Ereignis: 0, (Max.: 500+)

[...]g over the nature of moving bodies and electrodynamics
=/= ether: the centerpiece of nineteenth-century physical theories

kinematics: geometry of motion, behavior of matter in the absence of force

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

*centralized time* distribution was the temporal-physical glory of the unified German empire

turn-of-the-century Euro-American world --> overlapping networks of coordination: webs of train tracks, telegraph lines, meteorological networks, longitude surveys under the watchful, increasingly universal, clock system
--> Einstein's special theory of relativity was (an imaginative) machine <-- Galison's technological reading of (Einstein's) most theoretical paper

Einstein had opened the zone of unification (but in the process:)
he removed Berlin as the Zeitzentrum
designed a machine that upended the very category of metaphysical centrality

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

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

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

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James Ash
on videogame designer (<-- i am applying that to technical animators)
distribution and transmission of media affects

[animators] work to create the potential for *positively affective encounters to occur* (encounters which increase the body’s capacity to act & produce associated positive senses of intensity)
creating critically and commercially successful

*producing contingency* (that designers attempt to manage and control)

rigging
the code space of the software environment +  embodied techniques hackers generate (in response to that environment)

*structural determination + emergent practice*

a key aspect of media today --Stiegler--> [*]selection: a decision is made to broadcast one story over another

testing --> calculative logics of anticipation and preemption --shape--> the contingency of the event

brittlestar intrinsic discursive predator body bodily boundary container world stage difference differential production aqua media arm [source: Wikimedia Commons] the actual practices of riggers (technical animator)

animation industry
the ways in which affect can be actively manipulated for commercial and economic ends in the design and production of consumer services and good

***technologies are affectively engineered*** <--Thrift--Ash-- microbiopolitics of the subliminal: doing without thinking, practices of anticipatory manipulation ==> position consumers of media as passive dupes (<-- زیرپوستی *hypodermic model of media power*)
----> Ash: affective manipulation is necessarily a fragile achievement that is prone to failure and always reliant upon being continually reworked in the creative responses users develop in relation to the designed environments with which they interact [---> go to fandom and fan culture]

animation design (videogame): is a complex, problematic, and ongoing struggle between:
the openness and performative play of contingency & chance (which emerge through the techniques and intelligences that users develop as they become skilled at these games)
the mechanical systems and calculative rationalities through which these environments are designed

affective properties of contingency ==> commercially and critically successful

rig: assemblage of human and nonhuman actor
staging, managing, and controlling event [movement] within the limited computational architecture

(asking with Ash) how agency is distributed in the assemblages of various human and technical actors that make up rigging?

rig =/= architecture
shaping corporeal dispositions

(entertainment industry does work) to maintain and guard the contingent as a positive force

contingency: the unexpected, the random, the singular, the unrepeatable, or the surprising (that which cannot be pinned down by any process that attempts to pin it down) =/= boring
(Dastur, Dewsbury, Delanda)
--> you need *open skill: contingent tactically oriented understanding* (contextually-appropriate responsiveness, context-dependent ways, regulated improvisation) <-- hacker's talent

(Deleuzian) [*]affect: the outcome of an encounter between two or more bodies (which can be human or inhuman, organic or inorganic), which either increases or decreases a body's capacity for action

captivation --> the specificity of the ecological relationship between user and (image) environment

(game) design
cultivation of the right kinds of affects through quantitative variables in the game's database ~= (Latour's) laboratories: theatres of proof (through a process of decontextualization, the scientific experiment which isolates the factors it wants to study, an entity becomes nameable & calculable ==> predictable & knowable)
Latour's laboratory --render--> a particular object/process =/=
game develop --render--> contingency (contingent events [within an already existing horizon of expectation / coded structure])

emergence of intelligences (of the users) --> (Massumi's) analogue: something that cannot be purely reduced to measurement through quantitative states or mathematical modelling (for example vision --into--> imagination, noise in the ear --into--> music in the heart [body operating as transducer] --> *transduce energy*) =/= digital: exhaustively possibilistic (control represented and manipulated through discrete quantitative states)

game design as an essentially the *anticipatory practice* (practices that attempt to plan, preempt, and rationalise the potentiality of future events in order to bring this potentiality within a logic of calculation -Anderson)
shape the potential actions of potential users --> rendering contingency visible

somatic bodily techniques + analytical ways of conceptualizing and responding to situations (within the game, or animation task in a software) --> reduce them to abstract and codified tendencies ~= rig

(design:) rendering contingency visible through the practices of testing --> build affect into anticipatory practices

airport: rigged architecture (passenger is faced with a situation in which forwards or backwards are the only directions they may go)

3D animation --> [using] digital (a form of calculative abstraction) + [to create positive encounter with] analogue body subject (irreducible to purely digital or discrete mathematical states)

rigging ~~--> envelopment: complex forms of difference (between the analogue and the digital) are transduced and rendered visible

event as a process of ecological emergence (outcome of a material assemblage of various entities, forces, and rules working together to encourage and prohibit specific forms of movement and action) --help--> *how the potential for events to happen are being designed into environments* (preemption, both digital and physical)

mania for what is surprising, for what immediately sweeps us away and impresses us for fleetingness as the basic law of constancy <--Heidegger-- a logic that is central to our experience of modern technology
~/=
games involve the development of techniques for interacting with them that subsist over longer periods of time within the body

(gamer's) body <==shaped== through the creative responses generated by users in relation to the images they experience
(game's) responses ==bring==> into being different bodily capacities and modes of attunement, which cannot be intentionally determined (by those who produce the images through the processes of design)

correct mixture of contingency and structure

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prosthesis + castration complex --> “cyberspace: having your everything amputated”

prosthetic skill ~= mastery of the phantom limb
--> rigging

prosthetic --> vivid illustration of the human-technology relations in terms of the body [=/=? hyperobjects]

(set of) architectural metaphors --provide--> foundation of the university
-(in the case of rigging) mechanical metaphors --provide--> foundation of moving bodies

prosthetic technology (like the *magic lantern*)
***technology of theory***



rigging and the question of morphological correspondence (homology: systematic similarity) --> isomorphic systems of relations
isomorphic: 1-1 mapping, structure-preserving mapping ----> breakable objects
homology: principle of rigging, essentially the same (parts might have different shapes and be employed for different purposes) --> geometrical similarity --> ‘abstraction: materials of organization’ [position + structure] (Geoffroy > Hubert)
~~--> Deleuze and Guattari's body without organs [anatomical: pure plane of immanence (~ *rig = abstract animal*)]
--> (thinkers of) *organic folding* + *comparative biological intuition* --> *science of form*
analogue: a part or organ in one animal that has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal (--> rig is the analogue of the animal's body)
homotypy (homotype: serially repeated parts) --> Goethe

homology: a morphological correspondence determined primarily by relative position and connection ~= rigging
--Darwin--> material ancestors (replaced metaphysical archetypes)

philosophical anatomy <~~?--> rigging
dialectics is the search for rational laws which are active in nature
discontent with merely empiricism
transcendental (philosopher) ==> morphologist

rigging: (step away form ordinary perception and) building internal homologies (=/= external ressemblance)
==> comprehensible order (--> systematic animation)
~=> complexities and accidents (are also part of it)

home Heidegger pigs house building Bildung Dasein being [source: Xin Zhui - Lady Dais of the Han dynasty - oberlin.edu]nature material computation dell science knowledge representation microscope zoom [source: http://www.nature.com/]Teguise Guatiza image sym life poesis poiesis biomic Haraway [source: wikipedia]map worlding geometry civilization space social [source: Tavarikh Al-Osman] --> rational morphology
--> mathematization of space [--> analytic geometry (not necessarily Euclidean or rigid bodies, but also curved spaces, n-dimensional spaces, particle spaces, volumetric space, phase space, etc.) (looking at the animal) ==> abstract, proliferation of types --> rig] {--Lefebvre--> social critique of abstract space --> rigged}
-the way i learned 3D animation, the space of the software was a n-dimensional spaces (X, Y, Z, time, texture, audio, constraining, etc.)


technology dictionary encyclopedia navigation rhetorics [source: Le Larousse pour tous: nouveau dictionnaire encyclopédique 1907]Eocene mammalian selves self minor celestial impact world now time species storytelling [source: Esther van Hulsen] automaton
a bit of machinery exhibiting somewhat complex behavior --rigging--> programming movement ==produce==> a working simulacrum of a living organism
(in the days of magic) “name of god” was the rig for golem [?]
(in the time of Newton) automaton: clockwork music box
(in 19th century) automaton: glorified heat engine
(in 20th century) intelligent building [~= rig]
(perhaps rigging is our age's) desire to produce and study automata [~= computational mechanization, kinematic model]

cat butt ass moral erect [source: Thomas of Cantimpré, Liber de natura rerum, France ca. 1290 (Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 320, fol. 72r)]pidgin minimal unambiguous message telegraphic code  dubious literacy [source: dailymaverick.co.za] (abstractly) automaton: a set of physically unspecified states, input, output, and operational rules


jinn bath human architecture demon hygiene wonder book [source: Kitab al-bulhan or Galileo --> geometrical concept of space (=/= differentiated qualitatively)


wood grain form techne invention art fiber arrangement poiesis [source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plain_quarter_sawn.png]ajayeb rigs existence hierarchy snake world donya [source: Sina Seifee] principles
1. rigging --> a form of understanding =/= form of sensibility
2. in animation (physics) the choice of geometry is pragmatic (=/= analytic, a priori) ---> go to visualization: empiricist conception of geometry

fish ajayeb river water world life species [source: https://standrewsrarebooks.wordpress.com] (rigging --> transformations are applied to) geometrical properties: characterized by an invariance with respect to certain transformations [for example a line] --> make it ready for action or animation

thunder stone rock fire transportation affect [source: Engraving by I.F.Schley of the drawing by Y.M.Felten. 1770 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thunder_Stone.jpg] ...................................

cartography globe [source: tucoo.com]magnetic protein biocompass [source: http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v15/n2/full/nmat4484.html] railway
primary symbolic artifacts of the 19th century
railroad + its carriages should be considered as one machine : “a railway, like a vast machine”

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sky destiny logic influence inflow intra-action environment [source: tumblr] (affective arousal) images of beauty amid urgencies of death =/=> trigger the responses one hopes

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(Deleuzian) [*]event: impact of chaos on the body

documentary history storytelling journey mind universe cartography [source: Cosmos (TV Series 2014)]Blickmaschinen gaze system visuality vision technique observer perspective situated knowledges positionality [source: Werner Nekes collection] most problems don't have solutions --Grosz-->
concepts =/= solutions to problems
problems ==> ways of living =/= answers
concepts: align materiality with incorporeality

cosmology angels nature history king relationship aesthetic [source: Zubdat al-Tawarikh - Luqman ibn Husayn al-Ashuri  - 1593] identify politics =/= the right to speak about the world, matter, nature
the reign of the i --> who am i, who recognizes me, what can i become --> the right to consumption

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process ontology of transing : one of many reembodied sensory arts in transgender practices
--> viral vectoring

*flexible global cognition*

discrete threats of knowing
discrete threats of mattering

[*]trans: materialization of process
[*]transdisciplinary: materialization of labors (in & beyond academia) ==Katie==> possibility of care

animal studies --often--> encodes & decodes human

~
relational
trans
multiple
chimeric
liminal
--> relationships that bind humans to their nonhuman companions [...to virtual explosive demons of Charmed TV series --> how we embody animals and how they embody us? rigging demons (my digital folk tale), rigging as sensory medium (a mode of nearness), bodies bound through appropriation]

(in apass:)
zoosemiotic registers
meaning making registers
bodily contact zones

(Charmed demons state of trans:) modes of incorporation, intimacy, inhabitation
--> tranimals: trans animals, range of kinds of sapience and being in various distributed cognitions, syntaxes,and embodiments (and affects)

animals become “animals” not just in terms of plurality but in terms of a plurality that is located within spatiotemporal coordinations
(Kelley, Hayward > Katie)

‘here’ and ‘there’ ~ material partials

...
sensuous trafficking
from inorganic to organic
transcode sensoria
as refrain
by which life gets lived
play enjoyed
augmented states of being emerge


*distributed cognitions* (populated digitalities) ==Hayles==> abandonment of mastery (anthropomorphic fantasies of control)

my text rigging demons = (an unmetabolized knowledge,) play between technical animator programming + CG interface + soap opera + my affective involvement --> speciation bestiary style


not only tranimals, but national restructuring, political economies of sciences, images, culture industries, and technologies reordering in infrastructural assemblages are also sensuous refrains
some becomings and assemblages might refuse these refrains and *demand ontological primacy*

Leigh Star
for some kinds of tasks we (humans) are highly distributed --> remembering: ***much of our memories are in other people*** (libraries and homes)

part of our selves extend beyond the skin in every imaginable way <--phantom limb

--Katie--> embodiments (and beings) are distributed among memories, capacities, corporealities

demon dematerialization --> body dissolve (vanquish) --> relinquish --> networking materializing forces --> this text

the state of cut in manga series Attack on Titan
affective wounds
affective formations that break the skin
restructuring
chaotic and unpredictable nature
your avatar (your monster): sensuously augmented elements of self
territory registers
materially real scales of involvement


play = double consciousness --> being in both states (is & is not, assertion & rejection) --creates--> its own commentary in itself about itself <-- intense and pleasurable interactive dynamism <-- meta communications performed by embodied selves at multiple levels (of organic and social systems)

commercial entertainment drawing on understandings of mammalian-affective structure : transmedia + mammalian animalities + AI agents (~= rigging)

Disney = interactive dramas of mammalian behavior of psychological bonding

3D application: interactive microworld of augmented assemblage of objects and beings and tools and zoons, visualization of mulistable cognition
= a form of globally restructuring knowledge work + embodied learning + economies

exosome explosive demons, as significant other?

we love to create worlds (that is why we make and watch soap operas)

careful negotiation of meaning and tools (in apass, not careful always)

ocean rigs rigging soft body rigid ware construction name [source: Christian Schnellhammer] ...................................

(Katie -->) [*]web: a material example of a then counter-intuitive convergence and recombination, one across forms of inscription and meaning making devices[...]in that fictional everywhere of “everyone's” lives

emerging posthumanities: humans are only some of the agencies self-organizing in altering systems of things + people + worldly processes --Katie--> being inside and moved around literally by the very material and conceptual structures you are analyzing and writing about -->
transdisciplinary consciousness: telescoping out to engage infrastructures in their layered accretions رشد
witing (saying what counts) [has to] diverge perpendicularly across the normative --> performative = demonstration + simulation
knowledge workings --embed--> within culture industries + transnational educational restructuring projects

writing technologie (~= activities + skills + devices in layered assemblages + material + conceptual inscription) --literalize--> tensions in grammatology:
between writing's many possible referent/sign relationships in historical progression <-- Ignace Gelb
call to account of assumptions about writing's derivations from speech built into the assertion of these relationships <-- Derrida


life earth transcendence chasing Acacia facsiculifera seedling process form endosymbiosis [source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acacia_facsiculifera_seedling.jpg]animating power footnote feeling metamorphic transformation desire think imagine attention difference worlding interruption story [source: Adilnor Collection - al-Jawahir al-Khams] my writing on Charmed and rigging --> a mime of writing, mime understanding [#simulacra of knowledge], (using Katie's word) a literalizing attempt to work/write in the middle of writing technologies

mineral karibibite oumlil stone fire [source: minfind.com]
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lord of the rings (and similar movies) ~= new forms of evangelization
---> go to propaganda

Qazwini ajayeb fish mermaid [source: Princeton University Library]
temporality, time, day & night:

wonder story assemblage composition affect tale report whirlpool animal media techne tail [source: reed-cpa.com] in ajayeb:
گویند که در حدود مغرب حیوانی است. چون آفتاب برآید، حالی بچّه بزاید و بچّه را در آفتاب نهد. به یک روز بزرگ گردد. چون آفتاب فرو رود، بمیرد و بچّه آبستن گردد. دیگر روز که آفتاب برآید، بمیرد وعمر وی یک شب و دو روز بود.

nature things Serres philosophy universe atom writing world [source: De rerum natura by Lucretius (c. 99 BC – c. 55 BC) / ibiblio.org/] به حدود مکران وتیردابه یست بزرگ از دریا براید و در آفتاب مینگرد و بیهوش گردد تا به وقت زوال چنان شود که مرده، ملاحان با وی بازی کنند، چو آفتاب فرو رود زنده گردد، در آفتاب جان بدهد و از وی سیر نگردد

از اسکندر رومی پرسیدند که در عالم چه دیدی از عجایب؟ گفت در مشارق و مغارب گردیدم اعجوبه دیدم به چین و ماچین. در مفازهٔ درختها دیدم رسته، بوی مشک از آن‌ میدمید و از بامداد که آفتاب برآمدی تا وقت زوال از زمین برمیخاستی و پس از زوال به زمین فرو شدی، به وقت غروب تمام به زمین فرو رفته بودی، روز دگر که آفتاب بر آمدی درختها سر از آب بر آوردی.

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sheep horn form social evolution sign meaning hand twist [source: 2011 -  S&P Weaver - Saltmarsh Ranch] in Nezami (with the notion of bamdad بامداد morning):

چو برزد بامدادان خازن چین به درج گوهرین بر قفل زرین

world cosmology [source: The Gods of the Egyptians Vol. II] چو بر زد بامدادن بور گلرنگ غبار آتشین از نعل بر سنگ

بامدادان که صبح زرین تاج کرسی از زر نهاد و تخت از عاج

demand child lecture speech [source: Peter Blegvad - Leviathan]european union communicative process [source: europa.eu, Frank Toussaint] بامدادان که روز روشن گشت شب تاریک فرش خود بنوشت
صبح یک زخمی دو شمشیری داد مه را ز خون خود سیری

allegory boat wolf eagle river wedding temperament optic Da Vinci [source: http://www.leonardodavinci.net] چو صبح از دم گرگ برزد زبان به خفتن درآمد سگ پاسبان
خروس غنوده فرو کوفت بال دهل زن بزد بر تبیره دوال

که چون بامدادان چراغ سپهر جمال جهان را برافروخت چهر
به جلوه برآورد خورشید دست عروسانه بر کرسی زر نشست

image projection forest light table round multi-media performance security system representation hack child Linux interface predation [source: Jurassic Park movie 1993] به نیک اختری روزی از بامداد که شب روز را تاج بر سر نهاد

چو آمد زلف شب در عطر رسائی به تاریکی فرو شد روشنائی
برون آمد ز پرده سحر سازی شش اندازی بجای شیشه بازی

wonder story assemblage composition affect tale report whirlpool animal media techne waterbody fish [source: NOAA] چو مشگین جعد شب را شانه کردند چراغ روز را پروانه کردند
به زیر تخته‌نرد آبنوسی نهان شد کعبتین سندروسی
بر آمد مشتری منشور بر دست که شاه از بند و شاپور از بلا رست

چو شد دوران سنجابی وشق دوز سمور شب نهفت از قاقم روز
سر از البرز بر زد جرم خورشید جهان را تازه کرد آیین جمشید

assemblage fabricate auto making path framework technology Flugblatt pamphlet encycloped [source: Zock Het Eens Op p.99] شباهنگام کاین عنقای فرتوت شکم پر کرد ازین یک دانه یاقوت
به دشت انجرک آرام کردند بنوشانوش می‌در جام کردند
در آن صحرا فرو خفتند سرمست ریاحین زیر پای و باده بر دست
چو روز از دامن شب سر برآورد زمانه تاج زرین بر سر آورد
بر آن پیروزه تخت آن تاجداران رها کردند می بر جرعه خواران

سپیده دم چو دم بر زد سپیدی سیاهی خواند حرف ناامیدی
هزاران نرگس از چرخ جهانگرد فرو شد تا بر آمد یک گل زرد

چو شب زلف سیاه افکند بر دوش نهاد از ماه زرین حلقه در گوش

cosmography Qazwini water energy flow fluid architecure [source: Tusi - Online Cambridge University Library] شبا هنگام کز صحرای اندوه رسیدی آفتابش بر سر کوه
سیاهی بر سپیدی نقش بستی علم برخاستی سلطان نشستی

world snow white poison gift life cinderella [source: Jon Rafman] چو شب روی از ولایت در کشیدی سپاه روز رایت بر کشیدی


night in Nezami's Khamse:
فرو زنده شبی روشنتر از روز جهان روشن به مهتاب شب‌افروز
شبی باد مسیحا در دماغش نه آن بادی که بنشاند چراغش
ز تاریکی در آن شب یک نشان بود که آب زندگی دروی نهان بود
سوادی نه بر آن شبگون عماری جز آن عصمت که باشد پرده‌داری
صبا گرد از جبین جان زدوده ستاره صبح را دندان نموده
شبی بود از در مقصود جوئی مراد آن شب ز مادر زاد گوئی
ازین سو زهره در گوهر گسستن وز آن سو مه به مروارید بستن
زمین در مشک پیمودن به خروار هوا در غالیه سودن صدف‌وار
ز مشک افشانی باد طربناک عبیرآمیز گشته نافه خاک
دماغ عالم از باد بهاری هوا را ساخته عود قماری
سماع زهره شب را در گرفته مه یک هفته نصفی بر گرفته
ثریا بر ندیمی خاص گشته عطارد بر افق رقاص گشته
جرس جنبانی مرغان شب‌خیز جرسها بسته در مرغ شب‌آویز
دد و دام از نشاط دانه خویش همه مطرب شده در خانه خویش
اگر چه مختلف آواز بودند همه با ساز شب دمساز بودند

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Wunderkammer exhibition collection environment writing [source: Alison and Peter Smithson et al., Parallel of Life and Art] climate in Nezami:

یکی شب از شب نوروز خوشتر چه شب کز روز عید اندوه کش‌تر
سماع خرگهی در خرگه شاه ندیمی چند موزون طبع و دلخواه

wonder ray light water mechanism knowledge image diagram [source: Athanasius Kircher] زمستان گشته چون ریحان ازو خوش که ریحان زمستان آمد آتش

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system cosmology hierarchy matter being planet Venus Mars Luna moon [source: Eudes Picard] in Shahnameh (night):

چو شب گردش روز پرگار زد  فروزنده را مهره در قار زد

animating power footnote feeling metamorphic transformation desire think imagine attention difference worlding interruption story [source: Adilnor Collection - al-Jawahir al-Khams] سوی خانه رفتند هر سه چوباد شب آمد بخفتند پیروز و شاد
چو خورشید زد عکس برآسمان پراگند بر لاژورد ارغوان

به شادی درآمد شب دیریاز چو خورشید رخشنده بگشاد راز

web archive environmental scan wonder [source: Qazwini / ids.lib.harvard.edu] شب تیره تا شد بلند آفتاب همی گشت با نوذر افراسیاب

شب تیره تا برکشد روز چاک نیایش کنم پیش یزدان پاک

drawing human anthrop community sociality flow object affect media [source: Hanno Demuth] شب تیره چون روی زنگی سیاه ستاره نه پیدا نه خورشید و ماه
تو خورشید گفتی به بند اندرست ستاره به خم کمند اندرست

world multi species contingency assemblage human animal dog space society place [source: Peter Westenberg / constantvzw.org]nature crystal matterial [source: http://www.nature.com/] ز شبگیر تا تیره شد آفتاب همی خون به جوی اندر آمد چو آب

به روز درخشان شب آمد سیاه چپ و راست لشکر بیاراستند

scale model planet cosmology [source: Nick Strobel] ...................................

in old Farsi:
پرچم = دم گاو بزرگ
خانه = اتاق
هیجان = مستی جنسی (حیوان نر)، جنبش دریا
دانستن to know = توانستن to be able to
خسته شدن getting tired = مجروح شدن getting injured
سرشتن to create = مخلوط کردن to mix, compose
راه بردن = شناختن، بلد بودن
raftan = eshal gerftan
dashtan = motevaghef kardan
afzudan = toghyan kardan


stone human geology intensification matter flow catalog [source: Gall stones | Walz Elektronik]
TRAVEL*

wonder child animal ocean assemblage species camera media photography spiderman leg strange [source: lolzhumor.com] -Adam Olearius (ambassador, translator, Russian+Persian)
-Sa'di (poet, traveler, theorist of love and friendship, )
-Sana+Sina (artist, researcher, translator, )

world? what is late today? trans-late: beyond being late --> travel and arriving late
travel, trans, transportation, poetry, disruption in travel, traumatic travel, log,

stromatolite rock fire [source: http://www.orstentype.com/?page_id=11] traumatic travel:
poetic source/act
related to refuging
voyage
exploration

investigate poetry and travel in the 12th century and 16th century and 21st century encounter
translational worlding between German Iranian cross-cultural speculative narratives that we fabulate with artistic and research methodologies

attention frigatebird media sea anthropology information [source: wikimedia, photograph by Mario Müller] trajectory, destined beings, translations, transportation, routs, paths, maps,
transportation system
translation system
error in destination(?) [ontology of ‘error’ in 12th, 16th, 21st]
mutation in the garden(?)
technological system of destiny -?-> Sa'di
the flow of energy and material : dejle-biaban continuity

which agential force or travel agency Sa'di or Olearius or Sana or Sina is enrolled or registered in, that it sends them off to far distances?

Iran flower Sa'di war poetry literature proximity metaphysics [source: Shahram Razavi] pure political plays?
the question of ambassadorship
ambassadorial activities of Sana and Sina
the question of diplomacy
ambassador: storytelling, acting,
comparative thinking, comparative research, comparative translational methodology : *self in world* tech., lit., dis.,
which technologies (of composing, of writing, of figuring) are installed for Sa'di in the 12th century and for Adam Olearius in the 16th century that allows them to imagine and engage in/with what we call today *mondial*?


(Sa'di + Olearius:)
chance encounter, failures, writing, making figures, loving, making friends, their acts of worlding (?), composing worlds, (de-compose?)
technicity: armillary sphere, Globe of Gottorf, Golestan, drawings, star constellations with astrological and mythological symbols, inside-outside model of the cosmos,
--> they both have concerns of *global consciousness* --> and their differences: two (or more) different world knowledges
GPS: global system position, concern of both Sa'di and Olearius

time scale model [source: Nick Strobel] an excuse to read and investigate their worldings? translations between worlds, and sewing, tearings, and so on during the Safaviten and the Russian Tsar 16th century cosmology and models of reciprocity
(Translation is always interpretive, critical, and partial.)

intersection of multiple hierarchies:
-the Safaviten order (Isfahan architecture)
-the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp order (family architecture, court and mathematic)
-Tsar order (urban)
-literature of reciprocity***

ouroboros snake erect mortality morality beast [source: ] Sana keywords: distortion, displacement, distance, alternation, collage, blur (noun), noise, voice-over, subtle changes, micro-macro, micro-politic, rhythm, turbulence, fragmentation, metaphor, persistence, repetition, disturbance,
(unexpected)

--> separation ??? =/=? compose

fire rigs darkness black box fossil beyond tool [source: Sina Seifee] media/mediums: new narratives (script, score, etc.), image archive, garden (material and semiotic site), performance poetry, land-art, video

rig sort algorithm machine language series leg arm line map connect [source: stackoverflow.com/questions/18840088/advanced-sorting-algorithm] why video: using performative materials, enactments and staging of speculative narratives, experimental film making, editing, cheap visual effects, animation and drawing. by using the local geography and landscape of Eckernförde, employment of fragmented scores and modest embodiment, experimental acting and storytelling, the video as a generous medium holds and hosts all our gathered materials, and enables a linear but expansive experience. we will write short scripts based on stories from Olearius's travel logs in Iran and Sa'di's Golestan in order to put them into tests after 8 and 3 centuries, and produce intensity and curiosity for a richer way of relating to our shared cultural heritages and literacies.

practical: we will explore all the mentioned ideas and storylines as starting points to create interest for material-discursive practices of ‘worlding’ and ‘encountering’ in cross-techno-cultural intersections.

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sea bird frigatebird architecture life hunger social [source: wikimedia, Duncan Wright, USFWS] [working] title:
Das Gesicht des Paradies
the cast of one Globe to another
Globe of Gottorf of Golestan
“Each serving diligently in its own appointed place”
“Deliverance from the yoke of bondage”
The Globe of Gottorf and deliverance from the yoke of bondage
The cast of Golestan and the magnitude prison of Globe



Das Gesicht des Paradies und schlichtendes Gottorfer Riesenglobus
Adam Olearius and Sa'di in bondage

monkey animal urban city travel personhood border boundary [source: Jon Rafman] magnetic fields of

intermediate category
contiguous mass of flowers and tulips
magnitude prison
Others adopt Hell
...instead you are in paradise


Lucretius Nature of Things ray enlightenment index influence finger language animal bestiary anthrop [source: Michael Burghers 1682 (commons.wikimedia)] traveling
post travel

Paradise Roads

planet, cyber, robot species, transform, interface, partial digestion, moon, 3*'1G  (.* [source: The Transformers The Movie 1986] Gesicht
Globe of Gottorf and Golestan of Sa'di


foreign affairs

shahname Ferdosi Div Rostam pit kill articulation agon [source: Adilnor Collection] ...................................

Planthroposcene, the age of gardens

stone fire india saint Patthar Baba [source: anilkgupta1954,] ...................................

[...] remembering is not a replay of a string of moments, but an enlivening and reconfiguring of past and future that is larger than any individual. [...] The past is never finished. It cannot be wrapped up like a package, or a scrapbook, or an acknowledgment; we never leave it and it never leaves us behind.

crossing technology detour existence space psychology urbanism Latour [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bnot_Ya%27akov_Bridge_1912.jpg] Barad's mother's question: “what good is there in offering recognition that can't be recognized?

[...] there is only the ongoing practice of being open and *alive to each(other)* meeting

optic visuality system Enlightenment measurement phenomenon [source: physics.kenyon.edu] “How to disrupt patterns of thinking that see the past as finished and the future as not ours or only ours?

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ajayeb book fish species face head body magnetism island [source: Tusi, ʿAjā'ib al-makhlūqāt wa gharā'ib al-mawjūdāt] When we read or hear any language statement from the past, we translate.

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wood grain Laura Marks Islamic art form techne shape force intensification [source: wikimedia] the ways Olearius remains non-Iranian all the way

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Europe union science technology visualization identity image map [source: Kurzgesagt] Conley's notion of “Haptic Eye” (in line with Marks)

dilate the way (here?), we can't elsewhere

moon index Iran Sa'di world refraction poiesis poetics [source: Sina Seifee] the lines that Olearius draws have their origin in their process, in the line, and in the support that line receives,
the drawing that causes the line

the hand that sees
a hand that perceives

travel Hafez aesthetics Spain decorative influence path way frontispiece [source: Johann August Corvinus - Die Anlandung Konigs Caroli in Catalonien, und Erfolgter Einzung in Barcelona - raremaps.com] the reciprocity between seeing and drawing is that which metabolizes Olearius --(the interchangeability of the visual and verbal)-->simultaneous process of subjectivation and objectivation” (of sensation)

atlas cartography Olearius map Sa'di perspectiv tool diagram planetary shathiat [source: Sina Seifee]cosmic order world soul woman panpsychism psyche intensity conscious potential Sadra [source: Robert Fludd] study of the Persian object

gradually discovering what is in the image
to the image
(already knowing what it is)
how the screen/surface inflicting things far and near

space human technoscience monitor system control room architecture extension culture interface outer outside euro house void [source: Harald Bischoff / DLR - German Space Operations Center] (an) art of viewing

how the eye and the object of my vision constitute each other

Sohrevardi cosmology angel vector animal movement evolution harkate johari rouge field force divine Islam flow mortality excess [source: Sina Seifee & many others] optical visuality

erotically charged moment
--> the distanced is sensed


*world laid bare
lay: to place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position
bare: naked, open


animating power footnote feeling metamorphic transformation desire think imagine attention difference worlding interruption story [source: Adilnor Collection - al-Jawahir al-Khams] a political aesthetic: a seeing hand relates to prehension (Greifen) of the world at large, the world at its imagined totality, *a world in which any ocular grasp is utopian* (and is always politically invested)


celestial sphere
|
terrestrial sphere
|
the insular eye

snake animal ajayeb [source: Ibn Bakhtishu's Manafi' al-Hayawan - http://patriciapasso.com/2016/04/25/iconografia-y-significado-de-la-serpiente-en-distintas-culturas-de-oriente-y-occidente/]
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[a map] it tells a story, an itinerary [...] it whets the imagination. It propels narrative but also, dividing our attention, prompts reverie and causes our eyes to look both inward, at our own geographies, and outward, to rove about the frame and to engage, however we wish, the space[...]


(طرز بیان tarz-e bayan) idiolect of the geographer and cartographer

is composed of signs that do not transcribe speech. Riddled with speech and writing

lens beauty decoration science telescope embodiment aesthetics ornamentation divine rich care attention encode decryption value meaning mystery [source: Galileo Galilei Objective lens, Padua, late 1609 n a frame made of ebony and ivory - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence / astronomy2009.org] a “map” that plots and colonizes the imagination of the public it is said to “invent” and, as a result, to seek to control.

an image that locates and patterns the imagination of its spectators

woman laugh snake mirror abyss animal landscape morality erect nature [source: Matali' al-Saadet (The Book of Felicity)] When it takes hold, [a map] encourages its public to think of the world in concert with its own articulation of space.

(the advent of bird-eye-view culture)

animal pig wolf dog nature ajayeb matter becoming articulation people [source: Harmen Jansz. Muller ca. 1540 - metmuseum.org] A map underlines what a film [or text] is and what it does, but it also opens a rift or brings into view a site where a critical and productively interpretive relation with the film [or text] can begin.

*locational imaging*

wonder technology exhibition media image world system planet fuse [source: Frank Vincentz / Wunder des Sonnensystems, Ausstellung im Gasometer Oberhausen] As the person who gazes upon a map works through a welter of impressions about the geographical information it puts forward—along with his or her own fantasies and pieces of past or anticipated memory in dialogue with the names, places, and forms on the map[...]

(Olearius drawings and frontispieces) establishes a geography, manufactured from cartographic elements

landscape cartography mapping affect architecture narrative space heaven paradise sky God environment embodiment technique [source: Sina Seifee] When a geography is given a sense of identification, of difference, doubt, a discerning gaze, or a critical reverie [the people, animals, subjects in the map cannot see how they are being mapped]


(how certain places are made to become the) simulacra of others*

perspective, visual style, narrative economy, scale, [...], the stakes of mimesis, and reception


cosmology world [source: https://fineartamerica.com/] story about the demise of nation and its cartographer:
(Dreamtigers by J. L. Borges)
In my childhood I was a fervent worshiper of the tiger: not the jaguar, the spotted “tiger” of the Amazonian tangles and the isles of vegetation that float down the Paraná, but that striped, Asiatic, royal tiger, that can only be faced by a man of war, on a castle atop an elephant. I used to linger endlessly before one of the cages at the zoo; I judged vast encyclopedias and books of natural history by the splendor of their tigers. (I still remember those illustrations: I who cannot rightly recall the brow or the smile of a woman.) Childhood passed away, and the tigers and my passion for them grew old, but still they are in my dreams. At that submerged or chaotic level they keep prevailing. And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I am dreaming. Then I think: this is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; and now that I have unlimited power, I am going to cause a tiger.
Oh, incompetence! Never can my dreams engender the wild beast I long for. The tiger indeed appears, but stuffed or flimsy, or with impure variations of shape, or of an implausible size, or all too fleeting, or with a touch of the dog or the bird.

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The one that is in the other forever betrays its differences with respect to its surrounding milieu in the field of the frame.


Platinum crystal hayula gas material movement harkat [source: commons.wikimedia] cartography at the time of its emergence in early modern print-culture [...] maps were tipped into books to call attention to the aspect and format of a medium for which seeing and reading were of a same character.


toward productive, critical, and even creative speculation


ajayeb wonder world past [source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:SevenWondersOfTheWorld.jpg] a map in a movie begs and baits us to ponder the fact that who we are or whomever we believe ourselves to be depends, whether or not our locus is fixed or moving, on often unconscious perceptions about where we come from and may be going.

To be able to say who one is depends on believing in the illusion that consciousness is in accord with where it is felt in respect at once to itself and to its milieus.***

Galileo telescope optics affect medium interaction exteriority [source: astrofiliveronesi.it] maps ==> that we are naturally in the world

ontology is a function of geography

*** Figures in a topographic field are as they are because geography is destiny ***

(can be defined in a narrow sense) Identity: the consciousness of belonging (or longing to belong) to a place and of being at a distance from it.


wedge space mathematics strata Manuel Delanda data plot [source: Laura Moriarty] map:
a guarantee for “taking place”
a sign of prevarication (a map is inserted both to establish a fallacious authenticity of a place and to invent new or other spaces)


We find ourselves immediately undone by the weightless fact that we have no reason to be where we are.


ajayeb mountain earth pit Sina wonder mother matter horizon name people distance [source: scan from Qaswini's Ajayeb al Makhlughat] rhetoric of invisibility

maps are of a spatial scale

mirror source knowledge embodiment filter veil tele scope sun light could unknowing raytrace [source: Ars Magna Lucis] the history of cartography is marked by the appropriation, control, and administration of power (as David Buisseret [1992], Michel Foucault [1975 and 1994 (1967)], J. Brian Harley [1988 and 2001], Denis Wood [1992], and others have shown)

symbolic and political effectiveness of cartographic diagrams

woman horse text dragon assemblage [source: Gottingen University Library] (to leave open) the art of living with space itself

what it means to be located and discerned in the world


matterial substance interface [source: https://www.allegorithmic.com/products/substance-designer] they lead the viewer “all over the map”


regime of the “image-fact” --> implicit cartography
an abstract point of view on reality that is analyzed

Conley > Bazin is close in spirit to the first sentence of Ptolemy's Geography in which cosmography is likened to the construction of a world map in the way a painter executes the portrait of the sitter, while topography is seen as a local view (of a city) in the way that the same painter depicts an isolated or detached piece, such as an eye or an ear.



constellation category [source: NASA; ESA; G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch] (my deep interest:) spatial histories that procede us

Renaissance
*art: various and always mobile articulation of space
*writings: spatially conceived and materially determined --> they explore surfaces and volumes
*cartography: component of the literary imagination of the early modern age

technology machinery hall rocket cabinet wonder wunder transportation poetry religion [source: Hall of the Rocket Machinery at Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics in Kaluga - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zal_raketnoi_techniki.JPG] {narratives of the Renaissance tell of the construction of the subject through a venture--a plotted itinerary--into the realm of death and back again} (# Adventure Time)

construction of space in disciplines that pertain to geometry*
treating writing as a function of extension [according to Conley, Self-Made Map]
writing holds, penetrates, delineates, and explores space; it maps itself in relation to an autonomous signature--born of the congress of space

fire rigs darkness black box fossil beyond list [source: Sina Seifee] early modern: a growth of a composite writing that moves between diagrammatical and discursive inspiration ~=> creation of self

(i have a relation with ajayeb, or any ‘old’ text, in that of “the pleasure these works afford is due the ways that they allow us to invent imaginary realms of space through our illusion of having ‘first-hand’ contact with them” -->? creation of my “self”)
in a world in which we discover our heritage as gratuitous beings --> a partial and universal history of ourselves
we are products of individual and collective histories

cosmology world [source: https://fineartamerica.com/] geographic literature


interference animal jewellery treasure ganj mountain force intensification material plane intra-action percept media data plot [source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prachtk%C3%A4fer_aus_der_Grube_Messel.JPG] the sudden birth and growth of mapping (between 15th and 17th century):
in Renaissance admiration for antiquity Ptolemy esteemed as the world's founding geographer
in growth of scientific revolution quantification and measurement was stressed, the human body and the geographic landscape of the natural world became topics of interest
plotting and perspective: in representation art a “saturated reality” began to animate paintings + the invention of artificial perspective ==> new ways of gridding and plotting the world
political unification, or nation building, to use maps to construct systems of defense
*emerging self and to the self's relation to the idea of national space

new modes of surveying and plotting the world influence representation of the private and public domains of the individual writer

cat ass morality animal erect [source: Bestiary, England 15th century (København, Kongelige Bibliotek, GkS 1633)] theatricalization of the self --> a consciousness of its autonomy (through modes of positioning [in gridded and textual reality])
--> a new cartographic impulse:
changing conditions of information
new taxonomies
new relations that individuals hold with space
emerging sense of national identity

the self would acquire its identity through the creation of a space that bears the presence (or the reminder) of the mapping of its signature
its “foundational fantasy” depends on (an alliance with) a strongly marked geographic consciousness

rock material sensation [source: Sina Seifee 4/4/2016] mimes the construction (of a world)

contemporary politics of statecraft

geography language sign metamorphosis earth geomorphology semiotics [source: Upper Gotvand Dam / mehrnews.com] ...to locate a mobile site of anguish to project the portrait (of epic and lyrical scope) of a national subject?
...between experience and fantasy for the sake of producing imaginary conquests in the shape of self-aggrandizement?

ingenieur du moi
medium engineers


field, geometry, architecture, navigational space, life, line, linear, map, eye, view [source: Lynn Randolph - Living Lines] imaginary space, nation, selfhood

*** the self-possessed individual ***

snake serpent person reptile limb assemblage body [source: hiveminer.com] (Conley calls) writing “cartographic” insofar as tensions of space and of figuration inhere in fields of printed discourse
(although his understanding of writing as ‘effects of recorded speech’ is not interesting)
(and he ties to fast cartography to expansion and conquest, allegorical propaganda of cartographer's presence)


living conditions of vocal exchange


frog  mouse crow lake human assemblage Kelile Demne [source: lithographed editions of Anwār-i Suhaylī - Kalīlah wa Dimnah - 1261] visible coordinates that enclose, frame, quantify

a process of discovery --that--> maps its movement as it goes
-making a fetish of progress and accuracy
-vital, narcissistic illusion that the world begins with our birth and expands through our perception of it


moon indexicality finger drawing diagram moon finger Sa'di yar fish nakhshab reflection wonder [source: Sina Seifee & many others] isolario: illustrating the islands of the world, a genre


“national” subjects attached to the geographies that they are both mapping and describing
graphic construction of the self
Olearius's globe of Gottorf (=/= Morton's hyperobject): the effect of totality, of having engineered a world through its own labors. [Ptolemaic-Aristotlian machinery of the spheres, which hold the fixed stars in place, stars in a trace on the relatively stable horizon of earth and sky (in which meteor deviation from this harmonious arrangement or celestial machinery was considered disastrous)]
**self become autonomous <== fixed to an illusion of a geographic truth, it can be detached from the coordinates that mark its point of view, its history, its formation, and the aesthetics (and politics) of its signature. [and with Sana, through Sa'di, we start with this position, rehearsing criticism studies in terms of the birth of the subject and of subjectivity in early modern Europe]


Anaplastic astrocytoma Glial fibrillary acidic protein process philosophy device language [source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anaplastic_astrocytoma_-_gfap_-_very_high_mag.jpg] terrae incognitae: the unknown, graphically inscribed, and to be conquered

“nomination is a mode of symbolic appropriation that furnishes virgin territories with a memory, with a gridding that dispossesses space of its alterity and that makes of it an object of discovery subjected to the constraints of linguistic reference, that intends that at every identifiable site there correspond a name” (Conley > Christian Jacob > Mallarme)

Fascia body tissue matter animal heyvan hayula terrestrial locomotion flex jell [source: anatomytrains.com] lodged in the corporal space of an image of “man”

spectral presence of death

kinetic kinect machine vision glitch Amazon rain forest nature culture technology interface enfold digital travel journey perception tactile reality dream surface 3D motion mimesis [source: Sina Seifee] navel: construed to be a site where the relation of the unknown has its first noticeable, physical trace, [...] the site of a ruptured attachment
-as an embodiment of the relation to the unknown
-the subject desires to give birth to himself or herself

artificial self-birthing and self-monumentalization

snake skin assemblage river organism environment Barad [source: Sean Gagnon (commons.wikimedia)] --> creation of a universe of wise (hakimane حکیمانه)


it is so strange in Olearius: the process of detachment that constitutes every subject's psychogenesis inspires a geographic desire (to retrace one's tenuous “roots,” which are woven through the visible register of language, the audible areas of images...) -- with Conley

elephant seal baby water body assemblage camera [source: Jane Dawson] Olearius's being: at one with the local, national, global, and cosmic space in which he or she visualizes an origin associated with a site of birth --> womb: the reassuring rectitude of the map, which is both a material and paternal image of seemingly timeless symbolic order


tensions between the visible and the invisible
(what is taken to be evident or “visible” meets what remains invisible or outside of language; #amazon project)
to grid the relation of the visible and the invisible (in cartography and writing)
their certain mobility of flux and indeterminacy (in Descartes becomes a subliminal practice)
the ideological dimensions of known and unknown become crystallized
*the viewer is urged to look at things transversally [=/= tangency: having contact at a single point or along a line without crossing] --> reader invents the process of subjectivity when analyzing the differential patterns that are working in the cartographic document
--> *double bind: of cosmic and local space, of viewer included and excluded from the discourse, of weakened deixis [deictic, words or expressions that rely absolutely on context] (or dialogue) ---> mobilizes subjectivity


quasi-spatial conquest (through the extension of the delimited field of the known in the channel of a ‘polar relation with the unknown,’ according to mappings that envisage the progression of a deferred knowledge) [Conley > Rosolato --> technologies that construct early modern space (--also with Olearius)]


...to produce a great geography of introspection

media literature German discourse database deutsch Sprache language computer link text Bild Ton Video station [source: widrichfilm.com] cosmic and affective space


illusion of a universe of infinite curvature

technology war design techne episteme geometry linearity perspective architecture instrument device [source: Joost Bürgi in Heilbron, *the impossible “point of view” given to the observer of early world maps*



map =/=? mystical narrative --?--> depends on an itinerary through space and language

cartography body image map Shiraz place [source: ] mysticism
only adjectival forms of the term had occurred (in Renaissance and before), suggesting that the nonsubstantive status of mystical activities made them more ‘real’ than we might believe ** (de Certeau)
the development of atlas-structures and of two-dimensional --> attenuation (taz'if تضعيف) of the mixture of scientific and mystical dimensions
incunabulum --> Cartesian method
from a half-named sense of the unknown --to--> a clearly articulated relation with the unknown****


[*]perspectival object: the positioning and mapping of the self in and about the world in its ongoing construction of psychogenesis + aesthetics + history of perspective + clinical practice*--> a series of junctures between a viewer and what he or she sees, projects, fantasizes, and remembers
--> body's location in the world ***


excess of mastery
absolute quest of power

*to make meaning enigmatic(?)

with Sana, we are engaged in an anti-globe making, a transitional object rather than a ‘glory globe,’ “a field of diagonical or interdiscursive ‘play’ between impressions and memories”
in our exhibition, we are working the gridded/allegorized cartographic discourse/consciousness through appeal to spatial rhetoric
(reworking) the new form of a self-produced “geography” of writing (emerging in 16th century)
-we are perhaps inclined with the figure of Rhizome (from Deleuze and Guattari), the unifying lines and connections that produce an image of...
[in a fairly common obsession, amateurs of maps ofen seek to find the names of the places where they were born or raised. but when Sana's father wanted to erase his name from the map Sana made with his itineraries we betrayed this originary site]
-schizoanalytic cartographies, Guattari on: conditions of enunciation, structures of individual and collective subjectivity)
-we say (in our work with Olearius): reading can be an actively vagrant, nomadic examination of ideological materials


snake person assemblage semiotics [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Northern_Water_Snake.jpg] ...an attempt to create in an ever recurring, mobile, and modular structures that endow themselves with renewed form


*the cartographic project invents a relation with the past

cosmology world [source: https://fineartamerica.com/] [*]projective identification: an illusion that tells who, where, and what these maps are about, and specifies the power that they wish to appropriate in diplomatic (and military) areas

[*]perspectival object: is the concept that shifts the spectator from a passive role to that of an engaged traveler who moves through the time and space of a given body of words, images, and sensation --passage-into--> vital and marginal areas where imagination, fact, history, and self are combined


stone energy field matter hayula story nunhuman agency [source: Emanuel Swedenborg] plastic and lexical attributes

confused pictorial and lexical properties

snake star wunderkammer dichotomy lexicon taxonomy nova techne [source: Johannes Stradanus, nova reperta] [*]pictogram: alphabetical shapes + bodily form + memory of a seemingly archaic past of confusion and violence + +
pictogram is mobile, it moves between one register of cognition and another, it resembles the rebus [word puzzle representing form of pictures or symbols; (Latin: “by things”) a kind of word puzzle which uses pictures to represent words or parts of words, for example H + picture of ear = Hear] and calligram [a poem with (a phrase or single word) in which the typeface or handwriting is important], it conflates language and image and is thus liable to move in many unpredictable directions**** (@Luiza, Sina)
pictogram mobilizes wit[--animates--> imaginary & real movement] and laughter <== “short circuiting of rational thinking” (Bastide) }--> for the construction of a psychogeography
-a pictogram attached to the place that it both represents and remotivates --> *old maps are preoccupied with information at the specific point where it can be written, only at the very site of its pertinence* (Jacob)


fragments of remembered writing


the labor of interpretation consists exactly in opening onto surprise [...] immediate rediscovery of the known (... Mijolla-Mellor)


Triassic ecosystem marine reptiles system time relationship history [source: Henry De la Beche 1830.  University of Bristol] *
ideograms, mimetic figures, miming the objects
that disrupts and affirms the sate of things
a stenographic form that telescopes language and extends into space as it signals a point where memory and national identity are being schematized

a childhood experience

simulation representation child human model earth world grasp understanding tangibility memory device vision science [source: Ender's Game film 2013] the subject uses the illusion of a given spatial and historical order to create an imaginary world of impressions that tie his or her body to a mobility of space and place



signature, affixed to the edges in the spandrels between a map and its borders, is both ungrounded and necessary

world multi species contingency assemblage human animal dog space society place [source: Peter Westenberg / constantvzw.org] authenticating effect
a sense of self-distance and power are obtained in the enactment of a signature

Conley argues that: the individual who comes to be named as such can only do so when he or she gains the required illusion of having a real place in the world or, failing that, of experiencing movement in space and language that redeems the labor of living


polaritons  layered two-dimensional materials [source: http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v16/n2/full/nmat4792.html] cartography
compass for verbal plotting
turning the reader's gaze toward a productive consideration of its visible form


--*-- the dialogue and its dialogic echoes --*--


ajayeb book taxon categorical classification [source: A 14th-century AD manuscript of Zakariya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini's Aja'ib al-makhluqat (The Wonders of Creation; Persian: ﻋﺟﺎﺋب اﻟﻣﺧﻠوﻗﺎت )] statecraft: fortification, centralization, extensive rebuilding (of national borders)
(Iran, Germany, Princess Bubblegum from Adventure Times)
--> (perspectival signature) existential relation with space
-Princess Bubblegum naturalized story: total control of now alienated bodies in a machine-determined future; (her jokingly horrible) mission to promote scientific management of every phase of society;
Princess Bubblegum = rational management in advanced monopoly capitalism


the cartographers create a “cultural entity” that, it is claimed, is only represented in the maps [...] also brought into being ... the authority that underwrote their own discourse ==> they make themselves

soul body image phantom limb subjectivity ego psychology topology morphology postural schema Grosz [source: USD Biology] [*]colonialization is based on a culture's perceived need to acquire a protective zone between itself and the world in order to gain authority
(also) “it becomes increasingly difficult to find a stable signified to which the whole thesaurus of exotic signifiers may be referred” [Greenblatt]


topophilia


medicine writing footnote animate feeling awareness knowledge tool story [source: Kitāb al-Raḥmah fī al-ṭibb wa-al-ḥikmah (The Book of Mercy Concerned with Medicine and Wisdom) by Muḥammad al-Mahdawī ibn ‘Alī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣanawbarī (d. 1412/ 815) / nlm.nih.gov] (i have been trying to reverse the movement of) transition from cosmography to topography

cartographic truth --> silent agenda (--> power structures)


animal turtle tortoise possum cat deer fish snake raccoon [source: John Lawson 1709] motivation and demotivation of proper names and their implied referents

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Stromatolite stone rock fire media [source: Boston University 1984, NASA Environmental Science. Snapshot of video] Allegories of the Continent

Persianisch, Persiae,

ajayeb rigs existence hierarchy snake world donya [source: Sina Seifee]
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[Mary Louis Pratt]

wind raind text rewriting fold structure footnote palimpsest description poetry architecture stories [source: On Numerology attributed to Zosimos (d. 1100/493) / nlm.nih.gov] “Our” Dr. Livingstone was a grand nephew of the “real” Dr. Livingstone in Africa. English Canada was still colonial in the 1950s: reality and history were somewhere else, embodied in British men.

The syllables wound through our lives, threading together by force of repetition things that were distant, discontinuous and unreal. Living stone. This is how empire makes the world meaningful to its subjects, how it weaves itself into the everyday.

...empire made us part of a history that was somewhere else made by people who were not us. At the same time, when it came to Africa, we knew who we were. Sunday school missionary stories built the color line into our imaginations. That was part of their job, to create us as subjects of empire, give us our place in the order.

The book aims to be both a study in genre and a critique of ideology. Its predominant theme is how travel books written by Europeans about non-European parts of the world created the imperial order for Europeans “at home” and gave them their place in it.  I ask how travel writing made imperial expansion meaningful and desirable to the citizenries of the imperial countries, even though the material benefits of empire accrued mainly to the few. Travel books, I argue, gave European reading publics a sense of ownership, entitlement and familiarity with respect to the distant parts of the world that were being explored, invaded, invested in, and colonized. Travel books were very popular. They created a sense of curiosity, excitement, adventure, and even moral fervor about European expansionism. They were, I argue, one of the key instruments that made people “at home” in Europe feel part of a planetary project; a key instrument, in other words, in creating the “domestic subject” of empire.

elephant situated knowledges parable perspective relativism [source: http://www.tendergrassfedmeat.com/index.php?s=sammati_tarka_prakarana] the rise of natural history

These case studies are shaped by a number of shared questions. With what codes has travel and exploration writing produced “the rest of the world” for European readerships at particular points in Europe’s expansionist process?

astronomy geography celestial cosmology tail sea water body collect abyss Andromeda Perseus beast [source: Joachim Wtewael  (1566–1638) - towerweb.net] codifications of reality

the emanating glow of the civilizing mission
the cash flow of development

photo camera space stone tech self [source: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA] (it habitually blinds itself to) the reverse dynamic

obsessive need to present and re-present its peripheries

wind fact environment affect plot story literature ajayeb wonder inflow signifier nature culture representation [source: Qaswini] It becomes dependent on its others to know itself

important historical transitions alter the way people write, because they alter people’s experiences and the way people imagine, feel and think about the world they live in.

movement worlding passing technology network life survive house detour translate device metamorphic [source: Jono Podmore] [...]how European travel writing interacted with enlightenment natural history to produce a Eurocentered form of global or “planetary” consciousness.

[Pratt considers] the classificatory schemes of natural history in relation to the vernacular peasant knowledges they sought to displace.

tourist propaganda
testimonio
oral history


Andromeda Perseus killing beast ocean form abyss tail [source: Piero di Cosimo - Liberazione di Andromeda / commons.wikimedia.org] If one studies only what the Europeans saw and said, one reproduces the monopoly on knowledge and interpretation that the imperial enterprise sought.


the passport: contact zone, like the flirting gaze of an Iranian woman with German ambassadors in Olearius images
Transculturation is a phenomenon of the contact zone.
metropolitan modes of representation

creating (your own) autonomous decolonized cultures
dynamics of creole self-fashioning

Delphinus surgeon monster marvel encyclopedia curiosity human animal nature figure fish [source: On Monsters and Marvels by Ambroise Paré 1510] Pratt's “contact zone”: the space of imperial encounters, the space in which peoples geographically and historically separated come into contact with each other and establish ongoing relations, usually involving conditions of coercion, radical inequality, and intractable conflict.

“contact language: an improvised language that develops among speakers of different tongues who need to communicate with each other consistently, usually in the context of trade.

model home Heidegger pigs house building Bildung Dasein being wedge space mathematics data plot hierarchy wolf death architecture line [source: De Agostini / Getty Images] “colonial frontier” --> “contact zone” shifts the center of gravity and the point of view
...the space and time where subjects previously separated by geography and history are co-present, the point at which their trajectories now intersect

a “contact” perspective emphasizes how subjects get constituted in and by their relations to each other


polaritons layered two-dimensional materials [source: http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v16/n2/full/nmat4792.html] * travelers and travelees *
in terms of co-presence, interaction, interlocking understandings and practices, and often within radically asymmetrical relations of power


***strategies of innocence*** (constructed in relation to older imperial rhetorics of conquest)
--> main protagonist of the anti-conquest is a figure (Pratt sometimes calls) the “seeing-man”: (an admittedly unfriendly label for) the white male subject of European landscape discourse--he whose imperial eyes passively look out and possess


the idioms of travel and exploration


two processes in Northern Europe (“planetary consciousness”):
the emergence of natural history as a structure of knowledge
the turn toward interior exploration
+
Bourgeois forms of subjectivity consolidated themselves
new territorial phase of capitalism propelled by searches for raw materials began
coastal trade extended inland



ways of reading and focusing rhetorical analysis

fire ice Parinacota volcano geology time [source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parinacota_volcano.jpg]
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[Brancaforte]

vision subject object optics visuality position apparatus organism media [source: Athanasius Kircher / Deutsche Fotothek] word + image
art + science
visual + discursive

the reality that he [Olearius] has experienced

Wunderkammer exhibition collection environment writing [source: Alison and Peter Smithson et al., Parallel of Life and Art] Conley: “the mass of textual material that accompanies single-sheet or atlas maps tends to reveal its ideological perspective in the gaps between a silent, spatial, schematic rendering of an area (in visual form) and a voluble [por harf پر‌حرف], copious, emphatic, printed discourse that strives to tell of the invisible history that the image cannot put into words”

text writing reading note index structure space [source: Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni Institute of Oriental Studies]interaction urban distance measurement vision percept organism Ihde responce environment [source: galileo.rice.edu]graph diagram species scene pleistocene sadistic science life earth data plot [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Extinction_intensity.svg]surgeon monster marvel encyclopedia curiosity human animal nature figure fish waterbody [source: On Monsters and Marvels by Ambroise Paré 1510]jackdaw world learning fable story partridge future [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Western_Jackdaw_on_Inisheer_(perched).jpg]deer stone kurgan stelae fire [source: UKRAINE ASKANIA NOVA. Kurgan stelae - Koerganstele 1964]bird ajayeb wonder existance taxon species [source: Qazwini - https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/arabic/natural_hist4.html]distance grid telescope zoom measurement Ihde [source: galileo.rice.edu]natural history museum Isfahan Esfehan wunderkammer visualization animal [source: commons.wikimedia]anthropos wonder body human monster marvel [source: Ambroise Pare - On Monsters and Marvels]snake world [source: ]Culebra viperina snake lake forest trickster wonder intra-action human anthropos assemblage plot [source: depaseoporlanaturaleza.blogspot.be]Eocene mammalian selves self minor celestial impact world now time species storytelling [source: Esther van Hulsen]map empty space progress gaze geometry exhibition speed frontispiece [source: David Teniers der Jüngere, Ansicht der Stadt Valenciennes 1656. Öl auf Leinwand, 177 x 205 cm, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerpen.]media literature German discourse lecture space deutsch Sprache language university performance found object [source: medienpuls-bayern.de]ajayeb form tiger animal snake [source: Cambridge Online University Library]evidence fact model subduction trench mathematics [source: Laura Moriarty]ice fire eye [source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greenland_Kangerlussuaq_icesheet.jpg]encyclopedic universal social chicken table title optic scopic [source: unknown]ganj earth stratum desire projection pit treasure mountain ghaf research ajayeb [source: noorbaran90.ir]firefly condensed precision prisma poesis cartography refraction [source: wikimedia]species science egg opacity [source: Jurassic Park 1993]lexicon global architecture interpreter translator standard language international diplomacy vocabulary [source: LexiconUSA]fire wilderness deer heyvan animal [source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deerfire_high_res.jpg]Ferdosi Shahname river water passing flow detour [source: UCB]leonardo da vinci water flow physics [source: Leonardo da Vinci]ajayeb world cosmos [source: Cambridge Online University Library]nature material computation atom science knowledge representation zoom simulation innovation wealth Hydrogen asymmetry [source: http://www.nature.com/]Persia native scene scenic oriental frontispiece monument architecture curtain paradise [source: ]text writing reading note index structure space [source: Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni Institute of Oriental Studies]Margerie glacier and Mount Fairweather fire ice [source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Margerie_Glacier_and_Mount_Fairweather_2.jpg]horse fire [source: http://tifhiggins.blogspot.be/2015/09/horses-other-animals-of-valley-fire.html]Munes al-Abrar moon fish twelve birds taxon [source: Folio from a Mu'nis al-Abrar fi Deqa'iq al-Ash'ar / top: The Moon and Fish; bottom: Twelve different birds in 2 registers]optics reflection mirror sun knowledge metaphore vision raytracing model animal image [source: Opticae Thesaurus]rigs diagram moon finger Sa'di yar fish nakhshab reflection [source: Sina Seifee]moon wonder creation inflow follow rise [source: Qazwini book of ajayeb]water dynamic architecture space solid rigid soft flow fluid liquid society sociality heyvan [source: Der Jungbrunnen by Lucas Cranach  1472–1553]map cartography trajectory unknown figure diagram composition [source: Al Istakhri, Kitab al masalik wa l mamalik, Book of roads and kingdoms] questions of
authorship
political power
intellectual influence


Meerwunder, exotic curiosities from the sea


“we were about a gun-shot's distance”

in the age of incipient European colonialist expansion

a truly Baroque (bestseller) work, Vermehrte Newe Beschreibung der Muscowitischen and Persischen Reyse
(in terms of Oriental drama)
erudition (fazl فضل) + adventure }-> in narrative
it is Adventure Time




proto-ethnography
acquire eyewitness information about a relatively unknown part of the world
-(with Olearius's style we can hear) ethnography's mantra:writing from the ground” --> attention to the shakenness of difference (encountered or imagined) [Stewart bringing my attention to the writing affect:] “ground” sends people bouncing, takes place as a threshold, hits the senses as a set of provocations. “Writing matters if objects of analysis are to be understood as emergent forms with qualities, intensities, and trajectories that can be described or evoked. Writing is not epiphenomenal to thought but its medium. As it sidles up to worlds, disparate and incommensurate things throw themselves together.” (Stewart 2012)
(the ground of Iran on which Olearius stands cannot be summarized in a literalized description, under the spell of a kind of cartographic shorthand [tond-nevisi تند نويسى، مختصر نويسى], into a strangely idealist paradigm that imagines the things of the world)
*writing can be:
the practice of writing ourselves into our worlds as emergent and disparate ensembles --> speculative concept of ‘worlding.’ [to consider our] writing as an inscription that configures the spaces of form and event in daily living
Stewart slowed ethnographic practice: Why does writing matter in ethnography? How do forms of writing change cultural theory? What questions do forms of writing raise about subjects and objects, forms of attention, the possibility of thinking through description? How do you describe a scene, a character, an event, a situation, a collective sensibility, a difference, a world? What does it mean to add density and texture to ethnographic description? What can ethnography do?
attuned to the *forms and forces* unfolding in scenes and encounters --> *apparatus of conceptualization* [pulled into (a tricky) alignment with (your field's) immanent concerns and with the concerns of the worlds.] your (anthropological) objects have to “be walked around,” “approached from precise angles,” and seen as “states of being,” emergent, or suspended in potentiality, or collapsing, or residual, roosting on live matter. *culture ~= [*]the cultural: “a resonant and magnetizing field that registered in people and things living through events and conditions.” we try to describe sensibilities hitting people and traversing [...] things:
bodies of thought
assemblages of infrastructures and institutions
new ecologies
the rhythms of a daily living
the strangely connective tissue (produced by handheld devices and social media)
 }--> to compose a register of the lived affects of the things that took place in a social-aesthetic-material-political worlding [=/= “to track the predetermined effects of abstractable logics and structures."] ***singularities*** take place as a series of precisions (across sociality, materiality, infrastructure, etc.) they are “events of,” emerged in the lived problematics of a present ==> they could be brought to bear, deployed, maneuvered, suffered, or played with. [*]affects: “registering of life as an assemblage of elements thrown, in the course of events, into a contact aesthetic” [=/= the side effects of systems, codes, or imaginaries (located in an elsewhere)]
return (anthropology) to sense and sensation (<== affect) (Olearius missed this, the “world” is proposed to him anchored in the consciousness of [his] humanist subject or its categories of thought. he misses Iran as a world charged with affect, which is a prolific, mixed-use contact zone in an ongoing state of transition that leaves [Iranian] people “improvising with already-felts” [~=? Golestan Sa'di]) -- affect added an affirmative critique that registers surprise at what and how things happen.
[*]affective subject: “a person who waits in the company of others for things to arrive, one who learns to sense out what's coming and what forms it might take, one who aims to notice what crystallizes and how things ricochet and rebound in a social-natural-aesthetic ecology of compositions and thresholds of expressivity.” --> “For the affective subject, there is always the weight of the world in what can be hoped for and what must be feared, in what flourishes and what matters.”
[*]Life: “an experiment of being in a world, of finding ways to be in circuits of force and form, an aspiration to get something out of the alchemical transmogrifications of things that twist off on trajectories far beyond humanist models of suffering or the usual hyperlegible registers of normativity and the state.” -->[Life] takes place in the inhuman gestures of demons and angels, in the struggles of addicts and the rage of racists, in the endurance of the unbelievably injured or the oddly still curious.” (Stewart)
a world deliteralized (with no endemic divide between a naturalized given order and the exceptionalism of event)
things, to become recognizable as something to be in or near, or else to oppose and resist
(affect --Deleuze-->) differential ontology: the prolific generativity of difference and connection taking place in a field of possibilities. affect studies now hitting:
anthropology
new materialism
object-oriented ontology
naturecultures
multispecies work
science studies
new ecologies
 --> “the generativity and volatility of life as such, to its capacity to actively shift or harden into forms of peace or violence, pleasure and pain, collectivities and chaos.”
[...] it looks for ways to describe what precedes and exceeds the categorical in the labors of living through historical presents.
[...] affect-inflected [study] leans into its descriptive objects with an eye to their hardenings into something recognizable (=/= what is often called ‘critical thinking’: habits of snapping, to catch the world in a lie, dualist dead ends of modernist humanist social science, independent logic of data, the conviction that something is wrong --> paranoid approaches to the world)
ethnographic method of mattering, [why conceptuality might take radically different forms in Iran?] attention to the still unfolding [--> Foad's (mental habit of) describing the fixed object of destiny (of Iran).] how to move in the manner of things slipping in and out of existence? the way a world (in this case: Iran) elaborates in prolific forms, taki[...]