[...]bed or whatever) are outstretches of homeliness and forces that distribute across space and discourse, territories and sensing zones, you are an exchange between self and environment. this is ="trms">pragmatism. like the variety of bed sheets, we are proposed with answers that vary, before posing any ="trms">question.
to re="trms">formulate the ="trms">question that was posed to you='lgc'>: how your proposal is capable of ="trms">traversing from the bed to the ="trms">wild='qstn'>?
pre-="trms">historic personhood
='mywrk'>my work is concerned with connections, mediation and passages.
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what you take for granted, is in another words, what that you can't not know.
(my proposal='lgc'>:)
the ="trms">past is not absolute!
the idea is that the mythical became the mythological ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Things could be treasured for their beauty as opposed to
their utility or their numinousness.
(="ppl">Martha ="ppl">="ppl">Kenney's) “="trms">wild facts”
facts that won't hold still
="trms">fables
="trms">fables of ="nms">ajayeb, creatures of ="trms">imaginations, (im)possible ="trms">worlds
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your institutional hacks
three things to consider in ='mywrk'>my work='lgc'>:
projection, immersion, and synthesis
seeking to be at once inside and outside the topic
the issue of topology ='lgc'>-- what remains invariant as a result of transformation
sug="trms">gestive power of the figure
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synthesis ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? genesis (to o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginate something, to design)
genesis ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? apocalypse
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in research, contrast between ="trms">method and subject, is a tool
(in studying ="trms">natural ="trms">history)
in critique, contrast between effect and ="trms">affect, is a tool
(assumed quality of the object and one's own named experience)
='lgc'>[these tools are perhaps cognitive objects='lgc'>]
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Enlightenment as cultural European ="trms">phenomenon versus a ="trms">scientific British one
(the theatrical function of ="trms">natural philosophy in the England Enlightenment)
the function of ="trms">natural philosopher in 18th century was to use experimental ="trms">science machines to turn inert ="trms">matter into active power, light/fire/heat/etc. to ="trms">lecture an wealthy and polite fee-paying audience, in order to save them from irrationality, that inside all ="trms">matter there is life and power, and that life was divine.
(however all this was all swept away in the industrial revelation)
William Herschel, an amateur ="trms">natural philosopher discovering Uranus 1781
(Enlightenment was all about people changing their disciplines)
project of constructing a new theory of heavens
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='strcls'>*i can't give you a direct grasp but i hope i can give slowly accuracy
='strcls'>*the ‘details’ of grasping
(="trms">zoom in the ‘grasp’)
from ="trms">contingencies to certainties
i spend so much time with painting and computers, which were about com="trms">positions and hacks
i think there are few fields/="trms">figurations/="trms">skills we need to get good at='lgc'>: ="trms">rhetoric, biology, ="trms">aesthetics
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="trms">trope - something other than its ="trms">literal form
adding an adjective or replacing a name, (one-way movements='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>-- let me tell you the ="trms">story of='lgc'>:
='strcls'>*knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> expressed knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
='strcls'>*knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowing
='strcls'>*reality ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> manifest realities
='strcls'>*real ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> real enough
='strcls'>*islamic ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> islamicate (“islamic” has always been a ‘range’ rather than a ‘binary switch’. things become more or less “islamic” in popular/proper belief)
='strcls'>*="trms">nature ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> visual ="trms">nature
='strcls'>*culture/civilization ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> collective (emphasizing operation of gathering or ="trms">composing and heterogeneity of the assembled)
='strcls'>*muslim countries ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> muslim majority countries
='strcls'>*understanding ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> better understanding
='strcls'>*what does X mean ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what does X mean for you
='strcls'>*body ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lived body
='strcls'>*body ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lived image
='strcls'>*="trms">language ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> specialized ="trms">languages
='strcls'>*="trms">world ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> built ="trms">world / thought ="trms">world / described ="trms">world / descripted ="trms">world
='strcls'>*producing knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> participating in knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge projects
='strcls'>*to explain ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to explain in terms of...
='strcls'>*place/location ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> neighborhood (ask ‘why this neighborhood='qstn'>?’ instead of place)
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="nms">ajayeb helps me to work on='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-="trms">history
="prgrph">-="trms">poetics
="prgrph">-="trms">animality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> inhabiting ="trms">material and ="trms">semiotic ="trms">positions ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how to find a descriptive act that is not in terms of the impressions it makes on our senses='qstn'>? / this is about the places things take and occupy in our ="trms">phenomenal ="trms">world. / it is difficult to discuss the night-sky without first breaking it up into constellations. (="ppl">Matthew ="ppl">="ppl">Carey)
i have been building my own islamology or islam-studies department, through a low-voice critical mildly blasphemic rant about ="trms">imagination
(="trms">anthropology of non-experimental ="trms">imagination in the islamicated ="trms">worlds)
='lgc'>[there is a ="trms">difference between ='strcls'>**experimental ="trms">imagination='strcls'>** and ="trms">imagination='lgc'>]
we are at the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of extinctions
many ="trms">species and lives are migrating to “where” and nowheres, pushing to the oblivion.
my issue with the ‘timing of understanding’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i don't want to be understood by you, i want to be ="trms">loved by you ='lgc'>==> messenger ='lgc'>+ message ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> so how do i produce ="trms">lovers='qstn'>? (='lgc'>=/= Don ="frds scrmbld">Juan's type of ="trms">love) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> there is a genius in your everyday talks that transforms me and has nothing to do with understanding (with the information that i grasp)
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(using ="ppl">Martha ="ppl">="ppl">Kenney thinking='lgc'>:)
i am ="trms">interested in ="trms">crafting words, phrases, and ="trms">languages that re="trms">worlds us. (re="trms">worlding is about reorienting us in the ="trms">world ="trms">differently. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is that what i meant by changing the rhythm of somebody's ="trms">story='qstn'>?) what is important for me is ='strcls'>***what words ‘do’ rather what words ‘point at.’='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> if not evidence then ‘what’='qstn'>?! ='strcls'>*****the magic of the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right word='strcls'>*****
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="trms">communicating knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is always also making it
(false='lgc'>: back="trms">stage making knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, finding truths, connections etc. and then all of this gonna be ="trms">communicated by publication, teaching, exhibition, etc.)
all the useful ideas i ever had, have happened in the process of deliberating, ="trms">communicating, exchanging, and so on.
='strcls'>**trying to ="trms">communicate is the same as making knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
(i don't make, i ="trms">communicate)
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from paf='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-lunching a counter-exotic movement toward the ="trms">Book of ="trms">Wonders='lgc'>: (1) postponing immediate information. (2) ...
="lsts lst1">•if everything is not exotic then nothing is.
="lsts lst1">•framing as ‘tool,’ every tool is and has power, and is built in a discourse of power. tools are not innocent, nor can we do without them. they make us. what would be an idea of the ‘worst tool’ you can work with='qstn'>? ="trms">poetics for me='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[to ="trms">write-about ='lgc'>=/= to ="trms">write-with the ="trms">Book of ="trms">Wonders. to use a ="trms">language-tool that produces the most ambiguities and most misunderstandings, but that is the only way, there is no tool that can prommis clarity. evey tool produces its own ‘clear'='lgc'>--for someone, for some purpose. these makings are all tool-="trms">specific='lgc'>: making dichotomies, making similarities, making diferences, stc.='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•how far your research can host an encounter with alterity='qstn'>? and how this encounter can help you undo your prommises of ="trms">communication, ="trms">positionality, and conceptual buildings='qstn'>? weave new ="trms">worldling entanglements with the problem='lgc'>--not to solve it, but stay with it. dissolve essential ="trms">differences between dichitomies such as='lgc'>: knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and expression (or ‘knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge’ and the ‘="trms">communication of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge’), experimental and ethical, ="trms">joke and ="trms">seriousness, ="trms">interiority and exteriority, mysterious and clear, uncovering and ="trms">veiling. produce creative impossibilities that do not resolve to bionary answers easily, that unstable possitionality for good, that open for forms of consiounesses to experience thoughts which differ from itself. to think and entertain both particularities and generalities (of logic, ethics, politics, ="trms">aesthetics, etc.) encounter can be both in="trms">finitly singular and general. that is a form of sug="trms">gestive work that can deal with the ="trms">specific as well. (think about ‘chicken’ as an anstract idea in our ="trms">semiotic ="trms">world and as an individual being in our ="trms">material ="trms">world)
="lsts lst1">•using ='thdf'>the notion of delinking (reminded by ="frds scrmbld">Juan) with ='mywrk'>my research on the ="trms">Book of ="trms">Wonders. going from parable-thinking ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">religious-thinking ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> poststructura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list-thinking ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">poetic-thinking ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> riddle-thinking ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> biological-thinking ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> deconstructionist-thinking ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ...
="lsts lst1">•this other universe is always at the beyond='lgc'>--the other ="trms">cosmos is a ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure (='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst1">•all cages hav[...]