[...]rmless 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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> 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...


(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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:123%"> 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’

="large lg6" stl="font-size:102%"> 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'>='lgc'>~-> Arash kamangir آرش کمانگیر ='lgc'>='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'>]

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 all ="trms">sorts of elements in ="trms">imaginative ways='lgc'>--home is a hybrid (='lgc'>=/= simply there waiting for them)

an “I ="trms">love you” ='lgc'>--enter='lgc'>='lgc'>--> assemblages in manners that catalyse (or inhibit) ongoing hybrid ="trms">relations

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> levels of analysis is always unexpected ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= purification='lgc'>]


="trms">modern separation between ‘believing in unicorns’ and ‘managing environmental disasters’ ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~/=='qstn'>? ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>] ='lgc'>~ ="trms">modern separations/boundaries='lgc'>: ="trms">science/mythology/politics/="trms">religion/leisure (='lgc'><='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Latour/="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>-- this is a problem) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>***purify components of our cultures='strcls'>***

="large lg14" stl="font-size:105%"> ‘program of ="trms">intervention’='lgc'>: a purposeful attempt to construct realities by en="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listing various allies ='lgc'>: ="trms">intermediaries establishing alliances between products, institutions, celebrities and ="trms">consumers in ways that improve sales and mobilize stable ="trms">relationships ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> institutions attempt to strategically shape assemblages
(Law, Moor, Araujo, Ruiz)

="trms">marketers may try to establish stable brand images by mobilising ="trms">networks of celebrities, ="trms">scientists, ="trms">consumption ="trms">communities and various media outlets ='lgc'>--but='lgc'>='lgc'>--> are contested, there is no ‘lead actor’ in assemblages

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">marketing='lgc'>: iterative attempts to weave together ="trms">networks of products, services or brands with heterogeneous allies in order to extend the usefulness of a particular ="trms">market offering across wider ="trms">consumption assemblages in time and space
="prgrph">-="trms">marketers think in terms of catalyzing ="trms">interactions and consistencies amongst stubborn, messy and dynamic assemblages of spaces, re="trms">presentations, things and ="trms">consumers

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> knowing='lgc'>: an ="trms">intervention in the ="trms">world
(Bettany)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]ethnography='lgc'>: ="trms">stories that have in them a capacity to re="trms">present the ="trms">world in ways that are generative for the people and practices that the ="trms">stories are about ='at'>@constantvzw
(Winthereik and ="ppl">Verran)

in the case of ="trms">data streaming='lgc'>: what are the people, objects, texts and practices that constitute processes of assembling='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-in our research let's not ="trms">prioritize either people or things in advance ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> unexpected sources of influence in ="trms">markets and ="trms">consumer cultures ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Foad
="prgrph">-to map together ="trms">material/="trms">technological as well as ="trms">linguistic aspects of ="trms">consumer culture='lgc'>: ="trms">narratives, ="trms">phenomenological ="trms">techniques, etc.
="prgrph">-="trms">consumers ‘become’ during ="trms">consumption
='strcls'>*='lgc'>[='qstn'>?why become ="trms">interested in='lgc'>] ="trms">consumption/="trms">markets='lgc'>: hybrid ="trms">networks of ="trms">narratives, objects, devices and practices (that ='lgc'>[it seems='lgc'>] are necessary to create conditions for any ‘human’ action)='strcls'>*
(still use other more old-="trms">fashioned research ="trms">techniques='lgc'>: depth ="trms">interviews ='lgc'>[="frds scrmbld">Xiri='lgc'>], ="trms">phenomenological ="trms">methods ='lgc'>[='lgc'>], hermeneutic analysis ='lgc'>[="frds">Sina='lgc'>], etc.)
="prgrph">-(how to account for) tech-mediated flows of information and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that pass through the massive assemblages of the ="trms">Internet
="prgrph">-majority of ="trms">interactions are ="trms">technology-to-="trms">technology and ="trms">system-to-="trms">system ="trms">interactions

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