[...]tion ='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

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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

="large lg6" stl="font-size:119%"> ='strcls'>*the impossible “point of view” given to the observer of early ="trms">world maps='strcls'>*



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

="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

="large lg22" stl="font-size:124%"> ='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

="large lg10" stl="font-size:116%"> 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

="large lg22" stl="font-size:107%"> 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

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Meerwunder, exotic curiosities from the sea


“we were about a gun-shot's distance”

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> 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 take, one who aims to notice what crystallizes and how things ricochet and rebound in a ="trms">social-="trms">natural-="trms">aesthetic ="trms">ecology of com="trms">positions and thresholds of expressivity.” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “For the ="trms">affective subject, there is always the weight of the ="trms">world in what can be hoped for and what must be feared, in what flourishes and what ="trms">matters.”
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]Life='lgc'>: “an experiment of being in a ="trms">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 ="trms">trajectories far beyond humanist models of suffering or the usual hyperlegible registers of normativity and the state.” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “='lgc'>[Life='lgc'>] takes place in the inhuman ="trms">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.” (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart)
="lsts lst1">•a ="trms">world de="trms">literalized (with no endemic divide between a ="trms">naturalized given order and the exceptionalism of event)
="lsts lst1">•things, to become recognizable as something to be in or near, or else to oppose and resist
="lsts lst1">•(="trms">affect ='lgc'>--="ppl">Deleuze='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ="trms">differential ="trms">ontology='lgc'>: the prolific generativity of ="trms">difference and connection taking place in a field of possibilities. ="trms">affect studies now hitting='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦="trms">anthropology
="lsts lst2">◦new ="trms">materialism
="lsts lst2">◦object-oriented ="trms">ontology
="lsts lst2">◦="trms">naturecultures
="lsts lst2">◦multi="trms">species work
="lsts lst2">◦="trms">science studies
="lsts lst2">◦new ="trms">ecologies
 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “the generativity and volatility[...]