[...]tself ='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 lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> ="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'>*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)

="large lg1" stl="font-size:123%">
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


(="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 ap[...]