[...] 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)

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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> 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

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

(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'>*

="large lg1" stl="font-size:110%"> ="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


...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 (active and transparent in action) ='lgc'>--Iris='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fringe awareness of wearing glasses in sports activities


visualization of ="nms">phantom limbs

hermeneutic-cultural body

="trms">embodiment through ="trms">technologies

Andy Clark ="trms">Natural Born Cyborgs
echnology of tele="trms">presence
the ="trms">measurement of time ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> changes in human existence


='thdf'>the idea of ='strcls'>*="trms">science='lgc'> = ="trms">intervention ='lgc'>+ grasping='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•grasping ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> active dimension of acquiring knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is a genuinely contstructive activity (='lgc'>=/= a re="trms">presentational task of trying to re="trms">present external structures)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> experiment ='and'>& ="trms">instruments (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> how theoretical entities come to be proven as real)
="lsts lst2">◦experimental-manipulative realism (Hacking)
="lsts lst2">◦mode="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic constructive realism (Giere)
="lsts lst2">◦="trms">instrumental realism (="ppl">="ppl">Ihde)


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]performance='lgc'>: conception ='lgc'>+ production ='lgc'>+ witnessing of ="trms">material events, the experience of which is meaning generating in that these events give us back more than what we put into them
(Crease > ="ppl">="ppl">Ihde)

experimentation need to be both='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]hermeneutical='lgc'>: who experimental intentions and practices arise and evolve out of and al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready existing involvement with, and understanding of a concrete ="trms">situation
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">phenomenology='lgc'>: (taking its point of departure from what is called ="trms">embodiment) the experiences of a unified being, which cannot be understood apart from concrete human experience


philosopher ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> values experts ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (fit into various) applied ethics contexts

="ppl">="ppl">Ihde rejecting a normativity that is predetermined by a dystopian/utopian cast

“let the things speak for themselves” (after they have been critically ="trms">interrogated)

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="large lg6" stl="font-size:131%"> ="ppl">="ppl">Galison
(employing) kinesthetic-tactile body experiences in Einstein's Gedanken-experimenten ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> notions of the equivalence of gravity and acceleration
perceptual experience in relative train movement
clock watching in ="trms">different space-time particularities

“On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”
Einstein's special relativity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> begins with basic assumptions about the behavior of clocks, rulers, and bodies in force-free motion

Einstein's rethinking of ='strcls'>*distant ="trms">simultaneity='strcls'>* (part philosophy ='and'>& part physics)
="prgrph">-judgment of ="trms">simultaneous event='lgc'>: “that train arrives here at 7 o'clock"='lgc'> = "the pointing of the small hand of my watch to 7 and the arrival of the train are ="trms">simultaneous events”

electrodynamics always depended on a view about kinematics ='lgc'>: how clocks and rulers behaved in the absence of force

1891 Germany Leipzig was the site of one of the first electrically distributed time ="trms">systems (to bind distant clocks to a single central clock) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> railroad lines

piecemeal ruin of time
="lsts lst1">•an inconvenience for the ="trms">traveler
="lsts lst1">•actual difficulty of vital importance for the railway business and military

means of consistent calibration

🕓 coordinated time ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">material-economic necessity ='lgc'>+ cultural ="trms">imaginary
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> 1900 blossoming of chronometric patents='lgc'>: on remote alarms, remote regulation of pendula, telephonic, even wireless-trans="trms">mission of time
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pass through the Swiss patent office in Bern ='and'>& Einstein's desk ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Einstein's expertise on electromechanical devices (1902)

electromagnetic clock coordination ='lgc'>: transforming small electrical currents into high-precision rotatory movements

='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “time is money” ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Galison='lgc'>='lgc'>--> no old-="trms">fashioned mechanical, hydraulic, or pneumatic ="trms">system would do='lgc'>--electricity was the key to the future (a future that would only come about properly if humankind broke with its mechanical clock ="trms">past riven by anarchy, incoherence, and ="trms">routinization)

="large lg14" stl="font-size:122%"> distant ="trms">simultaneity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> political, profitable, ="trms">pragmatic ='lgc'>=/= anarcho-clockism

='at'>#title
="trms">international bureau of ="trms">measurement

Einstein agonizing over the ="trms">nature of moving bodies and electrodynamics
='lgc'>=/= ether='lgc'>: the centerpiece of nineteenth-century physical theories

kinematics='lgc'>: ="trms">geometry of motion, behavior of ="trms">matter in the absence of force

="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics of Einstein's relativity theory ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Galison='lgc'>='lgc'>--> underlined through some of the most ="trms">symbolized mechanisms of ="trms">modernity ='lgc'>~ determining train arrival times using electromagnetically coordinated clocks (was precisely the ="trms">technological issue that had been racking Europe 1902) ='lgc'>: ="trms">symbol of the ="trms">interconnected sped-up ="trms">world of ="trms">modernity

='strcls'>*centralized time='strcls'>* distribution was the temporal-physical glory of the unified German empire

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> turn-of-the-century Euro-American ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> overlapping ="trms">networks of coordination='lgc'>: webs of train tracks, telegraph lines, meteorological ="trms">networks, longitude surveys under the watchful, increasingly universal, clock ="trms">system
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Einstein's special theory of relativity was (an ="trms">imaginative) machine ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">="ppl">Galison's ="trms">technological ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of (Einstein's) most theoretical paper

Einstein had opened the zone of unification (but in the process='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•he removed Berlin as the Zeitzentrum
="lsts lst1">•designed a machine that upended the very ="trms">category of ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical centrality

post ="trms">world war I
all the activities of man, whether conscious or unconscious (sleeping, eating, meditating, playing) take place in time; without order, without ="trms">specified plans, we risk falling into anarchy (physical, intellectual and moral misery)
='lgc'>--Favarger='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the remedy='lgc'>: the precise ="trms">measurement and determination of time with the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor of an astronomical observatory
(to) democratize time ='lgc'>: time ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor must be distributed electrically
(='lgc'>=/= gears and magnets)

="ppl">="ppl">Galison's exploring the ="trms">material culture of clock coordination is to set Einstein's place in a universe of meaning ='lgc'>--avoid='lgc'>='lgc'>--> two problematic ="trms">positions (='strcls'>*on the ="trms">relation of things to thoughts='strcls'>*)='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. ="trms">materialism or ="trms">="trms">empiricism='lgc'>: inductive, observation-centered account of ="trms">scientific development (='lgc'>~ that ideas emerge ="trms">causally and univalently from the dis="trms">position of objects and the impressions they make upon us) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “theory='lgc'> = provisional addition”
="lstsrd">2. anti="trms">positivist movement of the 1960s and 1970s (that programmes, paradigms, and conceptual schemes came first ='lgc'>==reshape='lgc'>='lgc'>==> experiments and ="trms">instruments all the way down) “thoughts fully structured things”

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> 1902 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> triumph of the ='strcls'>*electrical over the mechanical='strcls'>* was al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready ="trms">symbolically wired to dreams of ="trms">modernity
='strcls'>*electrical chronocoordination ='lgc'>--signified='lgc'>='lgc'>--> political, cultural, ="trms">technical unity all at once ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*Einheitszeit='lgc'> = imperial empire (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= democracy, ="trms">world citizenship, and antianarchism)='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*patent office='lgc'>: grandstand seat for the great parade of ="trms">modern ="trms">technologies
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Einstein (eliminating the master clock ='lgc'>+ raising the conventionally set time to a physical principle ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">modern 20th century physics of relativity)

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James Ash
on videogame designer (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- i am applying that to ="trms">technical animators)
distribution and trans="trms">mission of media ="trms">affects

='lgc'>[animators='lgc'>] work to create the potential for ='strcls'>*="trms">positively ="trms">affective encounters to occu[...]