[...]n's limits

find a way of ="trms">articulating oneself beyond pronoun's strict logics (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> alternative subject ="trms">position) ='lgc'>=/= Calderwood ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">contingency of seeing='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: “manipulating the intensity of certain optical patterns in order to scramble='lgc'>--or dazzle='lgc'>--those fields of vision that the ‘="trms">apparatus of the pattern’ is traditionally tasked with managing”

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]gender='lgc'>: ="trms">semiotic ="trms">apparatus; re="trms">presentation of a ="trms">relation (that of belonging to a class, a group, a ="trms">category -de Lauretis), gender assigns to one entity (an individual) a ="trms">position within a class ='lgc'>==> a ="trms">position vis-a-vis other preconstituted classes

flooding the visual field ='lgc'>==> refuse to lend themselves to the task of figuring things out ‘what is this='qstn'>?’

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> (let's suspend) act of perceiving oneselffrom a particular, fixed place in order to open up ="trms">onto a sense of ="trms">imagination ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- identity, identification, ="trms">positionality='lgc'>]

='strcls'>*discourse of desir='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--="ppl">Lyotard='lgc'>='lgc'>--> desire does not speak; it does violence to the order of the utterance

(='qstn'>?am i using the queer strategy of) ='strcls'>**pattern-jamming='strcls'>** ='lgc'>==> nonbinary variance ='lgc'>=/= proliferation of tick-boxes (identity politics)


="lsts lst1">•modes of ornamentation
="lsts lst1">•="trms">systems of organization
patterns ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> repetitions ='lgc'>==> ="trms">naturalize the appearances of certain recurrences in life ='lgc'>==> stabilize (our notions)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]pattern='lgc'>: an essential forecasting tool, (through pattern's) rhythms we come to place bets on our future ='lgc'>[like the sun's cycle='lgc'>], maps of those terrains where belief most directly meets desire, where ="trms">aesthetics meets significance

stripes ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> capacity to serve as “a tool for setting things in order” (='lgc'>--="trms">Pastoureau='lgc'>='lgc'>--> between the lines a tangle of uncanny specters ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurk)
="prgrph">-stripe's ability (not simply to signify but) to formalize or figure the abnormal within medieval visual and ="trms">material culture ='lgc'>[a culture accustomed to transmitting visual messages along very ="trms">different frequencies='lgc'>: an image was created by superimposing successive levels, and, to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read it well, it was necessary to begin with the bottom level and, passing through all the ="trms">intermediary layers, end with the top on='lgc'>] (-what is noise for medieval visual culture='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-with the stripe='lgc'>: the structure is the figure ='lgc'>==> force certain bodies into genuine non-place ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fields of actual nonsense
="prgrph">-(="trms">modern stripe's clarity is a case of) how ideologically saturated, or un="trms">natural, the act of looking is
="prgrph">-(genealogy of stripe ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">historical processes='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*yesterday's noise ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> today's signal='strcls'>*

='strcls'>***power is formally established and formally critiqued through the adaption or the ob="trms">literation of patterns='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*pattern manipulation='strcls'>* so strategically necessary ='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Laura, ="frds scrmbld">Elen='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">="ppl">="trms"nttrm="search">Archer's) call to='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•to take advantage of those ="trms">aesthetic practices that can direct attention away from a pattern's typical ="trms">symbolic function (='strcls'>*or ="trms">responsibilities to secure meaning and certain attending forms of power='strcls'>*)
="lsts lst1">•to ="trms">aestheticize the pattern's capacity to function performatively (as a kind of critical figure that is always al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready inserted within the discourse of everyday life)

='lgc'>[in ="nms">apass (we have to mark) how and where the negative knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge about the reliability of ="trms">linguistic utterance is made available (='at'>#feedback)='lgc'>]
(="ppl">de Man='lgc'>:) the figural dimension of a text “gives the ="trms">language considerable freedom from referential restraint, but it also makes it ="trms">epistemologically highly suspect and volatile, since its use can no longer be said to be determined by considerations of truth and falsehood, good and evil, beauty and ugliness, or pleasure and pain”

(='qstn'>?how in our feedbacking instead of ="trms">linguistic we can be able to) manipulating the figure of the pattern ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (in ="nms">apass we are constantly busy with) a way to critically and actively resist ideology (of block curator, ="frds scrmbld">Vladimir's settlement's ‘order of thing,’ the institution, etc.) or to critically ="trms">gesture toward and theorize the possibility of “another way”

the ='strcls'>*genital panic='strcls'>* (forever lodged within the heart of discourses on sexual or gendered ="trms">difference...)

(to examine) the varied ways that pattern is used to put one in one's place
Nicki Green, Yayoi Kusama, Adriana Varejao, Yinka Shonibare, Craig Calderwood



spaces that lie between the patterned (behaviors...)

='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo, heard so many times:='lgc'>] clear (but melancholic) call for the re="trms">articulation of our desires outside capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list logics of (re)production

using the ="trms">trope of pattern to deconstruct the politics of desire

“conflict” is something that is desired(='qstn'>?)
queer desires might make something ="trms">different of conflict(='qstn'>?)

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="nms">phantom limb ="ppl">Grosz

(="ppl">Nietzsche='lgc'>: entire evolution of) spirit='lgc'> = a ="trms">question of the body (developement of a higher body) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*the organic rising to yet higher levels='strcls'>*

="nms">body image='lgc'>:
(psychoanalytic conception of subjectivity ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ‘mind’ ='and'>& ‘body’ ='and'>& ‘="nms">body image’
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> physical ="trms">systems to the subject's access to bodily mobility
="lsts lst1">•cortical homunculus ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Freud
="lsts lst1">•="trms">imaginary anatomy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Lacan
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> genesis and functioning of the ego
='lgc'>[are my image assemblages about changing the ="nms">body image='qstn'>?='lgc'>]

='lgc'>==> biology and ="trms">neurophysiology are dependent on ='strcls'>*physical processes='strcls'>* of transcription and signification

="ppl">Grosz on the status of the body as a problematic and uncontainable term in biology and psychology

="lsts lst1">•(Egyptian) “ka"='lgc'> = soul='lgc'>: a copy of the human body (that is more ethereal and less ="trms">dense than the physical body)
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Cartesian notion of soul (or mind)='lgc'>: a ghostlike icon of the subject
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Aristotle's pneuma='lgc'>: finer or more subtle body than the coarsely ="trms">material/="trms">materia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic body
="lsts lst1">•="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian notion of soul='lgc'>: the possibility of resurrection ='lgc'>==> privileged and formative link between ='strcls'>*="trms">morphology of the soul='strcls'>* ='and'>& ='strcls'>*="trms">morphology of the body='strcls'>*

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(Ambroise Pare='lgc'>:) mortification='lgc'>: ='strcls'>***continuity and consentiment of the dead parts with the living ones='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>==> phantasm limb

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="nms">body image='lgc'>: the absence of the knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the ="trms">position of limbs when the patient's eyes are closed (Weir ="ppl">Mitchell) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> faculty of ="trms">language localized in the whole body (and not in the left hemisphere)
= ='strcls'>*spatiotemporally structured and structuring model of the subject='strcls'>*, a “schema” that mediates between the subject's ="trms">position and its behavior, synesthetically (visual or tactile) organized and re="trms">presented


="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> postural schema وضعى

postural model (of the body)='lgc'>: a three-dimensional image that both registers and organizes the information provided by the senses regarding='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the subject's body
="lsts lst1">•the subject's location in space (='lgc'>~ its posture)
="lsts lst1">•the subject's ="trms">relation to other objects
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">body image registers ='strcls'>*current='strcls'>* sensation also preserves a ='strcls'>*record of ="trms">past='strcls'>* impressions

the ='strcls'>*body schema='strcls'>* is plastic, kinesthetically and synergetically organized sensations
= physiological dis="trms">positions ='lgc'>+ physiological processes


S="trms">childer's model of ="nms">body image
="trms">social and ="trms">interpersonal attachments and investments, as well as libidinal energy, from a major part of one's self-image and conception of the body (='lgc'>--="ppl">Grosz='lgc'>='lgc'>--> more amenable to the kind of ="trms">socio="trms">historical and cultural analysis of the body feminists are ="trms">interested in)
='strcls'>*body schema='lgc'>: experience of the “unity of the body” (self-appearance of the body), an anticipatory plan of (future) action in which a knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the body's current ="trms">position and capacities for action must be registered, perception ='lgc'>+ mental pictures ='lgc'>+ re="trms">presentations
='strcls'>*image of the human body='lgc'> = the picture of our own body which we form in our mind
='lgc'>--="ppl">Freud='lgc'>='lgc'>--> somatic compliance='lgc'>: the organic body's amenability تمايل to psychical takeover, (impelled by the organic dist="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbance) psychological processes take over and ='strcls'>*adopt the biological dist="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbance as their own and utilize it to epress psychical whishes and significances='strcls'>* (both conscious and unconscious)

="large lg5" stl="font-size:124%"> whenever difficulty occurs regarding the recognition of ="trms">different parts of the body (or the ="trms">position of the body) it occurs not only in the subject's self-perception but also always in the perception of other's bodies as well (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- is that why i perceive other bodies in the street like i do='qstn'>? my ="trms">relation with ="trms">fashion, blondies)


amputation of moveable functional extremities (almost every part of the body) ='lgc'>==> ="nms">phantom limb (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- Weir ="ppl">Mitchell)

='lgc'>{the greater the passage of time since the amputation, the more distorted and phantomlike the sensations become:='lgc'>}
loss of the eye ='lgc'>==> ='qstn'>?
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