[...]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

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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:147%"> ...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'>*

="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

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> “let the things speak for themselves” (after they have been critically ="trms">interrogated)

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="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

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> “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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:165%"> 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 d[...]