[...]sciousness 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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:125%"> ="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)


(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://temporaryartrev[...]