[...]nimal
  human
inanimate
   ="trms">technologies
    ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">horror (accompanying the posthuman)



='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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> ='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


(="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)

="large lg10" stl="font-size:109%"> ="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

="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'>]


="large lg14" stl="font-size:133%"> experience of the ="trms">world of high-="trms">technology

="large lg1" stl="font-size:116%"> 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'>*contemporary ="trms">technoculture is an era of insectophilia='strcls'>* (="trms">love of insects and arachnids, spiders ants bees worms etc.)='lgc'><='lgc'>== these insects ="trms">embody the logic of high-="trms">technology which values decenterdness, microprocessing, and swarm intelligence. colonies, swarms, teems ='lgc'>==acts='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor ='and'>& ="trms">epistemology ='and'>& ="trms">ontology='strcls'>* to understand decenterdness, rhizomaticity, distribution and microprocessing ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*insect ="trms">aesthetic='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='at'>#use the term collapse as ="trms">marketing ="trms">storytelling, divided entities now mixed with eachother to induce mixed feelings in the audience ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">chimera in advertisement='lgc'>]
="lsts lst4">◽matrix, from the latin ‘mater'='lgc'> = womb, the term matrix possessing the potential to nurture ='and'>& to ="trms">trap (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to Matrix film series)
="lsts lst4">◽Arachne='lgc'>: a younge woman, was so ="trms">skilful at weaving that she was rash enough to challenge the goddess Athene to a contest. she was transformed into a spider and was doomed to weave forever
="lsts lst1">•Nike mutant foot; to convey the feeling that running with these shoes is like running in bare feet (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">chimera='qstn'>?); the mutant foot evokes a worn and labored ="trms">transition from human to posthuman which leaves behind traces of pain; ‘foot of the future’ contains within it the supplement of its ="trms">embodied ="trms">visceral human existence, a potent reminder of the human within the posthuman. Nike mutant foot ='strcls'>*suffers from o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin ="trms">horror='strcls'>* (= no secure telos of o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin which can link back to a primary source of either ="trms">technology or organicism) we cannot trace it back to an o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginary ideal ="trms">category of existence ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> it horrifies
="lsts lst1">•Nissan pathfinder; shape-shifting ="trms">technology, moves between the ="trms">animal and ="trms">technical ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*automobile ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphoses without any trace of its ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis='strcls'>* (it bears no marks, scatches, dents, damage); mighty industrialized rendering (transformers film series) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (an X-Men fantasy='lgc'>:) a future ="trms">world of ='strcls'>*="trms">ontological mobility='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: entities are not fixed, their ="trms">morphing into other entities is not painful, but a ="trms">natural instantaneous reaction to their environment ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•BBC digital faces; a giant dis="trms">embodied head that roams across hilly countryside ='lgc'>~ ='strcls'>*an affront to a humanist sensibility of ="trms">integral bounded being='strcls'>*; filled with tiny selves ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> genealogy of ="trms">monstrous and mythical forms (Matrix 3rd episode the machine face) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*visualization of ='thdf'>the idea that the self possesses no central consciousness='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- posthuman='lgc'>: all mental thought, all consciousness and spirit, can be attributed to the operation of micro-="trms">material processes distributed in autopoitic (='lgc'>~ self-creating) body='lgc'>] /ERG website

="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphing
critique of becoming (of ="trms">consumer)

="ppl">Cartesian (human logic of a ="trms">world of fixed entities) ='lgc'>=/= posthumanism (poly="trms">morphic unfixity, ="trms">articulating a logic of identity as decentered and in the state of ="trms">transition)

mutating ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">morphing (universally regarded as ="trms">positive, apolitical ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- in poststructural theory)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">imagined ="trms">technological posthumanism which cruises effortlessly and seamlessly through ="trms">ontologies ='lgc'>[like T1000 in Terminator='lgc'>]
digital ="trms">morphing is a common production device in contemporary visual culture (transformers, X-Men ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- to resist that in our web designs)

="trms">morphing ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">ontological fixity
="lsts lst1">•how ="trms">technology does not oppose ="trms">nature, but stimulate it (Nissan pathfinder)
="lsts lst1">•how the ="trms">morph causes a radical spl="trms">intering of consciousness (BBC digital faces)
="lsts lst1">•how ="trms">morph is the a visualization not of being, but of becoming
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*flow, universally ="trms">coded as ="trms">positive='strcls'>* (sensibility of process and flux considered liberatory)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a logic of quick-change (embedded in entertainment and computer industries)


high-="trms">technology ="trms">embodiments='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•cyborg
="lsts lst1">•foetus
="lsts lst1">•eco="trms">system
="lsts lst1">•="trms">database
="lsts lst1">•genome
="lsts lst1">•cellular automata
="lsts lst1">•insects
="lsts lst1">•


="trms">morphing ='lgc'>=/= mutating='lgc'>: the ="trms">visceral, painful, ="trms">embodied experience that results from ="trms">ontological boundary clashes
mutating into otherness ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">morphing into otherness
(pain of the flow ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>***mutation is a concept that stops the flow='strcls'>***

(utopian='lgc'>:) ="trms">technological ="trms">imaginary portraying a simple and painless ascent into a silicon existence

="trms">chimera='lgc'>: (a term bio="trms">technological discourse uses to refer to) the evolution of elements that do not belong together
='lgc'>[in ="trms">greek mythology, a savage ="trms">beast part lion part goat part snake ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">natural order='lgc'>]


="lsts lst1">•(Iron Man's de="trms">finition of) ="trms">technology='lgc'>: an ="trms">instrument which ="trms">accords the human with a gradual ascend towards increasing civilization, linear progress and power over her or his environment
="lsts lst1">•(Black Mirror's de="trms">finition of) ="trms">technology='lgc'>: paradoxical s="trms">cene, a primal instinctual force


(my ="nms">ajayeb ='lgc'>=/=) ="trms">technological primitivism='lgc'>: (="trms">aesthetic that is produced by) the ways “primitive” icons are used in discourses of high ="trms">technology
="trms">technological merges into the mythological
ancient merges with the ="trms">modern
="lsts lst1">•eXistenZ film 1999, a high-tech-primitive blend of amphibian eggs and synthetic DNA
portrayal of a ="trms">symbolically resonant ancient life-source ='lgc'>+ form of a ="trms">technical life-source


="large lg6" stl="font-size:121%"> (="ppl">Campbell sug="trms">gesting) atavism='lgc'>: how ="trms">supposedly primitive evolutionary traits which had disappeared generations ago reappear in contemporary human or ="trms">animal life
="prgrph">-traits of a former time but still exist in the ="trms">present
='strcls'>*proto-atavism='lgc'>: (exhibiting of) future evolutionary traits in the ="trms">present ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> collapsing the quality of linear time ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? my sleep-walking='lgc'>] (='lgc'>=/= human approaching a state of ="trms">technological perfection through an orderly ascent of increasing complexity and sophistication)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">technological progress='lgc'> = nonlinear, punctuated, multiple ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- used in ="trms">marketing today='lgc'>]
proto-atavism ='lgc'>--argument='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that multiple paradigms of life exist on the peripheries of humanist life ='lgc'>==="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (how) ='strcls'>*human life='lgc'>: a cacophony of co-existing ="trms">interacting states of ="trms">past ="trms">present future existences with no recourse to a single reassuring o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= singular progression)


(like ="trms">animal ="trms">rumors in old ="trms">bestiaries ="nms">ajayeb in a ="trms">story-starated ="trms">world) found telegram videos and ="trms">internet pic used in my image assemblages ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (found images which make it difficult to trace their lineage) in an image-starated ="trms">world ='lgc'>==construct='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ambivalent visual re="trms">presentations that do not have a signifier in an external “real” ="trms">world (="ppl">Baudrillard's ="trms">rhetoric simulacrum='lgc'>: an object that is a copy of something which does not “exist”)
='lgc'>==Toffoletti='lgc'>='lgc'>==> potentiality='lgc'>: exceeding the bounds of description


(we are living in an) age of ='strcls'>**="trms">technosubjectivity='strcls'>**
(="ppl">="ppl">Margulis theorizes) the ="trms">symbolic basis of eukaryotic cells
(Dawkins ="trms">posits) the existence of selfish genes and the extended phenotype
='strcls'>*="trms">system theory='lgc'>: human life subsumed radically into an all-encompassing concept of ="trms">system, of which the human is merely a psychic ="trms">system, where the only important unit of analysis is ="trms">systems (human, cell, ="trms">society, law)
(="ppl">Sagan's) ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metazoa='lgc'>: a multiple creature afloat in the omnisexuality of bacterial exchange
(Octavia ="ppl">Butler's) xenogenesis='lgc'>: polysexual ="trms">inter="trms">species reproduction
(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's) ="trms">differential artifactualism='lgc'>: (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= SF, ="trms">science ="trms">fiction) a diffractive ="trms">interruptive mutative anti-reflective ="trms">monstrous logic (to a humanist eyes) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> generation of novel forms which need not be ="trms">imagined in the stodgy bipolar terms of hominids ='lgc'>==make='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">ontological room for ="trms">naturecultures
="prgrph">-mixotricha paradoxa='lgc'>: “a mixed up, paradoxical, microscopic bit of hair ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]they are nested in each other's tissues in a myriad of ways that make words like competition and cooperation, or individual and collective, fall into the trash heap of pallid ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors and bad ="trms">ontology”
(Thacker speaks for) extrinsic life='lgc'>: the kinds of life that cannot be contained inside itself (such as='lgc'>: the epidemic) ='lgc'>~ lifelike death ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> depict the strangeness of life in a ="trms">technological era

(diffraction ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) myopic='lgc'>: eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> posthuman='lgc'>: an essentially ethical precondition of life in high-="trms">technology

background of posthuman theory='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> premised on the liberatory potential of flow ='lgc'>: processes objects and living ="trms">systems are thought to be in a constant state of becoming ='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>: flow is not always a liberatory ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{ (a politics or logic of) ='strcls'>*inertia='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= contemporary politics of flow ='lgc'>}
="lsts lst1">•primal ="trms">technology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">technology is not always s progressive civilizing inanimate force, rather it is a destructive-constructive rich-poor lively-inanimate force in the ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•proto-atavism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> modes of living at the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges of humanist life
="lsts lst1">•posthuman biology ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*monolith of humanist life is myopic='strcls'>*

in a way, in ='mywrk'>my research i have been seeking ways to acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge the place of posthuman ways of being in the ="trms">world ='lgc'>--through='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•observing the high-tech (cellular automata, ="trms">database, bibliographic ="trms">technologies)
="lsts lst1">•observing the ancient (medieval ="trms">bestiaries ="nms">="nms">ajayeb al makhlughat ="nms">ajayeb ="trms">technologies)
="lsts lst1">•


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="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> roots of ‘emancipate ourselves’ ='lgc'>--in='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “being critical"='lgc'> = ability to be self-reflexive and to ="trms">translate criticality into action and expressions of art (="frds scrmbld">Renan)
transform knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge sites ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge s="trms">cenes ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">communities of concepts='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">communities of people)
="prgrph">-(to form an artistic site not into a theme, a subject or a project ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> discursive architecture)
how we could actually initiate solidarity through ="trms">translation='qstn'>? (='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? ="trms">internationalism) ='lgc'>=/= equivalence of contexts
="prgrph">-how strategies of governance can be very sophisticated and can be embedded into what we see as good for instance in health (cleaning, or in providing food)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]naming='lgc'>: a way in which we could enter into each other's experiences, a process of conjunction and disjunction (with the problems of the previous naming process)
='strcls'>*investment='lgc'>: i'm investing into your thoughts and ="trms">interests, to possible connections between us
="prgrph">-to look away from it momentarily, so that they can look into it again
(criticality is something that we can in="trms">herit)
faith into criticality ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">epistemological violence (='lgc'>~ criticality used as a counter capital to any problem or any ="trms">situation that we seem unable to engage with)
(in ="trms">relation of criticality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>the notion of) care='lgc'>: to ask is this the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right place and the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right time to “overperform” your criticality='qstn'>? when to be naive='qstn'>?
='lgc'>[yes, i am so tired of the ="ppl">Marxist lineage of criticality='lgc'>]
sometimes you don't have a voice in dialogue ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> you need a space where you can do a monologue
='strcls'>*monological circuits='strcls'>* (="frds scrmbld">Renan) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> monologue='lgc'>: you take the conversation out of value making (from a neoliberal logic)
(problem of) discourse='lgc'> = a sophisticated capital in arts (that is easily distributed and circulated)
="prgrph">-appoint ='lgc'>[yourself='lgc'>] as institution ='lgc'>=/= alternative art organization ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> don't contribute to marginalizing yourself as alternative
research organization ='lgc'>=/= magazine


="frds scrmbld">Renan http://temporaryartreview.com/the-infantilization-of-local-contexts/
art="trms">world's cynical ="trms">consumption of the global periphery
="trms">international worship of dialogue
unified complicity
transnational capital of in-group favoritism
cosmetology of democratism
advanced capitalism='lgc'>: non-hierarchical transactions, horizontal decision-making
(business of) trading contexts
Western ethnocentrism
(1970s) “art played a vital role in the amassing of cultural resources, assimilation, and formation of national cultures” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “improving humankind” (the colonial de="trms">finition of development)
='strcls'>*="trms">rhetoric of development ='lgc'>==shaped/shaping='lgc'>='lgc'>==> art='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•diverse group of global ="trms">interlopers
="lsts lst1">•content-providing native informants
="lsts lst1">•regional mediators/specia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists
="lsts lst1">•solvent-like multinational institutions
='lgc'>[cultural development:='lgc'>] art act adhesive for civil ="trms">society ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> good governance ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> dialogues (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= to create a new moral image of man)
="prgrph">-='strcls'>*conditionally in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive vision of the ="trms">international art="trms">world='lgc'>: a politically legitimate place with p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic ="trms">inter-institutional structures driven by economic liberalism, subsequently confirmed by the participation of civil ="trms">society='strcls'>*
...a practice of dialogue between art and development, across geographies='lgc'>: banking on the coalition of ethno-nationalism and globalization, and promoting “indigenous” forms of capitalism, while avoiding the optics of exoticization ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•divides and controls localities
="lsts lst1">•contextual ="trms">differences are distributed as needs and urgencies
="lsts lst1">•juridico-engineering structures (="trms">symbolized progress)
="lsts lst1">•cultural globalism with ="trms">consumption at its core
="lsts lst1">•regions soused on the liberal democratic fantasy of salvation via harmonious, multilateral exchange
(we don't want dialogues, we need meaningful dialogues)
='lgc'>--="frds scrmbld">Renan='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[to relocate the “struggle for exchange” in='lgc'>] monological circuits across the topographies of power and restitution ='lgc'>=/= geographies of guilt and embarrassment


="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> antagonistic knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges (organise and rally actions and thoughts for resistance) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> changes how you are ="trms">socialized


="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Robin,Robot,Robert,Robocop">Robinson Crusoe
a miniature ="trms">history of human development ="trms">according to bourgeois individualism ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] changed into an encyclopedic ="trms">storytelling of ="trms">religious virtues
="lsts lst1">•using European ="trms">technology, agriculture, economic individualism ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>== spiritual autobiography='lgc'>], (rudimentary) political hierarchy, [...]