[...]erally “come to their senses”) -- dramas of surge and arrest --> They do not ask for interpretation or construct the subject who would assign them a meaning, [they refuse] reference to “underlying systems” of signification that make them readable as texts
an class="prgrph">-something refuses to disappear
an> an class="prgrph">-(Hoda's land is) the land of sheer circulations --> (the question of) equilibriums --> how can she with her audience (let's say “we”) enter the unnatural calm of another form of arrestan class='qstn'>?an> to feel the scene resist synaesthesia
an>
a state of the senses making contact with pen and paper (and matches)

(my enduring love of watching images, my) optical eye

“[...] young embodiments of a modern middle-ground-in-the-making came face-to-face with an otherness that compelled a closer look” --> violently affective contact

surged toward the scene of their confident excitement

impact ==> the social

<at class='at'>#at>storytelling, compelled to repeat the event as the sentience of it still reverberated in their senses



a grounded writing, that sends people bouncing, takes place as a threshold, hits the senses as a set of provocations, or presents as *a problematic sensed in circuits of reaction already set in motion* <at class='at'>@at>apass

(working with Stewart) writing affect <at class='at'>#at>workshop
a practice of writing ourselves into our worlds as *emergent and disparate ensembles* --> we need the speculative concept of worlding (a term that wins philosophy, criticism, digital studies, and cultural study) in Tehran urgently
an class="prgrph">-the workshop offers a process of sharing, hearing, questioning, and proposing--for oneself and for the sake of others ==> to start to think through a project or concept by working with words
an> an class="prgrph">-we will learning how to read closely and to give feedback that is most useful for the authors
an> an class="prgrph">-working with questions:
an> •How do forms of writing change cultural theoryan class='qstn'>?an>
•What questions do forms of writing raise about subjects and objects, forms of attention, the possibility of thinking through descriptionan class='qstn'>?an>
•How do you describe a scene, a character, an event, a situation, a collective sensibility, a difference, a worldan class='qstn'>?an>
•What does it mean to add density and texture to descriptionan class='qstn'>?an>


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armies of metaphors and metonymies that are to justify war

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“there is something quite special about the recently discovered entities such as climate. these entities cause us to reflect on our very place on Earth and in the cosmos” ==> hyperobjects (“seem to force something on us”) --> i say every object does that, and it is not recent: ajayeb al makhlughat is about the description of that force

hyperobjects Morton
an class="prgrph">-an object that is “hyper” in relation to some other entity
an> an class="prgrph">-they are viscous: they “stick” to beings that are involved with them
an> an class="prgrph">-they are “nonlocal” : local manifestation of hyperobject =/= hyperobject
an> an class="prgrph">-they exhibit their effects interobjectively : they can be detected in a space that consists of interrelationships between aesthetic properties of objects\
an> =/= apocalyptic environmentalism
=/= the possibility of transcendental leaps “outside” physical reality
=/= that we are “embedded” in a “lifeworld”


high-dimrnsional phase space
invisible to humans for stretches of time

[*]hypocrisy <== the conditions of the impossibility of a [*]metalanguage= account for things while remaining uncontaminated by them, (~= an “outside”)
--> (Lacanian truth:) “there is no metalanguage” =/= postmodernism's “everything is a metaphor” =/= some metaphors are better than others ~= *there is nowhere to stand outside of things*
the time of hyperobjects is a time of hypocrisy =/= cynicism

[*]weakness <== the gap between phenomenon and thing

[*]lameness <== the fact that all entities are fragile

imagination as:
•Hume: a bundling of associations
•Kant: the possibility for synthetic judgments a priori
•object-oriented ontology: immanence of thinking to the physical, radically displacing the human by insisting that my being is not everything it is cracked up to be--the being of a paper cup is as profound as mine


which hyperobject you are caught inan class='qstn'>?an>

image of writing --> shy, retiring octopuses that squirt out a dissembling (mask, cloak, vortäuschen) ink as they withdraw into the ontological shadow


figure of *mill* (the characters and technologies and ideas of the ages mill around in a state of a mild, semiblissful confusion) =/= Eszter's vortex

my intimate impressions “personal" = footprints of hyperobjects, distorted as they always must be by the entity in which they make their mark

situatedness is now a very uncanny place to be, like being the protagonist of a Wordsworth poem of a character in Blade Runner


*cool impersonality of the scientific language* (now is deprived of its ideological status)


the concept of the ‘world’ is no longer operational
can we think environmentally without the idea of ‘the end of the world’an class='qstn'>?an>

(Morton asking for) a geophilosophy that doesn't think simply in terms of human events and human significance

Morton: global warming =/= climate change
if one takes the ‘climate change’ as a substitute for ‘global warming’ is like “cultural change” as a substitute for Renaissance, or “change in living conditions” as a substitute for Holocaust


acronyms, abbreviations:
<a class="acrnms">dialoca> دیالوک --> decrease in appropriate levels of concern
<a class="acrnms">tomasa> توماس --> terrain of media and the sociopolitical realm
<a class="acrnms">cohhatga> کوهاج --> coincidence of human history and terrestrial geology
<a class="acrnms">hhatga> حج --> human history and terrestrial geology
<a class="acrnms">pba> پی بی --> philosophy's bandwidth
<a class="acrnms">sdwaa> صدوا --> substances decorated with accidents -->
<a class="acrnms">ldwaa> لدوا --> lumps decorated with accidents --> featureless lumps, and those things have accidental properties, like cupcakes decorated with colored sprinkles (arayesh آرایش) }--> this thinking still continues, despite the fact that ‘thought has already made it irrelevant’ --> <a class="acrnms">thamiia> تامی, (for example birds for <a class='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=A'>Aa>ttar are merely decorative features of <a class='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=A'>Aa>ttar's social, psychic, and philosophical space)
<a class="acrnms">sotha> صوث --> speculating outside of the human
<a class="acrnms">sima> سیم --> small island of meaning
<a class="acrnms">etimoma> اتیموم --> everything is made of mind
<a class="acrnms">hhbna> هبن --> hand-holding benevolent narrator (-which is vanished)
(auto) <a class="acrnms">cada> کد --> (automatic) comforting aesthetic distances
<a class="acrnms">iockata> --> intentional objects commonly known as thoughts
<a class="acrnms">atota> آتو --> (you only ever perceive your particular) anthropomorphic translations of things
<a class="acrnms">ejicha> جیش --> exhilarating jump into cognitive hyperspace --> displacement that Copernicus or Derrida does
<a class="acrnms">foea> --> fantasies of embeddedness [<-- phenomenology <== grounding of Kant (begining in 1900)]
<a class="acrnms">avaaa> اوا --> a vertiginous antiliteral abyss
<a class="acrnms">iwena> --> intimacy with existing nonhumans
<a class="acrnms">moka> --> mathematization of knowing (--> Descartes, Newton) ==> hiding philosophical and ideological decisions made in acts of knowing =/= ontology (as a vital and contested political terrain)
<a class="acrnms">icada> --> ideology of “the consumer” and its “demands” (that capital then “meets”) --> adventure of modernity
<a class="acrnms">fvoda> --> from the viewpoint of “objective” description (a bad way of explicating the objects that are already here)
<a class="acrnms">toca> --> troops of critique
<a class="acrnms">towwka> توک --> ‘technology of what we know’ (techniques that decide the differences between ‘what we know’ and ‘what is’. Morton's hyperobject is a <a class="acrnms">towwka>)
<a class="acrnms">usoca> --> uncanny strangeness of existence (work of Heidegger)
<a class="acrnms">lawota> --> (something is) ‘laying around in the workshop of thinking’ (let's reuse what appears to be broken <a class="acrnms">lawota>)

visist = visit + resist


correlationism: the notion that philosophy can only talk within a narrow bandwidth, restricted to the human-world correlate : meaning is only possible between a human mind and ‘what it thinks' = its “objects” (flimsy شل و ول and tenuous رفيق as they are) ~-> the light on in the fridge when you close the door
an class="prgrph">-Heidegger (towering through) is a correlationist who asserts that without Dasein, it makes no sense whatsoever to talk of the truth of thingsan>[...]