[...]s 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)
="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)
(='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)
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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'>**
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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
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='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
(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)
(trafficking in) abstract forms of forgetting
the poor
the body-broken
the racially ="trms">hallucinated other
chemical prosthesis (mushroom or plant) ="trms">responds to a fundamental structure
="trms">drug addict ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a mystical transport going nowhere
="trms">drug addict offers her body to the production of ="trms">hallucination, vision, or trance
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> going nowhere fast
being exposed to existence='lgc'> = placing one's body in the grips of a temporality that pains ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ad="trms">dictive='lgc'> = artificial, beside oneself
="trms">drugs ='lgc'>--linked-to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a mode of departing, to de="trms">socialization ='lgc'>[without the assurance of arriving anywhere='lgc'>] (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= activity of ="trms">writing) ='lgc'>=/= production of real value
...movement of the simulacrum without address (or, in another idiom, without purpose, point)
="ppl">Nietzsche was the first philosopher who ='lgc'>--="ppl">Avital='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lstsrd">1. to think with his body
="lstsrd">2. to put out the call for a supramoral imperative
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we are implicated inscribed dis="trms">articulated and reresignifed by ="trms">technological prosthesis
there is no outside to ="trms">technology
there is no off switch to ="trms">technology
="trms">wonderological tracks of ="trms">technology
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how much ="trms">nature has to change before our descendants cease to be human='qstn'>?
about when in the course of evolution our ="trms">ancestors became human='qstn'>?
(unanswerable good ="trms">questions)
if the human is not the one ="trms">consuming, who is='qstn'>?
="trms">animals ="trms">consume
(numinous ="trms">agentic status of) dead ="trms">consumer
human aspects of ="trms">consumption='lgc'>: learning, decision making, reason, perception, ethics, ="trms">agency, desire and choice ='lgc'>--arise='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*between humans and intelligent machines='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]posthuman='lgc'>: a move that seeks to locate being, or aliveness, or meaning in the not-quite-human-as-we-know-it
(humanist) ="trms">epistemology='lgc'>: how we investigate and describe the ="trms">world
(humanist) ="trms">ontology='lgc'>: how we understand what constitutes life and objecthood
='lgc'>==="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>==> help ="trms">consumer research='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. expand the range of temporal reference (look into the future of how ="trms">consumption will look like)
='strcls'>**='thdf'>assumption of the future='lgc'>: the future will be a post-="trms">consumption existence='strcls'>**
="lstsrd">2. expand the range of physical reference (ex="trms">traplanetary ="trms">consumption='lgc'>: what the ='strcls'>***="trms">consumption of place='strcls'>*** means; embryonic ="trms">consumption sites='lgc'>: store your ="trms">child's cord blood stem cells)
="lstsrd">3. ="trms">interrogation of the roots of humanism (="trms">social ="trms">sciences)
today='lgc'>:
robotic revolution
bio="trms">technology revolution
='strcls'>*posthuman='lgc'>: ideological account of the future of the human ="trms">species in annexation with info-bio-="trms">technologies ='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*posthumanism='lgc'>: (speculative philosophy ='lgc'>+ ="trms">material reality) critique of the discourse and ="trms">epistemologies of ='strcls'>*humanism='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•belief in progress
="lsts lst1">•="trms">technological mastery over ="trms">nature,
="lsts lst1">•separation of human and ="trms">animal kingdom
="lsts lst1">•therapeutic approach to human behavior
="lsts lst1">•secular approach to ="trms">scientific inquiry
='strcls'>*humanism='lgc'> = ="trms">epistemology='lgc'>: a way of investigating the ="trms">world that is consonant with our human intuition='lgc'>--understand='lgc'>='lgc'>--> life as comprising essentially animate or inanimate, self or other, human or nonhuman='strcls'>** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= set of diverse beliefs='lgc'>]
="trms">horror of surgically implanted biomedical enhancement ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (persistence of the) inviolability of the body as the seat of identity ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a classic humanist assumption
posthumanism
="lsts lst1">•speculative philosophy ='lgc'>+ ="trms">material reality
="lsts lst1">•abstract philosophy ='lgc'>+ ="trms">="trms">empirical ="trms">science
="lsts lst1">•ancient ='lgc'>+ futuristic
="lsts lst1">•exotic ='lgc'>+ specialized (telesurgery, a="trms">morphous computing) ='lgc'>+ banal ='lgc'>+ ubiquitous (automobility, eyeglasses)
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> apocalyptic era (intelligent machine takeover)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ecological ethics (human not the most important form of life on earth)
='strcls'>***attempt to overcome humanness is an age-old human tendency='strcls'>***
what constitutes life
="lsts lst1">•women ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Schiebinger
="lsts lst1">•slaves ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Douzinas
="lsts lst1">•computer viruses ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Parikka
="lsts lst1">•cellular automata ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Delanda
="lsts lst1">•bacteria ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway
="lsts lst1">•swarms ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->Thacker
="lsts lst1">•
='strcls'>*brand='lgc'> = living ="trms">system='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> distinguish themselves from environment, ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude from it what is not, feedback ="trms">communication with environment, self replicate, evolve, ) ='lgc'>=/= cultural product
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Femke
(="ppl">Campbell arguing that) the human and the posthuman are (ways to describe the forces that are) al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready ="trms">present in the human condition='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1.
computation of life
mid 19th century weaving ="trms">technologies ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> logic of computation ='lgc'>==="trms">ontology='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “universe='lgc'> = giant computer” ='lgc'>: attempting to uncover what life itself is through a better understanding and appreciation of the power and seeming omni="trms">presence of computational logic
="lsts lst1">•a discourse ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ a way of talking about the ="trms">world='lgc'>] (and not only a claim that people make)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an ='thdf'>example of how dominant ="trms">technologies are not just ="trms">instruments but models (through which the ="trms">world is understood)
‘clockwork universe’ was the model for the last four millennia='lgc'>: clockwork-like essence of ="trms">cosmos ='lgc'>+ state ='lgc'>+ body (='lgc'>=/= romanticism, galvanism, mesmerism, quantum mechanics)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•="trms">consumer as computer/computational (="trms">consumer as information processor, ="trms">consumer as automatic subject ='lgc'>=/= psychological ="trms">agent) ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">science of cybernetics, automaticity, feedback
="lsts lst1">•information (a new powerful substance in mid 20th century), “raw ="trms">data ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> decisions, models, theories”, a specialized value-free term (='lgc'>=/= fact, learning, wisdom, understanding, enlightenment) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> second half of 20th century='lgc'>: information began to assume a deep and proved privileges place (in politics, cultural ="trms">imaginary), to informationalize ="trms">consumer objects='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦jeans as “intelligent denim” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “vector graphics and pixelation as there expression of your individuality” (Jack ='and'>& Jones)
="lsts lst2">◦cream as “pro-retinal A nanosomes and Par-Elasty” (L'Oreal)
="lsts lst1">•
="lstsrd">2.
laborization of life
growing sophistication of the previously simple and straightforward ="trms">categories of aliveness and deadness (='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">technologies since the 1970s='lgc'>: stem cell engineering, in vitro fertilization, genomics, virtual surgery, bio="trms">material engineering)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•make the range of what constitutes ‘alive’ larger and more complex
="lsts lst1">•="trms">stage the ="trms">interpenetration of the machinic and the organic
(in the future it will be the) ="trms">marketers as the most influential groups in re-drawing ="trms">categories of existence and deciding what is animate or inanimate, n[...]