[...]ey are indeed ="trms">different from the Europeans


discourse of analogy
cartographic evidence

a ="trms">book of others

the ways it ="trms">fashions received information

“Ortelius's innovation in the ="trms">science of cartography is that he attends less to the “big picture” of the ="trms">world than to putting together an illustrated summery of possibly in="trms">finite number of fragmentary parts (="ppl">Conley)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “segmentable” units of an in="trms">finite possibility of scale and focus (='at'>#Goolge maps)

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='lgc'>[='lgc'>]
Blue Map of Persia

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influence of Ptolemy on the early islamic cartographers, in the time of Ma'mun

='thdf'>the notion of the inhabitable ="trms">world being divided into seven horizontal bands called ‘climata’ or agalim/aghalim/ اقلیم(a geographical model derived probably from Persia)

='strcls'>*encircling ocean='strcls'>* surrounded the known ="trms">world, and that usually have south at the top, probably to emphasize the importance of Mecca

="trms">system of Climes

(="trms">book of) notification='lgc'>: tanbih تنبیه


...pioneer on the road toward a (geographically) correct picture of Persia
_Persienbild_

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“drawn from life”

="large lg14" stl="font-size:101%"> the imagery and allegorical figures found on the frontispiece are learned signifiers belonging to a visual ="trms">world that reflects and prefigures the ="trms">verbal description that forms the body of the work

="ppl">Olearius designs a brilliant visual program
visual table of contents
his nascent (dar tavalod درحال تولد) nationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list feelings
he ="trms">translates both='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">literature of the Persian ="trms">poet
="lsts lst1">•the visual ="trms">code of the land (he has visited)

traces of the ="trms">author within the map
signs of the hidden power ="trms">relation
depiction of the exotic “other” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re="trms">presented visually and typologically ="trms">categorized, be it within the map itself, or in the boundary areas, in the margins of the re="trms">presentational space='strcls'>**

='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Timuri jiz

patronage
naming


“es gab eine lustige perspective”

of note in this s="trms">cene ='lgc'>[shah Safi's banquet for the Hostein embassy='lgc'>] is the woman alongside the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right wall, who seems to be flirting coquettishly with a German looking in her direction, thus establishing a kind of contact between the two cultures

the monarch's true ="trms">nature is laid bare

“you see me from the outside, as a pleasant young man in years, but on the murderous ="trms">interior i am a tyrant.”

the s="trms">cene of Eastern opulence and decadence cor="trms">responds to a 17th century (or even 21st century) Westerner's conception of an Oriental court

oriental ="trms">stage

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صورت الأرض  surate al-arz (face of earth)

="large lg1" stl="font-size:146%"> اصطخری Istakhri, 10th century, ="trms">translated into German by Mordtmann
he met another celebrated ="trms">traveler, Ibn Haukul ابن حوقل

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="ppl">Verran='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*innovating to effect the discipline of deductive proof in ancient ="trms">Greek='strcls'>*

(i found out='lgc'>--="frds scrmbld">Pierre also noted='lgc'>--that in ='mywrk'>my work i tend to) inspire a baroque style of ="trms">="trms">empirical analysis

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]baroque
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> now you see it, now you don't
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a th="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read of innovation in) mixing words and visuals
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">wonder-filled ="trms">difference
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sensibility concerned with collective way finding through complexity
='strcls'>*baroque sensibility='strcls'>* ="trms">loves unlikely juxta="trms">position
='strcls'>*baroque form lives with passionate intensity='strcls'>*

='strcls'>****forms of non-explanation ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= to reflect of ‘what is’ from a ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta ="trms">position='strcls'>****='lgc'>]='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•juxta="trms">position
="lsts lst1">•="trms">stories
="lsts lst1">•framing
="lsts lst1">•reframing
="lsts lst1">•="trms">folds ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> working within the ‘="trms">folds’
="lsts lst1">•working on the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="prgrph">-
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*pushing and pulling at the ="trms">interfaces we feel ourselves enmeshed in='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- that is exactly the description of what i do. ='at'>#amazon project='lgc'>]


to recognize ="trms">stories of entrepreneurship as ="trms">stories of working ="trms">relations between people, ="trms">technology, and ="trms">nature
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Setareh


acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge our “understanding of”(s)


(taking diagrams as involved only in) ="trms">epistemic practices linking the mess of the actual and ='thdf'>the ideal of the future ='lgc'>=/= (account of diagrams that focuses on their unique) contribution in ="trms">rhetoric ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*collective way-finding='strcls'>* (that ='at'>#="ppl">Olearius works agains for ="nms">iranians and german, and ="ppl">Sa'di's version)
='lgc'>[diagrams:='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•(graphs, images, visuals that fill the) two-dimensional physical spaces
="lsts lst1">•screened images that cover the surfaces of a ='strcls'>*tapestry='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•visuals performing in a graphic register in ='strcls'>*tension='strcls'>* with ="trms">linguistic registers (="ppl">Verran) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">figurations designed to work with text ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> open up a space for ="trms">imagining their capacities as ='strcls'>*="trms">agential devices='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (how) diagrams ="trms">intervene in the organization and governance of institutions ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*diagrams as objects of governance and organization='strcls'>* embeding working ="trms">imaginaries (such as in the imperial enterprise of the Duke Frederick that ="ppl">Olearius worked for) ='lgc'>--and='lgc'>='lgc'>--> diagramatic devices of ="trms">techno="trms">science ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> enforcing ='strcls'>*non-equivocation='strcls'>* and ='strcls'>*non-contra="trms">diction='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: the standard ="trms">rhetoric of Western ="trms">scientific thought and argument - - ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***devices enacting norm='strcls'>***

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]diagrams='lgc'>: a juncture='lgc'>: text-graphic / graphic-text as an ephemeral clot لخته of ="trms">material ="trms">semiotic resources where words are embedded in graphics as much as graphics are buried in words


...not collaborate enough to benefit from each other's insights


='lgc'>[re="trms">presenting passage of a domain of innovation from ="trms">past to future='lgc'>]
is there a way re="trms">presenting the many ="trms">differences at play='qstn'>? are there other ways apart from one arrow pointing towards one futre='qstn'>? the answer was swift='lgc'>: “no, that would not be wise. we need to de="trms">monstrate that we stand united ='lgc'>[as an industry, nation, family,,,='lgc'>]” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it was ="trms">mutually and tacitly agreed that this is how innovation happens ='lgc'>: man-made devices ride into the future on arrows of progressive tinkering with heterogeneous things


(="ppl">Verran ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading/naming of) normative iconography of ="trms">technological innovation

assumptions of ="trms">technological innovation='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•physics as fundamental knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">translation of kinetic energy to electrical energy and the variables that influence the efficiency of that ="trms">translation) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--(this is)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge relating to environmental and ="trms">social contextualization of the ="trms">techniques described by physics ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> constitution of environmental robustness ='lgc'>==achieving='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">social acceptability='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">rhetoric of a diagram embeding that assumption='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦‘additive’ ='lgc'>: that knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge becomes relevant at ‘later’ ="trms">stages in the life of the model asserted by the diagram. the purview of the ‘additive’ diagram ='lgc'>: negotiation and strategy reside in the realm of subjectivity, therefore cannot be re="trms">presented ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> subjects, those who do the organizing and the gi="trms">verbing, do not belonge to the ‘core’ that the diagram claims to re="trms">present ='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[subject='lgc'>]='lgc'>--='lgc'>[emptiness='lgc'>]='lgc'>--='lgc'>[dieagram='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> rendering innovation as a ‘general event’ of an ‘un="trms">specifiable future’ that is progressed towards ='lgc'>+ idealizing sites ='lgc'>[= times and places (of these affairs)='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[not allowing the ="trms">questioning of these sites as ="trms">obligatory passage points (for innovation)='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> claiming for itself a capacity to rea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listically map a stable ="trms">system
(diagram of ="trms">technological innovation='lgc'>: a cartography of stable entities and stable ="trms">relations) ='lgc'>=/= a complex and emergent ="trms">system embedding ambiguity and contra="trms">diction
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> promoting an organizational regime that proceeds by conforming to standards of non-contra="trms">diction and non-equivocation in its ="trms">rhetoric ='lgc'>=/= baroque baldachin (arshe عرشه) (with other than re="trms">presentation capacities) explicitly recognizing complexity, openness, and emergence ='lgc'>--offering='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[enabling graphics to offer='lgc'>] pilotage خلبانى

="large lg6" stl="font-size:109%"> ='strcls'>***every tool should pose not only ="trms">technically complicated ="trms">questions rather fundamental ones='strcls'>***

branched tree diagram='lgc'>: saying that knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the ‘branches’ in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes a conception of the truck, sug="trms">gesting='lgc'>: to understand is to understand how the truck generates the branches, and that is what is learnt and transmitted by specia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists (="ppl">="ppl">Stengers, ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Eszter)


="ppl">Verran > ="ppl">="ppl">Stengers working on the “gods and demons that populate physics”


='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] rejection and enclosure within the domain of ‘non="trms">scientific’ or ‘simply subjective’ (of anything that cannot be reduced to the canon of the ‘simple’ model)
='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Stengers='lgc'>]


(="ppl">Verran on) the capacities of numbers to ="trms">interpellate (رسما سوال کردن، استيضاح کردن) their users


diptych قاب دو لوحى


model of meaning-making that diagrams initiate (spatially ='lgc'>+ ="trms">linguistically)

="trms">articulated sets of ="trms">relations

a particularly efficacious form of certainty-generating ="trms">rhetoric by ancient ="trms">Greek mathematicians (appropriated by thier politicians), ="trms">according to Netz='lgc'>: meaning-making in ="trms">geometry proceeds in a particular way, a way that generates deductive proof ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (Netz's notion of) oral performance o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins of meaning-making with diagrammatic device ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Verran's) graphics embedded within flows of words ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">relations graphically plotted frame the ="trms">relations plotted in flows of words (and reversed)='lgc'>: diagrams labile ناپايدار in their forms of participation in collectives='strcls'>***

='lgc'>{='mywrk'>my research on pre="trms">modern ="trms">systematic investigation of strange singularities of the labile ="trms">phenomena ='lgc'>[lability='lgc'>: ="trms">liable to err and fall, slip, glide, flow='lgc'>] in the middle ages ='lgc'>--helps='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how in the absence of ="trms">authoritative ='strcls'>*source of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='strcls'>* in artistic research environments such as ="nms">apass, ='strcls'>*="trms">styles of knowing='strcls'>* ="trms">mime and ="trms">intertwine in ="trms">poetics, practice, and politics='lgc'>}

speaking from diagram (offering possibilities of pilotage of the emergent ="trms">relations) ='lgc'>=/= speaking to diagram (a form of ="trms">presentation, a proposed ‘found’ ="trms">past in an idealized future, proposing as a rea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic map of a given)

='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Eszter='lgc'>: the ="trms">question of recognizing the complexity of manipulating sets of ="trms">relations expressed graphically ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> developing (in my self) a contrast which offers possibilities for ="trms">rhetorically distinguishing between ‘speaking from’ and ‘speaking to’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> shifts that can effect moves in collective meaning-making

wordy texts

(="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek's) displaying “our” ="trms">modern commonplaces out of the place they are coming from ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> makes me vomit
="prgrph">-in US sci-fi TV series we face that we are still ="ppl">Aristotlian, in our regulation of speech, we live under the regime of non-contra="trms">diction and of non-equivocation (tie up our public life in it) (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> when i say this is not my ="trms">story, i am talking about another tradition of speech regulation)


proto-Baroque theater


='strcls'>*ambiguous monarchy='strcls'>*

absolutism has never been a feature of ="nms">Iran monarchies

(who='qstn'>?) put an end to the complex, emergent baroque polity

a baroque sensibility was no longer salient in the Danish monarchical context and the baldachin became war booty ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that is how Adventure Time's sensibility is now

='lgc'>[="ppl">Verran ='and'>& Winthereik briliant thinking and ="trms">literature:='lgc'>] “baldachin was designed to perform within the tense shifting landscape of partnerships as="trms">sociated with an aristocracy vigorously reorganizing itself as it emerged out of the crisis of the late medieval.”

there was a shift from ‘vertical to horizontal ="trms">social ="trms">integration’ (="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christianson) with a better-off peasantry and a surge in the ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban middle classes, and secular magnate families (n="nms">ajibzade نجيب زاده)

the baldachin was a device that performed in a force field='lgc'>--a wary but indomitable alliance of crown and noble magnates ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> baldachin as a diagram in as="trms">sociation with texts, the speech, and bodily ="trms">gesture of court events


diagram='lgc'>: ambiguously and ambivalently ‘spoken from’ (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> proposing how a just ="trms">society might be achieved) and ‘spoken to’ (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a vivid vision of a just polity)

a ="trms">figuration that equivocates over what a just ="trms">society is

baroque diagram's felicity and ability to assist ='strcls'>**collective passage through complexity='strcls'>**


tapestry (فرش / منقوش ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is concerned with collective way-finding ='lgc'>~ pilotage) and diagram ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> has to do with the collective


baldachin and the (innovation) model as ="trms">material ="trms">semiotic devices that ="trms">intervene in the ‘happening of the real’ (="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">Lury ='and'>& Wakeford, Winthereik ='and'>& ="ppl">Verran)
="prgrph">-they press upon others their ="trms">presence as ='strcls'>*participating entities='strcls'>* and offer ='strcls'>*pilotage='strcls'>*

the model perfroms by eschewing اجتناب contra="trms">diction and equivocation ='lgc'>=/= the baldachin (my graphs, atlases) elaborately figures both equivocation and contra="trms">diction ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*it equivocates about contra="trms">diction='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[equivocate='lgc'>: in Medieval Latin perfect passive participle of aequivocō “I am called by the same name”, doubtful signification='lgc'>]

="ppl">Verran (in baroque form juxtaposing an engineering object with an art object) identifies diagrams as capable of effecting ='strcls'>*dual ="trms">rhetorical shifts='strcls'>*, effect possibilities of moving between speaking from and speaking to ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> open up possibilities for equivocatign our contra="trms">dictions ='lgc'>+ (re="trms">presenting =) ='strcls'>*equivocating over what exactly is re="trms">presented='strcls'>*='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- in ="nms">apass this is what i always do, in a way my project='lgc'>]

(='at'>@="nms">apass, attending to iconography opens up a space for asking='lgc'>:)
='strcls'>****what are doing here together='qstn'>?
='strcls'>****what kind of pilotage does this diagram offer and to whom='qstn'>?


(a way of abandoning ='thdf'>the idea that these objects are essentially ="trms">different) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> attending an object as='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">story
="lsts lst1">•diagram
="lsts lst1">•


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="trms">intermingling the sexuality and ="trms">materiality of bodies with the transcendental concepts and ="trms">questions of spirituality and ="trms">religion

to re-insert the body back into ="trms">religious imagery

queer ="trms">religious imagery

culture-jam
weaving their desire and bodies back into an ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusionary ="trms">narrative

(un)critical faith

sexuality, gender, and bodily regulation in ...


deep inextricability of ="trms">religious and secular discourses in constructing the body, as well as the ways in which such discourses alone can never tell the complete ="trms">story of gendered and sexual bodies and practices (Wetzel)

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="ppl">Saadia ="ppl">="ppl">Toor

() within the neo-Orienta="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list discourse ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= liberal ="trms">modernity as ="trms">embodied by ‘the West’ and Barbarism as connoted by Islam='lgc'>] ‘the Muslim’ enemy is today configured as both misogynyst and homophobic (with an essentialized Islam comfortably ="trms">posited as the roots of illiberalism='lgc'>[= ="trms">presented as the mark and the evidence of Islam's radical alterity from Western civilization='lgc'>])='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “civilizing ="trms">missions” ='lgc'>[such as my orientation course (as an ideological cover) in Germany='lgc'>] ='lgc'>+ ='lgc'>[="frds scrmbld">Hoda's bottom-lined subjugated self puts her on such “="trms">mission” (‘to rescue women’ and) ends any discussion with her (about women, or Islam)='lgc'>] ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> essentialized and monolithic (and flattened) ‘Islam’ emptied of ="trms">history, diversity, complexity, and dissent نفاق ='lgc'>-- devoid of any ="trms">internal complexity and in fact incapable of effecting change from within
='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> critical use of ='at'>#islamicated instead of “islamic"='lgc'>]


organic intellectuals (of the empire)
(authentic) native informants
brave and courageous ‘victims’ of Islam
="lsts lst1">•Rushdie one of the stron="trms">gest voices within the clash of civilizations framework, in popular support for the Global War on Terror
="lsts lst1">•Manji's narrow polemic and cultivating a persona (of young smart queer woman) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new Orientalism
="lsts lst1">•Hirsi ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali an authentic ‘victim’ (“I used to be a Muslim; I know what I am talking about” -saying things that liberal ‘politically correct’ discourse will not allow Whites/non-Muslims/Westerners to say)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ideology of Empire ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[a neo-colonial project:='lgc'>] discursive construction of an essentialized Islam

a range of “misogynist cultural” practices='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•FGM (female genital mutilation)
="lsts lst1">•honor killings
="lsts lst1">•the ‘cult of virginity’
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they all predate islam and are common to Animists and ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christians of the sub-Saharan region as well as Ethiopian Jews

liberal ="trms">rhetoric of saving Muslim women


when some illustratives are pitched as a sensitive ="trms">response to racist Islamophobia, but taking part in the mainstream discourse on Islam and homosexuality

‘Islamic-ness’ of the subject-="trms">matter

(the strange idea) that all Muslim countries are Islamic


part ="trms">fiction, part ideological label, part minimal designation of a ="trms">religion called islam (or “west”)
="prgrph">-How really useful is “Islam” as a concept for understanding Morocco and Saudi ="ppl">Arabia and Syria and Indonesia (or ="nms">Iran)='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[Said asks='lgc'>]

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return them to the ‘chardivari’

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(="ppl">="ppl">Toor's notion of) ‘patriarchal opportunism’ ='lgc'>: “whereby patriarchal structures from families to nation-states strategically select elements from an ideological ‘toolbox’ in their attempt to gain support for the sexual regulation of women.”

="ppl">="ppl">Toor showing how impossible [...]