[...]
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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> (have in mind that) any substance can function as a ="trms">drug


“It wasn't clear then whether the body was private property or not, whether the ="trms">authorities could legislate zoning ordinances, or whether pleasure and liberty were values freely exercised upon a ="trms">coded body.”
="prgrph">-="ppl">Avital


='mywrk'>my work over the etymology of the signifier ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> moon index
(i shoot up trash ="trms">fiction)


(="ppl">Freud) ='strcls'>*pain is imperious='strcls'>* متکبر

(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

="large lg38" stl="font-size:104%"> ="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">•

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

='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)


supra-structure ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new / ="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek
                             |
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)

="large lg46" stl="font-size:120%"> ='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
(Corridor Crew's unobtrusive embedding of branded goods and services in ="trms">storytelling, hybrid both ="trms">staging and embedding)

brand ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> creativity of ="trms">consumers to create artistic output in the form of art (="ppl">="ppl">Star Wars ="trms">world, Marina ="ppl">Abramovic) ='lgc'>--advertising='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">rhetorical purpose='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*entertain='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= inform (announcement), persuade, ='strcls'>*warn='strcls'>*='lgc'>[old o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal function of advertising='lgc'>]

='strcls'>*to warn='lgc'> = to inform='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- 15th century advertising ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> journalism='lgc'>]


ever growing impetus of advertising to reproduce itself in new forms ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">different account of the evolution of new media ='lgc'>: advertising creates new media to propagate itself (='strcls'>*two globally ="trms">pervasive and path-changing forms of media that would not exist without advertising revenue='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•search engine
="lsts lst1">•="trms">social ="trms">networking site

(McLuhan's “medium='lgc'> = message” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that we should look at the structural ="trms">nature of media rather than what it contains ='lgc'>=/=) ='strcls'>*message='lgc'> = medium='strcls'>* (in 20th century)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]advertising='lgc'>: ="trms">species that create media in order to allow it to replicate ='lgc'>=/= a thing that we humans create and put in media as an incidental extra to an o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginary ="trms">agent of meaning ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- hylo="trms">morphic understanding of advertising='lgc'>]


='lgc'>[in 20th century (task of)='lgc'>] advertising='lgc'>: to render the invisible ='lgc'>[qualities, such as='lgc'>: complexity, ="trms">network, information,,,='lgc'>] into compelling visualities (='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> public ="trms">imagination)
="lsts lst1">•(in organizational discourse) complexity='lgc'>: (='lgc'>--="trms">articulate='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) unpre="trms">dictable, multi-layered, decentered, emergent, globalized (="trms">world of Homeland TV series, of ="nms">apass, of ERG's website='lgc'>: ="trms">technological ='lgc'>+ adaptable ='lgc'>+ multi-layered)
='strcls'>*success ='lgc'><='lgc'>== visualize the complexity of their products='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[in the case of ERG='lgc'>: student's knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and the institution of university='lgc'>]

(Goldman's landscape of Capital ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) corporate advertising='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•visually depicts the ="trms">phenomenon of globalization
="lsts lst1">•="trms">affect the cultural ="trms">imaginary
="lsts lst1">•shape political sensibilities (with respect to life in high-tech globalism)

="large lg14" stl="font-size:115%"> a="trms">morphous ="trms">phenomena (that require high-stakes visualization)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•counter-terrorism
="lsts lst1">•climate change
="lsts lst1">•


="large lg30" stl="font-size:109%"> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]advertising='lgc'>: an institution that organizes meaning, a visual sign ="trms">system (as powerful as other ="trms">systems that organize meaning='lgc'>: medicine, law, education,,,) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= ="nms">apass='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*a form of ="trms">literacy='strcls'>*='lgc'> = can be learned ='lgc'>+ lexicon ='lgc'>+ grammer (that can be fruitfully investigated)
='strcls'>*advertising='lgc'> = capitalism ='lgc'>+ ="trms">aesthetic='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>==> research in advertising one of the most important research ="trms">priorities in any discipline today (='at'>@="nms">apass)

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='strcls'>***="trms">marketing='lgc'> = the ultimate ="trms">social practice of post="trms">modernity='strcls'>***

="trms">marketing practices
promotional campaigns
="trms">consumption culture

post="trms">modernity='lgc'>: a ="trms">phenomena ="trms">specific to the cultural ="trms">history of western europe and north america ='lgc'>--impact='lgc'>='lgc'>--> globe
='lgc'>--="ppl">Lyotard='lgc'>='lgc'>--> incredulity toward ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">narratives='lgc'>: unified idea ="trms">systems
='lgc'>--Jameson='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">consumer ="trms">society (marked by='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst2">◦="trms">pastiche='lgc'>: an attitude of a certain detachment (on the part of the individual) where all sty="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic expressions of parody, nostalgia, and other illustrated feeling lack emotional depth and commitment
="lsts lst2">◦="trms">schizophrenia='lgc'>: disjointedness and discontinuity of the individual's personal identity and experience in life
='lgc'>--Angus='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in="trms">finite delay of ='strcls'>*="trms">modernity='lgc'>: improving human lives by controlling ="trms">nature
='lgc'>--Wilson='lgc'>='lgc'>--> expression of incoherence of contemporary ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban life

post="trms">modernity ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">authority, unity, continuity, purpose, commitment
= “="trms">modernity='lgc'>: era of ="trms">scientific ideology ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> disillusionment, dis="trms">integration, ="trms">anxiety”
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hedonism
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tolerance (recognition) of ="trms">difference
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">narrative='lgc'> = ="trms">story (that people construct to tell themselves) =="ppl">="ppl">Foucault= regimes of truth
='lgc'>=/= conformity

examples of ="trms">modern ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">narratives='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•bourgeois (capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list) ideology
="lsts lst1">•marxism

='lgc'>}='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">market='lgc'> = new ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">narrative in post="trms">modernity='strcls'>*


post="trms">modern condition='lgc'>:

="lstsrd">1- ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]hyperreality='lgc'>: becoming real of what initially was/is a simulation/hype='lgc'>: simulation of ="trms">imagined potential or ="trms">imagined ="trms">past (signifiers arbitrary linked to their o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal referent)

="trms">marketing='lgc'>: a practice that resignifies (a brand name)

tendency and willingness of the customers to prefer the simulation (for example the theme areas in city centers of an ="trms">imagined ="trms">pasts) ='lgc'>=/= “real”

post="trms">modernism is a cultural critique (='lgc'>=/= economic, ="trms">social critique) of ="trms">modernity

post="trms">modern critique tends to rely on experiential or sensible judgement (='lgc'>--valued='lgc'>='lgc'>--> trusting intuition and sensing of what is practical/="trms">pragmatic based on cultural experience) ='lgc'>=/= analysis of ="trms">material evidence

='strcls'>****post ="trms">world war II politics ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> youth movement culminated in the 1960s ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> institutionalization of the generational rebellion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> post="trms">modernism='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•post="trms">modern cultural critique rely on intuition ='lgc'>+ experiential sensibilities (in seeking a better ="trms">world)
="lsts lst1">•post="trms">modern ="trms">consumer feels more justified in playful enjoyment of the simulation (='lgc'>=/= constantly seeking the somber reminders of “reality”)

hyperreality ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “loss of ="trms">history” ='lgc'>: ="trms">historical ="trms">phenomena='lgc'> = collage with visual ex="trms">citement='lgc'> = journalism
='strcls'>*voyeuristic exposure to the ="trms">spectacle='lgc'> = cultural ="trms">pastiche of the contemporary ="trms">world='strcls'>*
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#="trms">integration of the hollywood films (nested='lgc'>: music brand names become sub-="trms">spectacle within the ="trms">spectacle of the film) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (we are immersed in) an era of ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">marketing='lgc'>: ="trms">marketing itself is ="trms">marketed (becomes a prominent ="trms">spectacle ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to Devil wears prada movie)

b="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurring of genres in news programs (Vox news), soap operas (), games ()

decontextualization ='lgc'>+ ="trms">spectacle

the duality of ‘appearance ='lgc'>=/= essence’ is dead in post="trms">modernity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cereal strategic decision-making in ="trms">marketing ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>****image='lgc'> = ="trms">positioning='strcls'>****

="prgrph">-="trms">consumer always seeks an essence (in adopting a product)
="prgrph">-="trms">consumer of post="trms">modern culture play the game of “surface” (they increasingly acquire the ="trms">skills of recognizing the images and the ="trms">positions these images offer)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">marketing='lgc'>: institution of simulation, ="trms">imaginary, hype
(forms of) persuasive ="trms">communication ='lgc'>: transformational pro="trms">positions ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> simulating potential experiences (='lgc'>=/= true or false discourse)


="lstsrd">2- ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]fragmentation='lgc'>: the ="trms">consumer engages in a series of independent, separate, unconnected acts ='lgc'>--each='lgc'>='lgc'>--> require a ="trms">different product
='lgc'>+ fleeting moments of exciting s="trms">cenes and images

(post="trms">modern) transcendence of the (="trms">modernist) necessity to ='strcls'>*understand connections='strcls'>*

='strcls'>***artists of all kinds are increasingly assuming the role of ="trms">marketing institutions='strcls'>***

the ="trms">consumers (of post="trms">modernity) are encouraged to play the game of ='strcls'>*image-switching='strcls'>* (caring mother, efficient manager, elegant partner, gourmet ho="trms">memaker ='lgc'>--each='lgc'>='lgc'>--> require a ="trms">different style ='lgc'>{labeled as ="trms">consumer liberation='lgc'>}) ='lgc'>=/= central character
='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari's ="trms">schizophrenia of late capitalism='lgc'>]

disconnected from authentic self ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (enormous potential for) creativity in manufactured re="trms">presentations
='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">market becomes a ="trms">pastiche

postsub="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban transformation
complex ="trms">interaction of high-="trms">technology production ='lgc'>+ ="trms">socio-spatial con="trms">figuration ='lgc'>+ ="trms">spectacular shopping environment='lgc'> = ubiquitous shopping malls (='lgc'>--acquired='lgc'>='lgc'>--> post="trms">modern theatrical character, fragmented experience of all cultures)

unrestricted ability to use signifiers ='lgc'>[='qstn'>?pushed back by some emerging sensibilities of cultural appropriation, political correctness, gender policing, ="trms">religious, etc.='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">marketing competition rests on the creation of images (meanings) removed from any ="trms">history, context, o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin ='lgc'>=/= excellence and sophistication in form and ="trms">technique
='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to contemporary artists anti-excellence attitude and the celebration of fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure and failing='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**each instance of ="trms">communication becomes a ="trms">spectacle='strcls'>**

purposefully decontextualized ='lgc'>+ rendered free floating ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">marketable product
(surrea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list artists made use of this ='lgc'>--now='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shop window designer)
Duchamp, Rauschenberg, Warhol (="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready-made)

='strcls'>***themes of post="trms">modern culture='lgc'>:
irreverence
nonconformity
noncommitment
detachment
="trms">difference
fragmentation

(paradoxically) what seems to be ="trms">difference at the level of ="trms">symbolic culture stems from an underlying uniformity ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='strcls'>***heterogeneity has its o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins in homogeneity='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>: cultures where ="trms">market and ="trms">marketing are less developed exhibit greater variance in both the quality and kinds of life patterns

="trms">literacy='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•in ="trms">modernity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read ='lgc'>+ discover connections among seemingly unrelated objects ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> understanding
="lsts lst1">•in post="trms">modernity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> watching ='lgc'>: recognizing images (exposing oneself to innumerable images and recognize what they stand for ='lgc'>~ attach meaning to them) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this is what i did in my telegram ="trms">bestiary text!

="trms">literacy in ="trms">consumption culture ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/=='qstn'>? established nortons of education


="lstsrd">3- ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]reversal of production ='and'>& ="trms">consumption
="lsts lst1">•="trms">modernist='lgc'>: value is created in production (meaningful) and destroyed in ="trms">consumption (profane)
="lsts lst1">•post="trms">modern='lgc'>: production continues during the moment of ="trms">consumption, value is created during ="trms">consumption='lgc'>: a process through which individuals define themselves, status, image (='lgc'>=/= common) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">social act, ="trms">symbolic meaning ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> an individual with certain tastes, mentality, values (a type of humanity)

production ='and'>& ="trms">consumption prove to be ="trms">different moments of the same cycle

="lsts lst1">•during production='lgc'>: producers are human beings, products are commodities
="lsts lst1">•during ="trms">consumption='lgc'>: producers are images, products are human beings


="lstsrd">4- ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]decentering subject
="lsts lst1">•="trms">modernist='lgc'>: the subject is in the pursuit of its goals, constituted in the separation of body and mind, to graduate from the ='strcls'>*state of being='strcls'>* (existential) to the ='strcls'>*state of knowing='strcls'>* (cognitive) ='lgc'>: distance oneself from a pure existence of being (its context and condition) in order to develop a cognitive understanding
="lsts lst1">•post="trms">modern='lgc'>: the subject is not in control, role of the human is to allow products perform their functions

="trms">marketing orientation
="lsts lst1">•="trms">positioning of the products (in the ="trms">market)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">positioning of the ="trms">consumer (in the ="trms">social ="trms">market)

(today's) body culture='lgc'>: self-objectification (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to be ="trms">consumed)
distancing of one's own gaze from one's own body to view one's self and scrutinize one's own images
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***="trms">fashion becomes the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor for culture='strcls'>***


="lstsrd">5- ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]juxta="trms">position of anything with anything (its name='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst1">•opposing emotions='lgc'>: ="trms">love ='and'>& hate, contempt ='and'>& annotation
="lsts lst1">•opposing cognitions='lgc'>: belief ='and'>& doubt, reverence ='and'>& ridicule
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in advertisement a product is ="trms">simultaneously made fun of and prompted, or making credibility by discrediting advertising
='strcls'>*high art and mundane ="trms">consumption='strcls'>*
='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>== growing acceptance of ='strcls'>*doublethink='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? double bond) ='lgc'>: the ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metagame of playing along as if the rules are what they seem on the surface while having the knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge the rules of the game played are quite ="trms">different from what that appear to be
="lsts lst1">•in advertisement='lgc'>: the ="trms">consumer thinks while other people are persuaded, they themselves are not
="lsts lst1">•in politics='lgc'>: the ="trms">consumers (voters) ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listen as if the politicians are espousing genuinely personal views
="lsts lst1">•in media='lgc'>: stating the role of the polls ='lgc'>+ reflecting the politicians view with utmost ="trms">seriousness
="lsts lst1">•ethnic restaurants ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> delicious life styles of which food is just a manifestation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**simulated adventure in a theatrical ="trms">society='strcls'>**
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the post="trms">modern ="trms">consumer does not judge the experience from a foundational perspective
='strcls'>*it recognizes only ="trms">difference='strcls'>*, only fragments (='lgc'>=/= inequality, conflict)

anything is at once acceptable and suspect ( مجاز majaz)

='strcls'>*juxta="trms">position of op="trms">posites ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> total irony ='lgc'>+ ambiguity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">pastiche='strcls'>*

="trms">marketing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*incorporation='lgc'>: pulling the contradictory (country cultural) movements into ="trms">market economy ='lgc'>: emptying expressions (music, ="trms">fashion) of rebellion (for example punk) of their content ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> commodities them

="trms">society ="trms">historical process is affairs through politics and ="trms">social ="trms">relations ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">market mediates ="trms">social conflicts (for example the content and the looks of news program in VOX news)

='strcls'>*="trms">marketization (of politics)='lgc'>: the possibility of re="trms">presenting them through electronically manipulated images (for example USA's 1991 gulf war was run more as a ="trms">marketing campaign)
='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> ='strcls'>*management of consent='strcls'>*

“authentic” traditional cultures in order to survive have to become ="trms">marketable ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> touristic attractions

="lsts lst1">•="trms">marketing taking the center ="trms">stage in most western institutions
="lsts lst1">•="trms">market='lgc'> = locus (dominant mediator) of legitimation


="trms">marketing='lgc'>: a cultural process re="trms">presenting the post-


transnational (corporation) ='lgc'>: post="trms">modern cultural change ="trms">agent


in traditional ="trms">world of commerce ‘commercial space ='and'>& time ='lgc'>=/= programming space ='and'>& time’

="trms">modernist vacuum created by obsolete notions of what is good or bad (sacred or profane) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> filled by ="trms">marketing (enters ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> culture)


fragmentation ='lgc'>==require='lgc'>='lgc'>==> use of many ="trms">different styles and forms

(ideas and movements which al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready have made) sensational impact ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">spectacle ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> commodities


(="trms">marketing helped in entrenching) artist selebrity setting new trends and values ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a post="trms">modern ="trms">phenomena with its roots in 1960s “anti-” movements
="lsts lst1">•not challenging or endorsing or committing to any one style, but rebelling by doing “one's own thing” (Madonna's rebellion 1991 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> she will continue to find large audiences as long as she re="trms">presents and combines the post="trms">modern aspects of critique of the ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">narrative and the ="trms">marketable commercial sensationalism of the fragmented ="trms">spectacle)

paradoxical ="trms">nature of post="trms">modern culture ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- fragmentation and discontinuity of their experience
not owning a TV (conscious rejection) ='lgc'>+ driving a car (="trms">integrated into mainstream)


merging of education and ="trms">marketing
='strcls'>*televisual generation='strcls'>*
(in north america and western europe) the education is taking place mostly outside of three classroom

(="trms">modern) institutionalized education ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (post="trms">modern) ="trms">marketing ="trms">system ='lgc'>: the individual of the post="trms">modern encounters the institutionalized education as ="trms">obligation, drudgery, and the means to achieve ="trms">positions

(from) a process of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading issues and ="trms">questions for exploration ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a process of persuasively ="trms">communicating the necessities of knowing (and following efficient ways of doing things) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">literacy='lgc'>: being able to manipulate and construct (recognize and grasp multi-layered multi-faceted multi-media images ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to impress upon all senses) ='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="trms">marketing is best ="trms">situated to educate this
='lgc'>[-can a true critical deconstruction of post="trms">modernism start from ="trms">literacy='qstn'>? ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to telegram ="trms">bestiary text='lgc'>]


='strcls'>***the ="trms">consumer is also a signifier='strcls'>***
(constructed in the images that are culturally signified, for example the female)
(even ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorically) putting somebody on the pedestal (="trms">stage) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> exposure to voyeuristic gaze ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> objectification ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> commodification ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="ppl">Baudrillard='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•a liberation (the subject is the object which has the powers of seduction as the focus of desire ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in control)
="lsts lst1">•a loss of freedom (the subject is culturally signified and constructed for fonctions determined outside its own power ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a property of the other)

='strcls'>*decoupling of culturally signified ="trms">categories (of gender, etc.)='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--="trms">marketing='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (post="trms">modern stance and trend='lgc'>:) male model/actors who re="trms">present emotional, nurturing, and sensitive ='lgc'>+ female model/actors who re="trms">present aggressive, powerful, rational (in American advertisement and TV series)
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “i shop, therefore i am” becomes applicable to men
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> both men and women become ideal ="trms">consumers ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> flourish of ="trms">market exchange

='strcls'>* ='strcls'>* (both male and female) seek authentic self ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (get caught up in) objectification ='lgc'>+ fragmentation ='strcls'>* ='strcls'>*

pattern quest='lgc'>: ="trms">imaging (re="trms">presenting) ='lgc'>=/= being, knowing

='lgc'>[image ="trms">marketing='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*the image does not re="trms">present the product, but the product re="trms">presents the image='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•="trms">consumers are essentially ="trms">consumers of ="trms">symbols
="lsts lst1">•="trms">consumption culture='lgc'> = construction of ="trms">symbolic environment
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> tourism as the lar="trms">gest industry in the ="trms">world (="trms">translate your culture images into ="trms">marketable products ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">consumer fetishes) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*global culturalism='strcls'>*

='lgc'>[manipulation of ="trms">symbols='lgc'>]
(from) ethical issue (="trms">modern) ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sty="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic issue (="trms">phenomenological, post="trms">modern)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]globalization='lgc'>: (create fragmented heterogenized ="trms">market ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) serve the locals with global universal signs
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transnational='lgc'>: a highly ="trms">symbolic ="trms">communication ="trms">system that is timeless, contextless, diffused in space, located anonymously, with no known ="trms">history


="trms">marketing is the first institution that adapt to post="trms">modernism

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="trms">consumer (='lgc'>--impulse='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “i want”) ='lgc'>=/= citizen (“we need”)

Sunstein
="trms">consumer sovereignty (="trms">matters of personal taste, “are they getting what they want='qstn'>?”, ‘freedom='lgc'>: satisfaction of private preferences’, ) ='lgc'>=/= political sovereignty (='strcls'>*government by discussion='strcls'>* ='lgc'>+ reason-giving in the public domain ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- many/most citizens should have a range of common experiences ='lgc'>=/= filtering of information, customizing information to fit)

='strcls'>**unplanned unanticipated encounters ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- central to democracy='strcls'>**

(pseudo-democratic) participation ="trms">interactivity ='lgc'>: invitation to participate in one's own manipulation by providing increasingly detailed information about personal preferences (Andrejevic, noted by ="ppl">Hubert)

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='strcls'>*misattunement='lgc'>:
='lgc'>--Stern='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a parental ="trms">technique for modifying the behaviour (='lgc'>+ ="trms">affective experience) of the ="trms">child
='lgc'>--="ppl">Ahmed='lgc'>='lgc'>--> being out of ="trms">synch with a ="trms">world (“of whiteness” that aims to be in harmony)

='strcls'>*attunement='lgc'>: a ="trms">technique for occupying space
='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ='at'>#="trms">integration ='lgc'>{for ="ppl">Ahmed='lgc'>: becoming a citizen (= nationalism) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= the work of attunement ='lgc'>=/= str="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger='lgc'>: the body we are not with='lgc'>}

="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clumsiness='lgc'>: being in the way of yourself (to lack the coordination to coordinate yourself with yourself)
='lgc'>--registers='lgc'>='lgc'>--> as the loss of a possibility

(in art, performed ="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clumsiness as strategically antagonistic='qstn'>?)

(="ppl">Ahmed's) emotional work='lgc'>: closing the gap between ‘how one does feel’ and ‘how one should feel’ ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a labour (when) is successful, it disappears as labour

how flight attendants (and teachers='qstn'>?) become ="trms">responsible for collective moods ='lgc'>--Hochs="trms">child='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ability to preserve the mood of a ="trms">situation requires working not only on feelings, but drawing on tactic knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge about how moods are shaped

(bad mood of a shopkeeper in Brussels...)

='strcls'>*="trms">histories that linger as mood='strcls'>*

diversity work ='lgc'>--involves='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•the effort to minimize ="trms">differences so that those who arrive can appear more ‘in tune’ with those who are al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready here
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bodies do not arrive at the same time ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="frds">Sina's trans-lateness ="trms">lecture performance series for Akademie der Künste der Welt 2014='lgc'>: being late is precisely the condition for which ="trms">translation is needed ='lgc'>+ critique of universal ="trms">translator='lgc'>]


...atmospheric qualities of the ="trms">market

="ppl">Ahmed's criticism of hopeful performativity ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- in her text “not in the mood” ="ppl">Ahmed privileges ‘bad mood’ as the emblem of marginality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> emotional misfit='lgc'>]


public mood='lgc'>: prevailing public sentiment as to what constitutes appropriate ="trms">matters for governmental attention ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- thermostatic understanding of mood
='lgc'>--="ppl">Ahmed='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fabrication of feeling (& ="trms">consumer satisfaction)


='strcls'>*to find='lgc'> = to form='strcls'>*

='thdf'>the idea of the national body acquires coherence through a ="trms">systems of belief ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> separate the nation from race
="lsts lst1">•“requiring those who ="trms">embody diversity to give their allegiance to its body” (for example a nation can ="trms">love diversity whilst ="trms">demanding that Muslim women un="trms">veil)


="ppl">Marxist model of commodity fetishism ='lgc'>--="ppl">Ahmed='lgc'>='lgc'>--> feelings come to reside (magically) in objects ='lgc'>[by cutting those objects off from a wider economy of labour and production. it is then as if fear o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginates with the arrival of others whose bodies become containers of our fear='lgc'>]


(for ="ppl">Ahmed) happiness='lgc'>: a ="trms">technique of distraction (a cover-up)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for her='lgc'>: potency is in the rage
(="ppl">Ahmed is too fast to celebrate lesbian ‘="trms">affect alien’ ='lgc'>=/= heterosexual marriage)

good weather ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (showing) safety and wisdom of pre="trms">diction

='thdf'>the idea of “your unfeeling masks a disbelief”

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="trms">interesting ='lgc'>=/= appealling ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> most satisfying videos

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elite ="trms">consumption
country house

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dirt
waste
stink
microbes


="ppl">Campbell on bacteria and ="trms">market


="trms">tropes that bring bacteria into the ="trms">symbolic realm='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. cuteness
="lstsrd">2. overpopulation
="lstsrd">3. lower classes
="lstsrd">4. deviant sex
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--channel='lgc'>='lgc'>--> utterances that (indirectly ='lgc'>[political discourse of establishment neoliberalism cannot address such things in direct ways='lgc'>]) express fantasies about='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•purity
="lsts lst1">•gender
="lsts lst1">•race
="lsts lst1">•="trms">community
="lsts lst1">•family
="lsts lst1">•pollution
="lsts lst1">•class
="lsts lst1">•disease
="lsts lst1">•sexual promiscuity (deviancy)
='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>-- ="trms">symptoms of a capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">socio-economic order ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they are found in='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦explicit ="trms">rhetoric of anti-establishment politics (the alt-="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right, anti-immigrant movements)
="lsts lst2">◦implicit content of the ="trms">marketing ="trms">material of globalized and globalizing multinationals



bacteria='lgc'>: ="trms">symptoms of a capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">socio-economic order ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> repressed fears and fantasies about purity, gender, race, ="trms">community, pollution, class, sexual promiscuity ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- leveraged by antibacterial brands

from (psychoanalytical concept of) ="trms">symptom ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sinthome
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">symptom='lgc'>: repressed extrinsic ideology that must be revealed ='lgc'>=/= ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]sinthome='lgc'>: a fantasy that does not dissolve when brought to light ='lgc'><='lgc'>== it structures reality intrinsically

a ='strcls'>*psychoanalytically informed critical ="trms">marketing='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">consumer is made to trace their ="trms">symptoms='strcls'>* (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- the ="trms">perverse effects of emancipatory revelatory critical analysis)

='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sinthome ="trms">presents a tool for analysing ='strcls'>*fantasies that focus on the form of their expression, rather than their content='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•in the case of (fantasy takes the form of) bacteria ='lgc'>--reveal='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a confluence between) ='strcls'>*the politics of ="trms">community ='and'>& the physiology of (auto)immunity='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> clean and dirty='lgc'>]


="large lg42" stl="font-size:105%"> dilemma of ="trms">modern subject ='lgc'>: how to live with the unsettling truths given to us by new ="trms">sciences
="lsts lst1">•my mother about fake honey
="lsts lst1">•bacteriology ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> everything (in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding our very selves) is terrifyingly coated in bacteria

a moment of ="trms">marketing in Joyce's Ulysses character Bloom ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•overwhelmed by the teeming bacteria ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in="trms">gesting a ="trms">different set of cultured bacteria='lgc'>: wine, cheese, b="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read
="lsts lst1">•the city and its germs envelop and ="trms">simultaneously individuate him ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>****his subjectivity can only be expressed in terms of the dialectic of alienation and belonging that is at the foundation of our ="trms">social ="trms">world='strcls'>****


='strcls'>***living in ="trms">modernity='lgc'> = being in constant contact with the mass of beings='strcls'>***
='lgc'><='lgc'>== uncontrollable overwhelming dis="trms">integrative forces of otherness (the problem of living in a ="trms">community in ="trms">modern metropolis)
='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='strcls'>*multiplicity of strange str="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angers through whom the healthy subject finds his or her sense of self='strcls'>*

(='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Femke, analysing political arrangments of X) ='strcls'>*="trms">market ="trms">society='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= looking at the way that we come (and invited to come) into contact with X (in ="ppl">Campbell's case='lgc'>: bacteria)


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]sinthome='lgc'>: why X (="trms">symptoms) appear to us as such ='lgc'>=/= what X mean
sinthome ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (mode of analysis) aiming to identify ='strcls'>***what fantasies are permitted to be sustained when the ="trms">symptom take the form of X='strcls'>*** (in this case bacteria) ='lgc'>=/= seeking to find what ideology lies hidden beneath the ="trms">symptom ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/=! problem of artists='lgc'>]

="ppl">Campbell mode of analysis (with sinthome) ='lgc'>=/= a revelatory mode of critique (where our illusions arre laid bare) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- artists’ ="trms">symptom='lgc'>]

advertisements offer striking evidence of ='strcls'>*autoimmune tendecies='strcls'>* in contemporary ="trms">market ="trms">society ='lgc'>: the body politic misrecognizes its own boundaries and attacks parts of itself
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Femke

(Joyce's Bloom) first thing that we see or feel is not in fact ourselves, but bacteria ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="nms">body image='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (his solution='lgc'>:) avoiding one kind of bacteria by embracing another (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- psychoanalytically effective ='strcls'>***non-solution='strcls'>***)


(in ="trms">social ="trms">sciences ='lgc'>[Ereshefsky='lgc'>]) ='strcls'>*="trms">species p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">luralism ='lgc'>: how various biopolitical forces use segmentation strategies in the organic ="trms">world to produce competing ="trms">species’ hierarchies and taxa='strcls'>*
thinkers in ="trms">social theory ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the entities under investigation are='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•so massive ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Gaya regulatory ="trms">system of planetary scope
="lsts lst1">•so dispersed ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> climate change
="lsts lst1">•so ancient ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bacterial protist Mixotricha paradoxa (“the paradoxical being with mixed-up hairs”)
="lsts lst1">•so minute جزئی ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new ="trms">materials engineered through nano="trms">technology
="lsts lst1">•so boundless ='lgc'>--="ppl">Sagan='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metazoa='lgc'>: human as a multiple afloat in the omnisexuality or bacterial exchange
="lsts lst1">•so ="trms">relational ='lgc'>--thacker='lgc'>='lgc'>--> swarm, pack, flock, epidemic ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ERG website's epidemic nodes ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*the image of the ="trms">relational='strcls'>*='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•so
='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>==motivation='lgc'>==
="lstsrd">1. considering the strangeness of life forms act as a template ='lgc'>==to='lgc'>='lgc'>==> think ="trms">differently about life by mobilizing new ='strcls'>***pre="trms">positions of connection='strcls'>*** (with, alongside, between, ="trms">sym-, etc.) ='lgc'>==provoke='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">different theoretical insights into how ="trms">society might work
="lstsrd">2. ethical political drive to promote radical in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusivity and to challenge mindsets that fixate on identity and ="trms">difference (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">="ppl">Harawayian) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Isabel, Sara='lgc'>]
="lstsrd">3. work of decentering the human as the premier valance of the universe (may in turn) ='lgc'>==cultivate='lgc'>='lgc'>==> an ethics that is ="trms">ecological, in the sense of global and ="trms">inter="trms">species (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">="ppl">Mortonian)  ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds">Sina='lgc'>]
="lstsrd">4. conceiving of the ‘other’ as planetmate, messmate, ="trms">natureculture, mind-body, etc. (maybe) ='lgc'>==lead='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new conceptions of camaraderie, ="trms">community, ="trms">society, friendship ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> artistic research, ="nms">apass, ="ppl">Viveiros ="ppl">de Castro='lgc'>]

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bacteria ='lgc'>[also='lgc'>: mushroom, swamp='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> poster-creatures of the flat ="trms">ontology movement ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> challenging classification
replacing Tree of Life with DNA-based model of life (homo sapiens='lgc'>: a micro-ingredient of an astonishing bacterial soup of prokaryotes, archaea, eukaryotes)

='strcls'>*bacteria='lgc'>: the ground zero life forms='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->! ='strcls'>***nearest we can get ="trms">imagining the ="ppl">Lacanian Real='strcls'>***

we are more bacteria than human

(global) bacterial biome='lgc'>: para-collective (='lgc'>=/= “merely” biological)
='strcls'>*our ways of reacting to bacteria are as political as they are ="trms">scientific='strcls'>*

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purity ='and'>& pollution ='lgc'>+ their deep-seated link with ="trms">social order and its transgression ='lgc'>--Douglas='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>{from ='thdf'>the idea of poisonous vapours (miasma ='lgc'>[unrelated to cleanliness='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>} discovery of pathogenic organisms بيمارى زا ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">modern concept of bacteria

cleansing rituals before the bacteriological age functioned to ward off spirits and restore ="trms">social order and control (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Elke, ='at'>@Isabel, the artist as medium)

discovery of germs ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> radical re-conceptualization of dirt (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it is difficult to think of dirt except in the context of pathogenicity)

if we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt ='lgc'>--Douglas='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we are left with the very old de="trms">finition of ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]dirt='lgc'>: ="trms">matter out of place

='strcls'>**when we see dirt ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we see a ="trms">system='strcls'>**
='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> when we see bacterial images we are seeing something else

='strcls'>***contamination='lgc'> = a violation of some mythical, ="trms">symbolic, or political ="trms">system ='lgc'>=/= just a physical problem='strcls'>***

bacteria ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">symptom of a disturbed ="trms">system


="trms">symptomatic analysis (='lgc'>=/= feedback)
pioneered by ="ppl">Marxist critics, ="ppl">Althusser

="trms">symptomatic analysis of X='lgc'> = to open the possibility of there being unspoken, unacknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged or disavowed content in X

="trms">symptomatic analysis ='lgc'>--of='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (content of) antibacterial advertisement ='lgc'>--laden='lgc'>='lgc'>--> with libidinal intensity or ='strcls'>*visual pleasure='strcls'>* (= an image that is visually intense)

='strcls'>**="trms">consumption can be ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read like dreams='strcls'>** (a text that says more than it consciously expresses) ='lgc'>--reveal='lgc'>='lgc'>--> repressed ="trms">material (disavowed fantasies about='lgc'>: purity, gender, race, family, class, disease, displacement, ="trms">sublimation, etc.)
="lsts lst2">◦what fantasy is upheld by ="trms">presenting repressed ="trms">material as bacteria (or artwork)='qstn'>?
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading against the grain of the text (Jamesonian)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> advertising images can be ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read like ="trms">symptoms of repressed libidinal desire

="prgrph">-i did ="trms">symptomatic ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of ="ppl">Olearius (but not of ="nms">ajayeb nameh='qstn'>?)

="lstsrd">1- accelerating pace of industrial production
="lstsrd">2- population growth
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> first full flourishing of ='strcls'>*mass ="trms">consumption='strcls'>*

="large lg30" stl="font-size:114%"> ='strcls'>*='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">marketing='lgc'>: a sphere of cultural production where image conventions co-evolve with non-="trms">marketing imnages as an ="trms">intertextual constantly reciprocal environment='strcls'>*



="lstsrd">1. cuteness
little ="trms">monsters
infant-like
with freakishly funny features
playground of bacterial frolic

cuteness
a minor ="trms">aesthetic ="trms">category (in comparison to its more ="trms">spectacular counterparts='lgc'>: ="trms">sublime, beautiful)
(it is minor because it is ambiguous)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">positive ="trms">affects='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦desire to protect
="lsts lst2">◦desire to touch
="lsts lst1">•negative ="trms">affects='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦helplessness
="lsts lst2">◦pitifulness
="lsts lst2">◦="trms">excessive availability
="lsts lst1">•secondary ="trms">relations='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦resentment at being emotionally manipulated
="lsts lst2">◦contempt for the weakness of cute ='lgc'>--accompany='lgc'>='lgc'>--> desire to='lgc'>:
="lsts lst3">◾touch
="lsts lst3">◾clasp
="lsts lst3">◾dominate
="lsts lst3">◾destroy
="lsts lst3">◾
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*cute='lgc'>: a site of visual intensity that is both pleasurable ='and'>& disgusting='strcls'>*

='strcls'>****three objects that are most often rendered cute in ="trms">consumer ="trms">aesthetics='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- women
="lstsrd">2- ="trms">technology
="lstsrd">3- ="trms">children
='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>-- (in psychoanalytic terms) inherently d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> in need of control='strcls'>****

="ppl">Campbell > why is it useful to see bacteria as cute='qstn'>?
='strcls'>***cuteness as a deep link to violence='strcls'>***
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]cuteness='lgc'>: ="trms">aestheticization of powerlessness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a necessary step in permitting its extinction ='lgc'>[to make everybody like unto little ="trms">children is not such a bad way of disposing of them='lgc'>]

="lsts lst1">•re="trms">presenting the Other (the enemy) as despicable ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> powerful effect
="lsts lst1">•re="trms">presenting the Other as domesticated ='lgc'>+ infantalized='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦de="trms">monstrates the ="trms">sublime Otherness of bacteria
="lsts lst2">◦we are relieved of guilt ='lgc'><='lgc'>== the bacteria is rendered beneath the threshold of ethical consideration



="lstsrd">2. overpopulation
cramming of many life forms into tiny spaces ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= (="trms">literally) an uncanny microcosm of the ="trms">imagined and feared ="trms">socio-economic order

='strcls'>***new ="trms">technologies to visualize the ="trms">world ='lgc'>==produce='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new ="trms">imaginateis of life itself='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='mywrk'>my research on ="trms">bestiaries='lgc'>]

microscope (19th century) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> microbial visuality ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Latour='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new modes of ="trms">interacting with and in="trms">gesting/="trms">consuming the ="trms">world

bacteriology as a discipline emerged at the same time as the (so-called) transformation “from industrial capitalism ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">market ="trms">society”
="lsts lst1">•overpopulation
="lsts lst1">•bacterial proliferation
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">trope in visualizing contemporary bacteria

bacteria live in obs="trms">cene proximity to each other ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*bacterial intimacy ='lgc'>=/= individualizing force of ="trms">modernity='strcls'>*

the fantasy of there is some ="trms">sort of “away” which can absorb what we overproduce

removal of excrement (in all its quises) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> de="trms">monstrating the ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbanites class distinction ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (an apparent) desire to reorganize ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban space ="trms">according to a logic of repugnance مغايرت (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>this is why i am so uncomfortable with “clean” streets)
="lsts lst1">•='thdf'>the idea that a veritable subterranean ="trms">system delivering ='strcls'>*shit-free cleanliness='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> citizen's physical, moral, sipritual cleanliness ='lgc'>--with='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">materila markers of the civilized ="trms">society='lgc'>: cubicles, toilets, drains, sewers

(="ppl">Lacan > ="ppl">="ppl">Morton > ="ppl">Campbell >) the problem of human ="trms">society ='lgc'>: what to do with one's shit

anti-bacterial advertising ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fantasy of awayness

keeping ="trms">nature at a distance ='lgc'>==="ppl">="ppl">Morton='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (act out an ="trms">imagined preservation ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) dumps on the rest of the ="trms">world
='lgc'>[sadistic admiration='lgc'>] putting something called ="trms">nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar (for the environment) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= what patriarchy does for the figure of the woman

bacteria adhere to each other and to their environment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*they make any environment cohere as itself='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: without bacteria there is no environment



="lstsrd">3. lower classes
overweigth
bad skin
bad teech
criminally deviant

griminess سياهى
slick sheen ليز
dinginess چرکى
slouch اويخته
decay

in advertisement='lgc'>:
bacterium suicide bomber
ear-picking homeless man='lgc'>: the incarnation of bacterial cross-infection

='strcls'>**="trms">community ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> infection='strcls'>**
(health of the ="trms">community is theatened by undesirable ="trms">members)

='strcls'>*bacteria ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">community can come into full self-expression='strcls'>*
bacteria='lgc'> = disruption of ="trms">social order ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-='lgc'>=> bacteria stabilizes the ="trms">social order

='strcls'>***bacterial threat='lgc'> = biological model for a political necessity='strcls'>***

(familiar terrain of) hand='lgc'>: a vast and foreign bacterial colony

in a ="trms">world of microbial resistance ='lgc'>[in which common infections and minor injuries can kill ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- real possibility for 21st century and not a apocalyptic fantasy='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*antibacterials carve out spaces of near-perfect security='strcls'>*

bacteria='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•overwhelm us
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