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

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='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'>==> 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'>==> “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'>==> 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'>]

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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'>==> 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


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‘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 I[...]