[...]side the topic

the issue of topology <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc> what remains invariant as a result of transformation

suglss="trms">gestive power of the figure

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synthesis <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc>lss='qstn'>? genesis (to olss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginate something, to design)
genesis <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc>lss='qstn'>? apocalypse
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in research, contrast between lss="trms">method and subject, is a tool
(in studying lss="trms">natural lss="trms">history)

in critique, contrast between effect and lss="trms">affect, is a tool
(assumed quality of the object and one's own named experience)
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>these tools are perhaps cognitive objects<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

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Enlightenment as cultural European lss="trms">phenomenon versus a lss="trms">scientific British one

(the theatrical function of lss="trms">natural philosophy in the England Enlightenment)

the function of lss="trms">natural philosopher in 18th century was to use experimental lss="trms">science machines to turn inert lss="trms">matter into active power, light/fire/heat/etc. to lss="trms">lecture an wealthy and polite fee-paying audience, in order to save them from irrationality, that inside all lss="trms">matter there is life and power, and that life was divine.

(however all this was all swept away in the industrial revelation)

William Herschel, an amateur lss="trms">natural philosopher discovering Uranus 1781
(Enlightenment was all about people changing their disciplines)
project of constructing a new theory of heavens

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ls clss='strcls'>*ls>i can't give you a direct grasp but i hope i can give slowly accuracy

ls clss='strcls'>*ls>the ‘details’ of grasping
(lss="trms">zoom in the ‘grasp’)



from lss="trms">contingencies to certainties

<lrg clss="large lg1" stl="font-size:133%"> lrg>
i spend so much time with painting and computers, which were about comlss="trms">positions and hacks

i think there are few fields/lss="trms">figurations/lss="trms">skills we need to get good at<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="trms">rhetoric, biology, lss="trms">aesthetics

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lss="trms">trope - something other than its lss="trms">literal form

adding an adjective or replacing a name, (one-way movementslss='qstn'>?) <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc> let me tell you the lss="trms">story of<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> expressed knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> knowing
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>reality <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> manifest realities
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>real <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> real enough
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>islamic <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> islamicate (“islamic” has always been a ‘range’ rather than a ‘binary switch’. things become more or less “islamic” in popular/proper belief)
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">nature <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> visual lss="trms">nature
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>culture/civilization <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> collective (emphasizing operation of gathering or lss="trms">composing and heterogeneity of the assembled)
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>muslim countries <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> muslim majority countries
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>understanding <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> better understanding
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>what does X mean <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> what does X mean for you
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>body <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lived body
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>body <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lived image
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">language <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> specialized lss="trms">languages
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">world <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> built lss="trms">world / thought lss="trms">world / described lss="trms">world / descripted lss="trms">world
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>producing knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> participating in knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge projects
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>to explain <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> to explain in terms of...
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>place/location <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> neighborhood (ask ‘why this neighborhoodlss='qstn'>?’ instead of place)


lss="nms">ajayeb helps me to work on<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
lss="prgrph">-lss="trms">history
lss="prgrph">-lss="trms">poetics
lss="prgrph">-lss="trms">animality <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> inhabiting lss="trms">material and lss="trms">semiotic lss="trms">positions <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> how to find a descriptive act that is not in terms of the impressions it makes on our senseslss='qstn'>? / this is about the places things take and occupy in our lss="trms">phenomenal lss="trms">world. / it is difficult to discuss the night-sky without first breaking it up into constellations. (l clss="ppl">Matthew l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Careyl>l>l>)

i have been building my own islamology or islam-studies department, through a low-voice critical mildly blasphemic rant about lss="trms">imagination
(lss="trms">anthropology of non-experimental lss="trms">imagination in the islamicated lss="trms">worlds)
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>there is a lss="trms">difference between ls clss='strcls'>**ls>experimental lss="trms">imaginationls clss='strcls'>**ls> and lss="trms">imagination<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

we are at the lss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of extinctions
many lss="trms">species and lives are migrating to “where” and nowheres, pushing to the oblivion.

<lrg clss="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> my issue with the ‘timing of understanding’ <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> i don't want to be understood by you, i want to be lss="trms">loved by you <lgc clss='lgc'>==>lgc> messenger <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> message <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> so how do i produce lss="trms">loverslss='qstn'>? (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> Don lss="frds scrmbld">Juan's type of lss="trms">love) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> there is a genius in your everyday talks that transforms me and has nothing to do with understanding (with the information that i grasp)
lrg>

(using l clss="ppl">Martha l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Kenneyl>l>l> thinking<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>)
i am lss="trms">interested in lss="trms">crafting words, phrases, and lss="trms">languages that relss="trms">worlds us. (relss="trms">worlding is about reorienting us in the lss="trms">world lss="trms">differently. <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> is that what i meant by changing the rhythm of somebody's lss="trms">storylss='qstn'>?) what is important for me is ls clss='strcls'>***ls>what words ‘do’ rather what words ‘point at.’ls clss='strcls'>***ls> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> if not evidence then ‘what’lss='qstn'>?! ls clss='strcls'>*****ls>the magic of the lss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right wordls clss='strcls'>*****ls>

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lss="trms">communicating knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is always also making it
(false<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> backlss="trms">stage making knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, finding truths, connections etc. and then all of this gonna be lss="trms">communicated by publication, teaching, exhibition, etc.)
all the useful ideas i ever had, have happened in the process of deliberating, lss="trms">communicating, exchanging, and so on.
ls clss='strcls'>**ls>trying to lss="trms">communicate is the same as making knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
(i don't make, i lss="trms">communicate)

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from paf<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
lss="prgrph">-lunching a counter-exotic movement toward the lss="trms">Book of lss="trms">Wonders<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> (1) postponing immediate information. (2) ...
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•if everything is not exotic then nothing is.
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•framing as ‘tool,’ every tool is and has power, and is built in a discourse of power. tools are not innocent, nor can we do without them. they make us. what would be an idea of the ‘worst tool’ you can work withlss='qstn'>? lss="trms">poetics for melss='qstn'>? <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>to lss="trms">write-about <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> to lss="trms">write-with the lss="trms">Book of lss="trms">Wonders. to use a lss="trms">language-tool that produces the most ambiguities and most misunderstandings, but that is the only way, there is no tool that can prommis clarity. evey tool produces its own ‘clear'<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>for someone, for some purpose. these makings are all tool-lss="trms">specific<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> making dichotomies, making similarities, making diferences, stc.<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•how far your research can host an encounter with alteritylss='qstn'>? and how this encounter can help you undo your prommises of lss="trms">communication, lss="trms">positionality, and conceptual buildingslss='qstn'>? weave new lss="trms">worldling entanglements with the problem<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>not to solve it, but stay with it. dissolve essential lss="trms">differences between dichitomies such as<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and expression (or ‘knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge’ and the ‘lss="trms">communication of knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge’), experimental and ethical, lss="trms">joke and lss="trms">seriousness, lss="trms">interiority and exteriority, mysterious and clear, uncovering and lss="trms">veiling. produce creative impossibilities that do not resolve to bionary answers easily, that unstable possitionality for good, that open for forms of consiounesses to experience thoughts which differ from itself. to think and entertain both particularities and generalities (of logic, ethics, politics, lss="trms">aesthetics, etc.) encounter can be both inlss="trms">finitly singular and general. that is a form of suglss="trms">gestive work that can deal with the lss="trms">specific as well. (think about ‘chicken’ as an anstract idea in our lss="trms">semiotic lss="trms">world and as an individual being in our lss="trms">material lss="trms">world)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•using lss='thdf'>the notion of delinking (reminded by lss="frds scrmbld">Juan) with lss='mywrk'>my research on the lss="trms">Book of lss="trms">Wonders. going from parable-thinking <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">religious-thinking <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> poststructuralss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list-thinking <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">poetic-thinking <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> riddle-thinking <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> biological-thinking <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> deconstructionist-thinking <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ...
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•this other universe is always at the beyond<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>the other lss="trms">cosmos is a lss="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure (lss='qstn'>?)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•all cages have wheels
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•boat, as an image for both construction and destruction
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•i don't need to be alone in destroying the boat
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•how to move the boat <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> destination
lsts>
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possible workshops for lss="frds scrmbld">Einat's project<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•moonwalk dance
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">database programing <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> how to live well with lss="trms">databases, not waging a quixotic war on lss="trms">database designers. we must learn how to lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read and understand lss="trms">database early in elementary school. lss="trms">databases are fundamental parts of our political lss="trms">social ethical cultural processes...
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•regular expression <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> how computer programming lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads and patterns text
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•text-based lss="trms">internet <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> cyberfeminism
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">intervention in the digital hegemonies (digital <lgc clss='lgc'>==>lgc> cultural <lgc clss='lgc'>==>lgc> lss="trms">material) (changes to the built digital environments, possiblities of reconlss="trms">figuration <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> production of space, lss="trms">articulations about ‘us’)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•what does it mean to look at a lss="trms">codelss='qstn'>? (a critical introduction to computer programming for artists)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•How to implement a programming lss="trms">language in (JavaScriptlss='qstn'>?)<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>parsing, regexps, (http://lisperator.net/)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•teaching German with l clss="ppl">Holderlinl>'s “Andenken” lss="trms">poem
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•to create a ls clss='strcls'>*ls>feastls clss='strcls'>*ls> (to celebrate is to become free of the habitual, becoming inhabitual. celebration is the tenslsts>[...]