[...]king ="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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> 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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:113%"> (='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

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'>]
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