[...]>
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)

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“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)

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> 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 lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> (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

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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’ [...]