychic, and philosophical space)
="acrnms">soth صوث ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> speculating outside of the human
="acrnms">sim سیم ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> small island of meaning
="acrnms">etimom اتیموم ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> everything is made of mind
="acrnms">hhbn هبن ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hand-holding benevolent ="trms">narrator (-which is vanished)
(auto) ="acrnms">cad کد ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (automatic) comforting ="trms">aesthetic distances
="acrnms">iockat ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intentional objects commonly known as thoughts
="acrnms">atot آتو ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (you only ever perceive your particular) ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphic ="trms">translations of things
="acrnms">ejich جیش ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exhilarating jump into cognitive hyperspace ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> displacement that Copernicus or ="ppl">Derrida does
="acrnms">foe ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fantasies of embeddedness ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="trms">phenomenology ='lgc'><='lgc'>== grounding of ="ppl">Kant (begining in 1900)='lgc'>]
="acrnms">avaa اوا ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a vertiginous anti="trms">literal ="trms">abyss
="acrnms">iwen ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intimacy with existing nonhumans
="acrnms">mok ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mathematization of knowing (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Descartes, ="ppl">Newton) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> hiding philosophical and ideological decisions made in acts of knowing ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">ontology (as a vital and contested political terrain)
="acrnms">icad ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ideology of “the ="trms">consumer” and its “="trms">demands” (that capital then “meets”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> adventure of ="trms">modernity
="acrnms">fvod ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> from the viewpoint of “objective” description (a bad way of explicating the objects that are al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready here)
="acrnms">toc ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> troops of critique
="acrnms">towwk توک ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘="trms">technology of what we know’ (="trms">techniques that decide the ="trms">differences between ‘what we know’ and ‘what is’. ="ppl">="ppl">Morton's hyperobject is a ="acrnms">towwk)
="acrnms">usoc ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> uncanny strangeness of existence (work of ="ppl">Heidegger)
="acrnms">lawot ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (something is) ‘laying around in the workshop of thinking’ (let's reuse what appears to be broken ="acrnms">lawot)
visist='lgc'> = visit ='lgc'>+ resist
cor="trms">relationism='lgc'>: ='thdf'>the notion that philosophy can only talk within a narrow bandwidth, restricted to the human-="trms">world correlate ='lgc'>: meaning is only possible between a human mind and ‘what it thinks'='lgc'> = its “objects” (flimsy شل و ول and tenuous رفيق as they are) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> the light on in the fridge when you close the door
="prgrph">-="ppl">Heidegger (towering through) is a cor="trms">relationist who asserts that without Dasein, it makes no sense whatsoever to talk of the truth of things, which for him implies their very existence='lgc'>--for him idealism, not realism, holds the key to philosophy. (="ppl">Heidegger's tool-analysis='lgc'>: when ="trms">="trms">equipment='lgc'>--which for all intents and purposes could be anything at all='lgc'>--is functioning, or “executing” ='lgc'>[Vollzug='lgc'>], it withdraws from access ='lgc'>[Entzug='lgc'>]; that it is only when a tool is broken that it seems to become ="trms">present-at-hand ='lgc'>[vorhanden='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is this what ="frds scrmbld">Femke is proposing to ="nms">apass='qstn'>?)
="ppl">Descartes uncritically importing the very scholasticism his work undermined
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">epistemology='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•how can i know what there are (or are not) real things='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what gives me (or denies me) access to the real='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what defines the possibility of access='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what defines the possibility of possibility='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•Einstein discovered a rippling, flowing spacetime
="lsts lst1">•Tarkovsky discovered the ‘="trms">sensuous ="trms">material of film stock’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="acrnms">s="trms">soci
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Husserl discovered something strange about the objects='lgc'>: no ="trms">matter how many times you turned around a cion, you never saw the other side as the other side ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ='at'>#coin had a dark side that was seemingly irreducible
="ppl">="ppl">Morton's (="trms">technology of what we know) hyperobject is his sense of an a="trms">symmetry between the in="trms">finite powers of cognition and the in="trms">finite bening of things, yet he doesn't evoke descriptive practices, which could be helpfull='lgc'>--he is missing something, here='lgc'>: “the gap between ="trms">phenomenon and thing yawns open, disturbing my sense of ="trms">presence and being in the ="trms">world.”
“='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] i cannot locate the gap between ="trms">phenomenon and thing anywhere in my given, ="trms">phenomenal, experiential, or indeed ="trms">scientific space” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Xiri's problem
he disagrees with='lgc'>: (from ="ppl">Plato up until ="ppl">Hume and ="ppl">Kant) that there is some kind of dotted line somewhere on a thing, saying “cut here” ='lgc'>--so he con="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes='lgc'>: “things are themselves, but we can't point to them directly.” ='lgc'>=/= nonre="trms">presentational theory, ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart is much more useful. we can see ="ppl">="ppl">Morton's taste for (a masculine) ="trms">sublime in modeling his hyperobjects
flat ="trms">ontology='lgc'>: there is hardly any ="trms">difference between a person and a pincushion. and ="trms">relationships between them, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding ="trms">causal ones, must be vicarious (نيابتى) and hence ="trms">aesthetic in ="trms">nature
(no) realism that only bases its findings on “ontic” ="trms">data
="trms">scientific discoveries are necessarily based on a decision about what real things are
='strcls'>*disaster ='lgc'>[="trms">ontologic='lgc'>] taking place against a stable background ='lgc'>[ontic='lgc'>]='strcls'>*
="trms">causality after ="ppl">Hume and ="ppl">Kant ='lgc'>: ="trms">causality as a feature of ="trms">phenomena, rather than things in themselves ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> humans are not totally in charge of assigning significance and value to events that can be statistically ="trms">measured
entities that become visible through post-="ppl">Humean and post-="ppl">Kantian statistical ="trms">causality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">anthropogenic global warming
="trms">causal factoid
humiliators ='lgc'>[there is no center and we don't inhabit it='lgc'>]='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•Copernicus
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Darwin
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Freud (displacing the human from the very center of psychic activity)
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Marx (displacing human ="trms">social life with economic organization)
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Heidegger
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Derrida (displacing the human from the center of meaning-making)
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Nietzsche
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>~= there is no ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>=/= (film Lucy or Neil Tyson series sug="trms">gesting that) there is an ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (of time to see everything perfectly), in some (privilaged) transcendental sphere of pure freedom, Lucy's chair ="trms">literally sitting a VIP box beyond the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">anthropocentrism='lgc'>: ='thdf'>the idea of a privilaged transcendental sphere
="ppl">Kant ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (although we are limited in ="trms">finitude) our transcendental faculties are at least ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorically floating in space beyond the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the universe ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#milieu ='at'>#="nms">tasavof ='at'>#sufism
...هزار و یک hezaro yek
universe of trillions of ="trms">finitudes
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='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]thing='lgc'>: a rift between what it is and how it appears
(="ppl">="ppl">Morton > Herman='lgc'>:) human consciousness wants ='strcls'>*to preserve knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge as a special kind of ="trms">relation to the ="trms">world quite ="trms">different from the ="trms">relations that raindrops and lizards have to the ="trms">world='strcls'>* (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- so d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous and so difficult to resist ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- next level of ="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) also want to claim that the very status of ='lgc'>[his='lgc'>] utterance is somehow special ='lgc'><='lgc'>== (human) ‘thought’ is given a unique ability to negate and transcend immediate experience
(claims that the human doesn't exist ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) elevating the strucure of human ‘thought’ to the ="trms">ontological pinnacle سرمنزل
everything (such as ="trms">modernity) banks on a certain forms of ="trms">ontology and ="trms">epistemology to secure its coordinates
speculative realism, a rogue machinery
saving power='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•expecting an eschatological solution from the sky
="lsts lst1">•a revolution in consciousness
="lsts lst1">•a people's army seizing control of the state
="lsts lst1">•
obsessive robots (that hold open the sliding doors of ="trms">history just as they appear to be snapping shut, imprisoning us in ="trms">modernity forever)
='strcls'>*distance='strcls'>*='lgc'>: (the ="trms">schizophrenic defense, “object in mirror,”) a psychic and ideological construct designed to protect me from the nearness of things
="prgrph">-the concept of ‘="trms">nature’ is (such) an “object in mirror” (='at'>#amazon project)
بنداز دور mythical land away ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a dis-dimension called ‘away’ (door دور) in ="nms">iran (door andakhtan دور انداختن)
(there is no away on this surface we are in) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> throw away='lgc'>: an optical effect ='lgc'>: there is no loger distances our image from us in a nice, ="trms">aesthetically manageable way, but sticks to us ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we are glued to our ="trms">phenomenological ="trms">situation (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> entanglement of ="trms">="trms">equipment and quanta ='lgc'>=/= three pigs)
a threatening proximity
“i do not feel ‘at home’ in the biosphere” (yet it surrounds them and penetrates them) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> most humans feel that way. how one's entire physical being is caught in its meshwork of narezayati نارضایتی
(physical existence carrying with it) a trace of unreality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> آمدنم بهر چه بود ='lgc'>: “i am not sure where i am anymore. i am at home in feeling not at home.”
one's normal sense of time as a container
="frds scrmbld">Ehsan's ghost/sheikh film ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> demonic in that through them ="trms">causalities flow like electricity
ambient, latin ‘ambo’ means ‘on both sides’
the old art theories that separated sweetness and power collapse
sweetness, it turns out, just is power='lgc'>: the most powerful thing
weather as ="trms">monster
baby learns to distinguish between the vomit and the non-vomit, and comes to know the non-vomit as self
(a ="trms">society in which) growing ="trms">scientific ='strcls'>*awareness of rish='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==changes='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the ="trms">nature of democracy
back-to-="trms">nature festivals
nihi="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic princes of darkness
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='mywrk'>my work is ='strcls'>*to mix ="trms">stories='strcls'>*
everyday engagements with other kinds of creatures (in my case='lgc'>: ="nms">ajayeb) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> opens new kinds of possibilities for relating and understanding
="trms">cosmo="trms">ecology='lgc'>: multiple beings (gods, jinns, ="trms">animals, humans, living, dead, etc.) each bearing the consequences of the others’ ways (of living and dying)
‘the ="trms">ecological ="trms">question’ is about the needs that ought to be met in the ongoing creation of rapports and connections ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">questions are how does this being achieve the task of holding ="trms">onto its existence ='lgc'>=/= “does this being really exist, or is it not a re="trms">presentation”
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*we may never know (safely and re="trms">liably, either ahead of time or a posteriori) which beings will bear/enjoy the consequences of the concrete attention we give to them='strcls'>*
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on Kate Rich work
feral ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> before or without a political state ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> state of ="trms">nature ='lgc'>[a lot of moral political philosophers of the state asking “What was life like before civil ="trms">society='qstn'>?"='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in feral there are only freedoms ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> contracts (='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what cultural ="trms">anthropology has to say about that='qstn'>?)
she is in the ="ppl">Rousseauian tradition of ='strcls'>*how to establish a ‘political ="trms">community’ in the face of the problems of ‘commercial ="trms">society’='strcls'>* (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Rousseau's The ="trms">Social Contract ='and'>& Discourse on the O="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin and Basis of Inequality Among Men)
fighting the ="trms">system ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> feral ="trms">tropes ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> arsenal of the Enlightenment (="ppl">Kant's motto='lgc'>: “Dare to think for yourself!” ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= “I don't follow orders!”), application of Reason in the public sphere of human affairs
with her work we are in the Age of Enlightenment, Age of Reason, resourcing ="trms">authority and legitimacy, ideals of individual liberty and progress ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Kate's thinking founded on philosophical ="trms">fictions of the 18th century (='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Foucault='lgc'>='lgc'>--> problematic legacy of the Enlightenment)
="lsts lst1">•the legecy of 20th century='lgc'>: (Kate's dialectical negativity) to define and work in negative way, an ‘exit,’ a ‘way out’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transcendental ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Singh, ="ppl">Khan,='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•="trms">question of contemporary reality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Kate does a totalizing elevation (like many other artists)
="lsts lst1">•the realm of obedience ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> artists’ ="trms">childish attitude of never accepting someone else's ="trms">authority (='at'>#fighting the ="trms">system; should we fight the ="trms">system ="trms">systematically='qstn'>? ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Nicolas)
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basically everything i do is related to the ="trms">question of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> make us better ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers
my ="trms">excessive use of footnote ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the most decisive indication of the concerns of a text are to be found in its margins ='and'>& no ‘proper’ starting/ending point for ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading
each of my performances/projects reflect on their own status as examples of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading/mis="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ='lgc'>=/= achieving correct ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading
="trms">literature='lgc'>: the problem of mis="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading (='lgc'>=/= the ="trms">language it uses)
='lgc'>[with De Man='lgc'>]
i have become sensitive to the ="trms">systematic avoidance of the problem of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading, of the ="trms">interpretative or hermeneutic moment, in ="trms">literary analysis and art
all ="trms">language-use is tropological (='lgc'>~ ="trms">rhetorical)
catachresis (the misuse of a word) ='lgc'><='lgc'>--fluid='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor (the non-="trms">literal application of a word) ='lgc'><='lgc'>--fluid='lgc'>='lgc'>--> metonymy (in which the name of one thing is put for that of another related to it)
="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readability='lgc'>: the possibility of producing an essential/de="trms">finitive ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> closure ='lgc'>=/= further ="trms">interpretation
a ="trms">language which would perfectly fit my multiple identity='lgc'>--persian consciousness
="trms">emboding (belonging to) two bordering cultures='lgc'>: western university and persian tradition of subjectivity
="lsts lst1">•mixture of English and ="trms">Farsi
="lsts lst1">•spontaneous shift of style
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•
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learning from academia='lgc'>: committed to ="trms">excessive ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor ='lgc'>+ sriousness of purpose
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(Erikson's) developmental ="trms">stages characterized by a psycho="trms">social crisis of two conflicting forces='lgc'>: (each ="trms">stage that came before and that follows has its own ‘crisis’)
='lgc'>[conflictual psycho="trms">social crisis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> virtue ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> (answers to) existential ="trms">questions='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-(0-18 months) Trust / Mistrust ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Hope
='lgc'>[Can I trust the ="trms">world='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> what constitutes d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous ="trms">situations (in life)
="trms">world is undependable, unpre="trms">dictable, and possibly a d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous place
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]trust='lgc'>: syntonic quotient
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]mistrust='lgc'>: diatonic quotient
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> oral ="trms">stage
="prgrph">-(2-4 years) Autonomy / Shame-Doubt ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Will
='lgc'>[Is it okay to be me='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
venture out to assert their will ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> learning about environment
lack/="trms">excess/ridiculed restriction ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> shame ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> doubt (in dealing with, handling problems)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> anal ="trms">stage
="prgrph">-(4-5 years) Initiative / Guilt ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Purpose
='lgc'>[Is it okay for me to do, move, and act='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
autonomy ='lgc'>+ mastery (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> artists who stay at their own autonomy and mastery are fixated at this age)
discourage the pursuit of independent activities ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> guilt about needs and desires
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> phallic ="trms">stage
='lgc'>='lgc'>---till here we were in the realm of play='lgc'>='lgc'>---
to master trust, autonomy, and industrious ="trms">skills
(i have mastered ‘trust,’ failed at ‘autonomy,’ and overdosing ‘industrious ="trms">skills’)
="prgrph">-(5-12 years) Industry / Inferiority ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Competence
='lgc'>[Can I make it in the ="trms">world of people and things='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•beginning to grasp the concepts of space and time in more logical, practical ways
="lsts lst1">•="trms">causality
="lsts lst1">•="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading (is an industrious ="trms">skills='qstn'>?!)
="lsts lst1">•recognizing cultural ="trms">differences (is an industrious ="trms">skills='qstn'>?!)
="lsts lst1">•completing the task
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> latency ="trms">stage
="prgrph">-(13-19 years) Identity / Role Confusion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Fidelity
='lgc'>[Who am I='qstn'>? Who can I be='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
concerned with how to appear to others
fit into ="trms">society
(used to be evidenced in career, now in sexual identity ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) superego identity is the accrued confidence that the outer sameness and continuity prepared in the future are matched by the sameness and continuity of one's meaning for oneself
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> sense of identity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re-establish boundaries (in a potentially hostile ="trms">world) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this is difficult because commitments are asked for before particular identity roles have formed
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> experiment and explore (in a ‘psycho="trms">social moratorium’ ='lgc'>[allowed adolescent role confusion='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> firm sense of identity
(experimentation is about identity formation='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[="trms">according to Erikson='lgc'>] only when identity is established ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ experimentation stopped='lgc'>] the ="trms">questions “What have I got='qstn'>?” and “What am I going to do with it='qstn'>?” can be asked
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]identity='lgc'>: to identify the object of one's fidelity='strcls'>***
="prgrph">-identity crisis for persons of genius is frequently prolonged
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? genital ="trms">stage
="prgrph">-(20-39 years) Intimacy / Isolation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">Love
='lgc'>[Can I ="trms">love='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]distanciation='lgc'>: “the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readiness to isolate and if necessary, to destroy those forces and people whose essence seems d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous to our own, and whose territory seems to encroach on the extent of one's intimate ="trms">relations”
="prgrph">-(40-64 years) Generativity / ="trms">Stagnation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Care
='lgc'>[Can I make my life count='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
guiding the next generation
="prgrph">-(65-death) Ego ="trms">Integrity / Despair ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Wisdom
='lgc'>[Is it okay to have been me='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
(only now is able to) develop ="trms">integrity
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you have a ‘bad day’
(in ="ppl">Socrates='lgc'>:) because[...]