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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)
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(="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'>~= adaptations of) astrology
10th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> gradual decline in ="trms">literacy in ="ppl">Arabic ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Persian treaties on ="trms">sciences
rag-shenasi (knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the pulse) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Avicenna
روضة المنجمین
rowzat (روضة to look) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~/=='qstn'>? nozhat نزهت='lgc'>] ='lgc'>~= garden ='lgc'>~= astrological site
="prgrph">-(="nms">iran) university garden ='lgc'>=/= (="trms">greek) university gymnasium
="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'>]
ethnography='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]ethnographic ="trms">stories='lgc'> = ="trms">generalizations that ="trms">intervene (='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 ="trms">interest is in artistic research environment)
the ="trms">question of how to re-="trms">present others (their diverse practices) on good faith='qstn'>? ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- moral
='lgc'>~~> the ='thdf'>bad idea of “good faith ='lgc'>=/= bad faith” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> assume a moral high ground that we have no reason to argue in favor of
altering oneself to good faith='lgc'> = altering oneself to the possibility of double vision
(in ethnography) good faith='lgc'>: ="trms">writing ="trms">generalizing ="trms">stories that ="trms">intervene, because of the partiality of research and analysis (not despite of it)
="lsts lst1">•good faith analysis='lgc'>: having faith in it being possible to ="trms">write ="trms">stories that are generative for ='strcls'>*some of='strcls'>* the practices we study ='lgc'>+ for ='strcls'>*some of='strcls'>* our peers
(="trms">stories ='lgc'>--="ppl">Verran='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) two moments of ="trms">generalizing='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. ='strcls'>*onemany='strcls'>* form ='lgc'>==enable='lgc'>='lgc'>==> abstracting
="lstsrd">2. ='strcls'>*whole-parts='strcls'>* form ='lgc'>==bring='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a ="trms">situating moment
='lgc'>~=='lgc'>{ ="ppl">="ppl">Star Wars apocalyptic ="trms">stories (single vision) ='lgc'>+ lived ="trms">social bodily realities='lgc'> = (="ppl">="ppl">Harawayian) many-headed ="trms">monster ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#="nms">Tehran index
ethnographic research is always embedded in multi-stakeholder ="trms">situations
the ="ppl">Verran is proposing
='lgc'>=/= ="trms">writing ="trms">stories that ="trms">narrate what collaborators hope to hear
='lgc'>=/= hardening the ="trms">categories of the everyday
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='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">generalization='lgc'>: (performative) ways of making and negotiating ="trms">different realities
(Hinde ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) adequate ="trms">story='lgc'>: objects that ='strcls'>*find='strcls'>* audiences ='lgc'>~= ='strcls'>*pointing to='strcls'>* (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- performative) ='lgc'>~/= ='strcls'>*pointing for='strcls'>* (='lgc'><='lgc'>--="ppl">Verran='lgc'>-- invite them to do work to see their own ="trms">ontological commitments)
='at'>@apasa, research on performativity entailles when not to be performative
ethnographic ="trms">story='lgc'>: re-performance / re-="trms">presentation of some here-now
="lsts lst1">•description='lgc'>: ="trms">storytelling event
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working indexically with an in="trms">finitely complex here-now
indexicality depends on posing a somewhere or something else that is real in a ="trms">different manner ='lgc'>~= performativity
(Hacking='lgc'>:) we recognize the collective enactment of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge practices in devising re-="trms">presentations ='lgc'>--="ppl">Verran='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ethnographic ="trms">story='lgc'>: (first ans foremost) making reality (='lgc'>=/= ='thdf'>the idea that reality gives rise to re-="trms">presentations)
a ="trms">generalization='lgc'>: a unified text, ="trms">narrative, exemplifying and enacting a particular time and space ='lgc'>--con="trms">dense='lgc'>='lgc'>--> here-now
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> recognizing how ethnographic ="trms">stories deal with necessarily being just one of in="trms">finitely many possible ="trms">stories of a herenow
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(John Law='lgc'>:) ethnography='lgc'>: a ="trms">method of assemblage ='lgc'>: enactment of ="trms">presence, manifest absence, and absence as otherness
='at'>#="nms">Tehran index
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