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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
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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
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="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
='mywrk'>my work over the etymology of the signifier ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> moon index
(i shoot up trash ="trms">fiction)
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(="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
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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, ="trms">natural or ="trms">technical (not ="trms">scientists or philosophers)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>***classical ="trms">marketing strategies='lgc'>: ="trms">positioning, ="trms">communication='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> paradoxes in ="trms">consumption (for example stem cell engineered meat appears as both identical and radically ="trms">different from its predecessors) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> postethical ="trms">consumption models (="trms">categorized as vegetarian='qstn'>? how ="trms">marketing re-enchant food without appeal to a myth of ="trms">pastoral o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin='qstn'>?)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> commentary ="trms">consumption acts='lgc'>: organic food ="trms">market, ="trms">natural healthcare ="trms">market
="lstsrd">3.
miniaturization of life
“fast, cheap, and out of control”
autonomous (='lgc'>=/= central, god-like)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•="trms">technology is no more locatable within a machine (a consciousness that envelopes the ="trms">world) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dispersed='lgc'>: (a logic of) ="trms">technology as environment ='lgc'>[diffused='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=/= tool ='lgc'>[discrete='lgc'>]
="trms">internet of things ='lgc'>: digitally enabled objects share and ="trms">respond to information
1980s ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> processing (of information, microprocessor)
1990s ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">networking (="trms">world wide web)
2000s ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sensing and controlling
“my ="trms">consumption patterns worth so much that they under="trms">write my acts of ="trms">consumption” -Hayles
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*cognition='lgc'> = a product='strcls'>* that emerges between the self and its environment (and does not take place ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusively on the brain) ='lgc'>--="trms">stages='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cognition as a process
="lstsrd">4.
complexification of life
complex (feedback loops, emergence, bifurcation) ='lgc'>=/= complicated='lgc'>: accurately analysable ="trms">system having a large number of component and perform sophisticated tasks
="lsts lst1">•most of the most valuable products today have virtual components (software, money, etc.) that would be unrecognizable 25 years ago
="lstsrd">5.
automation of life
(fundamental legal principle of) ius gentium='lgc'>: all humans are the same in so far as they are rational human beings in possession of free will ='lgc'>=/= 21st century ="trms">neuro="trms">scientific research
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--Libet='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “free won't” ='lgc'>: the mind exists in a climate which says yes, but it can say no
="trms">agency is outsourced to ="trms">systems that increasingly invisiblize from everyday life (software deciding mortgage, Face="trms">book sug="trms">gest friend, turning car into a moving computer)
dystopian ="trms">imaginary of Black Mirror TV series ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> these developments are a tyrannical force that undermine an a ="trms">priori and fundamental humanness
='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">consumer rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer's results will be powerful counter-balances to the often too blindly utopian and dystopian accounts of the future
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='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]advertising='lgc'>: (ubiquitous and contentious) ="trms">symptom of organization='lgc'>[= corporate entity and/or common practice='lgc'>]
="trms">aesthetic ambassador of the organization
='lgc'>--(a way through which)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**anyone outside the organization mythologizes an ="trms">imaginary inside='strcls'>**
(its) media='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>***indirect messages of public ="trms">relations that are embedded deep in the heart of non-advertising genres='strcls'>***
="lsts lst1">•bombastic and direct appeal of made-for-cinema advertisement and corporate ="trms">communication
="lsts lst1">•
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how advertising used to be scorned as a practice and profession ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> gained ="trms">responsibility in American culture='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-1 advertising became ="trms">instrumental in en="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listing soldiers during ="trms">world war I ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> lending it a moral force which served more noble purposes besides commerce
="prgrph">-2 it was elevated through its incorporation into education (first in Harvard University 1924)
="prgrph">-3 it becames adept at referencing styles and com="trms">missioning work from the realm of high culture
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--now='lgc'>='lgc'>--> advertising does not just produce culture, but ='strcls'>***culture produces advertising='strcls'>***
(one of the central ="trms">questions of advertising in contemporary times has been the extent to which) ='strcls'>*advertising enframes everything within its discourse and logic='strcls'>*
='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>****if advertising is everything, what is it not='qstn'>?='strcls'>**** ='lgc'>[='at'>@="nms">apass='lgc'>] ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this is a crucial ="trms">question about advertising and it is part of a larger global crucial devate about the commodification of life and previously inalienable aspects thereof
="trms">scientific advertising ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway
advertising='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. fascinates us
="lstsrd">2. it works
an average person in the western ="trms">world is exposed to 3000 advertisements per day
everyday, it transforms me from this ="trms">world to an ="trms">imaginary one for a moment
(advertising) offers through a ='strcls'>*constant stream of visual cameos='strcls'>* برجسته کارى, ='strcls'>*implicit standards='strcls'>* of cleanliness, ="trms">sociality, family life, health, happiness, and a great many other values ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">affect me
='strcls'>****="trms">modern advertising works by appearing not to care if it works='strcls'>**** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> when someone utters the immortal phrase “advertising doesn't ="trms">affect me"='lgc'> = advertising has achieved its ultimate goal ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*****advertising empowers us to feel distant to it='strcls'>*****
="ppl">Campbell ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> advertising='lgc'>: organizs meaning in the most powerful and generic of senses ='lgc'>+ a ="trms">symptom of the organization
1920 - 1930
="trms">modern advertising's coming of age (creating compelling signs)
(its signs underwent a qualitative shift in) sophistication
personalized testimonials
='strcls'>*participatory tone of voice='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= direct imperative command='lgc'>]
="trms">consumer goods ="trms">embodied values (that had normally been attributed to humans and the ="trms">natural ="trms">world) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= mere economic entities='lgc'>]
(through the ="trms">system of advertising='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*="trms">imagining the product as a benefit sought by the ="trms">consumer='strcls'>* ='lgc'>~ illumination instead of lighting fixtures, prestige instead of automobiles, sex appeal instead of mere soap,,) ='strcls'>*products ='lgc'>--offer='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mini-solutions to the dilemmas of ="trms">modernity='lgc'>[= the pace and scale of rationalization, depersonalization and ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbanization brought by ="trms">modern industrial capitalism ='lgc'>==exerted='lgc'>='lgc'>==> هزینه خسارت a toll on the human psyche='lgc'>]
1950 - 1960
(from) public role of sign identification ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> private and psychological space of one's mind and ="trms">interior life
rise of ='strcls'>*depth men='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Mad Men TV series, people in advertising ="trms">agencies that reportedly used psychological ="trms">techniques to uncovers the subconscious needs, desires, insecurities, fears of ="trms">consumers)
='strcls'>*product='lgc'> = unconscious fulfilments, solutions, comforts and fantasies to them='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[Packard's Betty Crocker cake mix and Esso's Tiger in your Tank campaign ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> alleged power of small groups of people to organize meaning on a massive and uncontrolled level='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•freezer='lgc'> = a nostalgic site of security in a threatening environment ='lgc'>=/= a device for cooling foodstuffs (='strcls'>*giving of food ='lgc'><='lgc'>--='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> ="trms">love='strcls'>* ='lgc'>+ insecurity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> more food than you can eat)
="prgrph">-more sophisticated motivational research and appeals
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='strcls'>****advertising='lgc'>: a form of ="trms">literacy='strcls'>**** (a new and be="trms">wildering ="trms">code)
sign ="trms">system of advertising is not static
the generations to come will regard contemporary sign ="trms">systems as rudimentary and easy to de="trms">code
ultra-sophisticated images will appear antiquited and perhaps even humorous (='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Godard">Goda hating contemporary sign ="trms">system)
="prgrph">-the way in which advertising today visualizes software, the environment, nano="trms">technology as seemingly ='strcls'>*undeconstructible ='and'>& transparent='strcls'>* will be staple examples in classroom curricula
(the most obvious and immediate way of conceptualizing) advertising='lgc'>: a ="trms">system that creates signs with the purpose of ="trms">communicating meaning ='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Campbell
discipline of ="trms">marketing ='lgc'>--support='lgc'>='lgc'>--> investigation of image ="trms">consumption
early models of advertising (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**how we understand the philosophy of what information and ="trms">communication are='strcls'>**)
="lsts lst1">•1949 Bell Laboratories ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> information='lgc'>: universalized component of any ="trms">system that ="trms">communicated ='lgc'>=/= “information” as rather ="trms">poetic and sipritual term (at home in philosophy ='lgc'>=/= engineering) ='lgc'>--advertising='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hierarchy of effects='lgc'>: cognitive ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">affective ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> behavioral ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> informationalize and ="trms">measure aspects of advertising='lgc'>]
(to understand) ='strcls'>*information theory of ="trms">communication as a reflection of larger ="trms">scientific and philosophical aims of the time='strcls'>*
='strcls'>***information theory of ="trms">communication ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•providing ="trms">codified models that predict ="trms">response
="lsts lst1">•enframe ="trms">communication within a logic of relative effectiveness or ineffectiveness
='lgc'>}='lgc'>=/= my ="trms">lectures
brand ="trms">memories
brand equity
boundary between advertising and everyday life
='lgc'>[="ppl">Campbell ='lgc'>=/=='lgc'>]
='thdf'>the idea that qualitative advertising research has a manageria="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list axiology
a ="trms">priori ='thdf'>assumption of “advertising='lgc'> = information ="trms">communication” (='lgc'>=/= people incorporate advertising so that it functions as a ='strcls'>*="trms">social glue='strcls'>* within groups)
(vernacular specter of advertising)
="trms">spectacular vernacular of ="trms">social fabric
site of investigation='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. site of ="trms">consumption='lgc'> = reception (the field of meaning from a ="trms">consumer's perspective)
="lstsrd">2. site of production='lgc'> = processes involved in making ads (favoured in media studies and ethnographic approaches to advertising)
="lstsrd">3. site of the image='lgc'>: analysis of the meaning of the image itself (independent of intention and reception) are the most powerful way to show what images in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude and ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude (drawing influence primarily from the disciplines of ="trms">history, philosophy, ="trms">sociology and ="trms">linguistics)
how meaning moved from ='strcls'>*the ="trms">world of advertising='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*the ="trms">world of the ="trms">consumer='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: ways in which advertising is ="trms">integrated into the life-="trms">world of people
='strcls'>****advertising='lgc'>: a powerful ="trms">translator of the cultural ="trms">world='strcls'>**** ='and'>& داور a central arbiter of meaning in ="trms">consumer ="trms">worlds (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>this is why advertising concerns me)
="ppl">Barthes ='lgc'>+ Saussure ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Peirce ='lgc'>+ Jacobsen ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">semiotics can be regarded as one of the most comprehensive studies of sign ="trms">system ='lgc'>~ advertisement='lgc'>: bundle of signs that formed finely constructed conventions ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ‘image='lgc'> = text’ (its grammar='lgc'>:)
="lstsrd">1. micro-level='lgc'>: tiny units, vectors, colors, forms (within the visual plane)
="lstsrd">2. mid-level='lgc'>: human-level characteristics of gender, hairstyle, posture, facial expression, buildings, ="trms">rhetorical devices in the image (such as ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor and troping)
="lstsrd">3. ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta-level='lgc'>: ="trms">narrative structure, mythic in ="trms">nature, to see ="trms">embodied in the properties and dynamics of the image the macro properties and fynamics of ="trms">social ="trms">world (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- business of ="trms">semiotic)
="ppl">Barthes ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (new medium of) photographic advertisement='lgc'> = a ="trms">codified structure ='lgc'>=/= a transparent reflection of the ="trms">world
="prgrph">-='strcls'>*="ppl">Barthes ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of Citroen DS car
impossible newness
it appears at first sight as a superlative object صفت عالی
object which appear at first sight as completely finished ="trms">present to us at once a perfection and an absence of o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin, closure and a brilliance, ='strcls'>*a transformation of life into ="trms">matter='strcls'>*, a silence that belongs to the realm of fairy tales
='strcls'>*smoothness is not a property of ="trms">material, but a ="trms">social value='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-Christ's robe was seamless, ="trms">science ="trms">fiction, made of unbroken ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal, ="trms">phenomenology of assembling, hold together by sole virtue of their wondrous shape ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='thdf'>the idea of benign ="trms">nature
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--learn='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (to make) lines of connection='lgc'>: visual convention ='lgc'>+ ="trms">religious painting, ="trms">science ="trms">fiction film, politics of ="trms">nature (constructed over the ="trms">past 2000 years of western culture) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- to understand this in your own work ='at'>#feedback ='at'>@="nms">apass='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-='strcls'>*="ppl">="ppl">Haraway
neutral images of (high-tech) ="trms">science ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> stock of Renaissance visual analogues ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> legitimate lineage ='lgc'>+ o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin ="trms">story (for ="trms">technical revolutions)
(="ppl">Barthes > ="ppl">Campbell) ='strcls'>**what sign constructions do westerners use to tell the ="trms">story of how ="trms">technology comes to be ="trms">present in the ="trms">world='qstn'>?='strcls'>**
="prgrph">-='strcls'>*="ppl">Campbell ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of Simens’ ad “builing blocks” (2005)
Simens products float into space, as ="trms">naturally and as pure white snowflake falling to the earth
absence of labor ='lgc'>==herald='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a universe of self-organizing invisible ="trms">agency
“="trms">technology='lgc'> = invisible force that is lighter than air, rearranging itself into whatever seems to be needed” (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">fashioned, melted, hammered , soldered and generally forced into the ="trms">natural order)
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the ="trms">agency that organizes is non-pollutant, non-disruptive, non-energetic
(from) cacophonous ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> harmonious ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="trms">technology seeks its home='lgc'>]
sky above, supra-structure ='lgc'>=/= ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]infrastructure='lgc'>: structure from below
='lgc'>--Simens='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">technology='lgc'>: apotheosized (تکريم) by extending its self-organizing capabilities, lending it a divinity which is universal, inevitable, ="trms">natural and just (Simens’ ad ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Iron Man image)
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supra-structure ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new / ="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek
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infrastructure ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> old / planets they visit
the human body='lgc'>: the most depicted object in advertising
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> research tradition='lgc'>:
humans have more synapses for ="trms">interprting face
depiction of female body
male body
sex in advertising
racial marked body
(boring ="trms">questions='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•whether advertising reflects the ="trms">world or shape it
="lsts lst1">•how signs reproduce, create, normalize or subvert the often unequal power structures that exist between male and female bodies
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**despite potential ambiguity in images we as visual ="trms">consumers are always ="trms">presented with a “preferred ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading”='strcls'>** ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Pierre, ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Godard">Goda ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “image is controlled by discursive limits” (='lgc'>--="frds">Sina='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">fable of ‘subtlest ideological weapon of advertising’) ='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> paradox of identity construction='lgc'>: the ="trms">consuming subject chooses among a limited repertoire of “iterated” or preexisting identities provided by ="trms">marketing and adertising, steering viewers in preferred directions ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a ="trms">fable='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]coopt='lgc'>: advertising pretends to acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge a competing discourse or ideology, but only pays lip service to it, ignoring its real radical challenge
='thdf'>the idea of advertising='lgc'>: a ="trms">system that instils (القا، کم کم تزریق کردن) products and services with cultural and ="trms">social values that are not intrinsic to them ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ magic='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> highly visible display of ruling-class ="trms">interests
='strcls'>*advertising='lgc'> = capitalism ='lgc'>+ ="trms">aesthetics='strcls'>*
advertising='lgc'>: the pre-eminent way in which the ="trms">interest of the powerful minority maintain the docility, alienation, or servitude of the majority (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Godard">Goda's understanding of pop culture)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]magic='lgc'>: conjure an object from its immediate ="trms">material rootedness and animate it with a much more potent energy ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> erase human experience of the monotony of ="trms">consumption with its transient satisfactions and reinvigorate it anew with fresh promise-claims
='thdf'>for example advertisement for mobile phone='lgc'> = ='strcls'>*sug="trms">gestion='strcls'>* (about a certain design ="trms">aesthetic ='lgc'>+ a certain tole in professional life ='lgc'>+ a certain sexual appeal ='lgc'>+ a certain ="trms">social ="trms">network) ='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*announcement='strcls'>* (about a ="trms">technical device)
(announcement ='lgc'>=/= sug="trms">gestion='lgc'>: the act of advertising)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--1='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>the idea that advertising's signs='lgc'> = carefully constructed highly selective and distortive ways of seeing ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= simple reflections of the state of the ="trms">world='lgc'>] ='lgc'>==(="ppl">Adorno, Horkheimer, ="ppl">Marcuse, Klein, Curtis, Jhally, ='at'>@="nms">apass, ="frds scrmbld">Pierre)='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•false consciousness
="lsts lst1">•commodity fetishism
="lsts lst1">•docility
="lsts lst1">•passivity
="lsts lst1">•manipulation of unconscious desire
="lsts lst1">•environmental degradation
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--2='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>the idea that signs actually achieve their aims (through mortise and framing work, cropping, reification, ="trms">interpellation, cooption, the gaze, face-ism, individuation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[="ppl">Althusser's='lgc'>] ="trms">interpellation='lgc'>: process by which we are called or hailed into subjecthood through practices imposed ="trms">onto us from outside ="trms">interests, subjects are created through ="trms">material practices (going to church and kneeling down to pray precedes my subjecthood as a spiritual person)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">recruitment advertisement='lgc'>: ="trms">interpellative genre par excellence ='lgc'>~ through the practice of ="trms">response we enter into the predefined parameters of ="trms">relation with the organization ='lgc'>{Microsoft's “we want you!” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> 1='lgc'>: act of defining the subject='lgc'>: one who is special, unique, an individual among the masses. 2='lgc'>: collective pronoun='lgc'>: “we” serves to close the subject and the organization within a circuit of common purpose. 3='lgc'>: what is missing='lgc'>: a concrete visualization of working life in the organization, an absence which allows the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader to project his/her own fantasy ="trms">onto space ='lgc'>: ‘infantilize the organization ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> empower the subject’ ='lgc'>--re="trms">present='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an ="trms">imaginary ="trms">relationship ='lgc'>=/= real conditions of our existence='lgc'>}
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">Campbell) ='strcls'>****images are ="trms">ontologically cryptic='strcls'>**** ='lgc'>: we conceive images to be both ="trms">agentic ='and'>& passive, residing in and ="trms">affecting many spheres ="trms">simultaneously
="lsts lst1">•image='lgc'>: visuality, ="trms">apparatus, institutions, discourse, bodies, figurality, exist within a distinctive ="trms">socio-legal environment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**multiple ="trms">ontologies ='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Ihde's multistable='lgc'>] move images beyond simple ="trms">categories of analysis (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='thdf'>that is why i am still a visual artist, ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Pierre)
='strcls'>***images are extra-organizational entities='strcls'>*** (they are designed by organization but become) ='strcls'>*quixotic='strcls'>* and ='strcls'>*uncontrollable='strcls'>*
='strcls'>*="trms">fable of complex='lgc'>: there is something about the image that is beyond analytic investigation (='lgc'>--="ppl">Mitchell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> every image theorist seems to find some residue (surplus value) that goes beyond ="trms">communication, signification, persuassion (there is an extra in images) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> images are complex ='lgc'>{
="lstsrd">1. they are constantly mutating in meaning and significance
="lstsrd">2. they cross ="trms">aesthetic borders and are not confinable to a particular domain (image='lgc'> = ="trms">aesthetic ='lgc'>+ political ='lgc'>+ ="trms">social)
="lstsrd">3. they act on all domains recursively ='lgc'>--impossible='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how the ="trms">aesthetic life of images ="trms">affects the political life of images ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="ppl">Mitchell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*image as ="trms">species='strcls'>* (co-evolutionary entities, quasi life-form depend on a host organism) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst2">◦something not fully under human control
="lsts lst2">◦sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read through the host organicism
="lsts lst2">◦some die some become pandemic
="trms">aesthetic ='lgc'>--="trms">affect='lgc'>='lgc'>--> politic ='lgc'>--="trms">affect='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">aesthetic ='lgc'>--="trms">affect='lgc'>='lgc'>--> politic
='at'>#workshop make an ad for ="nms">apass
advertising trend
="lstsrd">1. information='lgc'>: (from) traditional forms of print ='and'>& television ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intensification and hybridization in oblique ways ='lgc'>+ through new media (adver-gaming, twitter-piccing, virtual-="trms">worlding, Corridor Crew's product placement)
="lstsrd">2. persuasion='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[as a ="trms">rhetorical force='lgc'>] (from) information-heavy selling ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dramatic persuasion
="lstsrd">3. entertainment='lgc'>: ="trms">communication through entertainment ='lgc'>=/= information, persuasion
="lsts lst1">•(from) ="trms">staging products in films ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> embedding of brands so deeply into the fabric of the film's ="trms">narrative as object-actors that propel the plot
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