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="ppl">="ppl">Morton's (="trms">technology of what we know) hyperobject is his sense of an a="trms">symmetry between the in="trms">finite powers of cognition and the in="trms">finite bening of things, yet he doesn't evoke descriptive practices, which could be helpfull='lgc'>--he is missing something, here='lgc'>: “the gap between ="trms">phenomenon and thing yawns open, disturbing my sense of ="trms">presence and being in the ="trms">world.”
“='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] i cannot locate the gap between ="trms">phenomenon and thing anywhere in my given, ="trms">phenomenal, experiential, or indeed ="trms">scientific space” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Xiri's problem
he disagrees with='lgc'>: (from ="ppl">Plato up until ="ppl">Hume and ="ppl">Kant) that there is some kind of dotted line somewhere on a thing, saying “cut here” ='lgc'>--so he con="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes='lgc'>: “things are themselves, but we can't point to them directly.” ='lgc'>=/= nonre="trms">presentational theory, ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart is much more useful. we can see ="ppl">="ppl">Morton's taste for (a masculine) ="trms">sublime in modeling his hyperobjects

flat ="trms">ontology='lgc'>: there is hardly any ="trms">difference between a person and a pincushion. and ="trms">relationships between them, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding ="trms">causal ones, must be vicarious (نيابتى) and hence ="trms">aesthetic in ="trms">nature


(no) realism that only bases its findings on “ontic” ="trms">data

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> ="trms">scientific discoveries are necessarily based on a decision about what real things are

='strcls'>*disaster ='lgc'>[="trms">ontologic='lgc'>] taking place against a stable background ='lgc'>[ontic='lgc'>]='strcls'>*

="trms">causality after ="ppl">Hume and ="ppl">Kant ='lgc'>: ="trms">causality as a feature of ="trms">phenomena, rather than things in themselves ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> humans are not totally in charge of assigning significance and value to events that can be statistically ="trms">measured
entities that become visible through post-="ppl">Humean and post-="ppl">Kantian statistical ="trms">causality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">anthropogenic global warming

="trms">causal factoid


humiliators ='lgc'>[there is no center and we don't inhabit it='lgc'>]='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•Copernicus
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Darwin
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Freud (displacing the human from the very center of psychic activity)
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Marx (displacing human ="trms">social life with economic organization)
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Heidegger
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Derrida (displacing the human from the center of meaning-making)
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Nietzsche
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>~= there is no ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>=/= (film Lucy or Neil Tyson series sug="trms">gesting that) there is an ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (of time to see everything perfectly), in some (privilaged) transcendental sphere of pure freedom, Lucy's chair ="trms">literally sitting a VIP box beyond the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">anthropocentrism='lgc'>: ='thdf'>the idea of a privilaged transcendental sphere
="ppl">Kant ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (although we are limited in ="trms">finitude) our transcendental faculties are at least ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorically floating in space beyond the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the universe ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#milieu ='at'>#="nms">tasavof ='at'>#sufism


...هزار و یک hezaro yek
universe of trillions of ="trms">finitudes


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]thing='lgc'>: a rift between what it is and how it appears


(="ppl">="ppl">Morton > Herman='lgc'>:) human consciousness wants ='strcls'>*to preserve knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge as a special kind of ="trms">relation to the ="trms">world quite ="trms">different from the ="trms">relations that raindrops and lizards have to the ="trms">world='strcls'>* (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- so d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous and so difficult to resist ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- next level of ="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) also want to claim that the very status of ='lgc'>[his='lgc'>] utterance is somehow special ='lgc'><='lgc'>== (human) ‘thought’ is given a unique ability to negate and transcend immediate experience
(claims that the human doesn't exist ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) elevating the strucure of human ‘thought’ to the ="trms">ontological pinnacle سرمنزل

everything (such as ="trms">modernity) banks on a certain forms of ="trms">ontology and ="trms">epistemology to secure its coordinates


speculative realism, a rogue machinery

="large lg1" stl="font-size:142%"> saving power='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•expecting an eschatological solution from the sky
="lsts lst1">•a revolution in consciousness
="lsts lst1">•a people's army seizing control of the state
="lsts lst1">•

obsessive robots (that hold open the sliding doors of ="trms">history just as they appear to be snapping shut, imprisoning us in ="trms">modernity forever)


='strcls'>*distance='strcls'>*='lgc'>: (the ="trms">schizophrenic defense, “object in mirror,”) a psychic and ideological construct designed to protect me from the nearness of things
="prgrph">-the concept of ‘="trms">nature’ is (such) an “object in mirror” (='at'>#amazon project)
بنداز دور mythical land away ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a dis-dimension called ‘away’ (door دور) in ="nms">iran (door andakhtan دور انداختن)
(there is no away on this surface we are in) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> throw away='lgc'>: an optical effect ='lgc'>: there is no loger distances our image from us in a nice, ="trms">aesthetically manageable way, but sticks to us ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we are glued to our ="trms">phenomenological ="trms">situation (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> entanglement of ="trms">="trms">equipment and quanta ='lgc'>=/= three pigs)

a threatening proximity

“i do not feel ‘at home’ in the biosphere” (yet it surrounds them and penetrates them) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> most humans feel that way. how one's entire physical being is caught in its meshwork of narezayati نارضایتی
(physical existence carrying with it) a trace of unreality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> آمدنم بهر چه بود ='lgc'>: “i am not sure where i am anymore. i am at home in feeling not at home.”


one's normal sense of time as a container


="frds scrmbld">Ehsan's ghost/sheikh film ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> demonic in that through them ="trms">causalities flow like electricity


ambient, latin ‘ambo’ means ‘on both sides’


the old art theories that separated sweetness and power collapse
sweetness, it turns out, just is power='lgc'>: the most powerful thing


weather as ="trms">monster

baby learns to distinguish between the vomit and the non-vomit, and comes to know the non-vomit as self


(a ="trms">society in which) growing ="trms">scientific ='strcls'>*awareness of rish='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==changes='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the ="trms">nature of democracy

back-to-="trms">nature festivals

nihi="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic princes of darkness

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='mywrk'>my work is ='strcls'>*to mix ="trms">stories='strcls'>*

everyday engagements with other kinds of creatures (in my case='lgc'>: ="nms">ajayeb) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> opens new kinds of possibilities for relating and understanding

="trms">cosmo="trms">ecology='lgc'>: multiple beings (gods, jinns, ="trms">animals, humans, living, dead, etc.) each bearing the consequences of the others’ ways (of living and dying)

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> ‘the ="trms">ecological ="trms">question’ is about the needs that ought to be met in the ongoing creation of rapports and connections ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">questions are how does this being achieve the task of holding ="trms">onto its existence ='lgc'>=/= “does this being really exist, or is it not a re="trms">presentation”
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*we may never know (safely and re="trms">liably, either ahead of time or a posteriori) which beings will bear/enjoy the consequences of the concrete attention we give to them='strcls'>*

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on Kate Rich work
feral ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> before or without a political state ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> state of ="trms">nature ='lgc'>[a lot of moral political philosophers of the state asking “What was life like before civil ="trms">society='qstn'>?"='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in feral there are only freedoms ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> contracts (='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what cultural ="trms">anthropology has to say about that='qstn'>?)
she is in the ="ppl">Rousseauian tradition of ='strcls'>*how to establish a ‘political ="trms">community’ in the face of the problems of ‘commercial ="trms">society’='strcls'>* (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Rousseau's The ="trms">Social Contract ='and'>& Discourse on the O="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin and Basis of Inequality Among Men)
fighting the ="trms">system ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> feral ="trms">tropes ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> arsenal of the Enlightenment (="ppl">Kant's motto='lgc'>: “Dare to think for yourself!” ='lgc'>~= “I don't follow orders!”), application of Reason in the public sphere of human affairs
with her work we are in the Age of Enlightenment, Age of Reason, resourcing ="trms">authority and legitimacy, ideals of individual liberty and progress ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Kate's thinking founded on philosophical ="trms">fictions of the 18th century (='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Foucault='lgc'>='lgc'>--> problematic legacy of the Enlightenment)
="lsts lst1">•the legecy of 20th century='lgc'>: (Kate's dialectical negativity) to define and work in negative way, an ‘exit,’ a ‘way out’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transcendental ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Singh, ="ppl">Khan,='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•="trms">question of contemporary reality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Kate does a totalizing elevation (like many other artists)
="lsts lst1">•the realm of obedience ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> artists’ ="trms">childish attitude of never accepting someone else's ="trms">authority (='at'>#fighting the ="trms">system; should we fight the ="trms">system ="trms">systematically='qstn'>? ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Nicolas)

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basically everything i do is related to the ="trms">question of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> make us better ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers

my ="trms">excessive use of footnote ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the most decisive indication of the concerns of a text are to be found in its margins ='and'>& no ‘proper’ starting/ending point for ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading

="large lg5" stl="font-size:130%"> each of my performances/projects reflect on their own status as examples of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading/mis="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ='lgc'>=/= achieving correct ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading

="trms">literature='lgc'>: the problem of mis="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading (='lgc'>=/= the ="trms">language it uses)
='lgc'>[with De Man='lgc'>]

i have become sensitive to the ="trms">systemati[...]