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="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'>**)
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(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
='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
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
(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
attending to indexes for herenow that embed two logics ="trms">generalization='lgc'>: one-many ='and'>& whole-parts
="lstsrd">1. one kind of ="trms">story embeds a logic of one-many ="trms">generalization ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re="trms">presents its here-now as an ='thdf'>example of something in general ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">story='lgc'> = evidence base of a general statement about human, ="trms">world, erc.='lgc'>]='lgc'>--Kwa='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*romantic='strcls'>*
="lstsrd">3. one kind of ="trms">story embeds a logic of whole-parts ="trms">generalization ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">presents its here-now by first building this ="trms">world ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">story='lgc'> = an emergent entity on a vague whole='lgc'>]='lgc'>--Kwa='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*baroque='strcls'>*
20th century ="trms">history of complexity theory
='strcls'>*romantic ='lgc'>=/= baroque ways of doing complexity='strcls'>*
='lgc'>--="ppl">Verran='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we should use both ="trms">simultaneously ='lgc'>~= ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway cyborg double vision
='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">="ppl">Latour's analysis of Ambassadors painting (='lgc'>~= illustration of an ethnographic ="trms">story)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">technique of ana="trms">morphosis='lgc'>: invite the viewer to shift their perspective ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*they are invited to do the work of recognizing the alternative logics of ="trms">generalization='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•="trms">agential ="trms">instrumentality
="lsts lst1">•dual logic='lgc'>: ambassadors ='and'>& skull
="lsts lst1">•skull/brownish object ='lgc'>--signal='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ‘viewer’ must ‘lean over’ in order to see the ="trms">database (in ="ppl">Verran's example) as ="trms">authoritative ='and'>& as autonomous and ='strcls'>*capable of making new kinds of knower='strcls'>* emerge (worker, ="trms">storyteller, ethnographer)
="prgrph">-
my image assemblages are whole-part ="trms">generalizations, one-many pictures, vague whole with emergent parts
='at'>#workshop on training two modes of ="trms">generalization, use of drawing and image making, ="trms">writing ethnographic ="trms">stories
(artists typically make the mistake of making these two identical ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->)
='strcls'>*indicator ='lgc'>=/= outcome='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•indicator='lgc'>: for example you implement something
="lsts lst1">•outcome='lgc'>: a change in behavior (= accomplished indicator)
='strcls'>*one-many ="trms">generalization='strcls'>*
x is one of many possible ="trms">stories about X in general (='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Latour='lgc'>='lgc'>--> purification='lgc'>:) spacetime ="trms">specificities are transformed into general claims ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> abstracting
='lgc'>=/=
='strcls'>*whole-parts ="trms">generalization='strcls'>*
x is a participant on an assemblage where all actors are somehow emerging parts ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one does not yet know what X is or may become (X remains a vague whole) (='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Latour='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">translation work='lgc'>:) working a number of herenows into the picture ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">situating
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how to ="trms">write (ethnographic) ="trms">stories embedding the dual logic of ="trms">generalization='qstn'>?='lgc'> = ='strcls'>*how to arrive at a non-relativizing non-universalizing description that nevertheless works as a ="trms">generalization='qstn'>?='strcls'>*
='lgc'>==constitute='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">generalization='lgc'>: an irresolvable tension
='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="trms">interventionist potentiel
="trms">narratives that allow both='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•information exchange (handling information correctly)
="lsts lst1">•unexpected cuts in information exchange (cutting the ="trms">world)
what is gained in the ="trms">interventionist potentiel ='lgc'>[of ="trms">stories; for ='thdf'>example of the skull in Holbein's ambassadeur, magic ="trms">database in ="ppl">Verran's ethnographic ="trms">story='lgc'>]='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-enabling double vision
="lsts lst1">•the worker has to be equally magical about her own monitoring repertoires (="nms">apass cloud attitudes)
="lsts lst1">•to ="trms">intervene the ideas of smooth and wellfunctioning development bureaucracy
="lsts lst1">•reflexivity='lgc'>: what the ethnographer sees as she is shifting her ="trms">position and beginning to focus on a ="trms">different (whole-parts) ="trms">generalization ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= simply a ="trms">matter of being transparent about one's analytical choices='lgc'>]
(="frds">Sina='lgc'>:)
="trms">storytelling ='lgc'>~= bullshiting
="trms">storytelling ='lgc'>~= analytical ="trms">social ="trms">science
deflating claims (for example we have never been ="trms">modern, etc.) do not afford possibilities for ="trms">intervening
(why i use comparing ="trms">stories in my ="trms">lecture performances ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) the act of ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]comparing ='lgc'>: a central aspect of seeking to contain the dual logic in one ="trms">story ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">Strathern > Holbraad ='and'>& Pedersen > ="ppl">Verran > ) peculiar intensification of the act of fieldwork
good faith analysis ='lgc'>: ="trms">stories that are explicit about the double vision through foregrounding within the ="trms">story a figure that enables ='strcls'>*switching='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•="trms">stories that never ="trms">intervene in a way that was ="trms">imagined (before the study was carried out)
(="ppl">Strathern's) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]partiality='lgc'> = incomplete ='lgc'>+ committed ='lgc'>: a description is always part of a whole, which can never be known as a totality, and it is political (biased)
="trms">lecture performance ='lgc'>~= brining the effect of a ="trms">story to life as ="trms">generalization ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> infra-="trms">ontological ='lgc'>+ ="trms">epistemological work
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Kwa
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]holism='lgc'>: ='thdf'>the ideal of ="trms">integrating all the workings of ="trms">nature into one whole
1950s ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a special ="trms">relationship between the holism and the computer (='thdf'>the idea that if ='thdf'>the ='thdf'>assumption of holism is fed into a computer model, the computer faithfully reproduces it)
early 20th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> notions of the complex unity of (living) ="trms">systems ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> romantic conceptions of ="trms">nature
='strcls'>*complexity='lgc'> = romantic holism ='lgc'>=/= reductionist='strcls'>*
romantic tradition of complexity ='lgc'>: to see an underlying unity in a ="trms">world of heterogeneous objects and ="trms">phenomena (="ppl">Rousseau, Cuvier, last two thousands years, ='lgc'>[is ="trms">religion romantic='qstn'>?='lgc'>])
romantic ="trms">scientist's moderate version of ="ppl">Kant's Copernican Revolution='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Rousseau
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Humboldt ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***to arrange the facts, not successively on the order in which they have ="trms">presented themselves, but ="trms">according to the ="trms">relations which they have between themselves='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~~> a ="trms">sort of ="trms">paranoia='lgc'>]
="lsts lst2">◦='thdf'>the idea that to see that ="ppl">Humboldt was able to see takes a “sensitive observer”
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Whitehead ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> physical ="trms">systems with endurance as the ="trms">measure of their stability
="lsts lst1">•Tansley ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> eco="trms">system ='lgc'>~= superorganism
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>=/= baroque (='lgc'>--Kwa='lgc'>='lgc'>--> neobaroque)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Leibniz ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> every bit of ="trms">matter can be conceived as a garden full of plants ='lgc'>: each drop of its bodily fluid is also such a garden ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>***it is the direction of looking that ="trms">matters ='strcls'>*** (mode of attention)
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Deleuze
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Whitehead
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Darwin
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Benjamin
="lsts lst1">•
="trms">bestiary='lgc'> = baroque ='lgc'>+ romantic
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='strcls'>*romantic complexity (looks up) ='lgc'>=/= baroque complexity (looks down)='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•looking up='lgc'>: ="trms">integrate individuals (who appear to be a heterogeneous lot) at the ="trms">phenomenological level to a single entity at a higher level of organization ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (plants and ="trms">animals, individuals) are='strcls'>*functionality ="trms">integrated='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- my problem with ='thdf'>the notion of ="trms">community='lgc'>]
="lsts lst2">◦looking up to the ="trms">world of platonic forms ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a process of abstraction
="lsts lst1">•looking down='lgc'>: a table of companions ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (plants and ="trms">animals, individuals) are ='strcls'>*cooperating='strcls'>*
(romantic conceptions of) ="trms">society as organism ='lgc'>=/= (baroque conception of) organism as ="trms">society
(="trms">historic) baroque
="prgrph">-grand style of 17th century
="prgrph">-(insist on) strong ="trms">phenomenological realness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">sensuous ="trms">materiality
="prgrph">-="trms">materiality flows out in many directions (='lgc'>=/= confined within) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> b="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurring “individual ='lgc'>=/= environment”
="prgrph">-inventiveness='lgc'>:
='lgc'>--music='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ability to produce lots of novel combinations out of a rather limited set of elements
='lgc'>--theater='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (logical development of plot ='lgc'>=/=) sequence of monologues and allegories ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> action
="ppl">Leibniz baroque philosophy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> monad='lgc'>: individuals not linked to form greater ="trms">systems (they don't even ="trms">communicate), but they ="trms">affect each other
='lgc'>--="ppl">Deleuze='lgc'>='lgc'>--> each monad had its context re="trms">presented inside itself (as ="trms">fold) ='lgc'>[more important the monad ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> richer its ="trms">world='lgc'>]
="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors of romanticism='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•organicism
="lsts lst1">•="trms">system ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (in graphical re="trms">presentation) depicted by connecting lives between constituent elements (='lgc'>=/= monad)
="lsts lst1">•
="ppl">Whitehead ='lgc'>--="ppl">Deleuze='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a neobaroque philosopher ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> possibility of a chaotic side-by-side existence of ="trms">mutually ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive realities
(baroque era) harmony='lgc'>: art of counterpoints (bringing together independent voices)
German baroque (Gryphius, Lohenstein) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">nature='lgc'> = ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]ruin='lgc'>: heap of highly significant fragments ='lgc'>=/= seamless web (='at'>@ERG website)
="lsts lst1">•fragment='lgc'>: independent individual things with a monadological structure (='lgc'>~/= post="trms">modern understanding of fragment)
="lsts lst1">•link (between them)='lgc'> = reciprocal reference ='lgc'>=/= connection
="lsts lst2">◦(references remain in their) ='strcls'>*allegorical immanence='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•
="trms">World War II ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> ="trms">systems theories (attempt to explain the structure and behavior of complex objects
Charney ='lgc'>+ von Neumann
deterministic description of the atmosphere
“long-range forecasting”
computer-based metrology
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*field='strcls'>* became the essence of atmospheric state (field ='lgc'>=/= structure, ="trms">phenomena such as cyclones, fronts, cyclogenesis, fr="trms">ontogenesis)
='lgc'><='lgc'>--Lorenz='lgc'>-- a given that the atmosphere is a single whole
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romantic ='and'>& nonromantic ="ppl">Darwin
evolutionary theory
phylogenetic tree
="prgrph">-“war of ="trms">nature ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> higher ="trms">animals directly follow”
="prgrph">-individual organisms engage in various ="trms">interactions with each other ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> speciation
Tansley (fulfilling a romantic expectation with regard to complex ="trms">systems) ='lgc'>--1926='lgc'>='lgc'>--> maintenance of equilibrium by eco="trms">system ='lgc'>["life='lgc'> = equilibrium"='lgc'>]
='lgc'>=/= Schrödinger (showed that equilibrium is unfit as a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor for life) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> life='lgc'> = islands of low entropy (complex locations) in a sea of high entropy (of decreasing complexity)
Lokta
(evolution of) chemical ="trms">systems='lgc'> = general ="trms">systems
Patten
eco="trms">system ="trms">ecologist
“eco="trms">system='lgc'> = ="trms">natural control ="trms">system” ='lgc'>~= (single equilibrium simple cybernetic) ="trms">technical control device ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor of ='strcls'>*automatic machine='strcls'>* (taken ="trms">literally)
re="trms">presenting whole eco="trms">systems by (mathematized and fit for simulation on digital computers) models
1960s 70s ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">system ="trms">ecology
='lgc'>--="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurck='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (romantic ="trms">trope of) ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorous functionalism ='lgc'>[every little plant or insect had its place as a cog on a giant machinery='lgc'>]
Rene Thom
chemical reaction kinetics
biological ="trms">morphogenesis
catastrophe theory='lgc'>: slight change in a single variable of a ="trms">system can give rise to sharp discontinuous change
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> existence of multiple equilibria
Slobodkin
game theory
management of ="trms">natural ="trms">systems
P="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigogine ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">="ppl">Stengers
brusselator device (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> strange attractor) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> behavior and evolution of complex ="trms">systems ='lgc'>--illustrate='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•discontinuous development
="lsts lst1">•bifurcation (points at which the ="trms">system may go in either of two directions ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">system behaves as a whole)
local random fluctuations (around a mean) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bifurcation point ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">system as a whole evolves to a new order
='lgc'>=/= cybernetic ="trms">system (control center)
='lgc'>=/= steam engine (governor)
="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Robin,Robot,Robert,Robocop">Robert May
the more complex a ="trms">system is, the more likely it is that small fluctuations (will be just large enough) to be critical
complexity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> unstability
='lgc'>~~='lgc'>~~> chaos theory
(for P="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigogine) fluctuation='lgc'>: essential condition for order of physical universe, life, civilization
='lgc'>[the most humble aspect of the behavior of ="trms">matter:='lgc'>] white noise ='lgc'>--(chaotic ="trms">phenomena)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> order ='lgc'>[on macro level='lgc'>]
turbulence ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- cannot be predicted (deterministic approach), but we have ="trms">="trms">empirical certainty that they will appear
55BC ='lgc'>--turbulence='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Lucretius’ De Rerum ="trms">natura (philosophical ="trms">poem on the ="trms">nature of things)
(his basic ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor of) ="trms">nature='lgc'>: hydrodynamic flow of particles in free fall, in swirls, in vortexes
‘small cause ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> disproportional nonlinearity’ ='lgc'>: ‘random collision of some falling atoms ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> constitution of ="trms">world’
='lgc'>--="ppl">Serres='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">="ppl">Lucretius) heterodox tradition (='lgc'>=/= orthodoxe)
romantic ='and'>& baroque are ='strcls'>***discourse ='lgc'>=/= paradigm='strcls'>***
="lsts lst1">•discourse (available to draw from)
="lsts lst1">•paradigm (to succeed another paradigm) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- to be careful as an artist, the fantasy of genesis='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•since the 19th century romantic complexity had been the more orthodox discourse
="lsts lst1">•since 1975 baroque complexity became the focus of ="trms">interest
='lgc'>}='lgc'>=/= new conception of reality
="lsts lst1">•romantic complexity ='lgc'>--favor='lgc'>='lgc'>--> stable structural ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors (self-correcting cybernetic machine, Gaya, etc.)
="lsts lst2">◦criteria can be established (more easily) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> delineate emergent wholes (='strcls'>*abstract criteria='strcls'>*)
="lsts lst1">•baroque complexity ='lgc'>--favor='lgc'>='lgc'>--> swarming individuals ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor (population of individuals in turbulent motion) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> delineate emergent wholes (='strcls'>*="trms">situational criteria='strcls'>*)
="lsts lst2">◦conceptual problem of baroque='lgc'>: there may be higher level order, but what is it='qstn'>?
="lsts lst3">◾(it is not) stable patterns of ="trms">communication (='lgc'><='lgc'>== if patterns exists they are short-lived, individuals take part in several wholes rather than in one)
body='lgc'> = turbulent ="trms">phenomena par excellence
='strcls'>*****
='lgc'>--="ppl">Deleuze='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the very idea of “concept” is ="trms">different in baroque thinking ='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]concept='lgc'> = an allegory, a ="trms">narrative ='lgc'>=/= a ="trms">symbol of the ="trms">cosmos ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- romantic idea of concept='lgc'>: a ="trms">cosmological order that is grasped by the thinking subject
the uncertainty (of the ="trms">world) in the baroque case is ="trms">ontological ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ="trms">epistemological ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> uncertainty is an effect of not knowing enough='lgc'>]
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(i say in ="nms">iran, instead of public jurnalism we need more) ='strcls'>*public ="trms">anthropology='strcls'>*
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(Stenger > ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart > vivid ="trms">pragmatics ='lgc'>~=)
(McCormack > ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart > radical) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">="trms">empiricism='lgc'>: if you walk in the woods ='lgc'>--encounter='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the unthinkable profusion of forms ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">material-="trms">aesthetic registers of (mobile ='and'>& immobile flickering of) is and was (='lgc'>=/= sensory details described)
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]description='lgc'>: accidental glimpse of what ="trms">matters ='lgc'>+ what shifts its ="trms">matter in a moment of recognizable though unnamed and partial significance
tonal ="trms">differences
a spark of color
a modulation in tempo
half-patterned expressivity
='lgc'>--of='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a s="trms">cene teemingly ="trms">differentiated and marked by thresholds of ="trms">matter
when a tree is “charged and transfigured” by a violent sunset
="ppl">="ppl">Stewart ='lgc'>+ Dillard
a thing becomes a call to word
(Harman='lgc'>:) objects themselves, like voices or forms of ="trms">writing, have style
="ppl">="ppl">Stewart > Dillard's ="trms">causal logic of bizarre but ="trms">categorical predation='lgc'>:
a small frog perched precariously on a lily pad in a pond, its back end al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready strangely slumped in the water. Then it suddenly deflates
its skin “ruck, and rumple, and fall’ and then “formless as a pricked balloon, lay in floating ="trms">folds like blight scum on top of the water”
='lgc'>--sug="trms">gest='lgc'>='lgc'>--> its style
='lgc'>=/= exempla of a generality
='lgc'>=/= ="trms">embodiments of something
='strcls'>*points of precision='strcls'>* in moments, s="trms">cenes, forms, and states of ="trms">matter
an image synesthetically re="trms">membered ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> engineered bridges of the purely ="trms">social or thee purely ="trms">natural ="trms">imagine a flatly describable ="trms">world ="trms">composed of fully ="trms">present states of being
...the wind forms blades in the sea like lines on a page
description='lgc'>: an approach to an ungraspable thing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> de="trms">literalizing
remainders
(distributed gap between residents’ reports and police determinations='lgc'>:) ='lgc'>[examples of semi-events (half-witnessed):='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•a d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous-looking ="trms">animal moving about on a man's property turned out to be a black plastic trash bag blowing in the wind
="lsts lst1">•threatening graffiti on a lawn were markings made by phone company employees
="lsts lst1">•a strange noise was wind in the trees
="lsts lst1">•a report of a man licking the locks on doorways of apartments on North Pleasant Street (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sug="trms">gestion of this licking everywhere remained)
="lsts lst1">•a blood-soaked g="trms">love on the ground outside the DB Mart was a pink g="trms">love (='lgc'>-- establish='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pattern of possible hands in roads)
="prgrph">-
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Stewart='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**an ="trms">staging ground for people's perceptive='strcls'>** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**attention to the weird possibilities emergent in the ordinary='strcls'>**
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*mysterious patterns with precise details='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[= ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (bring into relief) a background, a zone, a ="trms">worlding in which things become perceptible (in a weirdly rea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list way)
='lgc'>[explanation ='lgc'>=/=='lgc'>] str="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger faithfulness to the spirit of the unnamed thing they witnessed ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> moved to make a report (something is a little off)
(if there is grounding it is grounding in) ="trms">world's variegated ="trms">poesis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]description='lgc'>:) to make room (='lgc'>[for its='lgc'>] emergence ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> theory)
A walker with a ="trms">routine gets used to the little apparitions of something throwing together in his or her vicinity
(="trms">questions of points of contact='lgc'>:) what to do with your eyes='qstn'>?
(='lgc'>[against='qstn'>?='lgc'>] ="trms">positionality of) ="trms">writing from the ground
(="trms">memory of a city='lgc'>:) a contact ="trms">aesthetic of ="trms">histories and rogue ="trms">trajectories set in motion by every object encountered
harshly half-formed ="trms">world
germinal ="trms">aesthetics
channels of autonomous objects lay down stakes and swerve at points of contact with the itineraries of other things ='lgc'>==create='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a distributed zone of ='strcls'>*robust realism='strcls'>*
the real (of X)='lgc'>: transversal arrays of qualities or activities (like musical refrains) give order to ="trms">materials and ="trms">situations, human bodies and brains in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded, as actions undertaken act-back to shape muscles and hone senses
(to sharpen) rea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list attention to things
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]life='lgc'>: ="trms">ontological entertainment
unfulfilled ="trms">systems littered the kitchen
tangent to an elsewhere
gleamingly restored eighteenth-century perfections ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="nms">Cinderella's mansion
...of autonomous objects lying around...
a zone of randomly abandoned X
against the background of nothing
="trms">visceral avoidance
pretty and fresh as blueberry pie
townies (how i am not a townie where i live)
="lsts lst1">•townie='lgc'>: loyalty to the expressivity of things
="trms">sociality of a wedding party (filled with roles and dressings)
crazy ricochet..
perfectly ordinary...
...long-ago layered over the wood (necrotic غانقرايايا)
“expressivity sliced through ="trms">matter, word, and action, locking them together in a harshly half-formed ="trms">world”
="trms">writing ="nms">Cinderella diaries ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">questions of realism
="lsts lst1">•what kind of real we enter='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•her realism (bring her) ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a rough contact with objects human and non-human
="lsts lst1">•="nms">Cinderella does things to and with them (her ="trms">animals) ='lgc'>[and reverse='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*="trms">social pressure ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (people) make descriptive mistake='strcls'>*
a problematic (for example afterlife of a tragedy) ='lgc'>--that='lgc'>='lgc'>--> inspires X ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> speculative ="trms">interest in forms
="lsts lst1">•="nms">Cinderella stating to noticing things (="trms">rumors, gossip, realism)
="lsts lst1">•gossip='lgc'>: rea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list attention to things
the ="trms">world were his secret
="trms">loved the smell of the cold
in the night's dark hours
="trms">demanded our co-emotional sharpness
the ="trms">world ="trms">literally burst into color on the home side ='lgc'>--and='lgc'>='lgc'>--> went gray in the instant of passing over the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
no one knew their names...
...the energy of small things...
as if the point of living was to...
mosquitoes drew blood...
a helmet of white roots
...painted hyperb="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right colors in paint so flat it makes my fingertips dry just to look at it
dull dark oversized furniture
collapsed piles...
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(nothing ever happens without first) registering a commitment to exhausting webs of complication
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learning from mice ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dark little tunnels of limited choice
(="ppl">="ppl">Stewart's) points of precision='lgc'>: (of any act or ="trms">story) what ="trms">matters is the singularity of an angle of approach (a surprise contact, an opening ="trms">onto some ="trms">world's cocom="trms">position, momentary flourishing of some capacity) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= a meaning='lgc'>]
shaken profusion in things ='lgc'>=/= rush evaluative critique
so ordinary and problematic
="brkr">
so ='thdf'>the idea of ="trms">writing about “clean” started being ="trms">interested in this website='lgc'>: https://www.politicalconcepts.org, and the desire to ="trms">write a political entry point for them on ='thdf'>the idea of clean in the 20th century
also after i moved to Brussels May 2016, the ="trms">affect of dirty
to have a little talk or jam on ='thdf'>the notion of “clean” and “clean body[...]