[...]r the map”


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

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


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(my deep ="trms">interest='lgc'>:) spatial ="trms">histories that procede us

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

='lgc'>{="trms">narratives of the Renaissance tell of the construction of the subject through a venture='lgc'>--a plotted itinerary='lgc'>--into the realm of death and back again='lgc'>} (='at'># Adventure Time)

construction of space in disciplines that pertain to ="trms">geometry='strcls'>*
treating ="trms">writing as a function of extension ='lgc'>[="trms">according to ="ppl">Conley, Self-Made Map='lgc'>]
="trms">writing holds, penetrates, delineates, and explores space; it maps itself in ="trms">relation to an autonomous sig="trms">nature='lgc'>--born of the congress of space

early ="trms">modern='lgc'>: a growth of a com="trms">posite ="trms">writing that moves between diagrammatical and discursive inspiration ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> creation of self

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

geographic ="trms">literature


the sudden birth and growth of mapping (between 15th and 17th century)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•in Renaissance admiration for antiquity Ptolemy esteemed as the ="trms">world's founding geographer
="lsts lst1">•in growth of ="trms">scientific revolution quantification and ="trms">measurement was stressed, the human body and the geographic landscape of the ="trms">natural ="trms">world became topics of ="trms">interest
="lsts lst1">•plotting and perspective='lgc'>: in re="trms">presentation art a “saturated reality” began to animate paintings ='lgc'>+ the invention of artificial perspective ='lgc'>==> new ways of gridding and plotting the ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•political unification, or nation building, to use maps to construct ="trms">systems of defense
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*emerging self and to the self's ="trms">relation to ='thdf'>the idea of national space

new modes of surveying and plotting the ="trms">world influence re="trms">presentation of the private and public domains of the individual ="trms">writer

theatricalization of the self ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a consciousness of its autonomy (through modes of ="trms">positioning ='lgc'>[in gridded and textual reality='lgc'>])
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a new cartographic impulse='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•changing conditions of information
="lsts lst1">•new taxonomies
="lsts lst1">•new ="trms">relations that individuals hold with space
="lsts lst1">•emerging sense of national identity

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

="trms">mimes the construction (of a ="trms">world)

contemporary politics of state="trms">craft

...to locate a mobile site of anguish to project the portrait (of epic and lyrical scope) of a national subject='qstn'>?
...between experience and fantasy for the sake of producing ="trms">imaginary conquests in the shape of self-aggrandizement='qstn'>?

ingenieur du moi
medium engineers


="trms">imaginary space, nation, selfhood

='strcls'>*** the self-possessed individual ='strcls'>***

(="ppl">Conley calls) ="trms">writing “cartographic” insofar as tensions of space and of ="trms">figuration inhere in fields of printed discourse
(although his understanding of ="trms">writing as ‘effects of recorded speech’ is not ="trms">interesting)
(and he ties to fast cartography to expansion and conquest, allegorical propaganda of cartographer's ="trms">presence)


living conditions of vocal exchange


visible coordinates that enclose, frame, quantify

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


isolario='lgc'>: illustrating the islands of the ="trms">world, a genre


“national” subjects attached to the geographies that they are both mapping and describing
graphic construction of the self
="ppl">Olearius's globe of Gottorf (='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">="ppl">Morton's hyperobject)='lgc'>: the effect of totality, of having engineered a ="trms">world through its own labors. ='lgc'>[Ptolemaic-="ppl">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)='lgc'>]
='strcls'>**self become autonomous ='lgc'><== fixed to an illusion of a geographic truth, it can be detached from the coordinates that mark its point of view, its ="trms">history, its formation, and the ="trms">aesthetics (and politics) of its sig="trms">nature. ='lgc'>[and with ="frds scrmbld">Sana, through ="ppl">Sa'di, we start with this ="trms">position, rehearsing criticism studies in terms of the birth of the subject and of subjectivity in early ="trms">modern Europe='lgc'>]


terrae incognitae='lgc'>: the unknown, graphically inscribed, and to be conquered

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

lodged in the corporal space of an image of “man”

spectral ="trms">presence of death

navel='lgc'>: construed to be a site where the ="trms">relation of the unknown has its first noticeable, physical trace, ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] the site of a ruptured attachment
="prgrph">-as an ="trms">embodiment of the ="trms">relation to the unknown
="prgrph">-the subject desires to give birth to himself or herself

artificial self-birthing and self-monumentalization

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> creation of a universe of wise (hakimane حکیمانه)


it is so strange in ="ppl">Olearius='lgc'>: 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 ="trms">language, the audible areas of images...) ='lgc'>-- with ="ppl">Conley

="ppl">Olearius's being='lgc'>: at one with the local, national, global, and cosmic space in which he or she visualizes an o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin as="trms">sociated with a site of birth ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> womb='lgc'>: the reassuring rectitude of the map, which is both a ="trms">material and paternal image of seemingly timeless ="trms">symbolic order


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


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


...to produce a great geography of introspection

cosmic and ="trms">affective space


illusion of a universe of in="trms">finite curvature

='strcls'>*the impossible “point of view” given to the observer of early ="trms">world maps='strcls'>*


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map ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? mystical ="trms">narrative ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> depends on an itinerary through space and ="trms">language

mysticism
only adjectival forms of the term had occurred (in Renaissance and before), sug="trms">gesting that the nonsubstantive status of mystical activities made them more ‘real’ than we might believe ='strcls'>** (="ppl">de Certeau)
the development of atlas-structures and of two-dimensional ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> attenuation (taz'if تضعيف) of the mixture of ="trms">scientific and mystical dimensions
incunabulum ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Cartesian ="trms">method
from a half-named sense of the unknown ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a clearly ="trms">articulated ="trms">relation with the unknown='strcls'>****


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


="trms">excess of mastery
absolute quest of power

='strcls'>*to make meaning enigmatic(='qstn'>?)

with ="frds scrmbld">Sana, we are engaged in an anti-globe making, a ="trms">transitional object rather than a ‘glory globe,’ “a field of diagonical or ="trms">interdiscursive ‘play’ between impressions and ="trms">memories”
in our exhibition, we are working the gridded/allegorized cartographic discourse/consciousness through appeal to spatial ="trms">rhetoric
(reworking) the new form of a self-produced “geography” of ="trms">writing (emerging in 16th century)
="prgrph">-we are perhaps inclined with the figure of Rhizome (from ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari), the unifying lines and connections that produce an image of...
='lgc'>[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 ="frds scrmbld">Sana's father wanted to erase his name from the map ="frds scrmbld">Sana made with his itineraries we betrayed this o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginary site='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-="trms">schizoanalytic cartographies, ="ppl">Guattari on='lgc'>: conditions of ="trms">enunciation, structures of individual and collective subjectivity)
="prgrph">-we say (in our work with ="ppl">Olearius)='lgc'>: ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading can be an actively vagrant, nomadic examination of ideological ="trms">materials


...an attempt to create in an ever recurring, mobile, and modular structures that endow themselves with renewed form


='strcls'>*the cartographic project invents a ="trms">relation with the ="trms">past

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]projective identification='lgc'>: an illusion that tells who, where, and what these maps are about, and ="trms">specifies the power that they wish to appropriate in diplomatic (and military) areas

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


plastic and lexical attributes

confused pictorial and lexical properties

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]pictogram='lgc'>: alphabetical shapes ='lgc'>+ bodily form ='lgc'>+ ="trms">memory of a seemingly archaic ="trms">past of confusion and violence ='lgc'>+ ='lgc'>+
pictogram is mobile, it moves between one register of cognition and another, it resembles the rebus ='lgc'>[word puzzle re="trms">presenting form of pictures or ="trms">symbols; (Latin='lgc'>: “by things”) a kind of word puzzle which uses pictures to re="trms">present words or parts of words, ='thdf'>for example H ='lgc'>+ picture of ear='lgc'> = Hear='lgc'>] and calligram ='lgc'>[a ="trms">poem with (a phrase or single word) in which the typeface or hand="trms">writing is important='lgc'>], it conflates ="trms">language and image and is thus ="trms">liable to move in many unpre="trms">dictable directions='strcls'>**** (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Luiza, ="frds">Sina)
pictogram mobilizes wit='lgc'>[='lgc'>--animates='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">imaginary ='and'>& real movement='lgc'>] and ="trms">laughter ='lgc'><== “short circuiting of rational thinking” (Bastide) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for the construction of a psychogeography
="prgrph">-a pictogram attached to the place that it both re="trms">presents and remotivates ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*old maps are preoccupied with information at the ="trms">specific point where it can be ="trms">written, only at the very site of its pertinence='strcls'>* (Jacob)


fragments of re="trms">membered ="trms">writing


the labor of ="trms">interpretation consists exactly in opening ="trms">onto surprise ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] immediate rediscovery of the known (... Mijolla-Mellor) ='heart'>♥


='strcls'>*
ideograms, ="trms">mimetic figures, miming the objects
that disrupts and affirms the sate of things
a stenographic form that telescopes ="trms">language and extends into space as it signals a point where ="trms">memory and national identity are being schematized

a ="trms">childhood experience

the subject uses the illusion of a given spatial and ="trms">historical order to create an ="trms">imaginary ="trms">world of impressions that tie his or her body to a mobility of space and place



sig="trms">nature, affixed to the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges in the spandrels between a map and its borders, is both ungrounded and necessary

authenticating effect
a sense of self-distance and power are obtained in the enactment of a sig="trms">nature

="large lg18" stl="font-size:126%"> ="ppl">Conley argues that='lgc'>: 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 ="trms">world or, failing that, of experiencing movement in space and ="trms">language that redeems the labor of living


cartography
="lsts lst1">•compass for ="trms">verbal plotting
="lsts lst1">•turning the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader's gaze toward a productive consideration of its visible form


='lgc'>--='strcls'>*='lgc'>-- the dialogue and its dialogic echoes ='lgc'>--='strcls'>*='lgc'>--


state="trms">craft='lgc'>: fortification, centralization, extensive rebuilding (of national borders)
(="nms">Iran, Germany, Princess Bubblegum from Adventure Times)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (perspectival sig="trms">nature) existential ="trms">relation with space
="prgrph">-Princess Bubblegum ="trms">naturalized ="trms">story='lgc'>: total control of now alienated bodies in a machine-determined future; (her ="trms">jokingly horrible) ="trms">mission to promote ="trms">scientific management of every phase of ="trms">society;
Princess Bubblegum='lgc'> = rational management in advanced monopoly capitalism


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

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]colonialization is based on a culture's perceived need to acquire a protective zone between itself and the ="trms">world in order to gain ="trms">authority
(also) “it becomes increasingly difficult to find a stable signified to which the whole thesaurus of exotic signifiers may be referred” ='lgc'>[Greenblatt='lgc'>]


topophilia


(i have been trying to reverse the movement of) ="trms">transition from ="trms">cosmography to topography

cartographic truth ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> silent ="trms">agenda (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> power structures)


motivation and demotivation of proper names and their implied referents

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Allegories of the Continent

Persianisch, Persiae,

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='lgc'>[Mary Louis ="ppl">Pratt='lgc'>]

“Our” Dr. Livingstone was a grand nephew of the “real” Dr. Livingstone in Africa. English Canada was still colonial in the 1950s='lgc'>: reality and ="trms">history were somewhere else, ="trms">embodied in British men.

The syllables wound through our lives, th="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading together by force of repetition things that were distant, discontinuous and unreal. Living stone. This is how empire makes the ="trms">world meaningful to its subjects, how it weaves itself into the everyday.

...empire made us part of a ="trms">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 ="trms">missionary ="trms">stories built the color line into our ="trms">imaginations. That was part of their job, to create us as subjects of empire, give us our place in the order.

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

the rise of ="trms">natural ="trms">history

These case studies are shaped by a number of shared ="trms">questions. With what ="trms">codes has ="trms">travel and exploration ="trms">writing produced “the rest of the ="trms">world” for European ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readerships at particular points in Europe’s expansionist process='qstn'>?

="trms">codifications of reality

the emanating glow of the civilizing ="trms">mission
the cash flow of development

(it habitually blinds itself to) the reverse dynamic

obsessive need to ="trms">present and re-="trms">present its peripheries

It becomes dependent on its others to know itself

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

='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]how European ="trms">travel ="trms">writing ="trms">interacted with enlightenment ="trms">natural ="trms">history to produce a Eurocentered form of global or “planetary” consciousness.

='lgc'>[="ppl">Pratt considers='lgc'>] the classificatory schemes of ="trms">natural ="trms">history in ="trms">relation to the vernacular peasant knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges they sought to displace.

tourist propaganda
testimonio
oral ="trms">history


If one studies only what the Europeans saw and said, one reproduces the monopoly on knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and ="trms">interpretation that the imperial enterprise sought.


the passport='lgc'>: contact zone, like the flirting gaze of an ="nms">Iranian woman with German ambassadors in ="ppl">Olearius images
Transculturation is a ="trms">phenomenon of the contact zone.
metropolitan modes of re="trms">presentation

creating (your own) autonomous decolonized cultures
dynamics of creole self-="trms">fashioning

="ppl">Pratt's “contact zone”='lgc'>: the space of imperial encounters, the space in which peoples geographically and ="trms">historically separated come into contact with each other and establish ongoing ="trms">relations, usually involving conditions of coercion, radical inequality, and ="trms">intractable conflict.

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

“colonial frontier” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “contact zone” shifts the center of gravity and the point of view
...the space and time where subjects previously separated by geography and ="trms">history are co-="trms">present, the point at which their ="trms">trajectories now ="trms">intersect

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


='strcls'>* ="trms">travelers and ="trms">travelees ='strcls'>*
in terms of co-="trms">presence, ="trms">interaction, ="trms">interlocking understandings and practices, and often within radically a="trms">symmetrical ="trms">relations of power


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


the idioms of ="trms">travel and exploration


two processes in Northern Europe (“planetary consciousness”)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the emergence of ="trms">natural ="trms">history as a structure of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="lsts lst1">•the turn toward ="trms">interior exploration
='lgc'>+
="lsts lst1">•Bourgeois forms of subjectivity consolidated themselves
="lsts lst1">•new territorial phase of capitalism propelled by se="trms"nttrm="search">arches for raw ="trms">materials began
="lsts lst1">•coastal trade extended inland
="lsts lst1">•


ways of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading and focusing ="trms">rhetorical analysis

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='lgc'>[="ppl">Brancaforte='lgc'>]

word ='lgc'>+ image
art ='lgc'>+ ="trms">science
visual ='lgc'>+ discursive

the reality that he ='lgc'>[="ppl">Olearius='lgc'>] has experienced

="ppl">Conley='lgc'>: “the mass of textual ="trms">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 ='lgc'>[por harf پر‌حرف='lgc'>], copious, emphatic, printed discourse that strives to tell of the invisible ="trms">history that the image cannot put into words”

="trms">questions of
="lsts lst1">•="trms">authorship
="lsts lst1">•political power
="lsts lst1">•intellectual influence


Meerwunder, exotic curiosities from the sea

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“we were about a gun-shot's distance”

in the age of incipient European colonia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list expansion

a truly Baroque (bestseller) work, Vermehrte Newe Beschreibung der Muscowitischen and Persischen Reyse
(in terms of Oriental drama)
erudition (fazl فضل) ='lgc'>+ adventure ='lgc'>}='lgc'>-> in ="trms">narrative
="lsts lst1">•it is Adventure Time



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proto-ethnography
acquire eyewitness information about a relatively unknown part of the ="trms">world
="prgrph">-(with ="ppl">Olearius's style we can hear) ethnography's mantra='lgc'>: “="trms">writing from the ground” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> attention to the shakenness of ="trms">difference (encountered or ="trms">imagined) ='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Stewart bringing my attention to the ="trms">writing ="trms">affect:='lgc'>] “ground” sends people bouncing, takes place as a threshold, hits the senses as a set of provocations. “="trms">Writing ="trms">matters if objects of analysis are to be understood as emergent forms with qualities, intensities, and ="trms">trajectories that can be described or evoked. ="trms">Writing is not epi="trms">phenomenal to thought but its medium. As it sidles up to ="trms">worlds, disparate and incommensurate things throw themselves together.” (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart 2012)
(the ground of ="nms">Iran on which ="ppl">Olearius stands cannot be summarized in a ="trms">literalized description, under the spell of a kind of cartographic shorthand ='lgc'>[tond-nevisi تند نويسى، مختصر نويسى='lgc'>], into a strangely idea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list paradigm that ="trms">imagines the things of the ="trms">world)
='strcls'>*="trms">writing can be='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the practice of ="trms">writing ourselves into our ="trms">worlds as emergent and disparate ensembles ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> speculative concept of ‘="trms">worlding.’ ='lgc'>[to consider our='lgc'>] ="trms">writing as an inscription that configures the spaces of form and event in daily living
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Stewart slowed ethnographic practice='lgc'>: Why does ="trms">writing ="trms">matter in ethnography='qstn'>? How do forms of ="trms">writing change cultural theory='qstn'>? What ="trms">questions do forms of ="trms">writing raise about subjects and objects, forms of attention, the possibility of thinking through description='qstn'>? How do you describe a s="trms">cene, a character, an event, a ="trms">situation, a collective sensibility, a ="trms">difference, a ="trms">world='qstn'>? What does it mean to add ="trms">density and texture to ethnographic description='qstn'>? What can ethnography do='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•attuned to the ='strcls'>*forms and forces='strcls'>* un="trms">folding in s="trms">cenes and encounters ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">apparatus of conceptualization='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[pulled into (a tricky) alignment with (your field's) immanent concerns and with the concerns of the ="trms">worlds.='lgc'>] your (="trms">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 ="trms">matter. ='strcls'>*culture ='lgc'>~= ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]the cultural='lgc'>: “a resonant and magnetizing field that registered in people and things living through events and conditions.” we try to describe sensibilities hitting people and ="trms">traversing ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] things='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦bodies of thought
="lsts lst2">◦assemblages of infrastructures and institutions
="lsts lst2">◦new ="trms">ecologies
="lsts lst2">◦the rhythms of a daily living
="lsts lst2">◦the strangely connective tissue (produced by handheld devices and ="trms">social media)
 ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to ="trms">compose a register of the lived ="trms">affects of the things that took place in a ="trms">social-="trms">aesthetic-="trms">material-political ="trms">worlding ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= “to track the predetermined effects of abstractable logics and structures."='lgc'>] ='strcls'>***singularities='strcls'>*** take place as a series of precisions (across ="trms">sociality, ="trms">materiality, infrastructure, etc.) they are “events of,” emerged in the lived problematics of a ="trms">present ='lgc'>==> they could be brought to bear, deployed, maneuvered, suffered, or played with. ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">affects='lgc'>: “registering of life as an assemblage of elements thrown, in the course of events, into a contact ="trms">aesthetic” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= the side effects of ="trms">systems, ="trms">codes, or ="trms">imaginaries (located in an elsewhere)='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•return (="trms">anthropology) to sense and sensation (='lgc'><== ="trms">affect) (="ppl">Olearius missed this, the “="trms">world” is proposed to him anchored in the consciousness of ='lgc'>[his='lgc'>] humanist subject or its ="trms">categories of thought. he misses ="nms">Iran as a ="trms">world charged with ="trms">affect, which is a prolific, mixed-use contact zone in an ongoing state of ="trms">transition that leaves ='lgc'>[="nms">Iranian='lgc'>] people “improvising with al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready-felts” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? Golestan ="ppl">Sa'di='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>-- ="trms">affect added an affirmative critique that registers surprise at what and how things happen.
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">affective subject='lgc'>: “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 t[...]