[...]mal ="trms">technology ='lgc'>=/= (humanist and ="trms">pervasive) concept of ="trms">technology as ="trms">modern, progressive, clean, nonalive
="lsts lst1">•proto-atavism='lgc'>: evolutionary traits from the future can exist in the ="trms">present (='lgc'>=/= atavism='lgc'>: evolutionary traits from the ="trms">past can exist in the ="trms">present) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> type of posthuman biology conception of life

(let's have atavism instead of activism)

="ppl">Campbell ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*critique the almost universal celebration of flow in contemporary philosophical thought='strcls'>* ='lgc'>{='lgc'><='lgc'>-- yes yes! thank you! ='heart'>♥='lgc'>}


="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> primitive='lgc'>: a site of primordial simplicity ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginary unity ='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">history of ="trms">technology ='lgc'><='lgc'>--(told from a western lens)='lgc'>-- gradual progression and sophistication of the ="trms">technical (='thdf'>for example Black Panther film)
="prgrph">-the ="trms">presence or absence of ="trms">specific ="trms">technologies has often been ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read as a marker of cultural ‘backwardness’ ='lgc'><='lgc'>== “="trms">technology='lgc'> = something that comes from the West (rich-="trms">world ="trms">technologies) and does something to other people in other places such as the “third ="trms">world” (a well-intentioned framework that denies both ="trms">agency and contemporaneity to the ‘other’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>for example Eliasson's Little Sun)

="trms">technological progress is not a force unique to ="trms">modern ‘civilized’ ="trms">society; it is intimately bound with art and antiquity
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Heidegger (seeks the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of ="trms">technology in ancient Greece) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">technology referred to the ways in which realities are brought into the ="trms">world, a mode of unconcealing reality (hervorbringen) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= mere means or ="trms">instrument='lgc'>]
='lgc'>+ every unconcealment of reality is also by necessity a concealment of another reality
='strcls'>*="trms">poiesis='lgc'>: bring hither out of concealment forth into unconcealment='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">techne='lgc'> = tech ='lgc'>+ art

paleolithic hunters (so-called primitive ="trms">societies) have been shown to have been affluent and ="trms">technologically advanced

="trms">technological primitivism, as ="trms">aesthetic in subcultures of high-="trms">technology, incorporating into their philosophies icons of='lgc'>: shamanism, esotericism, hermeticism, the occult, mythology
='lgc'>=/= my ="nms">ajayeb.net


="trms">horror in commercial images (="ppl">Campbell's investigation ='lgc'>=/= fear appeals that act to discourage or warn)
="trms">horror (like primitive) is a ="trms">historically ="trms">specific form ='lgc'>=/= an eternal constant (='lgc'>~ whay is horrific today might be completely unhorrific tomorrow ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>for example ="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">horror)
="trms">horror='lgc'> = ="trms">science ="trms">fiction ='lgc'>+ primitivism

liberatory/avant-garde ="trms">horror
female-as-victim
female-as-="trms">horror
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">apparatus of phallogocentrism
='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">horror works to produce figures that contain within them an overflow of contradictory signs='strcls'>*


20th century high-tech machines induce ="trms">horror ='lgc'>: depiction of ='strcls'>*="trms">technology out of control='strcls'>* inducing ="trms">horror in the humanist consciousness (='thdf'>for example Black Mirror TV series)
(both primitive ='and'>& ="trms">technical) borderline figures of contemporary culture='lgc'>: replicants, androgynes, zombies, androids, posthumans, avatars, clones, undead
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*almost-not-quite ="trms">ontologies='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- displacing the unitary subject of classical humanism ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ='lgc'>{new processes and quasi objects='lgc'>} ='lgc'><='lgc'>==create='lgc'>== ='strcls'>***='lgc'>{globalization, ="trms">questions of ="trms">history, ="trms">social change, political movements, collapse of ="trms">communism, fundamentalism, feminism, post-="trms">communist nationalism, global immigration flows, transnational projects such as human genome, digital human='lgc'>}='strcls'>***

="lsts lst1">•mothers
="lsts lst1">•machine='lgc'>: the ="trms">scientific, political and discursive field of ="trms">technology
="lsts lst1">•="trms">monster='lgc'>: emblematizes the ="trms">history and philosophy of the biological ="trms">sciences ='lgc'>+ their ="trms">relation to ="trms">difference and ="trms">different bodies

enlightenment ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a comprehensive philosophical and ="trms">scientific discourse of ="trms">positioning “people of color, native australians, females, slaves (='lgc'>+ scaipods, cynocephali, tailed men, giants)='lgc'> = nearly-human ='lgc'>=/=liberal human subject (white male)
="prgrph">-in the ="trms">interstices between humans and apes, there was plenty of space to locate speculative or ="trms">imaginary creatures='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*similititudines huminis='strcls'>* (="trms">beast-men, ="trms">monsters with human resemblances, degeneracy)


posthuman
="lsts lst1">•celebratory declaration of the end of humanity as we know it
="lsts lst1">•heralding an era of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦human being will be superseded by ="trms">technical being (='lgc'>+ ironically promissing to vouchsafe human being for eternity)
="lsts lst2">◦(liberatory seeks to) displace the arrogance of the human (as the ultimate and sole ="trms">authorities of meaning)
="lsts lst1">•replete with ideological ="trms">positions (ranging from horrific to hopeful)
="lsts lst1">•concerned with deconstruting the human as an ancient concept ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>~> dissatisfied and alienated by ="trms">nature='lgc'>]

="large lg1" stl="font-size:137%"> ectogenetic foetus (growth of an organism in an artificial environment)
surrogate mother جایگزین
pregnant man ='lgc'>{in the fear-fantasy of miscegenation

(crossing='lgc'>:)
="trms">animal
  human
inanimate
   ="trms">technologies
    ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">horror (accompanying the posthuman)



="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> ='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
="trms">monstrous logic of ="nms">ajayeb

="trms">monstrous ='lgc'>=/= neat ="trms">categories

teratology
in a wider context of studies of ="trms">monsters
="trms">written texts (not only physical manifestations) ='lgc'>~ defy canonical ="trms">categories

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]gothic='lgc'>: (not only a genre,) any type of text that makes coherent ="trms">interpretation fail='strcls'>*** ='lgc'><='lgc'>== text suffers from an overload of contradictory meanings which make it ="trms">literally fall apart at the seams

="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%">
(="ppl">Derrida='lgc'>:) ="trms">monster='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*="trms">species of the non="trms">species='strcls'>*='lgc'> = as-yet unnameable which is proclaiming itself ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> make people turn their eyes away
="prgrph">-the figure of the ="trms">monster ="trms">embodies a means of thinking otherwise
="prgrph">-event of the ="ppl">Derridean text signalling a rupture with the discourses in which it is ="trms">gestated
='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> both ="ppl">Derrida and ="ppl">Darwin were engaged in the ='strcls'>*practice of revealing ="trms">monstrosity to the ="trms">world='strcls'>*


='strcls'>***contemporary ="nms">Iran='lgc'> = post="trms">modern gothic='strcls'>***
آخوند‎ akhoond='lgc'>: ="trms">social ="trms">imaginary of post-industrial ="trms">society producing teratological ="trms">monstrous formations ='lgc'><='lgc'>== their ="trms">technological character transgresses conventions of taxonomical description ='lgc'>--Braidotti='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cyber-teratological (fascinatino with grotesque ='lgc'>+ ="trms">technological)
="prgrph">-what are the non-unitary subjectivities in ="nms">Tehran today='qstn'>? (="trms">monster='lgc'> = ="trms">horror ='lgc'>+ marvel)

="trms">monster ='lgc'>=/= de="trms">monstrate, de-="trms">monstrate ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- vision ='lgc'>+ ="trms">monstrosity
='strcls'>*="trms">monster='lgc'>: sites of other="trms">worldliness='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--used='lgc'>='lgc'>--> teratoscopy

="large lg5" stl="font-size:159%"> ="lstsrd">1- ="trms">Greek and Roman ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> race of ="trms">monsters='lgc'>: ethnic entity horrific ='and'>& fantastic
="lstsrd">2- baroque and enlightenment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> began to produce a ="trms">scientific, wondrous, fantastic, rare, entertaining ='lgc'>--(such as='lgc'>: madmen and dwarfs and other marvels participated in the life of his or her town and enjoys certain privileges ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] ="trms">jesters and fools can transgress ="trms">social conventions and do things that “normal” human beings cannot afford -Braidotti)
="lstsrd">3- genetic turning point in the post-nuclear era ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cybernetic teratology='lgc'>: effects of toxicity and environmental pollution ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new ="trms">monsters ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Tsing='lgc'>]


experience of the ="trms">world of high-="trms">technology

artifacts of visual culture, (TV advertisements) dealing with the ="trms">tropes of the primitive, ="trms">technology, ="trms">horror='lgc'>:
(these artifacts connote دلالت ضمنى long ="trms">histories of ="trms">techno-mytho-political dramas)
="lsts lst1">•Audi spider; where Audi is likened to a preditor, ensnaring, devouring its rivals; Vorsprung durch ="trms">Technik ="trms">written in gothic-style jagged, suspended cobwebs ='lgc'>{='lgc'><='lgc'>-- Ridley Scott's alien's ="trms">technology as dirty; a lair swathed in a ="trms">thick cobweb-like substance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">technology as life='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>== the dirt and dampness of ='strcls'>*dirty ="trms">technology='strcls'>* sug="trms">gest an animate, sweating, breathing life-force ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ an ="trms">aesthetic='lgc'>]='lgc'>} ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">horror ='lgc'><='lgc'>== damp dark leaking space containing moulding cocoons of spider ='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> motivation, goals or logic of this life form cannot be recovered within the economy of the human (='lgc'>=/= clean cold untouched ="trms">technological artefact)
="lsts lst2">◦='strcls'>***="trms">technology covered in its own dirt ='lgc'>--implies='lgc'>='lgc'>--> life ='lgc'>--implies='lgc'>='lgc'>--> disorganization ='lgc'>--implies='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dis="trms">integration of borders between ‘us’ (bounded) and ‘them’ (unbounded) ='lgc'>--implies='lgc'>='lgc'>--> loss of control
="lsts lst2">◦="nms">ajayeb-e spider // links the ="trms">world (of primitive ='lgc'>+ high-="trms">technology), its ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis into automobile ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> its multiple and contradictory genealogy; sight of spider ='lgc'>--="ppl">Freud='lgc'>='lgc'>--> induce crisis of ="trms">neurotic ="trms">anxiety (arguing that this fear comes from an unconscious as="trms">sociation of the spider with the image of the phallic mother and the web ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> threatens to engulf us ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mpnstrous feminine, Ridley Scott's alien='lgc'> = ="trms">technologized ="trms">embodiment of the phallic mother)
="lsts lst3">◾ancient activity of weaving ='lgc'>[computer emerges out of the ="trms">history of weaving; the first computers were based on the logic of the loom, quintessence of women's work (Plant, Babbage, ="ppl">Campbell)='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*contempo[...]