[...]es making contact with pen and paper (and matches)

(my enduring <trms class="trms">lovtrms>e of watching images, my) optical eye

“[...] young <trms class="trms">embodtrms>iments of a <trms class="trms">moderntrms> middle-ground-in-the-making came face-to-face with an otherness that compelled a closer look” --> violently <trms class="trms">affecttrms>ive contact

surged toward the s<trms class="trms">cenetrms> of their confident ex<trms class="trms">citetrms>ment

impact ==> the <trms class="trms">socitrms>al

t class='at'>#t><trms class="trms">storytrms>telling, compelled to repeat the event as the sentience of it still re<trms class="trms">verbtrms>erated in their senses

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a grounded <trms class="trms">writtrms>ing, that sends people bouncing, takes place as a threshold, hits the senses as a set of provocations, or <trms class="trms">presentrms>ts as trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>a problematic sensed in circuits of reaction al<trms class="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readtrms>y set in motiontrcls class='strcls'>*trcls> t class='at'>@t>apass

(working with Stewart) <trms class="trms">writtrms>ing <trms class="trms">affecttrms> t class='at'>#t>workshop
a practice of <trms class="trms">writtrms>ing ourselves into our <trms class="trms">worldtrms>s as trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>emergent and disparate ensemblestrcls class='strcls'>*trcls> --> we need the speculative concept of <trms class="trms">worldtrms>ing (a term that wins philosophy, criticism, digital studies, and cultural study) in trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=T'>Tehran urgently
-the workshop offers a process of sharing, hearing, <trms class="trms">questiontrms>ing, and proposing--for oneself and for the sake of others ==> to start to think through a project or concept by working with words
-we will learning how to <trms class="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readtrms> closely and to give feedback that is most useful for the <trms class="trms">authortrms>s
-working with <trms class="trms">questiontrms>s:
ts class="lsts lst1">•How do forms of <trms class="trms">writtrms>ing change cultural theorytn'>?
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•What <trms class="trms">questiontrms>s do forms of <trms class="trms">writtrms>ing raise about subjects and objects, forms of attention, the possibility of thinking through descriptiontn'>?
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•How do you describe a s<trms class="trms">cenetrms>, a character, an event, a <trms class="trms">situtrms>ation, a collective sensibility, a <trms class="trms">differentrms>ce, a <trms class="trms">worldtrms>tn'>?
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•What does it mean to add <trms class="trms">denstrms>ity and texture to descriptiontn'>?
ts>

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armies of <trms class="trms"><trms class="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metatrms>phortrms>s 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 <trms class="trms">cosmotrms>s” ==> 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 object that is “hyper” in <trms class="trms">relationtrms> to some other entity
-they are <trms class="trms">visctrms>ous: they “stick” to beings that are involved with them
-they are “nonlocal” : local manifestation of hyperobject =/= hyperobject
-they exhibit their effects <trms class="trms">intertrms>objectively : they can be detected in a space that consists of <trms class="trms">intertrms><trms class="trms">relationtrms>ships between <trms class="trms">aesthettrms>ic properties of objects\
=/= apocalyptic environmentalism
=/= the possibility of transcendental leaps “outside” physical reality
=/= that we are “embedded” in a “life<trms class="trms">worldtrms>”


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

[trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>]hypocrisy <== the conditions of the impossibility of a [trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>]<trms class="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metatrms><trms class="trms">languagetrms>= account for things while remaining uncontaminated by them, (<tld>~tld>= an “outside”)
--> (Lacanian truth:) “there is no <trms class="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metatrms><trms class="trms">languagetrms>” =/= post<trms class="trms">moderntrms>ism's “everything is a <trms class="trms"><trms class="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metatrms>phortrms>” =/= some <trms class="trms"><trms class="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metatrms>phortrms>s are better than others <tld>~tld>= trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>there is nowhere to stand outside of thingstrcls class='strcls'>*trcls>
the time of hyperobjects is a time of hypocrisy =/= cynicism

[trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>]weakness <== the gap between <trms class="trms">phenomentrms>on and thing

[trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>]lameness <== the fact that all entities are fragile

<trms class="trms">imagitrms>nation as:
ts class="lsts lst1">•Hume: a bundling of as<trms class="trms">socitrms>ations
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•Kant: the possibility for synthetic judgments a <trms class="trms">priortrms>i
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•object-oriented <trms class="trms">ontotrms>logy: 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
ts>

which hyperobject you are caught intn'>?

image of <trms class="trms">writtrms>ing --> shy, retiring octopuses that squirt out a dissembling (mask, cloak, vortäuschen) ink as they withdraw into the <trms class="trms">ontotrms>logical shadow


figure of trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>milltrcls class='strcls'>*trcls> (the characters and <trms class="trms">techntrms>ologies 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

<trms class="trms">situtrms>atedness is now a very uncanny place to be, like being the protagonist of a Wordsworth <trms class="trms">poetrms>m of a character in Blade Runner


trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>cool impersonality of the <trms class="trms">scietrms>ntific <trms class="trms">languagetrms>trcls class='strcls'>*trcls> (now is deprived of its ideological status)

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the concept of the ‘<trms class="trms">worldtrms>’ is no longer operational
can we think environmentally without <thdf class='thdf'>the idea ofthdf> ‘the end of the <trms class="trms">worldtrms>’tn'>?

(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

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acronyms, abbreviations:
dialoc دیالوک --> decrease in appropriate levels of concern
tomas توماس --> terrain of media and the <trms class="trms">socitrms>opolitical realm
cohhatg کوهاج --> coincidence of human <trms class="trms">histotrms>ry and terrestrial geology
hhatg حج --> human <trms class="trms">histotrms>ry and terrestrial geology
pb پی بی --> philosophy's bandwidth
sdwa صدوا --> substances decorated with accidents -->
ldwa 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 al<trms class="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readtrms>y made it irrelevant’ --> thamii تامی, (<thdf class='thdf'>for examplethdf> <trms class="trms">birdtrms>s for Attar are merely decorative features of Attar's <trms class="trms">socitrms>al, psychic, and philosophical space)
soth صوث --> speculating outside of the human
sim سیم --> small island of meaning
etimom اتیموم --> everything is made of mind
hhbn هبن --> hand-holding benevolent <trms class="trms">narrattrms>or (-which is vanished)
(auto) cad کد --> (automatic) comforting <trms class="trms">aesthettrms>ic distances
iockat --> intentional objects commonly known as thoughts
atot آتو --> (you only ever perceive your particular) <trms class="trms">anthroptrms>o<trms class="trms">morphtrms>ic <trms class="trms">translattrms>ions of things
ejich جیش --> exhilarating jump into cognitive hyperspace --> displacement that Copernicus or Derrida does
foe --> fantasies of embeddedness [<-- <trms class="trms">phenomentrms>ology <== grounding of Kant (begining in 1900)]
avaa اوا --> a vertiginous anti<trms class="trms">literatrms>l <trms class="trms">abystrms>s
iwen --> intimacy with existing nonhumans
mok --> mathematization of knowing (--> Descartes, Newton) ==> hiding philosophical and ideological decisions made in acts of knowing =/= <trms class="trms">ontotrms>logy (as a vital and contested political terrain)
icad --> ideology of “the <trms class="trms">consumtrms>er” and its “<trms class="trms">demandtrms>s” (that capital then “meets”) --> adventure of <trms class="trms">moderntrms>ity
fvod --> from the viewpoint of “objective” description (a bad way of explicating the objects that are al<trms class="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readtrms>y here)
toc --> troops of critique
towwk توک --> ‘<trms class="trms">techntrms>ology of what we know’ (<trms class="trms">techntrms>iques that decide the <trms class="trms">differentrms>ces between ‘what we know’ and ‘what is’. Morton's hyperobject is a towwk)
usoc --> uncanny strangeness of existence (work of Heidegger)
lawot --> (something is) ‘laying around in the workshop of thinking’ (let's reuse what appears to be broken lawot)

visist = visit + resist


cor<trms class="trms">relationtrms>ism: <thdf class='thdf'>the notion thatthdf> philosophy can only talk within a narrow bandwidth, restricted to the human-<trms class="trms">worldtrms> 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
-Heidegger (towering through) is a cor<trms class="trms">relationtrms>ist who asserts that without Dasein, it makes no sense whatsoever to talk of the truth of things, which for him implies their very existence--for him idealism, not realism, holds the key to philosophy. (Heidegger's tool-analysis: when <trms class="trms"><trms class="trms">equiptrms>trms>ment--which for all intents and purposes could be anything at all--is functioning, or “executing” [Vollzug], it withdraws from access [Entzug]; that it is only when a tool is broken that it seems to become <trms class="trms">presentrms>t-at-hand [vorhanden] --> is this what Femke is proposing to apasstn'>?)

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[trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>]<trms class="trms">epistemtrms>ology:
ts class="lsts lst1">•how ts>[...]