[...]gical effect compounded by the retailscape='lgc'>: shoes in are sold on rails like packets of sweets, T-shirts offered in basins at the check-out, etc.='lgc'>]
='strcls'>***advertising (images)='lgc'> = secular magic='strcls'>***
='lgc'>==inducing='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a powerful desire to indulge in the fantasy of being='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•a solitary and steely-gazed athlete
="lsts lst1">•a sophisticated and ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbane Parisian girl
="lsts lst1">•
="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>: “The moment that I say that ="trms">fashion brands do not ="trms">affect me is the very moment that they have”
pleasurable daydreaming innate to us all
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="trms">marketing is often a practice of ='strcls'>*breaking taboos='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==guarantees='lgc'>='lgc'>==> brand success
detergent, apparel, car or cosmetics brands ='lgc'>==produce='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the monolithic, repetitive idea of ‘clean flawlessness’ that infiltrates our value ="trms">systems
clothes='lgc'> = portals to ="trms">different realities
='strcls'>*enclothed cognition='strcls'>*='lgc'>: the influential way clothes change psychological mood, the way clothes allow us to take up certain ="trms">social roles more authentically
="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alessi='lgc'>: ="trms">fashion is ="trms">social (its Latin root ‘factio’='lgc'>: a group of people acting together) ='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>: i use clothes (="trms">fashion) as a ="trms">social grammar to ="trms">communicate with these others
universal clothing in sci-fi is such a lie, because that would remove one of the primary ways in our culture that we have for expressing ourselves
we need to change the manifestation rather than deny the yearning ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Campbell proposes='lgc'>: slow ="trms">fashion, re-="trms">categorization of clothing back to investment in long-term, high-quality items
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nonhuman rationality
(Meillassoux's) speculative realism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> climate change='lgc'> = a new ="trms">world (for which we do not have ="trms">categories)
Meillassoux's concepts ='lgc'>{ nonhuman ='lgc'>+ rational ='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ontologically think about climate change ='lgc'>=/= (despondency ='and'>& passivity) equivocal status of climate change ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> bleak optimism='lgc'>: climate change has al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready happened ='lgc'>+ human civilization must learn how to die in a way that is a ='strcls'>*creative and just foreclosure of the earth's organizational forms='strcls'>*
organization='lgc'>: an environment-making process
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> drawing of ‘general lines’ in the fabric of the whole ='lgc'>==constitute='lgc'>='lgc'>==> most basic mode of existence
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> making of some ="trms">sort of cut in the universe to ="trms">simultaneously create ='and'>& order an inside from an outside ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ ='strcls'>*bracket ‘a’ reality out from an un="trms">differentiated plasmic whole='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= framing='lgc'>]
='lgc'>==produce='lgc'>='lgc'>==> elements of a reality that can be controlled by human ="trms">intervention
='strcls'>*how we frame climate change will determine the future of life on earth='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[='lgc'>--="frds">Sina='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>that is why we need more curatorial ="trms">skills='lgc'>: variational ='lgc'>+ organizational='lgc'>]
frame='lgc'>: strategic device, a mode of coping with the hugeness of reality (framing moves='lgc'>:)
="lstsrd">1- bounding ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> defining, separating, assimilating
="lstsrd">2- stabilizing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fixing, delimiting, controlling
="lstsrd">3- bring into view ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">="trms">empirical, ="trms">technologies of re="trms">presentation, controlling
frame='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•useful models for viewing reality
="lsts lst1">•recursive lenses through which that ="trms">phenomenon is ="trms">measured and acted upon
climate change and new frames emerge side-by-side='lgc'>:
climate change as='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•externality
="lsts lst1">•superwicked problem
="lsts lst1">•="trms">anthropo="trms">cene
='strcls'>**what if climate change is unframeable='qstn'>?='strcls'>** ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- art is good at dealing with this='lgc'>]
climate change qualities='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•unboundedness='lgc'>: hard to separate what is climate change and what is not
="lsts lst1">•incalculability='lgc'>: intotalizable effects ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> emergencies and ="trms">materialities that are beyond known forms of planning and organizing
="lsts lst1">•unthinkability='lgc'>: it escapes each time we try to capture it ="trms">="trms">empirically, organizationally, psychologically
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">questions that have no logical or ="trms">="trms">empirical answer ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">ontological='strcls'>* (they concern its ="trms">ontology) ='lgc'>~ we do not see its fundamental being
end of ="trms">="trms">empirical/logical='lgc'> = beginning of ="trms">ontological (secular)
='lgc'>=/=
end of ="trms">="trms">empirical/logical ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? beginning of eschatological (nonsecular)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**="trms">ontologization of climate change='strcls'>**
='strcls'>*climate change='lgc'> = the ="trms">world we live in ='lgc'>=/= a problem within the ="trms">world='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]climate change='lgc'>: the absolute context that determines what is possible ='lgc'>+ what has replaced a previous ="trms">world
(i find Meillassoux ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Campbell argumentation more convincing than ="ppl">="ppl">Morton's hyperobject)
climate change as “problem” (that can be framed), “thing”, “within the ="trms">world” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= the ="trms">world='lgc'>: generative context from where problems emerge ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> forms of organization without precedent='lgc'>] ='lgc'>==problem='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lstsrd">1. ="trms">epistemological assumptions (='lgc'>+ expectations ='lgc'>+ ="trms">responses)
="lstsrd">2. unable to encompass (the qualities of climate change)
="lstsrd">3. misrecognition of climate change
speculative rea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list idea of ="trms">world
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]speculative realism='lgc'>: a strategy for thinking, organizing, solving at the ='strcls'>*widest rational angle='lgc'>: a form of thinking and acting that is concerned with the fundamental structure of reality in its absolute and unconditioned form (='lgc'>=/= manifestations of ="trms">phenomena) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to deliver ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical truths unto the ="trms">world without deforming them with the forceps انبر جراحى of one's own ="trms">epistemic ="trms">apparatus
(as) ="trms">ontological threat ='lgc'>==="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>==> escalation and absolutization of ethics (='strcls'>*that is necessary to aithentically occupy it='strcls'>*)
='at'>@="nms">apass='lgc'>: constant investigation of one's ="trms">epistemology (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">ontology) in artistic research
='lgc'>--="frds">Sina='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger of ="trms">ontologization...
='strcls'>**massively expansive vista of rationality='strcls'>** ='lgc'>=/= disavowing rationality
(the old philosophical idea of) the absolute ='lgc'>=/= equivocal status
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bleak optimism='lgc'>: organizing without hope ='lgc'><='lgc'>== climate change has al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready happened
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how to die ='lgc'>: a creative form of foreclosure that unlocks a justice that cannot exist without realizing the ="trms">ontological dimensions of climate change
frame='lgc'>: general organizing device ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•define problems
="lsts lst1">•diagnose causes
="lsts lst1">•sug="trms">gest solutions
(their) argumentative strength ='lgc'>==influence='lgc'>='lgc'>==> organization
frame ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> define climate change ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> produce climate change ='lgc'>--through='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (the work of='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•problem-identification
="lsts lst1">•claim-making
="lsts lst1">•attribution-laying
="lsts lst1">•boundary delineation
="lsts lst1">•counter-framing
="lsts lst1">•bridging
="lsts lst1">•amplification
="lsts lst1">•constructing identity-forming ="trms">vocabularies and discourses
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*alter an audience's ideological beliefs='strcls'>*
climate change ="trms">literature has been dominated by economics, (geo)engineering, legal theory/policy studies ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> solutions (to climate change) ='lgc'>--invoke='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">markets, ="trms">technologies, policies (with differing criteria about what constitutes legitimacy, ="trms">authority, efficacy) ='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>-- ='strcls'>*before they get a solution, the ="trms">phenomenon has al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready been ="trms">scientized, politicized, mediatized, organized='strcls'>*
indigenous framing of climate change
drawing from indigenous cultures in the hope that a deeper emotional maturity might lead to a deep engagement with the environment which ultimately bestows life ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> framed as an existential threat ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (="trms">question what it means to be) an ="trms">ecologically ="trms">interdependent ="trms">species with moral ="trms">agency ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">="frds scrmbld">Chloe2
eschatological cliche ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “existentially significant activities are no longer possible ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the loss of meaning” (='lgc'>=/= ="nms">Cinderella)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]frame, framing='lgc'>: en="trms">fold audiences into an enclosure that is conceptually accessible
='thdf'>for example
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*="trms">ecological ="trms">modernization='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: a frame for climate change that seems to enclose the grreatest number of diverse stakeholders ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- uses carbon as a way to engage diverse stakeholders, a centrifugal locus that is calculable, non-political, ="trms">scientific ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">presents opportunities for innovation ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> short-term strategy='lgc'>: a reification process that transforms climate change into “the carbon problem” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> production of carbon ="trms">markets that ironically serve as creative new modes of accumulation ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- reifies ="trms">ecological maladaptation
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*catastrophic framing='strcls'>* of climate change ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> backfires, moomerang effects, causing audiences to disbelieve the entire message
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*frame-bridging='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> when two issues ostensibly ="trms">different are linked in complementariness in the same sphere as the concept in ="trms">question (='thdf'>for example emphasizing the ="trms">religious and moral dimensions of climate change ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> environment central to faith
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*emotional framing='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we are suffering from a deficiency of ='strcls'>*emotional knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='strcls'>* about climate change (='lgc'>=/= deficit of information) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> locus of problem moves to the psychological ="trms">affective realm ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> elevation of the problem to an existential threat or trauma ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (climate change becomes a factor in ='strcls'>*identity formation='strcls'>*) we become more ="trms">ecological in our cognition behaviour, ="trms">affect
="lsts lst2">◦managers in organizations perform complex ‘="trms">affect-based’ work to ="trms">translate the broader ="trms">social emotions of climate change into the ='strcls'>*local emotional landscape='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==establish='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new norms ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> alter the emotional salience of climate change (in the workplace) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- 26/06/2021 this has become the dominant framing in artistic research environments ='at'>@="nms">apass, ="frds scrmbld">Pierre, ="frds scrmbld">="frds scrmbld">Chloe2='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*(successful) frames='lgc'>: work through the ="trms">integration of the ="trms">phenomenon into a reality that is manageable='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Campbell)
focus on the sustainability of discourses that are ="trms">imaginable and thinkable and connectable with people's existing ="trms">world ='lgc'>=/= focus on the reality of the moving target
‘climate change’ politically more palatable مطبوع به ذائقه than ‘global warming’ in conservative circles
discursive evolution of climate change='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•1932 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> externality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> economics
="lsts lst1">•1960 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> wicked problem ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> policy studies, public management
="lsts lst1">•1980 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> threat ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> public media
="lsts lst1">•1988 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> global warming ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> physical chemistry
="lsts lst1">•2000 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> contested debate ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">science
="lsts lst1">•1968 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tragedy of the commons ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ecological philosophy
="lsts lst2">◦collective action dilemma, common property dilemma, non-commitment ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">responsibility, transnational commons dilemma, ="trms">historical versus new emitters, fossil fuel lobby and corporate power ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="trms">response='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{ develop ="trms">techniques for more thorough understanding of ="trms">ecological ="trms">interdependencies, manage multi-stakeholder ="trms">interests, unite common goals in public bad game, transnational issue-spanning, ="trms">pragmatic incremental gains, address value-action gaps in individual ="trms">consumption regimes
="lsts lst1">•1990 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> risk ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mathematics
="lsts lst1">•1990 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> war ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> political economy
="lsts lst1">•1990 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> crisis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">science
="lsts lst1">•1990 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> catastrophe ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mathematics (used ="trms">differently in public ="trms">imaginary)
="lsts lst2">◦“dnd of days”, worst-case scenario, complete ="trms">system collapse, extreme events, irreversible, non-calculative, non-gradual ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="trms">response='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{ use catastrophe framing to induce immediate action, fix temporal focus on visualization of the possible aftermath to prevent it Disrupt business-as-usual regimes, use urgency and fear to engage immediate action, emotional re-education, emergency planning
="lsts lst1">•2007 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> super wicked problem ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> policy studies
="lsts lst2">◦time is running out, those who cause the problem are also seeking to provide a solution, the central ="trms">authority needed to address it is weak or non-existent, current ="trms">responses discount the future irrationally, psychological short-termism ='lgc'>=/= long-termis ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="trms">response='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{ incentivize organizations, create path-dependent organizational ="trms">interventions, progressive incremental ="trms">trajectory, con="trms">sensus-building, small coalitions
="lsts lst1">•2002 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">anthropo="trms">cene ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> geology
="lsts lst2">◦human-geological epoch (following holo="trms">cene), new temporalities and spatialities, re-purposed as capitalo="trms">cene, necro="trms">cene,, chthulu="trms">cene etc. to incorporate political economy dimension of planetary terraforming, plantation, hyperobject ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="trms">response='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{ re-settlement of populations, adaption, repurposing the frame='lgc'>: capitalism to blame, not humans; capitalism surviving through exploitation
="lsts lst1">•negative externality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> should be ="trms">internalized
="lsts lst1">•wicked problem ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> climate change as threat
="lsts lst1">•emotional frame ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> focus on values and morality
="lsts lst1">•debate frame ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> balance-as-bias='lgc'>: dedicating half of the frame to counter-evidence of climate change ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fundamental paradox of collective action ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">="frds scrmbld">Chloe2 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tragedy of the commons ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Nicolas
="lsts lst1">•risk framing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> forgrounding the endemic ="trms">nature of the problem ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a logic of ="trms">translatability ='lgc'>: ‘risk خطر ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> commensurability توافق’
="lsts lst1">•war frame (turf wars of ="trms">positions) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a problem framing that ="trms">rhetorically amplifies climate change ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> logic of outsideness ='lgc'>: ‘climate change='lgc'> = an enemy that is fought against’, (drawing from) emergency logic ='lgc'>==urge='lgc'>='lgc'>==> single-shot unified geo="trms">technical solutions
="lsts lst1">•crisis frame ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> emotional framing ='lgc'>--leverage='lgc'>='lgc'>--> temporal logic ='lgc'>: a climax point (peak oil, peak carbon, etc.) points to the narrowing window of opportunity to act ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•catastrophic framing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (using emotional ="trms">language) locates the frame in the aftermath of a climate changed ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a popular public framing of the problem='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•super wicked problem ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> temporal logic of time running out ='lgc'>--pointing='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst2">◦irrational future disounting
="lsts lst2">◦lack of a central organizing ="trms">authority
="lsts lst2">◦
="lsts lst1">•="trms">anthropo="trms">cene ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> temporal logic ='lgc'>+ ="trms">pervasive spatiality ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">situating the ="trms">category in deep time ='lgc'>+ planetary scale ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a frame used by organizations='lgc'>]
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='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]problem='lgc'>: analytical ="trms">techniques that lend themselves to core framing tasks of “what, who, why, when, where” of a particular issue (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ‘research problem’ is a foundation of this ="trms">technique)
define boundaries of climate change ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•focus on who is ="trms">responsible
="lsts lst1">•ask why is it happening
="lsts lst1">•identify when is it happening
="lsts lst1">•locate where
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(="ppl">Campbell's) ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta-observation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> more each field discovers about climate change ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">category expansion (the more it seems to grow in scale)
='strcls'>*what ="ppl">Campbell finds in the discursive evolution of climate change='strcls'>*='lgc'>: a manifestation of (what the philosophical movement known as speculative realism criticizes as) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]cor="trms">relationism='lgc'>: we only ever have access to the cor="trms">relation between thinking ='and'>& being, a means to temper the real, to constrain it such that is becomes thinkable to human ="trms">categories (yoke thinking ='and'>& being together ='lgc'>: we cannot think the unthought without relating it to existing correlates) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--Meillassoux='lgc'>='lgc'>--> never able to get out of the ="trms">relation being thought and being to distinguish between an object ='and'>& properties belonging to the subjective access to the object ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>bad idea of ="trms">epistemology ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> recuperates climate change within ="trms">categories that make it seam manageable ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Campbell claiming) ='strcls'>*climage change ='lgc'>: ="trms">ontological ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> it is everywhere and nowhere, ="trms">present at all levels and yet absent as a distinct “thing” we can point to
Meillassoux ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how difficult it is to think anything without in some way introducing a qualification that one cannot know it without rendering it “for-us” though our framing='lgc'> = ='strcls'>*it cannot be known absolutely='strcls'>*
(problem of access='lgc'>:) anti-realism within continental tradition of philosophy ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='thdf'>the idea that reality is inaccessible in-itself ='lgc'>=/= Meillassoux's attempt to ='strcls'>***fuse reality with speculation in a logical manner='strcls'>***
to deploy speculative leap to defuse the problem of access ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*weird realism='strcls'>* to avoid the paths of analytic thought, ="trms">positivism, ="trms">scientism (='lgc'>~='qstn'>?!='lgc'>=> ="trms">religion, faith, conspiracy theory, ="trms">paranoia, ,,)
cor="trms">relationism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> despite repeatedly showing that it creates massive sudden fluctuating geologic singularities, climate change is still ="trms">folded back into known organizational coordinates
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">interactional openness='strcls'>* (='lgc'>+ temporal boundedness) (='at'>@="nms">apass) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> negotiation complexity, high ="trms">technical policy ="trms">instrument, multiplication of actors, multiplication of negotiation tracks
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*solutions shift from a field-endogenous catalyst of institutional change ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a mechanism of field maintenance='strcls'>*
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> framing of climate change ='lgc'>==="trms">dictate='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the organizational structure to address it ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> misrecognize what it is
='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>***a ="trms">world ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= a problem='lgc'>] ='lgc'>==generates='lgc'>='lgc'>==> problems (that no current organizational form can address)='strcls'>***
cor="trms">relationism (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> prevailing belief that human reason cannot attain certainty in ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical, ="trms">religious, moral ="trms">matters) ='lgc'>==Meillassoux='lgc'>='lgc'>==> fear of dogma/absolute (deep-seated desire to be non-dogmatic) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge becomes a ="trms">matter of belief='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'>{ reason undergoes a process of ="trms">religionizing ='lgc'>: ‘reason='lgc'> = a means to buttress claims based on faith’ ='lgc'>=/= aiming to capture absolute knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge itself, condemning irrational claims upon it ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>***discourage hierarchies of reason (always to slightly disblieve waht we believe) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- happens in ="nms">apass!='lgc'>]
speculative realism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lstsrd">1. ='strcls'>*organizational research='strcls'>* (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">="frds scrmbld">Chloe2) in the future must be deidicated to finding the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right ="trms">categories to account for a new worl (and not for a superwicked problem)
="lstsrd">2. enables us to approach climate change from the ='strcls'>*widest rational angle='strcls'>*
="lstsrd">3. (‘climate change='lgc'> = ="trms">world’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) we can begin to theorize the escalation and absolutization of ethics that is necessary to authentically occupy it ='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bleak optimism='lgc'>: acceptance of ="trms">ecological collapse ='lgc'>+ begin the necessary work to organize within the new ="trms">world of climate change (='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Singa">Inga)
dialectical process of critique and reassessment ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- absorbed by organizations
="lsts lst1">•strategic ="trms">agenda
="lsts lst1">•framed as an opportunity
="lsts lst1">•how climate change is always conceived as something “outside” that needs to be ="trms">internalized by the organization
(="ppl">Campbell thinking with Meillassoux) laws of ="trms">nature changing (='lgc'>~ ='strcls'>*forms of emergence without precedent='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[three cases/advents ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*radical discontinuities rupture the fabric of what has come before='strcls'>*='lgc'>])='lgc'>:
='strcls'>**="trms">world of ="trms">material ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">world of life ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">world of thought='strcls'>**
="lstsrd">1. ="trms">matter='lgc'>: reducible to what can be theorized in physico-mathematical terms
="lstsrd">2. life='lgc'>: (understood more ="trms">specifically as a set of terms='lgc'>:) ="trms">affections, sensations, qualitative perceptions, etc. (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cannot be reduced to ="trms">material processes)
="lstsrd">3. thought='lgc'>: understood as a capacity to arrive at the ‘intelligible content’ bearers of eternity (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cannot be reduced to life processes)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>****n the ="trms">transition from non-life to life ='lgc'>: the laws of biological life were not contained in the pre-life ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they emerged ex nihilo (they were not immanent in ='lgc'>[nor emerged from='lgc'>] the previous laws)='strcls'>****
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (Meillassoux='lgc'>:) reality can generate advents on its own ='lgc'>=/= ='thdf'>the idea of vitalism='lgc'>: ='thdf'>the idea that reality contains a hidden organization guided by transcendent ="trms">intervention
to think of an ="trms">ontological core for climate change where it is regarded as a ="trms">world (in the Meillassouxian sense) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">situate climate change as a discontinuity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*new ="trms">world will create novelty in organization that exceeds thinkability today='strcls'>*
(from the ="trms">position of speculative realism) what is important is (the “='lgc'>=/=” of) ‘holo="trms">cene ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">anthropo="trms">cene’ (and not the ="trms">anthropo="trms">cene)
="lsts lst1">•what did the ="trms">world look like at the beginning of holo="trms">cene='qstn'>?
holo="trms">cene ='lgc'>==created='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">epistemological ="trms">categories that lasted thousands of years and became the most fundamental modes through which we understand ='and'>& organize='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦birth of ="trms">language
="lsts lst2">◦birth of ="trms">religion
="lsts lst2">◦concept of resources
="lsts lst2">◦concept of exchange
="lsts lst2">◦concept of exchange
="lsts lst2">◦invention of all known ="trms">technology
="lsts lst2">◦development of agriculture
="lsts lst2">◦domestication
="lsts lst2">◦="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbanization
='lgc'>==(by this metric)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ‘climate change='lgc'> = ="trms">world’ marks the end of organization as we can think it 😱
(let's widen rationality rather than abandoning it)
speculative realism ='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a strategy for thinking at the) widest rational angle
='thdf'>example of speculative realism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Meillassoux's spectral dilemma='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[theist='lgc'>] resurrection of the dead (to provide justice for unjust deaths) ='lgc'>+ ='lgc'>[atheist='lgc'>] inexistence of God (to absolve God of ="trms">past injustices ='lgc'>~ meaningless deaths) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> it is possible that God might emerge in the future ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> complete justice has an ="trms">ontological ='and'>& real basis ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•the possibility of living ="trms">according to ='strcls'>*absolutizating thoughts='strcls'>* (one of Meillassoux's main tactics is to raise the stakes extremely high to show that ='strcls'>*ethical commitments are either absolute or not='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to speak in absolutizating ways about climate change='lgc'>]) (='lgc'>=/= focus on rthical dilemmas as ="trms">epistemological conundrums and escalation of ethics to the status of a universal absence of justice ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> despondency ='lgc'>+ cynicism)
(the problem of) critical philosophy wants to avoid dogmatism, but it also incubates dogmatism because in abandoning any ratinoal access to the absolute (they want to be devoid of the slightest pretension to rationality) it renders this space accessible only by dogmatic faith and irrationality
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (an unintentional and undesirable by-product of healthy ="trms">scientific scepticism='lgc'>:) the mild sensible scepticism we hold towards “reality” cab be exlpoited to undermine any and all belief in it ='lgc'>: climate change ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> logic schism ='lgc'>=/= object of/for knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (both sceptics and believers use knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge to deepen their differing ="trms">positions ='lgc'>=/= to elucidate the ="trms">situation) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Tsing's coalescence='lgc'>]
cor="trms">relationism ='lgc'>==activate='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a deeply seeted belief that ='strcls'>*we are a necessary part of reality='strcls'>* (a permanent fixture), even when we know rationally that we have not always been
='lgc'>=/= (more ="trms">ontologically authentic) non-cor="trms">relationist perspective ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we are a moment in time
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> speculative realism='lgc'>: تدارکی preparatory device, an attitude engine, a strategic lens (to see ‘climate change='lgc'> = ="trms">world’)='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. climate change has al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready happened
="lstsrd">2. climate change marks the end of human civilization
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how do we adjust='qstn'>?
The greatest challenge we face is a philosophical one='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*understanding that this civilization is al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready dead='strcls'>*. The sooner we confront our ="trms">situation and realize that there is nothing we can do to ='strcls'>*save='strcls'>* ourselves, the sooner we can get down to the difficult task of ='strcls'>*adapting='strcls'>*, with mortal humility, to our new reality. ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= declare urgency='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-Scranton
hope ='lgc'>=/= optimism
|(='qstn'>?) |(='qstn'>?)
saving ='lgc'>=/= adopting
(the ="trms">world) (to the ="trms">world)
!!!☠️
='lgc'>[bleak mood='lgc'>]
(climate change ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) multi-leveled death='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•loss of a civilization
="lsts lst1">•irreversible death of ="trms">difference (biodiversity)
="lsts lst1">•ultimate limit of the human project
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>=/= (="trms">modernity ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) secret belief that this civilization will last forever
(what could be opportunities for) ='strcls'>**creative foreclosure='strcls'>** of the old ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> space for optimism ='heart'>♥
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>****preparing for an end without apocalypse='strcls'>**** ='lgc'>[= foreclosure, ='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Godard">Goda and ="frds">Sina ="trms">dictionaryofapocalypse.com='lgc'>] (='lgc'>[curatorial='qstn'>?='lgc'>] organizing for the end of the ="trms">world that is an escalated absolutizing commitment to divest justly) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>****organizing without hope='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? death drive='lgc'>]
(we need دورویی) two-faced ='lgc'>{='lgc'><='lgc'>-- I think artists from ="nms">Iran and former Soviet Union countries with ='strcls'>*double consciousness='strcls'>* تجربه چندگانگی تجربه دوگانگی are good at ='strcls'>*hopeless optimism='strcls'>* خوش بین ناامید='lgc'>}
="lstsrd">1. acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge the unbounded unthinkabile incalculable ="trms">nature of this new reality
="lstsrd">2. a chance to experiment with organizational forms of justice, ethics, politics, reason (that are without precedent)
='lgc'>{(examining growing boundaries of) climate change ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> increasing ="trms">category expansion ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">epistemologies cannot encompass climage change reality='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (we are) afforded a chance to ="trms">ontologize it
speculative realism='lgc'>: a mode of commitment to a non-correlated reality ='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an organizational strategy ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a mood ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bleak optimism
unthinkability='lgc'>: refusal to let framing occur
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how mythology is being used in ="trms">consumer research
='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[Tillotson and ="ppl">Martin offering various myth typologies to support theorists in evaluation of myth theories and appropriate ="trms">integration of theoretical advancements in the field of ="trms">consumer culture theory:='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how ="trms">consumer rese="trms"nttrm="search">archers have sailed though every discipline='lgc'>--from psychology, ="trms">sociology, ="trms">anthropology and cultural studies, to ="trms">literary criticism, ="trms">history and political economy...
myth has been understood in ="trms">consumer research from five perspective='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">symbolic
="lsts lst1">•functiona="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list
="lsts lst1">•="trms">semiotic
="lsts lst1">•structura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list
="lsts lst1">•critical theory
="lsts lst1">•monomythic
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Weber='lgc'>{ ="trms">modern bureaucratization and intellectualization ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> disenchantment of the ="trms">world ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">modern experience='lgc'> = rationalization and mythological mysticism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">marketplace, ='strcls'>*no institution has been more willing and able to ="trms">respond to this (Weberian) desire for enchantment than the ="trms">modern ="trms">marketplace='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> ='strcls'>***normative preference for enchantment='lgc'> = ="trms">consumption='strcls'>***
='lgc'>--problem='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*the ="trms">market remains firmly in charge of myth of ="trms">consumption, its rewards and its consequences='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: ="trms">marketplace mythology has increasingly become an all-encompassing construct of as="trms">sorted descriptions and theoretical advancements in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding the sacred, extraordinary, ="trms">symbolic and transcendental
myth='lgc'>: a way of organizing perceptions of realities
="trms">consumer culture theory
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='lgc'>{='lgc'>[Mead ='and'>& Blumer's='lgc'>] ="trms">symbolic perspective of myth='lgc'>: how ="trms">symbols are adorned with meaning and that ="trms">affect ="trms">social ="trms">interaction ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">symbolic myth research='lgc'>: ="trms">verbal/non="trms">verbal forms of ="trms">communication, with an emphasis on how people behave in day-to-day circumstances in the context of ="trms">socio-="trms">historical structure and ideological of their environment ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “mythology='lgc'> = ="trms">narrative” ='lgc'>}='lgc'>=/= Joseph ="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>: “="trms">interaction with the ="trms">symbolic ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> mythology”
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Freud's use of mythic ="trms">stories as ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors in psychoanalysis ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (early) ="trms">symbolic perspective
="lsts lst1">•Jung's ="trms"nttrm="search">archetype='lgc'>: ="trms">embodiment beliefs/ima[...]