[...]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


="large lg1" stl="font-size:145%"> ="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

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<[...]