[...] set of provocations, or ="trms">presents as ='strcls'>*a problematic sensed in circuits of reaction al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready set in motion='strcls'>* ='at'>@="nms">apass

(working with ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart) ="trms">writing ="trms">affect ='at'>#workshop
a practice of ="trms">writing ourselves into our ="trms">worlds as ='strcls'>*emergent and disparate ensembles='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we need the speculative concept of ="trms">worlding (a term that wins philosophy, criticism, digital studies, and cultural study) in ="nms">Tehran urgently
="prgrph">-the workshop offers a process of sharing, hearing, ="trms">questioning, and proposing='lgc'>--for oneself and for the sake of others ='lgc'>==> to start to think through a project or concept by working with words
="prgrph">-we will learning how to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read closely and to give feedback that is most useful for the ="trms">authors
="prgrph">-working with ="trms">questions='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•How do forms of ="trms">writing change cultural theory='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•What ="trms">questions do forms of ="trms">writing raise about subjects and objects, forms of attention, the possibility of thinking through description='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•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'>?
="lsts lst1">•What does it mean to add ="trms">density and texture to description='qstn'>?


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="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> armies of ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">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 ="trms">cosmos” ='lgc'>==> hyperobjects (“seem to force something on us”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i say every object does that, and it is not recent='lgc'>: ="nms">="nms">ajayeb al makhlughat is about the description of that force

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


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

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]hypocrisy ='lgc'><== the conditions of the impossibility of a ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">language= account for things while remaining uncontaminated by them, (='lgc'>~= an “outside”)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">Lacanian truth='lgc'>:) “there is no ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">language” ='lgc'>=/= post="trms">modernism's “everything is a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor” ='lgc'>=/= some ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors are better than others ='lgc'>~= ='strcls'>*there is nowhere to stand outside of things='strcls'>*
the time of hyperobjects is a time of hypocrisy ='lgc'>=/= cynicism

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]weakness ='lgc'><== the gap between ="trms">phenomenon and thing

="large lg1" stl="font-size:148%"> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]lameness ='lgc'><== the fact that all entities are fragile

="trms">imagination as='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Hume='lgc'>: a bundling of as="trms">sociations
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Kant='lgc'>: the possibility for synthetic judgments a ="trms">priori
="lsts lst1">•object-oriented ="trms">ontology='lgc'>: immanence of thinking to the physical, radically displacing the human by insisting that my being is not everything it is cracked up to be='lgc'>--the being of a paper cup is as profound as mine


which hyperobject you are caught in='qstn'>?

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


figure of ='strcls'>*mill='strcls'>* (the characters and ="trms">technologies and ideas of the ages mill around in a state of a mild, semiblissful confusion) ='lgc'>=/= ="frds scrmbld">Eszter's vortex

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

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


='strcls'>*cool impersonality of the ="trms">scientific ="trms">language='strcls'>* (now is deprived of its ideological status)


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

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

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> ="ppl">="ppl">Morton='lgc'>: global warming ='lgc'>=/= 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='lgc'>:
="acrnms">dialoc دیالوک ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> decrease in appropriate levels of concern
="acrnms">tomas توماس ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> terrain of media and the ="trms">sociopolitical realm
="acrnms">cohhatg کوهاج ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> coincidence of human ="trms">history and terrestrial geology
="acrnms">hhatg حج ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> human ="trms">history and terrestrial geology
="acrnms">pb پی بی ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> philosophy's bandwidth
="acrnms">sdwa صدوا ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> substances decorated with accidents ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="acrnms">ldwa لدوا ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lumps decorated with accidents ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> featureless lumps, and those things have accidental properties, like cupcakes decorated with colored sprinkles (arayesh آرایش) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this thinking still continues, despite the fact that ‘thought has al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready made it irrelevant’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="acrnms">thamii تامی, (='thdf'>for example ="trms">birds for ="ppl">Attar are merely decorative features of ="ppl">Attar's ="trms">social, psychic, and philosophical space)
="acrnms">soth صوث ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> speculating outside of the human
="acrnms">sim سیم ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> small island of meaning
="acrnms">etimom اتیموم ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> everything is made of mind
="acrnms">hhbn هبن ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hand-holding benevolent ="trms">narrator (-which is vanished)
(auto) ="acrnms">cad کد ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (automatic) comforting ="trms">aesthetic distances
="acrnms">iockat ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intentional objects commonly known as thoughts
="acrnms">atot آتو ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (you only ever perceive your particular) ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphic ="trms">translations of things
="acrnms">ejich جیش ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exhilarating jump into cognitive hyperspace ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> displacement that Copernicus or ="ppl">Derrida does
="acrnms">foe ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fantasies of embeddedness ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="trms">phenomenology ='lgc'><== grounding of ="ppl">Kant (begining in 1900)='lgc'>]
="acrnms">avaa اوا ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a vertiginous anti="trms">literal ="trms">abyss
="acrnms">iwen ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intimacy with existing nonhumans
="acrnms">mok ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mathematization of knowing (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Descartes, ="ppl">Newton) ='lgc'>==> hiding philosophical and ideological decisions made in acts of knowing ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">ontology (as a vital and contested political terrain)
="acrnms">icad ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ideology of “the ="trms">consumer” and its “="trms">demands” (that capital then “meets”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> adventure of ="trms">modernity
="acrnms">fvod ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> from the viewpoint of “objective” description (a bad way of explicating the objects that are al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready here)
="acrnms">toc ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> troops of critique
="acrnms">towwk توک ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘="trms">technology of what we know’ (="trms">techniques that decide the ="trms">differences between ‘what we know’ and ‘what is’. ="ppl">="ppl">Morton's hyperobject is a ="acrnms">towwk)
="acrnms">usoc ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> uncanny strangeness of existence (work of ="ppl">Heidegger)
="acrnms">lawot ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (something is) ‘laying around in the workshop of thinking’ (let's reuse what appears to be broken ="acrnms">lawot)

visist='lgc'> = visit ='lgc'>+ resist

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cor="trms">relationism='lgc'>: ='thdf'>the notion that philosophy can only talk within a narrow bandwidth, restricted to the human-="trms">world correlate ='lgc'>: meaning is only possible between a human mind and ‘what it thinks'='lgc'> = its “objects” (flimsy شل و ول and tenuous رفيق as they are) ='lgc'>~-> the light on in the fridge when you close the door
="prgrph">-="ppl">Heidegger (towering through) is a cor="trms">relationist who asserts that without Dasein, it makes no sense whatsoever to talk of the truth of things, which for him implies their very existence='lgc'>--for him idealism, not realism, holds the key to philosophy. (="ppl">Heidegger's tool-analysis='lgc'>: when ="trms">="trms">equipment='lgc'>--which for all intents and purposes could be anything at all='lgc'>--is functioning, or “executing” ='lgc'>[Vollzug='lgc'>], it withdraws from access ='lgc'>[Entzug='lgc'>]; that it is only when a tool is broken that it seems to become ="trms">present-at-hand ='lgc'>[vorhanden='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is this what ="frds scrmbld">Femke is proposing to ="nms">apass='qstn'>?)

="ppl">Descartes uncritically importing the very scholasticism his work undermined

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">epistemology='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•how can i know what there are (or are not) real things='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what gives me (or denies me) access to the real='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what defines the possibility of access='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what defines the possibility of possibility='qstn'>?


="large lg5" stl="font-size:151%"> ="lsts lst1">•Einstein discovered a rippling, flowing spacetime
="lsts lst1">•Tarkovsky discovered the ‘="trms">sensuous ="trms">material of film stock’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="acrnms">s="trms">soci
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Husserl discovered something strange about the objects='lgc'>: no ="trms">matter how many times you turned around a cion, you never saw the other side as the other side ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ='at'>#coin had a dark side that was seemingly irreducible


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