[...]ic ="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
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(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">•
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="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
(="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
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'>]
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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)
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="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)
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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...
(nothing ever happens without first) registering a commitment to exhausting webs of complication
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”
i have been scribbling on its ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorology for a while, thinking with it about the 20th century political thinking, institutional thinking, criminology, xenophobia, morality, and many other things. it is a key term for me.
="lsts lst1">•="trms">difference and in="trms">difference regarding the foreign body and ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbanism
="lsts lst1">•clean's stakes in architecture, toilet, the primordial element of architecture
="lsts lst1">•the clean body in ="ppl">Marx and its geneology in the left
="lsts lst1">•o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins of morality in ="ppl">Freud
="lsts lst1">•xenophobia in crosscultural ="trms">histories, Islam on hygiene and kofr's dirt
="lsts lst1">•Nazism and racial cleansing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">aesthetics ='and'>& politics
="lsts lst1">•Victorian sanitation, sanitas
="lsts lst1">•pollution
="lsts lst1">•anality
="lsts lst1">•="trms">animality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> domestic life (="nms">Tehran, Brussels, Cologne,)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorology of ‘fesad’
="lsts lst1">•loose analogies of clean/dirt
="lsts lst1">•pure bodies (being threatened by violation of impurities)
="lsts lst1">•
="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readings='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-="ppl">Koolhaas, toilet
="prgrph">-="ppl">Sennett, Flesh and Stone
="prgrph">-Ashenburg, Dirt on Clean
="prgrph">-="ppl">Serres, Malfeasance
="prgrph">-="ppl">Ahmed, pure bodies
="prgrph">-Vom kleinen Maulwurf
="prgrph">-
in terrestrial eco="trms">systems='lgc'>:
detritus
dead p="trms">articulate organic ="trms">material (as opposed to dissolved organic ="trms">material). It typically in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes the bodies or fragments of dead organisms as well as fecal ="trms">material
typically colonized by ="trms">communities of microorganisms which act to de="trms">compose (or remineralize) the ="trms">material
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(in clinic)
each ="trms">method enacts an object of its own ='lgc'>=/= approaching a single object in ="trms">different ways
in 19th century Western philosophy, ="trms">ontology was coined as a powerful word for the given and fixed collection of what there is
(="ppl">Annemarie Mol)
="trms">ontologies ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> there is no longer a singular “it” to look at from ="trms">different sides
="trms">ontologies are not ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive, they allow for ="trms">interferences, partial connections, sharing practices ='lgc'>=/= mono-rea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list singularities
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]politics='lgc'>: (is not one of otherness,) it is about fights; not between people (a politics of who) but between versions of reality (a politics of what)
the value of “what is,” what western philosophy calls “normativity” and its counterfactuals sug="trms">gesting “what could be” (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> are ="trms">different ="trms">ontologies='qstn'>?)
yet ‘="trms">ontologies’ is ill-suited for talking about many things='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•ways in which goods and bads are performed in practices ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Xiri
="lsts lst1">•conjunction with pleasures, pains, ecstasies, fears, ideals, dreams, passions ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">apass
="lsts lst1">•various shapes that processes may take='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦="trms">causal chains
="lsts lst2">◦back-and-forth conversations
="lsts lst2">◦tinkering and caring
="lsts lst1">•theorizing how fingers taste
="lsts lst1">•what ="trms">drugs afford to bodies and bodies do with ="trms">drugs
="lsts lst1">•migrant ambitions and guarded borders
="lsts lst1">•garment factories on fire
="lsts lst1">•soy for Dutch pigs being grown in the Amazon
="lsts lst1">•(or when we give feedback to eachother in ="nms">apass='qstn'>?='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>--="ppl">Annemarie='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we need to be able to play with other words (other than ="trms">ontology) ='at'>@="frds">Sina
='strcls'>*valuing
='strcls'>*facting
(let's learn and engage more in valuing, and not facting. not that things or practices “have value” but how they are valued, given value or worth to them)
valuing (when done as ritual nothing follows), might in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude variations of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">measuring
="lsts lst1">•assessing
="lsts lst1">•appreciating
="lsts lst1">•qualifying
="lsts lst1">•tasting
="lsts lst1">•judging
="lsts lst1">•critiquing
="lsts lst1">•praising
="lsts lst1">•caring
="lsts lst1">•
='strcls'>***(more than aften) a mode of value developed ‘here’ is put to work ‘there’ ='lgc'>[= ="trms">generalization='lgc'>]
='lgc'>--="ppl">Annemarie='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (pertinence of) ‘where ="trms">questions’
(costs of) ="trms">generalization ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•stabilizes what counts ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> silences subjects (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- do it, but pay the cost)
="lsts lst1">•fosters proving, not improving
="lsts lst1">•offers managerial solution, not citizen satisfaction
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•
(a ="trms">modern sentence='lgc'>:) people tend to think that their quality of life depends on themselves, that means='lgc'>: what ‘you’ are going to do about ‘you being miserable’
the (good or bad) ="trms">worlding of university's counter-fact-ism and functionalism
(Manning's mistake='lgc'>:) “evaluation or valuation ="trms">techniques ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> boosting” (='lgc'>=/= tinkering='strcls'>*)
(in rehabilitation clinic) scale of independence to map the condition of a person ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a process in which valuing is transformed from a ‘tool for improving’ into a ‘tool for proving’
(enough food)
shifts from ‘want’ to ‘need’
counting calories (='lgc'>=/= enjoying food) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> orchestrate guilt (='lgc'>=/= satisfaction) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> limit oneself ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hide hunger
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*counting='strcls'>* (a protestant value='qstn'>?) has been a behavioral ="trms">technique to produce self-conscious being, still a way of making ="trms">responsible persons, “counting the number of times they were hit...” ='strcls'>*="trms">rhetoric of counting (a ="trms">socio-="trms">material practice) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> civic ="trms">world witness='strcls'>*='lgc'>]
="trms">rumors ="trms">travel
facts ="trms">travel
practices ="trms">travel
clean city ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (19th century quest, classic goal of) hygiene
what do citizens value='qstn'>? ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- let's (take a step back and) ask that (='at'>@NRW cultural fund, governmentality Regierungsfähigkeit, the city of Cologne)
='lgc'>[this ="trms">question is asked by people in certain ="trms">socio-="trms">material practices with stakes in producing citizens, such as professional of cleanness municipal ="trms">responsibility ='lgc'>==often='lgc'>='lgc'>==> citizens disappear='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-maybe we like the lively dandelions (repertoire of green) and messy weeds (repertoire of clean) that grow in the cracks
being happy with cleanliness
being happy with seeing people cleaning ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> seeing municipal care
leanring ‘where ="trms">question’ from ="ppl">Annemarie='lgc'>: if you are local that doesn't mean you are local ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***the local is not obvious='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>: the local does not explain itself in its own terms, it is rather explained in terms that have ="trms">traveled from elsewhere ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this is not to isolate the local, this is not against ='strcls'>*="trms">traveling of terms='strcls'>*, rather, an argument for ="trms">specificity='lgc'>: to ask ='strcls'>****which terms from elsewhere are relevant here='qstn'>?='strcls'>**** ='at'>@="nms">Tehran='lgc'>:
what at stake there
what effected here
(what it means in my village='qstn'>?)
="trms">traveling of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">traveling of repertoires of speeking
functions of import and embedding (something from another time or place in your ="trms">present argument)
='strcls'>*there is no ="trms">="trms">empirical without ="trms">language='strcls'>*
there is no local without ="trms">travel
(='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Xiri, ="frds scrmbld">Hoda, to urgently shift from who to what)
(from) ‘who ="trms">question’ of politics='lgc'>: who gets to talk='qstn'>? (like “do women get a say='qstn'>?”) ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘what ="trms">question’='lgc'>: “what is made of women='qstn'>?”
='lgc'>[="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors of doing='lgc'>]
(neoliberal legacy of) isolated acting objects ='lgc'>=/= complex global-local inequalities
="trms">historical traces of the acting in the image of the fighting muscular man throwing a spear ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~-> Arash kamangir آرش کمانگیر ='lgc'>~/=='qstn'>? my play with the bow and arrow in ="nms">apass;='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=/= di="trms">gestion, eating (as “doing something” that you cannot control), plants growing, smelling (is not acting='qstn'>?)
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='strcls'>*assemblages='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-continuities require ‘work’ to constitute them as ‘well-formed assemblages’
="prgrph">-the emergence of a stable assemblage requires ‘="trms">translations’
="prgrph">-(we should) search out the catalysts, enablers or inhibitors of processes that ="trms">interest us
="prgrph">-how varied and multiple qualities of ="trms">agency un="trms">fold as effects in assemblages that encompass both human and nonhuman forms, and how these effects subsequently achieve particular outcomes for ="trms">different parties
(organic food) ="trms">market ='lgc'><='lgc'>==emerging='lgc'>== ideological desires of embedded entrepreneurs who innovate within dynamic ="trms">material-="trms">semiotic ="trms">systems
(="frds scrmbld">Foad stressed that assemblages are characterized by the condition of) ‘territory’='lgc'>: contexts that engender more or less conservative orientations of assemblages toward fixity
(="frds">Sina emphasized that assemblages are also characterized by the condition of) ‘abstraction’='lgc'>: the unique character of how an assemblage mobilizes new com="trms">positions of ="trms">material and expressive thing
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">relational territories of heterogeneous stuff territorialized ='lgc'>[by value='lgc'>] and abstracted ='lgc'>[by price='lgc'>]
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can we trace ="trms">consumption as it un="trms">folds='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-family assemblages are characterized as collections of distinct but related units, things that are never the same twice, but somehow hold together and maintain coherent pathways through time
(Price and Epp)
="prgrph">-(for people who move often) ‘home’='lgc'>: something that needs to be continually recreated by combining a[...]