[...]zation)
='lgc'>[This was just as true of Europe during the period of capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">modernization in the 18th and 19th centuries, and of colonized and decolonizing ="trms">societies in the mid-20th century ='lgc'>=/= Islamic exceptionalism='lgc'> = a form of Orientalism operative today ='lgc'>: an ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive focus on ‘Islam'='lgc'>]


haq bakhshwana (in rural Punjab)='lgc'>: the daughter of a propertied family is ‘married’ to the Qur'an, or, in some cases, to a tree—so as to prevent her share of the family property transferring to her husband's family ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> women are both the property of their kin (="trms">symbolically and sometimes ="trms">literally) while having ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights to property themselves


="ppl">="ppl">Toor sug="trms">gesting in her analysis a healthy dose of skepticism towards projects that ="trms">present the ‘Muslim ="trms">world’ ='lgc'>--and asking how (in a ="ppl">Foucauldian sense) is ‘Islam'='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ ='thdf'>the idea that something stable and immutable called ‘Islam’ exists anywhere='lgc'>] being deployed, by whom, and for what purpose='qstn'>? “Is it being used as an ideological tool, does it serve as a spiritual haven, or is it invoked as an identitarian ="trms">response to the ravages of a globalized ="trms">world='qstn'>?” (="ppl">="ppl">Toor)

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%">
(unpack we must)

='strcls'>***to unpack ="trms">different islams (for ="trms">different actors who deploy it)
‘islam’ certainly cannot be unproblematically deployed as the explanatory ‘variable’

="ppl">="ppl">Toor in her example cases showing that the ‘islam connection,’ when it is there, is varied, complex, and sometimes contradictory (='lgc'>=/= mainstream discourse on Islam)

(i want ="frds scrmbld">Hoda to make her ="trms">categorical labor harder, i want her to make ="trms">historically and ="trms">socially contextual analysis, not just take shortcuts towards ="trms">generalization predetermined by a ="trms">priori ="trms">categories (of ="nms">Iran, Islam, women), rather to begin with the ="trms">="trms">empirical reality)

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a new legible object of analysis (in ="trms">writing culture)='lgc'>: qualities, ="trms">trajectories, ="trms">aesthetics ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">writing became tactile and com="trms">positional, an attunement, a ="trms">response, “a vigilant protection of a ="trms">worlding” (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart)
='strcls'>*="trms">writing='lgc'> = a way of thinking='strcls'>*

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]precarity='lgc'>: register of the singularity of emergent ="trms">phenomena, the way that they accrete, accrue and wear out
(='lgc'>=/= recognizing self-identical objects, ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaculturally marked)

forms of perceiving (seeing, thinking) are themselves emergent

a ="trms">writing that hones attention to the way that a thing (like precarity, etc.) starts to take form as='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•a com="trms">position
="lsts lst1">•a recognition
="lsts lst1">•a sensibility
="lsts lst1">•some collection of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">materialities
="lsts lst1">•laws
="lsts lst1">•movements

obvious='lgc'>: totalizing dramatizations of the thing in itself

precarity can take the form of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•fraility (living in it and through it)
="lsts lst1">•a sea change
="lsts lst1">•a darkening atmosphere
="lsts lst1">•a hard fall
="lsts lst1">•the barely perceptible sense of a reprieve
="lsts lst1">•

ordinary things (='lgc'>=/= melodrama) they ="trms">matter because they shimmer precariously

...seasons magnetized to tones of voice and a quality of light

place (='lgc'>=/= immpasive corporeality) ='lgc'>: ="trms">affective charges='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•a mantel of redemption
="lsts lst1">•a glacier of impatience
="lsts lst1">•a high desert of ="trms">anxiety dissected by fault lines of rage
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--performed='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in ='strcls'>**little s="trms">cenes of recognition='strcls'>** (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “="trms">visceral complicity of those laying claim to a ="trms">composed tactility='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]” ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">naturalized order per se)

="large lg1" stl="font-size:149%"> (="nms">Tehran's='qstn'>?) drawn curtains='lgc'>: physical shadow of a state of hardening, a rotting from the inside out
(...curtained people, they suck the) ='strcls'>*="trms">gestural sensory attachments of seeing and being seen='strcls'>* (into a ="trms">world in which things are dark)

precarity ='lgc'>==='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>==> intimacy (of people in place)

(in w="trms">inter with T-shirt and sandals) the townie body unfazed by the cold, endearing, a little heroic

an ="trms">imaginary ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a logic of some ="trms">sort ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> abstracted ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> become a thing in itself
or, a thing ="trms">simultaneously virtual and concrete
like the road, made not of dreams per se, but of laws, of ordinary practices, military surges, and construction ="trms">technologies

...intensities pass from body to body='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•human bodies
="lsts lst1">•="trms">animal bodies
="lsts lst1">•machine bodies
="lsts lst1">•bodies of thought
="lsts lst1">•eco="trms">systems
="lsts lst1">•="trms">visceralities and noumena
="lsts lst1">•="trms">histories
="lsts lst1">•the seamless habitus of super="trms">markets and credit cards
="lsts lst1">•

(="ppl">="ppl">Stewart's) precarity's form='lgc'>: com="trms">positional ='lgc'>+ decom="trms">positional

attachments, temps, ="trms">materialities, states of being

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]description='lgc'>: a ="trms">writing culture lodged in emergence, generativity, potentiality

things that come into form through an assemblage of ="trms">affects, routes, conditions, sensibilities, habits

what it means to meet the ="trms">world='lgc'>:
(="ppl">="ppl">Stewart) ='strcls'>*as a nearing='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= raw ="trms">material for exploitation='lgc'>]
(="ppl">Heidegger) as the ringing between ="trms">composing subjects and objects
(McCormack) felt as ways of going on in the ="trms">world
(="ppl">Deleuze) as increases and decreases, b="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rightening and darkening
() in a cartography distributed across a field of intensities and durations
='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= rush to incorporate them into a re="trms">presentational order of political or moral significance='lgc'>]

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='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">epistemology='lgc'> = ="trms">stories of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge from before that somehow we are still living with now (='at'>#="trms">fable)
="ppl">Geroulanos ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{ Ardrey ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Kubrick's african genesis ='lgc'>: “weapon fathered man”
="trms">technology ='lgc'>+ pre="trms">history (in postwar period)
“tool ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> man"='lgc'>}

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knowing images
="trms">epistemic image ='lgc'>: knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge-based pictorial ="trms">gestures (in ='mywrk'>my work without) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> organization ='lgc'>+ collecting ='lgc'>+ de="trms">monstrating theories ='lgc'>+ ="trms">scientific tools ='lgc'>+ direct references to ="trms">natural objects
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> searchable ="trms">interfaces (='lgc'>+ desire for con="trms">densed information)
(='strcls'>**="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> searchable='strcls'>**)

(Apianus's early ="trms">modern cognitive horizon ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) eye='lgc'>: another organ used to calibrate settings
activated eye ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new ="trms">="trms">empirical pursuits

my ="trms">epistemic images ='lgc'>: work of an image fetishist

="trms">bestiary='lgc'>: ="trms">animal character diagnosis

='lgc'>[horses='lgc'>]
(from) genre of taking care of the ="trms">animal='lgc'>: veterinary ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> chiromancy='lgc'>: profiling of the ="trms">animal conditioned through the serial ="trms">nature of ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> control)

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="ppl">Brancaforte
="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readings of the ="trms">apparatuses framing ="ppl">Olearius's ="trms">books
tradition of re="trms">presenting Persia in the West (Xenophon and Herodotus)
="trms">narrative elements of ="ppl">Olearius’ works remain largely unexamined


Brentjes

elm naghli علم نقلی (artistic research knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge) ='lgc'>=/= elm aghli علم عقلی (rationality)

(="trms">science) elm in ="nms">Iran ='lgc'><='lgc'>== (10th century ="trms">written in Persian='lgc'>:) limits of the ="trms">world ='lgc'>[hodud al-alam='lgc'>] ='lgc'>+ pharmacological medicine ='lgc'>+ (="trms">translated ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= adaptations of) astrology

10th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> gradual decline in ="trms">literacy in ="ppl">Arabic ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Persian treaties on ="trms">sciences

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> rag-shenasi (knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the pulse) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Avicenna

روضة المنجمین

rowzat (روضة to look) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~/=='qstn'>? nozhat نزهت='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= garden ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= astrological site
="prgrph">-(="nms">iran) university garden ='lgc'>=/= (="trms">greek) university gymnasium


="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> ="trms">book='lgc'>: ex="trms">pository discourse (رساله توضیحی، تفسیری، نمایشی)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">poems on the subject
="lsts lst1">•تحسین و تمجید lengthy laudatory adjectives to describe the dedicatee='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦patronage of the courts
="lsts lst2">◦the teaching circles
="lsts lst2">◦the family lineages of professions
="lsts lst2">◦the existence of “amateurs de ="trms">sciences” (the private individuals ="trms">interested in ="trms">science)
="lsts lst1">•anecdotes (="trms">historical or legendary)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">questions and answers
="lsts lst1">•observation on the usefulness and the excellence of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in general


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ethnography='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•set of ="trms">methods for knowing about ="trms">social ="trms">relations ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">storytelling='lgc'>] (='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst1">•cultural-analytical scholarship ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> analysis='lgc'>]

="large lg5" stl="font-size:141%"> ethnography='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]ethnographic ="trms">stories='lgc'> = ="trms">generalizations that ="trms">intervene (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">instruments that make ="trms">intervention possible ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge product in contemporary sci ='and'>& tech studies STS)

ethnography='lgc'>: ="trms">stories that have in them a capacity re="trms">present the ="trms">world in ways that are generative for the people and practices that the ="trms">stories are about ='lgc'>+ ="trms">authors (='lgc'>+ their peers ='lgc'>+ ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers)

='strcls'>****(from) post="trms">modern concern about the ="trms">authority of the ="trms">author ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a concern about partiality and generative critique='strcls'>****
='at'>@="nms">apass ='at'>#feedback
(="ppl">Verran giving voice to what my concern and inte[...]