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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">-

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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

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='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

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> 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'>?”

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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:140%"> (="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 a[...]