[...]individually, sexually, racially, and culturally variable ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#clean and dirt for my mother; my ="nms">body image outside space surrounding it when i am in my room is the room itself, every corner, every niche accumulates senses and thoughts...='lgc'>]
the space surrounding the body is not uniform='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•thinner in some places (which more ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readily tolerate body contact)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">thicker in some places (which are particularly psychically, ="trms">socially, and culturally “privatized”)
="lsts lst1">•

="prgrph">-acting uses ="nms">body image ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">body image can shrink or expand; it can give parts to the outside ="trms">world and can take other parts into itself
="prgrph">-playing setar ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (part of the difficulty of learning how to use ="trms">instruments, such as setar) the libidinal problem of how they become psychically invested (='lgc'>=/= simply the ="trms">technical problem of how they are used)

surgeon's ="nms">body image

in driving, trying to fit into a small parking spot ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- experienced in the ="nms">body image of the driver (and sometimes, to their ="trms">horror, in that of the passengers) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> by inability to drive is related to a bad ="nms">body image='qstn'>?='lgc'>]

="nms">body image is capable of accommodating and incorporating an extremely wide range of objects='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•clothing
="lsts lst1">•jewelry
="lsts lst1">•other bodies
="lsts lst1">•objects
="lsts lst1">•nail polish
="lsts lst1">•jets, ships, cars
="lsts lst1">•bodily zones='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦orifices
="lsts lst2">◦curves
="lsts lst2">◦convex spaces
="lsts lst2">◦concave spaces
="lsts lst1">•“detachable” or ="trms">intermediate ="trms">category of objects, midway between the inanimate and the bodily ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="ppl">Lacanian objet a, Kristeva's abject='lgc'>]='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦body's excretions
="lsts lst2">◦body's waste products
="lsts lst2">◦bodily byproducts
="lsts lst3">◾urine
="lsts lst3">◾faeces
="lsts lst3">◾saliva
="lsts lst3">◾sperm
="lsts lst3">◾blood
="lsts lst3">◾vomit
="lsts lst3">◾hair
="lsts lst3">◾nails
="lsts lst3">◾skin
  ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> retain something of the cathexis and value of the body (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> keeping my chopped nails, old toys, art-works... ='qstn'>?! ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘detachment='lgc'> = your work (art, etc.) is not bound up with your ="nms">body image’), they remain magically linked to the body ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">narcissistic investment in the ="nms">body image

='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>****human subjects never simply have a body='strcls'>****
the body is always necessarily the object and subject of attitudes and judgments, psychically invested, never a ="trms">matter of in="trms">difference
="prgrph">-the body never has merely ="trms">instrumental or utilitarian value for the subject ='lgc'>--="ppl">Grosz='lgc'>='lgc'>--> which organs are libidinally invested and the kinds of investments that animate them are functions of the subject's psychical, ="trms">interpersonal, and ="trms">socio="trms">historical ="trms">relations and are malleable and continually changing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*always potentially open to new meanings and investments='strcls'>*

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> ="nms">body image='lgc'>: (to a large extent) function of ="trms">socially shared significance
="prgrph">-(='thdf'>for example) male and female genitals have a particular ="trms">social meaning in western patriarchal cultures that the individual alone or even in groups is unable to transform (-these meanings are deeply etched into and lived as part of the ="nms">body image) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= Frankenstein='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> () very ="trms">different self-perception and very ="trms">different organic body ='lgc'>=/= dichotomous division of sexed bodies

="large lg6" stl="font-size:110%"> ="ppl">Grosz generally finds S="trms">childer useful ='lgc'>--but='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•he ="trms">writes in terms of a sexually neutral subject who experiences cerebral lesions and ="trms">neurological or psychological disorders in a sexually neutral way
="lsts lst1">•he develops a single frame of reference (not so clearly relevant for women and female sexuality)
="lsts lst1">•he does not specify that male experience is taken as the norm and woman's experience is discussed only insofar as it deviates from or compares to this referential framework (='lgc'><='lgc'>== influence that studies of war injuries had on the developement of this field ='lgc'>+ vast disproportion of male subjects in active war)

S="trms">childer='lgc'>: attainment of a stable genital form of sexuality ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•unification of the ="nms">body image
="lsts lst1">•cohesion of our self-identities
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> phallic='lgc'> = genital phallic sexuality hierarchically ='strcls'>*subordinates the pregenital drives='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= female sexuality is al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready genitality multilocational, p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lural, ambiguous, poly="trms">morphous, and ='strcls'>*not clearly able to subordinate the earlier ="trms">stages='strcls'>*

shared ="trms">sociocultural conceptions of bodies in general and shared familial and ="trms">interpersonal fantasy about particular bodies ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="nms">body image='lgc'>: unifies and coordinates postural, tactile, kinesthetic, and visual sensations ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (so that these are experienced as) the ='strcls'>*sensations of a subject coordinated into a single space='strcls'>*

='strcls'>***any willful action requires a plan of bodily action ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the function of the ="nms">body image='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this explains my fucked up ="nms">body image!)

="prgrph">-we cannot talk about space whithout ="nms">body image ='lgc'><='lgc'>== the ="nms">body image determines both the localization of sensations in ="trms">different concrete regions of the body and the ="trms">position of the body as a whole within space


="nms">body image ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “='lgc'>=/=” ='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•figure ='lgc'>=/= ground
="lsts lst1">•central action ='lgc'>=/= peripheral action
="lsts lst1">•(subject's) body ='lgc'>=/= (background of) forces
="lsts lst1">•movement of limbs ='lgc'>=/= corporeal context (of the rest of the body)
="lsts lst1">•outside (skin) ='lgc'>=/= inside (organs ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= process='lgc'>])
="lsts lst1">•active ="trms">relations ='lgc'>=/= passive ="trms">relationship
="lsts lst1">•="trms">position of subject ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">position of object


moving from a state of a="trms">morphousness to increasing ="trms">differentiation and specialization

a single movement reorients the whole of the body, creating what might be called a gait or posture, an individual and cultural bodily style

appersonization='lgc'>: treatment of one's own body as an outside object='lgc'>:
='lgc'>+ psychical vampirism='lgc'>: identification with the ="trms">symptoms, actions, and fantasies of othe people
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> identification, incorporation, introjection

='thdf'>example of aging
="prgrph">-="nms">body image seems resistant to the changes brought about by aging
="prgrph">-they seem to have aged, whereas the subject feels as if he or she has not
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> condition of continual transformation ='lgc'>+ time lag in the perception and registeration of real changes in the ="nms">body image

="nms">body image='lgc'>: condition of the subject's access to spatiality (in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding built environments)='lgc'> = a postural schema of the body ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= mapping a biological body ="trms">onto a psychological domain, providing a kind of ="trms">translation of ="trms">material into conceptual terms='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•radical inseparability of biological from psychical elements
="lsts lst1">•connection between the ="trms">question of sexual ="trms">specificity (biological sexual ="trms">difference)
="lsts lst1">•connection between the ="trms">question of psychical identity


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="ppl">Grosz realizes two human ="trms">perversion in psychoanalysis ="trms">literature='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•male ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fetishism (sexual gratification from the use of inanimate partial objects alone)
="lsts lst1">•feminine ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exhibitionism, kleptomania

female fetishism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lesbianism

="large lg6" stl="font-size:118%"> fetishism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">excess of their psychoanalytic descriptions
feminism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> collective psychosis (='lgc'>~ a political disavowal of women's ="trms">social reality as oppressed)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]play='lgc'>: a form of mastery (= a conversion of passivity into activity) ='lgc'>+ a ="trms">technique for the production of pleasure

="ppl">Freud='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•deviation in the sexual object ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> homosexuality, pedophilia, bestiality
="lsts lst1">•deviation in the sexual aim ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transvestism, voyeurism, exhibitionism
fetishism='lgc'>: sexual overvaluation of a part (of the body or an inanimate object)
='lgc'>[='lgc'>--="ppl">Grosz='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘overvaluation’ is a characteristic of masculine forms of ="trms">loving='lgc'>]
“="trms">perversion ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">neuroses” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">pervert expresses precisely what it is that the ="trms">neurotic represses (='strcls'>*="trms">perversion='lgc'>: to avoid the repression)

="large lg1" stl="font-size:139%"> sexual normality='lgc'> = copulative nonincestual heterosexuality

fetishist='lgc'>: the boy/="trms">child who is unable to resolve the oedipal conflict in its various alternatives (unable or unwilling to abandon the mother as ="trms">love object)
="prgrph">-he cannot, like the homosexual son, accept ="trms">symbolic castration in order to take on the “feminine” ="trms">position and adopt a passive sexual role in ="trms">relation to his father
="prgrph">-he is not prepared to “pay” for his desire by facing the oedipal prohibition (give up the mother or lose the penis) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fetish='lgc'>: a token of triumph over the threat of castration (and a protection against it) ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{makes women tolerable as sexual objects ='lgc'>+ saves the fetishist from becoming a homosexual='lgc'>}
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]fetish='lgc'>: (a substitute for or) ='strcls'>*a talisman of the phallus='strcls'>*

(most significant one in the ="trms">child's ="trms">erotic life ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) mother's phallus='lgc'>: that which endows her with power and ="trms">authority

fetish ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a way of both preserving his belief in the missing maternal phallus and at the same time accepting her castration and the possibility of his own

disavowal ='lgc'>=/= repression (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">neurosis) ='lgc'>=/= negation (denial) ='lgc'>=/= repudiation (foreclosure ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> psychosis)

negation='lgc'>: a provisional lifting of repression (not through acceptance, the repressed contents are ="trms">verbally and ="trms">affectively negated) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> affirmation='lgc'>: the process of registering or fixing a drive to an ideational content (signifying the former by the latter), both the condition of signification and of repression

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="ppl">Grosz on ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari

problem with “becoming woman”
the process of becoming-X ='lgc'>[marginal, woman, non-western, etc.='lgc'>] means nothing as a strategy if one is al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready X ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">question of ="trms">difference, ="trms">specificity

='strcls'>*desire
='strcls'>*machinic functions
='strcls'>*assemblages
='strcls'>*rhizomatics
='strcls'>*cartography
='strcls'>*intensities
='strcls'>*speed
='strcls'>*planes

appropriation (recuperation) of the ="trms">positions and struggles of X ='lgc'>==risks='lgc'>='lgc'>==> depoliticizing ="trms">aestheticizing struggles and political challenges crucial to the survival and self-de="trms">finition of X

problem with becoming
(="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari are invested in a) romantic elevation of models of psychosis, ="trms">schizophrenia, and madness ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•ignore the very real pain and torment of individuals
="lsts lst1">•raise pathology to an unlivable, unviable ideal for others


our reservations and suspicions (in ="nms">apass when we face each other)

="ppl">Deleuzian rhizomatics ='and'>& feminist theory ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reversal of ="ppl">Platonism='lgc'>: “ideal ='lgc'>=/= real” (op="trms">position ="trms">integral to Western thought)


rhizomatics, cartography, ="trms">schizoanalysis (deconstruction, grammatology) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> clear the ground of ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical concepts ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (others) may be able to devise their own knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges

four “illusions” of re="trms">presentation='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•identity
="lsts lst1">•op="trms">position
="lsts lst1">•analogy
="lsts lst1">•resemblance
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> becoming (beyond the logic and confines of being)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> multiplicity ='lgc'>[defined by the outside='lgc'>] (beyond doubling or multicentering of proliferating subjects)


="ppl">Deleuzian-="ppl">Foucauldian understanding of politics theorizes in a clearer and more direct form than ='strcls'>*rival (alternative) political philosophies='strcls'>* (in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding ="ppl">Marxism, ="trms">socialism, liberalism, and anarchism), the kinds of theoretical and political struggles in which feminists are involved

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]body='lgc'>: a discontinuous, n="trms">ontotalized series of processes, organs, flows, energies, corporeal substances and events, intensities, and durations ='lgc'>--link='lgc'>='lgc'>--> organs ='lgc'>+ biological processes ='lgc'>+ ="trms">material objects ='lgc'>+ ="trms">social practices

='lgc'>[Spinoza's rare affirmative understanding of='lgc'>] body='lgc'>: (is analyzed and assessed more) in terms of ='strcls'>*what it can do='strcls'>*, the things it can perform, the linkages it establishes, the transformations it undergoes, the machinic connections it forms with other bodies (='lgc'>=/= a locus for a conscious subject, as an organically determined object, by their genus and ="trms">species, by their organs and functions)

from ="ppl">Plato to ="ppl">Lacan ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> desire='lgc'>: negative, ="trms">abyssal, a lack at the level of ="trms">ontology itself (an effect of frustration) ='lgc'>[desire is frustrated by the real='lgc'>]
='lgc'>=/= Spinoza ="ppl">Nietzsche ="ppl">Deleuze ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> desire='lgc'>: immanent, ="trms">positive and productive, ='strcls'>***desire is a ="trms">relation of effectuation, not of satisfaction='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[desire is productive of reality='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> aleatory, bricolage

Spinoza's ethics='lgc'>: capacity for action and passion, increase or decrease one's capacities and strengths ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- good ='and'>& bad
='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Levinasian ethics (modeled on a subject-to-subject, self-to-other ="trms">relation)

(psychoanalysis) ='strcls'>*partial objects='lgc'>: organs, processes, and flows, which show no respect for the autonomy of the subject='strcls'>*

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(="ppl">="ppl">="trms"nttrm="search">Archer > Saint Lauren='lgc'>:) “="trms">fashion fades, style is eternal"='lgc'> = 'notions of style ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> notions of ="trms">history’ =='lgc'>{"to have style"='lgc'> = to have the means of inserting oneself into ="trms">history / “to lack style"='lgc'> = to risk oblivion='lgc'>}

="ppl">="ppl">="trms"nttrm="search">Archer ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how critical considerations of style can offer opportunities to think across sets of subjectivities and cultural practices that are often disas="trms">sociated or pitted against one another

="trms">erotic stylization of deadly force ='lgc'>--(="ppl">="ppl">="trms"nttrm="search">Archer asks)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> why is it stylish for one to be attracted to the kind of power that “the uniform” signifies='qstn'>?
how styles (sartorial, campy, grotesque) serve as a ="trms">serious index of our collective complicity in the ongoing production of state violence='qstn'>?

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="ppl">Chen on ="trms">animacy

="trms">animacy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how ="trms">matter that is considered insensate, immobile, deathly (or otherwise “wrong”) animates cultural life in important ways

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">animacy='lgc'>: a quality of ="trms">agency, awareness, mobility, liveness
='lgc'>--="trms">linguistics='lgc'>='lgc'>--> grammatical effects of the sentience or liveness of nouns

change of ="trms">animacy ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> violates a cross-="trms">linguistic preference among speakers
(for example “the hikers that rocks crush” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> rock='lgc'>: the source of ="trms">causality)

="trms">animacy
filled with life, disposed, inclined, animare to breathe, to quicken
anima, air, breath, life, soul, mind (mental impulse)
='lgc'>--connected='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">animals
animosity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> animating spirit or temper of a hostile character

="large lg10" stl="font-size:108%"> animating principle ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigging='lgc'>]

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="ppl">="ppl">Ihde='lgc'>: playing a musical ="trms">instrument (= a ="trms">technological mediation) ='lgc'>=/= the process of genetic manipulation
='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Heidegger's ="trms">technology='lgc'>: a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysically totalizing context (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- every ="trms">technology ended up with exactly the same output or analysis)

="ppl">="ppl">Ihde ='lgc'>=/= utopian ='and'>& dystopian views of ="trms">technology

...to understand yourself to be thinking and acting ‘in the midst of’ the ="trms">pervasive ="trms">techno="trms">scientific character of life (='at'>@="trms">CG hacker)

="ppl">="ppl">Ihde ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***="trms">technologies and humans constitute themselves ="trms">interactively='strcls'>***

='strcls'>*="trms">technological mediation='lgc'>: heterogeneous ="trms">relationships between individual human beings and the ="trms">world ='lgc'>+ artifacts used for mediations ='lgc'>=/= ideals of efficiency and clear ="trms">communication



“breakdown ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new ="trms">gestalt” ='lgc'>: something that had usually taken for granted, which then under breakdown conditions, now gets revealed in a new way (revelatory function)
='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">="ppl">Ihde's ='strcls'>*variational practice='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: variations ='lgc'>==forefront='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new ="trms">gestalts

="large lg6" stl="font-size:109%"> (our) ="trms">world='lgc'> = powerful effective ='and'>& failing ="trms">technology
we ='lgc'>=/= tragic hero (='lgc'>+ broken hammer) or Enlightenment ="trms">scientist (='lgc'>+ laboratory)



matrix ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> female
those that move in the matrix ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> formative male principle

(="ppl">="ppl">Foucault's) ="trms">episteme='lgc'>: ="trms">social-moral-="trms">religious stability


="ppl">="ppl">Latour
="trms">modernity ='lgc'><='lgc'>== settlement='lgc'>: (a clear and sharp distinction) ="trms">society ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">nature ='lgc'>--obscure='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the proliferation of hybrids='lgc'>: entities that are both cultural ='and'>& ="trms">natural (for example ="trms">material ="trms">technologies are both “real” ='and'>& “constructed”)


="ppl">="ppl">Ihde ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">technologies are in ='strcls'>*mediating ="trms">positions='strcls'>*

="trms">inter="trms">relational relativistic ="trms">ontologies ='lgc'>: there is ="trms">interaction and ="trms">mutual “non-neutral” and “noninnocent” productive and emergent shaping between humans ='lgc'>+ ="trms">technologies ='lgc'>+ ="trms">animals ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is “="trms">situated” and particular, not “transcendentally” true ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> putative ="trms">symmetry between the human ='and'>& nonhuman


bestiality (="trms">inter="trms">relational, sin='qstn'>?) is embedded in what has to appear to us today as an antiquated or surpassed stability

="lsts lst1">•(="ppl">Merleau-Ponty ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">="ppl">Ihde) ="trms">embodiment is the location of all intelligent behavior ='lgc'>[="trms">situated ='lgc'>+ ="trms">embodied='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•(Pickering) cybernetic (self-organizing set) is the location of all intelligent behavior ='lgc'>[="trms">situated='lgc'>]


='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">="ppl">Galison's Einstein


(the old notion that) ='strcls'>***="trms">phenomenology is primarily descriptive ='lgc'>=/= prescriptive

='lgc'>[ethicalization of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, in ="nms">Iran, in artists ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading choices based on gender, etc. turning research into applied ethics='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•contemporary ethics of a ="trms">cosmopolitan p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">luricultural tolerant ="trms">sort
="lsts lst1">•absolutisms of politically incarnated groups had to transform absolute beliefs into “private” ones (taken off the streets and battlegrounds) ='lgc'><='lgc'>--now='lgc'>-- returning!


='strcls'>****="trms">technologies are multistable='lgc'>: having unpre="trms">dictable side-effects and embeddable in ="trms">different ways in ="trms">different cultures='strcls'>****

='lgc'>[="trms">technology ='lgc'>+ ="trms">embodied ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] abstract philosophical reflects ='lgc'>+ mundane work practices

to incarnate a ="trms">material ="trms">agency-ethic ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> are also multistable='lgc'>: can belong to any number of contexts

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%">
...to recognizes that X plays an important role in defining Y-ic meaning

="ppl">Merleau-Ponty's implicit body is a ="trms">sort of sports body (activ[...]