[...]n ='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">-

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> 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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="large lg1" stl="font-size:144%"> 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

='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


="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> (="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'>]


="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> ="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">•


="large lg5" stl="font-size:118%"> ="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

romantic ='and'>& nonromantic ="ppl">Darwin
evolutionary theory
phylogenetic tree
="prgrph">-“war of ="trms">nature ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> higher ="trms">animals directly follow”
="prgrph">-individual org[...]