[...]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

description='lgc'>: an approach to an ungraspable thing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> de="trms">literalizing

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

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'>?)

="large lg14" stl="font-size:104%"> 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

="large lg22" stl="font-size:121%"> (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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:120%"> (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

="large lg10" stl="font-size:110%">
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

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'>***

‘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 lg6" stl="font-size:129%"> 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

this assemblage-thinking is against='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>]='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Virilio's way of ‘="trms">questioning ="trms">technology'='lgc'>--for him='lgc'>: “to be a subject or to be subjected, that is the ="trms">question.” he sees crisis in the temporal dimensions of the ="trms">present moment='lgc'>: the lack of a future-oriented longer time-frame connects “real time”, pollution, and economic inequalities. All of them result from a lack of shared ="trms">responsibility for the future. (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- noted by ="ppl">Hubert); or='lgc'>: “The now im="trms">material environment is connected to the “terminal” body of men and women with ="trms">interactive prostheses who become the virtual equivalent of the well-="trms">="trms">equipped invalid.”
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Guattari's machinic (='lgc'>=/= simple construction partes extra partes)='lgc'>: omni="trms">present homogenized capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list exchange value
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Nancy's eco="trms">technics='lgc'>: critique of globalization and sovereignty
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Avital's narcotics='lgc'>: on ="ppl">Heidegger='lgc'>: ='thdf'>the notion of ‘addicted to ="trms">technology’ ='lgc'>--asking='lgc'>='lgc'>--> under what conditions we could arrive at a ='strcls'>*free ="trms">relation to ="trms">technology='strcls'>*='qstn'>? being ‘fast’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> on the run ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> dumps understanding along the way. (for ="ppl">Heidegger) freedom depends upon Dasein's openness to ="trms">anxiety ='lgc'>==diverts='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ad="trms">diction ='lgc'>[a certain type of being-on-="trms">drugs='lgc'>] ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">drugs have something to do with ="trms">technology='qstn'>? ='at'>@constantvzw
="trms">drugs in warfare='lgc'>: taking pills (or tranced by nohe مداحی جنگ) into superior performance, ="trms">technologizing himself into the war machine (hero on heroin) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">technically calibrated culture
‘chemical prosthesis’ (a ="trms">technology of the human) has been part of man-machinic hybridizations
="prgrph">-="trms">hallucinated exteriority
="prgrph">-stimulant, opening another ="trms">hallucinogenre in life, at the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of being
="prgrph">-our culture is bascially the ="trms">history of ‘high culture’
(="ppl">Avital sug="trms">gests) ="trms">drugs ='lgc'>[master object of considerable libidinal investment='lgc'>] have been about exploring ‘fractal ="trms">interiorities’ (and not exterior dimensions)
ecstasy of intoxication, forgetfulness, ="trms">mimetic poisoning (of ="trms">literature ='lgc'>[= singular ="trms">staging of the ="trms">imaginary='lgc'>])='lgc'>: as sedative, as cure, as escape ='lgc'>[= forced decision upon the subject='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-for ="ppl">Baudelaire opium became the transparency upon which one could review the ="trms">internal conflict of freedom, the cleave of subjectivity where it encounters the ="trms">abyss of destructive jouissance.
="prgrph">-(Emma Bovary had busted) a logic of reappropriation, collapsing the dreams of restoring a self
='at'>@constantvzw's investment in the critique of ="trms">hallucinated plenitude and pure ="trms">communication (enabled by digital media) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transcendental telepathy (being online/connected over distances in a Face="trms">book sense)
="prgrph">-pleasure and liberty values freely exercised upon a ="trms">coded body
='strcls'>*="trms">hallucinator='lgc'>: a creature of simulacrum='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-what is wrong with the ="trms">social media stream addict='qstn'>? a transport going nowhere; ad="trms">dictive, artificial, and beside oneself; ='lgc'>[genuinely clean or ="trms">drug free ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? being exposed to existence, placing one's body in the grips of a temporality that pains='lgc'>]; phantasm of lack in abstinence; (like ="trms">drugs they are) linked to ='strcls'>*a mode of departing='strcls'>*, to de="trms">socialization, (like the activity of ="trms">writing) nonproductive and somehow ir="trms">responsible, being-in-="trms">drugs (being-in-Face="trms">book) ="trms">supposedly resists the production of real value (incapable of stabilizing the truth of a real ="trms">world); figure of drifter/dissident='lgc'>: obsessed and entranced, ="trms">narcissistic, private, unable to achieve ="trms">transference; movement of the simulacrum without address;
speed='lgc'>: going nowhere fast

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='lgc'>[="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>] on ="trms">marketing theory

bacteria='lgc'>: entities that threaten our se="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded sovereign cleanliness

our ideas of bacteria are shaped through the filter of advertisements for antibacterial products

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='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]climate change='lgc'>: “='lgc'>[t='lgc'>]he moment I turn the engine of a car and ignite the 165 million-year-old microscopic fossil faunae, connecting me to the 35 billion ancient barrels that are drilled, fracked, refined, and transported every single year. Climate change is in the 100 trillion objects that are in, that are the Earth, ="trms">traversing the stomach lining of the Burmese python and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, which churns a quarter of the planet’s heat flux. Climate change is the daily operations of simplification, extraction, purification, replication, and acceleration='lgc'>--all of which are needed to create the philosophy of ‘progress’ that is ="trms">embodied by nearly every human in this ="trms">world.” -="ppl">Campbell
= ='strcls'>*a context which will last for thousands of years and will be the fundamental starting point of every action, every thought, every expression of organization='strcls'>*
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> irreversible ='strcls'>*death of ="trms">difference='strcls'>* (biodiversity), end of “human project” (='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> despondency دلسردى)

creative foreclosure of the old ="trms">World
preparing for an end without apocalypse ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Jassem
(we need to) experiment with (organizational forms of) justice, ethics, politics, reason='strcls'>**

Holo="trms">cene ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> fundamental modes through which we organize still today='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•births of ="trms">language and ="trms">religion
="lsts lst1">•concept of resources and exchange
="lsts lst1">•invention of all known ="trms">technology
="lsts lst1">•development of agriculture
="lsts lst1">•development of domestication
="lsts lst1">•development of ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbanization


="ppl">Campbell's posthuman
="lsts lst1">•computation of life
="lsts lst1">•laboratorization of life (simple ="trms">categories of liveness and deadness over the last 30 years)
="lsts lst1">•miniturization of life
="lsts lst1">•complexification of life
="lsts lst1">•automation of life


="trms">relation='lgc'>: smallest possible unit of analysis, extremely prosaic and mundane ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">world
theorizing in the way of ="trms">relation (as in feminist ="trms">science, actor-="trms">network theory, or nonre="trms">presentational theory) ='lgc'>==="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>='lgc'>==> engendering a more humble, more modest attitude in the human observer ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Meillassoux's non-="trms">relational theory

(since Kand) western philosophy has been ="trms">epistemological ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ investigating human ="trms">relationship to things ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">ontological='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cor="trms">relations (between thinking and being), we turn things into affordances when we think about them ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cor="trms">relationism='lgc'>: we only have access to the cor="trms">relation between thinking (thing-for-us) and being (thing-in-itself) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ‘all knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is relative’ ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= realism='lgc'>]

Meillassoux's absolutes='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•there might be something outside thought

lack of a necessary ultimate cause or meaning (facticity) ='lgc'>--Meillassoux='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fundarnental source of being (="trms">ontological ="trms">contingency ='lgc'>~ “facticity itself is necessary”) ='lgc'>: no ‘higher’ or ‘supreme’ force or reason (="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical, physical, spiritual) is guiding it ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ total ="trms">ontological absence of a necessity='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*="trms">contingency='strcls'>* is absolutely necessary in the universe

“Everything in the universe is without reason and is therefore capable of becorning otherwise without reason.” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this has happened al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready at least 3 times (where new sets of laws enlerge from nowhere)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•Big Bang
="lsts lst1">•life from non-life (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new laws of biological life)
="lsts lst1">•thought


absolute is wider

“two billiard balls strike into each other, resulting in both balls flying off into the air, or fusing together, or turning into two immaculate but rather grumpy mares, or into two maroon but rather af="trms">fable lilies”


(='at'>@="nms">apass)
every research agonizes about='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">ontological status of their ‘objects’ (of enquiry)
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">epistemological status of their knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge claims

='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we need to “go ="trms">ontological” about ="trms">consumption, global warming, (hyperobjects)
hyperobjects='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">viscous (="trms">literally real, and you cannot throw it away)
="lsts lst1">•non-local
="lsts lst1">•larger on the inside than they are on the outside
="lsts lst1">•they call for forms ofjustice, ethics, politics and reason that are beyond humanist economies of identification and re="trms">presentation

="trms">social constructivism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> everyone's ="trms">interpretation of the real is legitimate ='lgc'>[equal status of ="trms">interpretation='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=/= (Meillassoux's) speculative realism


understand the ="trms">world at the level of the hyperobject ='lgc'><='lgc'>== we are creating (="trms">consumer) objects that are massive in scale and temporality

="trms">inter-generational justice (="trms">imagining till your grand="trms">children)


service-dominant logic (of ="trms">consumer research) ='lgc'>=/= object oriented (more than humanist/="trms">natura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list trophies)
service='lgc'>: that intangible value extracted from stuff by humans ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the increasing ability to separate, transport, and exchange information, apart from ="trms">embodiment in goods and people

Meillassoux's ="trms"nttrm="search">arche fossil ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? jinn
witnesses of the universe before humans

objects  withdraw  in="trms">finitely  from  humans
universal quality of all objects='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*reserve='strcls'>*
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (="trms">narcissistic) philosophy of a uniquely lonely human fate ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> popular contemporary depiction of human with one foot in ="trms">animality and the other in consciousness='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>='lgc'>--> then how ='strcls'>*withdrawal='strcls'>* (should) play out in ="trms">social theory='qstn'>?

Lingis's ‘imperative’='lgc'>: ="trms">worlds are filled up with imperatives (human and nonhuman) that summon us ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> enmeshed pre-cognitive, atavistic, ="trms">technological, ="trms">embodied modes in which we ="trms">respond to the ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how this does not get recuperated into the existing models of ="trms">sociology

='lgc'>[flipside of withdrawal:='lgc'>] to think of capital='lgc'>: an  extraordinarily force overthrowing any ="trms">imagination of an alternative ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> there is no possibility of ‘="trms">intervention' in Capital ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ‘accelerationism’='lgc'>: an inside-out radicalism, believing in unleashing productive forces of human wrought to continue its dynamism ='lgc'>: “the only way out is to plunge further in”

="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>: ‘withdrawal from capital'='lgc'> = passing through the eye of the needle

='lgc'>[that which is expressed in philosophy, political economy, ="trms">science and ="trms">science ="trms">fiction, and in transhumanist, lifehacker, accelerationist movements:='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*flight from ="trms">consumption='strcls'>*
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Campbell's ='strcls'>*speculative ="trms">consumption='strcls'>*
what if ="trms">consumption has something ="trms">relational about it='qstn'>?
(we must become ="trms">interested in ="trms">consumption ='at'>@="nms">apass, ="frds scrmbld">Pierre, ="frds scrmbld">Foad, constantvzw)
='strcls'>*non-cor="trms">relationist ="trms">marketing theory='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= cor="trms">relationism='lgc'>: humans doing things in the ="trms">world to inanimate objects to make im="trms">material effects happen ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> access='lgc'>]

="trms">interobjective ="trms">consumption

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ask anyone to give a de="trms">finition of ‘food’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘a source of fuel or energy for the body’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> most people will give you the engineer's perspective of the ="trms">world when they are asked ='lgc'>=/= the ="trms">marketers know that everything we buy has a deeper, emotional motivation behind it
innocuous purchase='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•pleasure-seeking
="lsts lst1">•status seeking
="lsts lst1">•identity-building benefit
="lsts lst1">•

ask anyone to give a de="trms">finition of ‘clothes’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘textile ="trms">materials that we use on our skin to provide protection from heat and cold’ ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">marketer will tell you that clothes are portals to ="trms">different realities

='strcls'>*we don't buy b="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we buy sustenance for the soul
='strcls'>*we don't buy lightbulbs ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we buy illumination
='strcls'>*we don't buy lipstick ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we buy dreams

='strcls'>****food is not fuel, but ="trms">fashion='strcls'>****
that means='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•food is a psycho-="trms">social comfort blanket
="lsts lst1">•we use it to compete for status
="lsts lst1">•we use it to define boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’


obesogenic
obesity


‘superwicked’ problem (in ="trms">social policy)='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-those who are causing the problem are attempting to solve it ='lgc'>[='thdf'>for example food ="trms">marketing's power trying to solve obesity (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= putting Dracula in charge of the blood bank)='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-time is running out

(this is absolute bullshit ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) “we simply need more education to finally understand that X (for example junk food) is bad for us”


(="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>:) ="trms">fashion brands (with their 400='prcnt'>% growth in the last 20 years) have intensified their campaign to change the perception of clothing='lgc'>: from a functional investment in practical shelter to a vital projection, extension and affirmation of one's very identity

(shift in manufacturing and delivering) ='strcls'>*fast ="trms">fashion='strcls'>* (spearheaded by the Italian design house Benetton, but perfected by ="trms">fashion brands Zara, H&M and Forever 21) mimics luxury ="trms">fashion trends at very low costs

="large lg14" stl="font-size:105%"> increasing efficiencies in production ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> increasing inefficiencies in ="trms">consumption

='strcls'>*psychological dissonance='strcls'>*='lgc'>: the uneasy feeling that your laptop, car, trainers or coffee machine is no longer ‘="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right’ ='lgc'>[stimulated in two principal ways in ="trms">marketing:='lgc'>]
="lstsrd">-1- physical obsolescence (='lgc'><='lgc'>== down-grading the quality of product)
="lstsrd">-2- psychological obsolescence (='lgc'><='lgc'>== acceleration of the ‘="trms">fashion cycle’='lgc'>: the ="trms">social ="trms">phenomenon whereby a design moves through bleeding ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge to mainstream to despised mainstream)
="lstsrd">-3- ='strcls'>***to make clothing (or any product) a vital prop that is needed to create authentic sense of who we are='strcls'>*** (='lgc'><='lgc'>== protagonist='lgc'>: Chanel-clad Parisian on the rain-soaked cobbles of a Montmartre morning, the sweat-soaked Nikes of a determined athlete in an empty basketball court in the Bronx, etc. disseminated through In="trms">stagram, P="trms">interest and Tumblr. ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this works together but in reverse in film industry the protagonists wearings and style are used to sell that ="trms">specific identity who wears them='lgc'>])
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*every single person cares about the clothes they wear='strcls'>*
="lstsrd">-4- ='strcls'>*to re-="trms">categorize clothing='strcls'>* (perceptual ="trms">categories are critical to ="trms">marketers, ='thdf'>for example tourism brands worked hard for decades to change ='thdf'>the idea of a holiday abroad from the ="trms">category of luxury to that of necessity, clothes have moved to the status of a coffee to grab and go) ='lgc'><='lgc'>== equivalencing='lgc'>: degraded quality of the garment allows a decrease in the price ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> powerful psychological effect compounded by the retailscape='lgc'>: shoes in are sold on rails like packets of sweets, T-shirts offered in basins at the check-out, etc.='lgc'>]

='strcls'>***advertising (images)='lgc'> = secular magic='strcls'>***
='lgc'>==inducing='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a powerful desire to indulge in the fantasy of being='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•a solitary and steely-gazed athlete
="lsts lst1">•a sophisticated and ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbane Parisian girl
="lsts lst1">•

="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>: “The moment that I say that ="trms">fashion brands do not ="trms">affect me is the very moment that they have”

pleasurable daydreaming innate to us all

="trms">marketing is often a practice of ='strcls'>*breaking taboos='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==guarantees='lgc'>='lgc'>==> brand success

detergent, apparel, car or cosmetics brands ='lgc'>==produce='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the monolithic, repetitive idea of ‘clean flawlessness’ that infiltrates our value ="trms">systems

clothes='lgc'> = portals to ="trms">different realities

='strcls'>*enclothed cognition='strcls'>*='lgc'>: the influential way clothes change psychological mood, the way clothes allow us to take up certain ="trms">social roles more authentically

="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alessi='lgc'>: ="trms">fashion is ="trms">social (its Latin root ‘factio’='lgc'>: a group of people acting together) ='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>: i use clothes (="trms">fashion) as a ="trms">social grammar to ="trms">communicate with these others

universal clothing in sci-fi is such a lie, because that would remove one of the primary ways in our culture that we have for expressing ourselves


we need to change the manifestation rather than deny the yearning ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Campbell proposes='lgc'>: slow ="trms">fashion, re-="trms">categorization of clothing back to investment in long-term, high-quality items

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='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
nonhuman rationality

(Meillassoux's) speculative realism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> climate change='lgc'> = a new ="trms">world (for which we do not have ="trms">categories)

Meillassoux's concepts ='lgc'>{ nonhuman ='lgc'>+ rational ='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ontologically think about climate change ='lgc'>=/= (despondency ='and'>& passivity) equivocal status of climate change ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> bleak optimism='lgc'>: climate change has al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready happened ='lgc'>+ human civilization must learn how to die in a way that is a ='strcls'>*creative and just foreclosure of the earth's organizational forms='strcls'>*


organization='lgc'>: an environment-making process
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> drawing of ‘general lines’ in the fabric of the whole ='lgc'>==constitute='lgc'>='lgc'>==> most basic mode of existence
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> making of some ="trms">sort of cut in the universe to ="trms">simultaneously create ='and'>& order an inside from an outside ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ ='strcls'>*bracket ‘a’ reality out from an un="trms">differentiated plasmic whole='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= framing='lgc'>]
='lgc'>==produce='lgc'>='lgc'>==> elements of a reality that can be controlled by human ="trms">intervention

='strcls'>*how we frame climate change will determine the future of life on earth='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[='lgc'>--="frds">Sina='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>that is why we need more curatorial ="trms">skills='lgc'>: variational ='lgc'>+ organizational='lgc'>]


frame='lgc'>: strategic device, a mode of coping with the hugeness of reality (framing moves='lgc'>:)
="lstsrd">1- bounding ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> defining, separating, assimilating
="lstsrd">2- stabilizing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fixing, delimiting, controlling
="lstsrd">3- bring into view ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">="trms">empirical, ="trms">technologies of re="trms">presentation, controlling

frame='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•useful models for viewing reality
="lsts lst1">•recursive lenses through which that ="trms">phenomenon is ="trms">measured and acted upon

climate change and new frames emerge side-by-side='lgc'>:
climate change as='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•externality
="lsts lst1">•superwicked problem
="lsts lst1">•="trms">anthropo="trms">cene


='strcls'>**what if climate change is unframeable='qstn'>?='strcls'>** ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- art is good at dealing with this='lgc'>]
climate change qualities='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•unboundedness='lgc'>: hard to separate what is climate change and what is not
="lsts lst1">•incalculability='lgc'>: intotalizable effects ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> emergencies and ="trms">materialities that are beyond known forms of planning and organizing
="lsts lst1">•unthinkability='lgc'>: it escapes each time we try to capture it ="trms">="trms">empirically, organizationally, psychologically

='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*q[...]