[...]d 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)
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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 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)
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(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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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
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, (civilizing effect of) ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christianity ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pursuit of meaningful spiritual engagement='lgc'>]
...as the inertia of the colonial ="trms">world's knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">system breaks into the streams of exploratory capital, the relay of fragments crystallizes before seeping through the colonial subject's ="trms">social ground
http://www.curators-="trms">network.eu/blog-entry/lightning-studies-ctcccs-part-1-3 (="frds scrmbld">Renan)
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="nms">Cinderella's precarity
the ="trms">question of='lgc'>: how can we ="trms">translate contexts='qstn'>? (the context of which I bring my precarity differs from here in Brussels)
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(='thdf'>the notion of ='strcls'>*difficulty='strcls'>* in) ="nms">Cinderella ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Robin,Robot,Robert,Robocop">Robinson Crusoe
Crusoe's precarity (European) is something that you can overcome
="lsts lst1">•="trms">technology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> I can develop something out of my precarity and survive being struck on an island
="lsts lst1">•Crusoe's ="trms">techne ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> human ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">Cinderella's ="trms">techne ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> companion
="lsts lst1">•Crusoe ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*rise of the ordinary individual in the nation='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>== every individual values themselves high enough to consider themselves the proper subject of ="trms">serious ="trms">literature
="lsts lst2">◦="trms">modern individual='lgc'>: an ordinary ='and'>& alone person is able to triumph over physical environment ='lgc'>~ to be able to exploit every ="trms">situation
using diary format for ="nms">Cinderella was inspired by ="trms">respond to Crusoe's epistolary and confessional ="trms">method of ="trms">writing
(one of the earliest genre of) rea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic ="trms">fiction
="trms">written during the Enlightenment
one of the most widely published ="trms">books in ="trms">history
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> castaway ="trms">narrative='lgc'>: improvise the means of survival from limited resources at hand
="lsts lst1">•progress through ="trms">technology
="lsts lst1">•rebuilding of civilisation (civilisation='lgc'> = a form of triumph)
="lsts lst1">•unfriendliness of ="trms">nature
="lsts lst2">◦he is with a dog, two cats and a parrot but he cannot talk to them ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">Cinderella
="lsts lst2">◦Crusoe starts making Bible fals (فال انجیل opening the Bible to a random page and ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read a verse that he believed was addressed at him)
="lsts lst2">◦he makes ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list (pro ='and'>& cons ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> debit ='and'>& credit ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mentality of business studies='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--Weber='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">book-keeping='lgc'>: distinctive ="trms">technical feature of ="trms">modern capitalism)
="lsts lst2">◦
="lsts lst1">•Crusoe='lgc'>: true protagonist of the empire (='lgc'>--Joyce='lgc'>='lgc'>--> prototype of British colonialism, ='strcls'>*mythology of colonialism='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--="frds">Sina='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#="trms">fable of imperialism)
="lsts lst1">•(romantic notion of) ="trms">nature='lgc'>: idyllic ='lgc'>=/= (Crusoe) ="trms">nature='lgc'>: unforgiving ='lgc'>+ sparse ='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>-- utopian ='lgc'>=/= dystopian ="trms">nature ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Lord of the Flies
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(with ="ppl">Annemarie's help ='at'>@="nms">apass)
='strcls'>*sources of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">styles of knowing='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> tensions
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judgment='lgc'>: an occasion to apply one's own standards ='lgc'>=/= observation='lgc'>: a mean to get to know somebody else's standards
="trms">difference
which ="trms">differences exactly='qstn'>?
what are their ="trms">interferences and their diffractions='qstn'>?
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the surprises that come with finding “variations”
(="trms">stories about)
vessels ='and'>& fluids
pain ='and'>& ="trms">technicians
patients ='and'>& doctors
="trms">techniques ='and'>& ="trms">technologies
(bracketing the practices ='lgc'>=/=) foregrounding the practices ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> objects come into being and disappear with the practices in which they are manipulated ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> reality multiplies
='lgc'>=/= single passive object in the middle waiting to be seen from the point of view of seemingly endless series of perspectives (SK the elephant parable)
philosophy used to approach knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in an ="trms">epistemological way (='lgc'>~ preconditions for acquiring true knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'> = ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alex's ="trms">question “what is artistic research”) ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Annemarie's) ='strcls'>*knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'> = a ="trms">matter of manipulation (='lgc'>=/= reference)='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ethnographic ="trms">interest in knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge practices (='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “what are artist rese="trms"nttrm="search">archers doing='qstn'>?”)
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='at'>#project='lgc'>: to create a multidisciplinary knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge program around the ="trms">relationship between art, ="trms">marketing and ='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>], highlighting the imbricated فلس فلس ="trms">nature of ='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>] as tangible resources and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
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='at'>#project index ="nms">Tehran theory='lgc'>: to think ethnographically about non-unilateral and non-static picture of aspiration in the context of contemporary ="nms">Tehran eco-="trms">techno-culture
="lsts lst1">•archive ="trms">question
="lsts lst1">•contemporary media ="trms">technology
="lsts lst1">•="trms">data/knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge organization
="lsts lst1">•infrastructure
="lsts lst1">•="trms">epistemology
="lsts lst1">•="nms">Tehran ="trms">techno-culture multi="trms">species ethnography
="lsts lst1">•mini ="trms">worlds
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*how people ="trms">imagine a better life='qstn'>?='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (to think non-unilateral and non-static) ='strcls'>*picture of aspiration='strcls'>* (in the context of contemporary ="nms">Tehran)
="lsts lst1">•imitations of forms
="lsts lst1">•http://="nms">ajayeb.net/='qstn'>?q=sensibilities='lgc'>+hitting='lgc'>+people
="lsts lst1">•start as collaborative online platform for ="trms">writings/projects about ="nms">Tehran emerging ="trms">ecologies='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦mice موش
="lsts lst2">◦mobile phones موبایل
="lsts lst2">◦="trms">monsters هیولا
="lsts lst2">◦heavens مثل
="lsts lst2">◦
="lsts lst1">•on ="nms">Tehran trees='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦on ="trms">anthropogenic landscapes of ="nms">Tehran
="lsts lst2">◦descriptive ="trms">methods for the study of ="trms">social ="trms">relation and ="trms">histories
="lsts lst2">◦learning (directly) about ="trms">worldly objects of ="nms">Tehran ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> take part in the kinds of creative play that are the hallmark of the research ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> draws ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers outside common-sense assumptions
="lsts lst3">◾(to enable a) ="trms">technologically-augmented eco="trms">system
="lsts lst3">◾(to enable a) translocal exchange
="lsts lst2">◦='lgc'>{ ='lgc'>[='qstn'>?not to='lgc'>] tokenization and verification of ="trms">natural assets ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> augment ='and'>& utilize ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> provoking our ="trms">relation to ="trms">nature, hybrid eco="trms">systems in the ="trms">technosphere ='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="trms">question of governance
="lsts lst3">◾to explore ways for nonhumans as ="trms">agents to act with the same importance of humans in/with the ="trms">world via ="trms">technology
="lsts lst2">◦re="trms">socializing value (less ="trms">anthropocentric) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">social impact ='lgc'>+ environmental impact
="lsts lst2">◦less inalienable circulation of ='strcls'>*cultural intelligence='strcls'>* (and value) among less individualized (connected ="trms">networks of wider) ="trms">social ="trms">agents
="lsts lst2">◦critical ="trms">questions ='lgc'>+ cross-pollinate
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(inconsistency of) ='strcls'>*physiological chaos='strcls'>* of the ="trms">World War I ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how physicians and medical rese="trms"nttrm="search">archers (early 20th century medical ="trms">science) ="trms">responded to it='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a new web of concepts='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*="trms">semiotics of injuries and behaviors='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that became essential for thinking about ="trms">integration and collapse in economics, ="trms">social organization, psychoanalysis, ="trms">symbolic re="trms">presentation, and ="trms">international politic)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> attuned to, to anticipate, to outdo, ='strcls'>*="trms">specific conditions of the lived body in
states of extreme exertion='strcls'>*='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•in a conceptual-="trms">historical and ="trms">anthropological ="trms">fashion
="lsts lst1">•="trms">stage thought and experimentation
="lsts lst1">•to recalibrate their thinking
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> logic of ="trms">integration (a problematic ="trms">systematization) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*registers of the individual and the ="trms">social='strcls'>*
linked to each other='lgc'>:
="trms">integration در شکم چيزى جا دادن, collapse, self-preservation, crisis, catastrophe, witnessing, evidence, unknowing
early 20th century medical ="trms">science ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> شکننده a body that is ='strcls'>*brittle because ="trms">integrated='strcls'>* ='and'>& ='strcls'>*="trms">integrated because brittle='strcls'>*
wartime and postwar therapeutics ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> conceptions of the body
="ppl">Geroulanos and ="ppl">Meyers (='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Foucauldian) show “how particular kinds of injury emerged during ="trms">World War I, and how such injuries found their place in the bodies and life="trms">worlds of wounded soldiers and doctors, and in the thinking and actions of theorists and policy makers.” (ethnography of the ="trms">interwar period)
='lgc'>=/= proposing a counter-body or counter ="trms">epistemology or resistance knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
“in this ="trms">world, we do not play chess with eternal figures like the king and the fool; the figures are what the successive con="trms">figurations of the chessboard make of them.” -Veyne
(='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">integration='lgc'>:) taxonomy of disorder ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> administrative ends (an idea of entire ="trms">system of organic functioning ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> homeostasis='lgc'> = "the wisdom of the body” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> theories of norms, normality, dis="trms">integration, catastrophe)
="lsts lst1">•='thdf'>the idea of a damaged ="trms">world in need of meticulous care
="lsts lst1">•='thdf'>the idea of the injured body that seeks to stabilize itself
='at'>#="trms">integration
the ="trms">interwoven ="trms">data recovered from the study of ="trms">systemic and functional aspects of the broken organism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> totality ='lgc'>~ establishment of a nonliberal individualism (='lgc'>+ ="trms">social welfare) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>**="trms">society='lgc'> = an ="trms">integrated and fragile whole in need of care='strcls'>**
today's ="trms">integrative medicine ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> conceptualizations of the whole body ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> picture of the patient='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•neoliberal in character
="lsts lst1">•(always) future tense in orientation
destiny='lgc'> = personalized medicine (a project to anticipate and guide the patient's destiny)
welfare state's widest possible in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion of its citizens clashes with the realities of the ="trms">marketplace
to reconcile the individual's cognitive and physical realities with the particular ="trms">demands of their ="trms">world
...="trms">sociological quest to understand the locus of injury
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
duet of ="trms">integration-crisis (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> whole-body ideals)
(="ppl">Geroulanos and ="ppl">Meyers argue that) understanding ="trms">integration and crisis in medicine ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to wrap our heads around the way later-dominant cybernetic and structura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list theories located the individual in the ="trms">world
bodily ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor ='lgc'>[in='lgc'>] ="trms">integrations of domestic ="trms">societies
the ="trms">integrated, dis="trms">integrating human body='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•a new site of meaning and care
="lsts lst1">•subject for new analogies of body biological and body politic
="lsts lst1">•object of direct experimentation
="trms">story of the human body (at once ="trms">social ='and'>& biological)
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="trms">question of ="trms">technology
='lgc'>--locational='lgc'>='lgc'>--> where does the ="trms">technological take place='qstn'>?
(and when='qstn'>?)
="ppl">Heidegger ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (latecomers were) addicted to ="trms">technology
“under what conditions we could arrive at a free ="trms">relation to ="trms">technology='qstn'>?”
="ppl">Heidegger problem with addicted ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*ad="trms">diction is content with what is merely available='strcls'>* (it never surpasses this limit) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">anxiety
="ppl">Avital focus on the ='strcls'>*chemical prosthesis='strcls'>*
in war, ="trms">drugs become another piece of ="trms">="trms">equipment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> taking the pill='lgc'>: ="trms">technologizing oneself into the war machine
heroin comes from heroisch
="trms">technically calibrated culture
="trms">drug ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">hallucinated exteriority
electronic/="trms">drug culture ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">Nancy ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Blanchot's) désœuvrement='lgc'>: without an end or program, an unworking that nonetheless occurs
how the ='strcls'>*prosthetic subject='strcls'>* is constituted
(Junger's ="trms">drug, ="ppl">Heidegger's tech, ="ppl">Benjamin's hashish, de Quincey's opium, Duras's alcoholizations='lgc'>:) a saturated text, pushing beyond the ="trms">materiality of the ="trms">book though not into any ideality
the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right to ="trms">drugs ='lgc'>+ the supplementary ="trms">interiority that they produce
there has never been a war on ="trms">drugs that is not carried by another type of ="trms">drug (="trms">religion, patriotism, oil, TV)
="trms">history of narcotica ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">history of culture
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]intoxication='lgc'>: (names) a ="trms">method of mental labor that is ="trms">responsible for making phantoms appear ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mnemonic ="trms">apparatus
“you have something in you that must be killed” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ambivalent stimulant/tranquilizer
body proper regains its corruptible organic status
self-medication and vitamins become the occupation of every singularity
="trms">drugs explore fractal ="trms">interiorities (='lgc'>=/= seeking an exterior transcendental dimension)
r="trms">enunciation چشم پوشی، ترک، کناره گیری، قطع علاقه
(addict='lgc'> = nonrenouncer)
virtual reality
cyberprojections
(Dasein's) dependency='lgc'>: a state in which ="trms">anxiety is still bound
='strcls'>*="trms">mimetic poisoning='strcls'>* (of pharma="trms">codependency as="trms">sociated with ="trms">literature, as sedative, as cure, as escape, etc.) ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">relationship to law
(our French ="trms">heritage ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Flaubert='lgc'>: “a thinker should have neither ="trms">religion nor fatherland nor even any ="trms">social conviction”) ='strcls'>*thinking='lgc'> = radically rupturing='strcls'>*
="trms">drugs forced decision upon the subject ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> de Quincey
opium='lgc'>: the transparency upon which one could review the ="trms">internal conflict of freedom (='lgc'>+ encounters the ="trms">abyss of destructive jouissance)
war against pain
higher forms of ="trms">drug
='strcls'>*(like any good parasite) ="trms">drugs ="trms">travel both inside and out of the boundaries of a ="trms">narcissistically defended politics='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==producing='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a lexicon of body control and a private property of self
="trms">drug's virtual and fugitive patterns
they have a secret ="trms">communications ="trms">network with the ="trms">internalized order
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Madame Bovary='lgc'> = clinic of phantasms
everything said about ="trms">technology can be applied to ="trms">drugs='lgc'>: acceleration, speed, inertia, the third ="trms">interval
="trms">drug/medicine ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•deaden the pain
="lsts lst1">•separate from a poisonous maternal flux
...
="lsts lst1">•="trms">hallucinated plenitude
="lsts lst1">•pure ="trms">communication ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= transcendental telepathy
(have in mind that) any substance can function as a ="trms">drug
“It wasn't clear then whether the body was private property or not, whether the ="trms">authorities could legislate zoning ordinances, or whether pleasure and liberty were values freely exercised upon a ="trms">coded body.”
="prgrph">-="ppl">Avital
='mywrk'>my work over the etymology of the signifier ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> moon index
(i shoot up trash ="trms">fiction)
(="ppl">Freud) ='strcls'>*pain is imperious='strcls'>* متکبر
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(failing) to meet the requirements of an authentic alterity
(we are) into forgetting and the simulacrum (='lgc'>=/= truth)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">hallucinator='lgc'>: the creature of the simulacrum (par excellence)
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