[...] will learning how to lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read closely and to give feedback that is most useful for the lss="trms">authors
lss="prgrph">-working with lss="trms">questions<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•How do forms of lss="trms">writing change cultural theorylss='qstn'>?
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•What lss="trms">questions do forms of lss="trms">writing raise about subjects and objects, forms of attention, the possibility of thinking through descriptionlss='qstn'>?
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•How do you describe a slss="trms">cene, a character, an event, a lss="trms">situation, a collective sensibility, a lss="trms">difference, a lss="trms">worldlss='qstn'>?
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•What does it mean to add lss="trms">density and texture to descriptionlss='qstn'>?
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armies of lss="trms">lss="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 lss="trms">cosmos” <lgc clss='lgc'>==>lgc> hyperobjects (“seem to force something on us”) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> i say every object does that, and it is not recent<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="nms">lss="nms">ajayeb al makhlughat is about the description of that force

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


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

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>hypocrisy <lgc clss='lgc'><==lgc> the conditions of the impossibility of a <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metalss="trms">language= account for things while remaining uncontaminated by them, (<lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>=lgc> an “outside”)
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> (l clss="ppl">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Lacanl>ian truth<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) “there is no lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metalss="trms">language” <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> postlss="trms">modernism's “everything is a lss="trms">lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor” <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> some lss="trms">lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors are better than others <lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>=lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>there is nowhere to stand outside of thingsls clss='strcls'>*ls>
the time of hyperobjects is a time of hypocrisy <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> cynicism

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

<lrg clss="large lg1" stl="font-size:148%"> <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>lameness <lgc clss='lgc'><==lgc> the fact that all entities are fragile
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lss="trms">imagination as<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•l clss="ppl">Humel><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> a bundling of aslss="trms">sociations
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•l clss="ppl">Kantl><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> the possibility for synthetic judgments a lss="trms">priori
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•object-oriented lss="trms">ontology<lgc clss='lgc'>: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 clss='lgc'>--lgc>the being of a paper cup is as profound as mine
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which hyperobject you are caught inlss='qstn'>?

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


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

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

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


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


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

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

<lrg clss="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Mortonl>l><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> global warming <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=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
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acronyms, abbreviations<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
lss="acrnms">dialoc دیالوک <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> decrease in appropriate levels of concern
lss="acrnms">tomas توماس <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> terrain of media and the lss="trms">sociopolitical realm
lss="acrnms">cohhatg کوهاج <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> coincidence of human lss="trms">history and terrestrial geology
lss="acrnms">hhatg حج <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> human lss="trms">history and terrestrial geology
lss="acrnms">pb پی بی <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> philosophy's bandwidth
lss="acrnms">sdwa صدوا <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> substances decorated with accidents <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>
lss="acrnms">ldwa لدوا <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lumps decorated with accidents <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> featureless lumps, and those things have accidental properties, like cupcakes decorated with colored sprinkles (arayesh آرایش) <lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> this thinking still continues, despite the fact that ‘thought has allss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready made it irrelevant’ <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="acrnms">thamii تامی, (lss='thdf'>for example lss="trms">birds for l clss="ppl">Attarl> are merely decorative features of l clss="ppl">Attarl>'s lss="trms">social, psychic, and philosophical space)
lss="acrnms">soth صوث <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> speculating outside of the human
lss="acrnms">sim سیم <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> small island of meaning
lss="acrnms">etimom اتیموم <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> everything is made of mind
lss="acrnms">hhbn هبن <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> hand-holding benevolent lss="trms">narrator (-which is vanished)
(auto) lss="acrnms">cad کد <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> (automatic) comforting lss="trms">aesthetic distances
lss="acrnms">iockat <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> intentional objects commonly known as thoughts
lss="acrnms">atot آتو <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> (you only ever perceive your particular) lss="trms">anthropolss="trms">morphic lss="trms">translations of things
lss="acrnms">ejich جیش <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> exhilarating jump into cognitive hyperspace <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> displacement that Copernicus or l clss="ppl">Derridl>a does
lss="acrnms">foe <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> fantasies of embeddedness <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc> lss="trms">phenomenology <lgc clss='lgc'><==lgc> grounding of l clss="ppl">Kantl> (begining in 1900)<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lss="acrnms">avaa اوا <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> a vertiginous antilss="trms">literal lss="trms">abyss
lss="acrnms">iwen <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> intimacy with existing nonhumans
lss="acrnms">mok <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> mathematization of knowing (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> l clss="ppl">Descartesl>, l clss="ppl">Newtonl>) <lgc clss='lgc'>==>lgc> hiding philosophical and ideological decisions made in acts of knowing <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> lss="trms">ontology (as a vital and contested political terrain)
lss="acrnms">icad <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ideology of “the lss="trms">consumer” and its “lss="trms">demands” (that capital then “meets”) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> adventure of lss="trms">modernity
lss="acrnms">fvod <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> from the viewpoint of “objective” description (a bad way of explicating the objects that are allss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready here)
lss="acrnms">toc <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> troops of critique
lss="acrnms">towwk توک <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ‘lss="trms">technology of what we know’ (lss="trms">techniques that decide the lss="trms">differences between ‘what we know’ and ‘what is’. l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Mortonl>l>'s hyperobject is a lss="acrnms">towwk)
lss="acrnms">usoc <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> uncanny strangeness of existence (work of l clss="ppl">Heideggerl>)
lss="acrnms">lawot <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> (something is) ‘laying around in the workshop of thinking’ (let's reuse what appears to be broken lss="acrnms">lawot)

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

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corlss="trms">relationism<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss='thdf'>the notion that philosophy can only talk within a narrow bandwidth, restricted to the human-lss="trms">world correlate <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> meaning is only possible between a human mind and ‘what it thinks'<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>its “objects” (flimsy شل و ول and tenuous رفيق as they are) <lgc clss='lgc'>~->lgc> the light on in the fridge when you close the door
lss="prgrph">-l clss="ppl">Heideggerl> (towering through) is a corlss="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 clss='lgc'>--lgc>for him idealism, not realism, holds the key to philosophy. (l clss="ppl">Heideggerl>'s tool-analysis<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> when lss="trms">lss="trms">equipment<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>which for all intents and purposes could be anything at all<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>is functioning, or “executing” <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>Vollzug<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>, it withdraws from access <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>Entzug<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>; that it is only when a tool is broken that it seems to become lss="trms">present-at-hand <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>vorhanden<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> is this what lss="frds scrmbld">Femke is proposing to lss="nms">apasslss='qstn'>?)

l clss="ppl">Descartesl> uncritically importing the very scholasticism his work undermined

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>lss="trms">epistemology<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•how can i know what there are (or are not) real thingslss='qstn'>?
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•what gives me (or denies me) access to the reallss='qstn'>?
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•what defines the possibility of accesslss='qstn'>?
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•what defines the possibility of possibilitylss='qstn'>?
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<lrg clss="large lg5" stl="font-size:135%"> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•Einstein discovered a rippling, flowing spacetime
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•Tarkovsky discovered the ‘lss="trms">sensuous lss="trms">material of film stock’ <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="acrnms">slss="trms">soci
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•l clss="ppl">Husserll> discovered something strange about the objects<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> no lss="trms">matter how many times you turned around a cion, you never saw the other side as the other side <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> the lss='at'>#coin had a dark side that was seemingly irreducible
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l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Mortonl>l>'s (lss="trms">technology of what we know) hyperobject is his sense of an alss="trms">symmetry between the inlss="trms">finite powers of cognition and the inlss="trms">finite bening of things, yet he doesn't evoke descriptive practices, which could be helpfull<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>he is missing something, here<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “the gap between lss="trms">phenomenon and thing yawns open, disturbing my sense of lss="trms">presence and being in the lss="trms">world.”
“<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>...<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> i cannot locate the gap between lss="trms">phenomenon and thing anywhere in my given, lss="trms">phenomenal, experiential, or indeed lss="trms">scientific space” <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="frds scrmbld">Xiri's problem
he disagrees with<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> (from l clss="ppl">Platol> up until l clss="ppl">Humel> and l clss="ppl">Kantl>) that there is some kind of dotted line somewhere on a thing, saying [...]