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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'>*

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> 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'>**


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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:139%"> bodily ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor ='lgc'>[in='lgc'>] ="trms">integrations of domestic ="trms">societies

="large lg10" stl="font-size:130%"> 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'>?”

="large lg10" stl="font-size:128%"> ="ppl">Heidegger problem with addicted ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*ad="trms">diction is content with what is merely available='strcls'>* (it never surpasses this limit) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">anxiety


="ppl">Avital focus on the ='strcls'>*chemical prosthesis='strcls'>*

in war, ="trms">drugs become another piece of ="trms">="trms">equipment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> taking the pill='lgc'>: ="trms">technologizing oneself into the war machine

heroin comes from heroisch

="trms">technically calibrated culture

="trms">drug ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">hallucinated exteriority

electronic/="trms">drug culture ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">Nancy ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Blanchot's) désœuvrement='lgc'>: without an end or program, an unworking that nonetheless occurs


how the ='strcls'>*prosthetic subject='strcls'>* is constituted
(Junger's ="trms">drug, ="ppl">Heidegger's tech, ="ppl">Benjamin's hashish, de Quincey's opium, Duras's alcoholizations='lgc'>:) a saturated text, pushing beyond the ="trms">materiality of the ="trms">book though not into any ideality

the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right to ="trms">drugs ='lgc'>+ the supplementary ="trms">interiority that they produce

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

="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)


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)


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

(failing) to meet the requirements of an authentic alterity
(we are) into forgetting and the simulacrum (='lgc'>=/= truth)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">hallucinator='lgc'>: the creature of the simulacrum (par excellence)
(trafficking in) abstract forms of forgetting

the poor
the body-broken
the racially ="trms">hallucinated other


chemical prosthesis (mushroom or plant) ="trms">responds to a fundamental structure

="trms">drug addict ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a mystical transport going nowhere
="trms">drug addict offers her body to the production of ="trms">hallucination, vision, or trance
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> going nowhere fast


being exposed to existence='lgc'> = placing one's body in the grips of a temporality that pains ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ad="trms">dictive='lgc'> = artificial, beside oneself


="trms">drugs ='lgc'>--linked-to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a mode of departing, to de="trms">socialization ='lgc'>[without the assurance of arriving anywhere='lgc'>] (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= activity of ="trms">writing) ='lgc'>=/= production of real value


...movement of the simulacrum without address (or, in another idiom, without purpose, point)

="ppl">Nietzsche was the first philosopher who ='lgc'>--="ppl">Avital='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lstsrd">1. to think with his body
="lstsrd">2. to put out the call for a supramoral imperative


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we are implicated inscribed dis="trms">articulated and reresignifed by ="trms">technological prosthesis
there is no outside to ="trms">technology
there is no off switch to ="trms">technology
="trms">wonderological tracks of ="trms">technology

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how much ="trms">nature has to change before our descendants cease to be human='qstn'>?
about when in the course of evolution our ="trms">ancestors became human='qstn'>?
(unanswerable good ="trms">questions)

if the human is not the one ="trms">consuming, who is='qstn'>?

="trms">animals ="trms">consume
(numinous ="trms">agentic status of) dead ="trms">consumer

human aspects of ="trms">consumption='lgc'>: learning, decision making, reason, perception, ethics, ="trms">agency, desire and choice ='lgc'>--arise='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*between humans and intelligent machines='strcls'>*

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]posthuman='lgc'>: a move that seeks to locate being, or aliveness, or meaning in the not-quite-human-as-we-know-it

(humanist) ="trms">epistemology='lgc'>: how we investigate and describe the ="trms">world
(humanist) ="trms">ontology='lgc'>: how we understand what constitutes life and objecthood

='lgc'>==="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>==> help ="trms">consumer research='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. expand the range of temporal reference (look into the future of how ="trms">consumption will look like)
='strcls'>**='thdf'>assumption of the future='lgc'>: the future will be a post-="trms">consumption existence='strcls'>**
="lstsrd">2. expand the range of physical reference (ex="trms">traplanetary ="trms">consumption='lgc'>: what the ='strcls'>***="trms">consumption of place='strcls'>*** means; embryonic ="trms">consumption sites='lgc'>: store your ="trms">child's cord blood stem cells)
="lstsrd">3. ="trms">interrogation of the roots of humanism (="trms">social ="trms">sciences)


today='lgc'>:
robotic revolution
bio="trms">technology revolution


='strcls'>*posthuman='lgc'>: ideological account of the future of the human ="trms">species in annexation with info-bio-="trms">technologies ='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*posthumanism='lgc'>: (speculative philosophy ='lgc'>+ ="trms">material reality) critique of the discourse and ="trms">epistemologies of ='strcls'>*humanism='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•belief in progress
="lsts lst1">•="trms">technological mastery over ="trms">nature,
="lsts lst1">•separation of human and ="trms">animal kingdom
="lsts lst1">•therapeutic approach to human behavior
="lsts lst1">•secular approach to ="trms">scientific inquiry
='strcls'>*humanism='lgc'> = ="trms">epistemology='lgc'>: a way of investigating the ="trms">world that is consonant with our human intuition='lgc'>--understand='lgc'>='lgc'>--> life as comprising essentially animate or inanimate, self or other, human or nonhuman='strcls'>** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= set of diverse beliefs='lgc'>]

="trms">horror of surgically implanted biomedical enhancement ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (persistence of the) inviolability of the body as the seat of identity ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a classic humanist assumption

posthumanism
="lsts lst1">•speculative philosophy ='lgc'>+ ="trms">material reality
="lsts lst1">•abstract philosophy ='lgc'>+ ="trms">="trms">empirical ="trms">science
="lsts lst1">•ancient ='lgc'>+ futuristic
="lsts lst1">•exotic ='lgc'>+ specialized (telesurgery, a="trms">morphous computing) ='lgc'>+ banal ='lgc'>+ ubiquitous (automobility, eyeglasses)
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> apocalyptic era (intelligent machine takeover)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ecological ethics (human not the most important form of life on earth)

='strcls'>***attempt to overcome humanness is an age-old human tendency='strcls'>***

what constitutes life
="lsts lst1">•women ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Schiebinger
="lsts lst1">•slaves ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Douzinas
="lsts lst1">•computer viruses ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Parikka
="lsts lst1">•cellular automata ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Delanda
="lsts lst1">•bacteria ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway
="lsts lst1">•swarms ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->Thacker
="lsts lst1">•


='strcls'>*brand='lgc'> = living ="trms">system='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> distinguish themselves from environment, ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude from it what is not, feedback ="trms">communication with environment, self replicate, evolve, ) ='lgc'>=/= cultural product
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Femke


(="ppl">Campbell arguing that) the human and the posthuman are (ways to describe the forces that are) al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready ="trms">present in the human condition='lgc'>:

="lstsrd">1.
computation of life
mid 19th century weaving ="trms">technologies ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> logic of computation ='lgc'>==="trms">ontology='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “universe='lgc'> = giant computer” ='lgc'>: attempting to uncover what life itself is through a better understanding and appreciation of the power and seeming omni="trms">presence of computational logic
="lsts lst1">•a discourse ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ a way of talking about the ="trms">world='lgc'>] (and not only a claim that people make)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an ='thdf'>example of how dominant ="trms">technologies are not just ="trms">instruments but models (through which the ="trms">world is understood)
‘clockwork universe’ was the model for the last four millennia='lgc'>: clockwork-like essence of ="trms">cosmos ='lgc'>+ state ='lgc'>+ body (='lgc'>=/= romanticism, galvanism, mesmerism, quantum mechanics)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•="trms">consumer as computer/computational (="trms">consumer as information processor, ="trms">consumer as automatic subject ='lgc'>=/= psychological ="trms">agent) ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">science of cybernetics, automaticity, feedback
="lsts lst1">•information (a new powerful substance in mid 20th century), “raw ="trms">data ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> decisions, models, theories”, a specialized value-free term (='lgc'>=/= fact, learning, wisdom, understanding, enlightenment) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> second half of 20th century='lgc'>: information began to assume a deep and proved privileges place (in politics, cultural ="trms">imaginary), to informationalize ="trms">consumer objects='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦jeans as “intelligent denim” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “vector graphics and pixelation as there expression of your individuality” (Jack ='and'>& Jones)
="lsts lst2">◦cream as “pro-retinal A nanosomes and Par-Elasty” (L'Oreal)
="lsts lst1">•

="lstsrd">2.
laborization of life
growing sophistication of the previously simple and straightforward ="trms">categories of aliveness and deadness (='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">technologies since the 1970s='lgc'>: stem cell engineering, in vitro fertilization, genomics, virtual surgery, bio="trms">material engineering)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•make the range of what constitutes ‘alive’ larger and more complex
="lsts lst1">•="trms">stage the ="trms">interpenetration of the machinic and the organic
(in the future it will be the) ="trms">marketers as the most influential groups in re-drawing ="trms">categories of existence and deciding what is animate or inanimate, ="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 wor[...]