[...]d 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'>]
="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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:140%"> our ideas of bacteria are shaped through the filter of advertisements for antibacterial products


='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">epistem[...]