[...]elfish personality) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">narcissistic pesonality (they have better chances for healing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> small doses of ="trms">narcissism is necessity for self-="trms">interogation and ="trms">integrated ego formation='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>])
='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger is cheating='strcls'>*
(behavior hal, negah be mozu-ha ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bazi بازی, hoghe حقه ='lgc'>[transvaluated into innocence='lgc'>])
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farar az ta'rif-haye ejtemayi فرار از تعریفهای اجتمایی ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> farar az ejtema فرار از اجتماع
paying attention to others doesn't mean that you are understanding them (in the case of lonliness)
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
thousend and one ="trms">questions
dark answers
why ="trms">aesthetics of cooking and feeding new in art doesn't work in ="nms">iran='qstn'>?
negah dogane نگاه دوگانه
='lgc'>[duality='lgc'>] dual perspective='lgc'>: if it is not X then it is Y (='lgc'>=/= X)
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savad سواد='lgc'> = ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, siahe, سیاهه, marginal note
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being ambivalent (dis="trms">interest)='lgc'>: (masking ="trms">anxiety and insecuruty,) gaurding oneself against disapointment, defensive alufeness
ethos of “resistence” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> moral ="trms">authority ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> moral supeiority movement
="trms">narcissism (of the artist) as part of a process (of building something creative)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">interiorizing things ='lgc'>[is part of ="trms">narcissism='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•thinking about things and self's problems ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">writer's ="trms">memoir
low self esteem ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> building up
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“nothing is more important in the ="trms">world than the old ones” ='lgc'>[='qstn'>?!='lgc'>]
liberation ='lgc'>=/= freedom
="lsts lst1">•when it comes to liberation (those liberating actions that someone does, ex='lgc'>: women scarf in ="nms">Iran, etc.), as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else, you just support it
liberation has to do a lot with style, or changing of style
="lsts lst1">•freesom is totally another thing, much more complicated, sometimes is in the op="trms">posite direction of liberation
(i think i might be committed to the freedom of ="nms">Iranians, not their liberation...)
takhlie ehsas (feelings) ='lgc'>=/= takhlie hayajan (emotions ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> behaiviour)
تعميم
="trms">generalization ta'mim ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sign of depression
or ='lgc'>--Borges='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a way of abstracttion by forgeting (certain) ="trms">differences='lgc'> = thinking
the ="trms">fable of “alem-e bi amal='lgc'> = zanbur-e bi asal” عالم بی عمل، زنبور بیعسل
="prgrph">-this kind of علم ‘knowing’ or knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge refer to a more personal or subjective understanding of a given problem برداشت
="prgrph">-has nothing to do with ="trms">scientific knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
rubah-palangi-e falak روبه پلنگی فلک
trick-rage of ="trms">nature
farib (فریب deep in the view of ="ppl">Nezami regarding ="trms">nature and his own work)
hendu (هندو most used insult word in ="ppl">Nezami)
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="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*="trms">neurotic='lgc'>: makes a house, doesn't show it to anyone, lives in it alone happy ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> disability to adapt to reality; (="trms">neurosis is a descriptive term for ‘hidden psychological mechanisms’ ='lgc'>=/= behavior); a form of dis="trms">sociation='lgc'>: ="trms">anxiety, hysteria, phobia, repetition, fantasizing, negativity, cynicism, perfectionism,='lgc'>]
="lsts lst2">◦compulsive need ='lgc'>=/= genuine ="trms">interest in the ="trms">world
="lsts lst2">◦="trms">neurotic caretaker ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">child develops basic ="trms">anxiety ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (="trms">imagined) idealized self-image; solution of basic conflict='lgc'>:
="lsts lst3">◾تسليم compliance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> goodness, ="trms">love
="lsts lst3">◾سلطه aggressiveness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> strength, leadership
="lsts lst3">◾کناره گیر aloofness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> wisdom, independence
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*psychotic='lgc'>: makes a house, take it ="trms">seriously, invites everyone to come (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> loss of touch with reality)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>=/= richer, more complex, more satisfying personality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> person ="trms">responds to the ="trms">world with the full depth of his or her spontaneous feelings
="lsts lst1">•old ="trms">world of patience ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>== lack of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, sabr konim bebinim chi mishe='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•new ='lgc'>[industrial capital='lgc'>] ="trms">world of opportunity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> proactive (even before action; causing something to happen; ="trms">world, you set it out;)
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my problem with celebrity is problem with the victorious cause, when an other has hardened into an iconic ="trms">position, and has become inauthentic with oneself
IHOTcgKYWXg 21:25
hoghe bazi حقه بازی babel
eye='lgc'> = pit of babel چاه بابل, because Harut and Marut, two great magicians where thrown down in a pit under the tower of babel, and the eye have the two in them ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the capacity to bewitch you if you look into them too long
vafa وفا='lgc'> = mardi مردی
three things doesn't do vafa (loyal)='lgc'>: horse, sword, women
asb, shamshir, zan (اسب، شمشیر، زن)
death='lgc'>:
جان jan ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> father (aflak افلاک)
کالبد تیره kalbod tire corpse ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mother (like earth, every hand can make her fruit, and bi-vafa بیوفا, ="trms">liabl)
put into words='lgc'>: have I been destroyed='qstn'>?
='at'>#workshop on ="nms">Iranian elementary and post-elementary school ="trms">books with adult artists
parde پرده ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= tasvir تصویر
damagh-sh دماغش
dar akhar -sh
حکمت مبتنی بر امور بینالذهانی
(hekmat mobtani bar omur-e) beyn-ol-azhajni='lgc'> = common sense
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>:
کاتب وحی kateb-e vahy
کاتب وحش kateb-e vahsh
کتاب وحی
کتاب وحش
="trms">pragmatism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> مصلحت maslahat (chi bayad goft) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> alternative truth
less concerned with “reality” or good and bad
='at'>#project='lgc'>: an experiential field inquiry on how people think about randomness in ="nms">Tehran.
what was the last little thing or a ="trms">historical epoch-shaping event that they concider as random='qstn'>?
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(in ="nms">apass we use constantly) ghias قیاس, and not esteghra استقرا (inductive reasoning)
="lsts lst1">•استقرا inductive reasoning='lgc'>: X ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> Y (can be strong or weak) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">epistemic uncertainty (="trms">generalizing or ex="trms">trapolating from ="trms">specific cases to general rules) ='lgc'>[this is related to ‘hypothesis formation'='lgc'> = use of ="trms">specific observations to make ="trms">generalizations ='lgc'>--(='qstn'>?being replaced by)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> discovery-based ="trms">sciences, in which ‘hypothesis formation'='lgc'> = ="trms">data-mining, analysis of (large volumes of) experimental ="trms">data with the goal of finding new patterns or cor="trms">relations, and further='lgc'>: machine learning and automated theorem proving ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--replacing='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="nms">ajayeb's kind of) “="trms">natural ="trms">history” emerged in 16th century (='lgc'><='lgc'>== describing and classifying plants, ="trms">animals, minerals) which is becoming more about popular audiences='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•deductive reasoning='lgc'>: X ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Y (is valid or invalid) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> کل به جزء (applying reductively general rules that hold over a closed domain of discourse)
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[artist's most used process of reasoning:='lgc'>] صغرى کبرى syllogistic reasoning (قیاس)='lgc'>: X ='lgc'>=/= Y ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Z (or='lgc'>: some A are B, some B are C ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> some A are C ='lgc'>[which is often wrong='lgc'>], nesbat dadan chizi az yek nafar be deigari نسبت دادن چیزی به دیگری) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> premise's pattern of distribution is the key (='lgc'>~ case)
="lsts lst1">•abductive con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusions='lgc'>: finding the simplest or most likely explanation for the observations ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> many forms of con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusions are due to the lack of time in the process of reasoning. when we give feedback (‘fast diagnosis’ ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is that why ="ppl">Lacan is useful='qstn'>?='lgc'>]) in ="nms">apass we have initially 2 minutes to make con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusions from observations, which later is deepened in the duration of block ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> کلی گویی='lgc'> = making sense of what is going here in order to guess what is going on elsewhere='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•
(='qstn'>?am i learning about and moving my art into) formal ="trms">sciences='lgc'>: ="trms">language tools concerned with characterizing abstract structures described by sign ="trms">systems ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> providing information/knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge about the structures used to describe the ="trms">world
="prgrph">-a formal logical ="trms">system with its content targeted at the real things
="prgrph">-all their statements are analytic
='lgc'>=/= synthetic statements (pro="trms">positions are true by how their meaning relates to the ="trms">world)
‘="trms">natural ="trms">sciences’ using tools from formal ="trms">sciences and validated by ‘peer review'='lgc'> = refereeing='lgc'> = ='strcls'>*the process of subjecting somebody else's work='strcls'>*
issues with artistic feedback that i have directly encountered='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•our abilities for observation are ="trms">questionable (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> apprehend what you notice)
="lsts lst1">•our abilities for induction are ="trms">questionable (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> movement from observation)
="lsts lst1">•our abilities for inference are ="trms">questionable (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> connecting with something other and elsewhere)
="lsts lst1">•our abilities for ="trms">questioning are ="trms">questionable (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> risking what you know ='lgc'>+ constructing ="trms">interest)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> feedbacks are performative, perspectival, descriptive, discoursive, ="trms">affective, ="trms">fabulous, ="trms">rhetorical, allegorical, experimental, speculative, agonistic, antagonist, sadistic, funny, rude, brute, masochistic, direct, ="trms">sympathetic,
='lgc'>[two (organic='qstn'>?) ways of learning:='lgc'>]
='strcls'>**learing through ="trms">networked syntax='lgc'>: meaning emerges as ="trms">network, something new must be ="trms">interconnected to others, cognition works in the ="trms">network='lgc'>: a subject ="trms">matter must be linked to dozen other things in order to be congnized ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> something disconnected from their ="trms">network is something meaningless موضوعها به صورت ارتباطات ذهنی مرتبط با هم ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mental intelligence='lgc'>: cannot learn something random='lgc'>]
='lgc'>=/=
='strcls'>**learing through syllable, unconnected unit of something new (an arbitrary syllables هجاهای بیمعنی) can be cognized without previous links ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">linguistic intelligence هوش زبانی, can learn new ="trms">language easy='lgc'>]
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='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[although i am against and strongly hate arbitrary syllables='lgc'>] perhaps we need both, because sometimes ="trms">internalizing an alien syllable (via ="trms">linguistic intelligence) might nest and flower their own random meaning ="trms">networks, in a way that is not possible in mental intelligence
="trms">according to behavioral ="trms">neuro="trms">science, psychology soon will have been a myth
the move to the “hard” and biologically inspired ="trms">science about consciousness-related processes ='lgc'>{constitutive reductionism='lgc'>: ‘brain activity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> mental processes'='lgc'>} ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? end of psychology (and therefore='lgc'>: end of art='qstn'>? -because both always create ='strcls'>*speculative molds='strcls'>*) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> which discipline will install an ='strcls'>*understanding the psyche='strcls'>*
economically='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">neuro="trms">science will grow while psychology shrinks
='lgc'>[everything will depend on which reductionism you ascribe to them='lgc'>]
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ideology='lgc'>: wrong ="trms">questions
='lgc'>[parable of two side of a coin='lgc'>] tolerance='lgc'> = other side of harassment
(='lgc'>--Zizek='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the pseudo concept of) tolerance actually means “don't harassment me”
when you lack concrete politics ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> moralizations
we are no longer ="trms">interpolated or addressed by power
politics of self-realization ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> anti-bureaucratic creativity of artist ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> post="trms">modern capitalism='lgc'>: (='lgc'>[pretends to be='lgc'>] no longer hierarchical bureaucratic but) creative ="trms">interactive auto="trms">poetic
(='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo='lgc'>:) ethics ='lgc'>=/= morals
='strcls'>*ethics ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my consistency with myself, fidelity to my own desires (which is transvaluated as external and part of ="trms">social ="trms">system)
='strcls'>*moral ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">symmetry of my ="trms">relation to other humans (which is transvaluated as individual and ="trms">internal, “don't do to me what you don't want me do to you”)
being immoral out of principle, to act in a certain way as part of a fundamental existential choice.
being immoral (destroying men's lives) while being truly ethical (faithfull to her chosen path)
(="ppl">Nietzsche, the philosopher of) ='strcls'>*immoral ethics='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= unethical morality)
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='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]death drive (inerested in fucking, cannot being-with)='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*to lead organic life back into the inanimate state='strcls'>*, to return to an inorganic state (-we are talking ="trms">symbolically not biologically) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= eros (="trms">interested in ="trms">love, life, sex, and being-with, the ="trms">world is very vivid to eros)='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{image of the eskimo piercing through the ice and snow='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*Destruction as the Cause of Coming Into Being='strcls'>* (for the subject for whom the ="trms">world is prosaic ="trms">matter-of-fact ='lgc'>=/= vivid)
="prgrph">-(we live in a ="trms">society that we are no longer ="trms">interpellated ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) does death drive and archive drive have to do with one another='qstn'>? destruction and archiving...
="prgrph">-girl with the red dancing shoes, undeadness of ="frds scrmbld">Laurent, wanting to see himself in the image of that which cannot be destroyed (!!), his unbearable ='strcls'>*nostalgia for a lost harmony='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[followed by ="frds scrmbld">Hoda and ="frds scrmbld">Arjang='lgc'>] (-is that why they negate ="trms">love='qstn'>? because they cannot ="trms">love but still want to be alive='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[the drive='lgc'>] to remain alive after they are dead)
(their ="trms">relation to the city night='lgc'>:) they drive, Trieb, ='lgc'>[in a ="ppl">Lacanian sense='lgc'>: all drives are partial to the death drive (because='lgc'>:)
="lstsrd">1- every drive pursues its own extinction
="lstsrd">2- every drive involves the subject in repetition
="lstsrd">3- every drive is an attempt to go beyond the pleasure principle, to the realm of ="trms">excess ='strcls'>*jouissance='strcls'>*(='lgc'>: enjoyment experienced as suffering ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Sana)='lgc'>]
(death drive ='lgc'>=/= dying)='strcls'>*
with death drive we are at the dimension of the undead (spectral undeadness is the domain of the drive) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “horrible fate of being caught in the endless repetitive cycle of wandering around in guilt and pain”
(="ppl">Lacan='lgc'>:) deep inside they desire to return to the preoedipal fusion with the mother's breast (='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to ‘touch’ without ="trms">love, ‘will’ without desire)
‘death drive’ belongs to the suicidal tendency of (="trms">symbolic order of) ="trms">narcissism ='lgc'>: (turning ‘libido’ into a) re="trms">presentation of indestructible life
(in the ="trms">neurotic's fantasy of the subject with death drive) there is no connection with object ='lgc'><='lgc'>== object is defined as the Other's ="trms">demand ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they have to ‘fuck’ them
="prgrph">-accourding to Zizek='lgc'>: there is only one drive='lgc'>: death drive, which is such sexualized
="ppl">Freud='lgc'>: “civilization='lgc'> = a reaction formation” (an effort to counter death drive)
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pedagogies of ="trms">affect and/or feeling ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda
understanding, curating, and fomenting public feelings
political/="trms">aesthetic ="trms">imaginaries
bache
بچه='lgc'>: (in ="ppl">Rumi) object sexy-erfani ابژه سکسی عرفانی
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(="nms">iranians='qstn'>?) mix ='lgc'>=/= tangle (='qstn'>?non="nms">iranians)
motley
miscellaneous
="trms">lecture consisting of haphazard patchwork of sections
a ="trms">jester is usually dressed in motley
mexican garden='lgc'>: a model of motley and devotion, of rapt attention to the ="trms">birds it draws
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what was the ="trms">imaginary homeland (='lgc'>=/= re="trms">membered homeland) for ="nms">Iranians='qstn'>?
“here, forms and shapes revel themselves through patient inquiry and the luxury of enough carried water to let you trace them.”
to think about X='lgc'> = to change X
we change the subject
we get some info='lgc'>: there are 5 people in the room. but when we bring that information into thought (because of how we feel and of our believes ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) we start to bend the 5 to 6 or to 50 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a try to change the reality ='lgc'>=/= thinking in calm condition using ="trms">science, information, conversation
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bipolar ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mood disorder ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">relationship of the self with emotions
borderline ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> personality disorder ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">relationship of the self with the ="trms">world (of subjects)
="trms">narcissist ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> personality disorder ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">relationship of the ego with the ="trms">world
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people who grew up in ="nms">iran and former soviet countries ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tajrobeye doganegi تجربه دوگانگی (they lived through contradictory experience) ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=> settle down or grounded subejctivity ثبات sabat
“I like to ="trms">travel” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= escape from one's self گریز از خود goriz az khod ='lgc'>: need to be everywhere but here='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•zamineye sargardani بیقراری restlessness (='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> escape) ='lgc'>--sold='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nomadic
="lsts lst1">•zamineye narezayati نارضایتی dissatisfaction ='lgc'>--sold='lgc'>='lgc'>--> critical
="lsts lst1">•zamineye konjkavi کنجکاوی curiosity ='lgc'>--sold='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="lsts lst1">•zamineye majarajuyi ماجراجویی adventure ='lgc'>--sold='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">wonder
(a ='lgc'>[not always wanted='qstn'>?='lgc'>] form of relatedness in ="trms">interpersonal ="trms">relationships)
mentor ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= rahnama راهنما
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(when someone is) angry='lgc'> = ="trms">anxiety ='lgc'>+ depressed ='lgc'>+ obsessive–compulsive vasvasi ='lgc'>+ pessimist bad-bin ='lgc'>+ negative ='lgc'>+ offender motejavez
direct speech رک صریح بی پرده rok sarih bi-parde harf zadan='lgc'> = saying the real and truth in the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right place that is necessary and almost an ="trms">obligation ='lgc'>=/= parde-dari provocation
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note on the workshop of anarchive in Zsenne ="nms">apass summer 2018
(my issues with Manning's ="trms">presentation of) process philosophy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">system-builder mode of thinking ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*saying something (="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right) about every single thing at once='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-process philosophy puts forward the will and desire for “change,” therefore it developes a resistant to change (='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-it tend to be a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics without physics ='lgc'>[='qstn'>?!='lgc'>] (when a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics provoke less ="trms">interest for ‘-physics’ and more for the ‘="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta-’ /and why is that a problem='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="ppl">="ppl">Barad is much more useful for me now='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-the real ="trms">question of the workshop remained “how to define what i like (such as ‘anarchive’) that it remains open at all time to the ‘more’ and ‘multi’='qstn'>?” ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- and they provide an elusive non-de="trms">finition of the term, impossible to pin down. because accourding to Manning when you pin down an idea/practice by its de="trms">finition it becomes “fixed,” and fixity is ="trms">categorically bad at all times ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- there is a desire to create a hygienic concept immune to corruption and hierarchy. Manning is alert to certain hierarchies ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> not acknowledging other hierarchies that precisely emerge out of that (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> preserve the ‘health’ of ='thdf'>the idea of anarchive. ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- maybe we need to let concepts rot='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> de="trms">compose='lgc'>])
Manning's elusiveness='lgc'>: (i have become hyper-conscious about qualities that endow in="trms">finite freedom of thought to human subjects...)
="lsts lst1">•elusive thought طفره (='lgc'>=/= volatile فرار) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Spiderman's mode of freedom (-you can never catch him ='lgc'>+ in="trms">finite flexibility ='lgc'>+ ) (the effect of Spiderman on himself is that his moves are “amazing”)
="lsts lst1">•elusive thought ='lgc'>='lgc'>~->='qstn'>? mystical
="lsts lst1">•elusive thought ='lgc'>=/= modest thought limited by curiosity
="lsts lst1">•
“hierarchy as the bad object” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•to escape thinking about your own ="trms">agency (='thdf'>for example what your name and reputation does='qstn'>? what are the precise ="trms">responsible consequences of your particular ="trms">position='qstn'>? your ="trms">position involves not only the ="trms">book you ="trms">write or the argument you make, it involves also your name and reputation, the currency of your gender, your mode of charisma and ="trms">authority, your ="trms">affective ="trms">techniques, your ="trms">network enacted, and so on.)
="lsts lst1">•to escape naming the engineering talents and ="trms">skills that are necessary to assemble (for example the senseLab website)
="lsts lst1">•to escape ="trms">epistemological commitment (the ="trms">question of='lgc'>: ='strcls'>**how is my ="trms">vocabulary ="trms">crafted for whom='qstn'>?='strcls'>**)
="lsts lst1">•
it is not clear (but i can maybe guess about it, Manning's commitments are)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•(learning from ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>:) what they have witnessed ='lgc'>[hierarchies='qstn'>? ='lgc'>==commit='lgc'>='lgc'>==> anti-archive='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•(learning from ="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>:) which bodies they care for ='lgc'>[the autists='qstn'>? ='lgc'>==commit='lgc'>='lgc'>==> elusive creativity='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•(learning from ="ppl">="ppl">Kenney='lgc'>:) where are their alliances پیوستگیها ='lgc'>[with multiculturalism='qstn'>? ='lgc'>==commit='lgc'>='lgc'>==> democracy's logos of ="trms">difference='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•(learning from ="ppl">Verran='lgc'>:) how their ="trms">="trms">equipments are ="trms">crafted ='lgc'>[by processual ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics='qstn'>? ='lgc'>==commit='lgc'>='lgc'>==> in="trms">finity='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•(learning from ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart='lgc'>:) how their ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor is built ='lgc'>[by conceptual description='qstn'>? ='lgc'>==commit='lgc'>='lgc'>==> non-habituality='lgc'>]
(because of her immense intelligence she cannot be normal, but that doesn't mean she can prescribe normativity, and issue a command ='lgc'>[in terms of the “de-” or “anti-“='lgc'>] or order a claim of reality ='lgc'>[in terms of “an-” or “ab-“='lgc'>])
="prgrph">-Manning's “philosophy of event” (='lgc'>=/= multi="trms">species ethnography, i prefer working with the ="trms">animal idea, because there is no way you can make philosophy out of ="trms">animal, they always relentlessly ="trms">contingent and ="trms">historically ="trms">materially ="trms">specific)
="prgrph">-Manning's notion of impersonality ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ‘people are exchangble’ ='lgc'>+ ‘the work is what is important and not “you”’ ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">techniques of impersonality='strcls'>* has being used in sufism and ="nms">iranian mysticism. i have seen how the special effects of impersonality is used in political projects, making of soldiers, master-disciple ="trms">relationship, and so on
="prgrph">-look at the cool impersonality of the ="trms">scientific ="trms">language (depriving them of their own ideological status)
="prgrph">-early 19th century ="trms">modern public space was reinventing and operating with impersonality='lgc'>: individuals are ="trms">systematically habituated not to return the gaze of the other.
='lgc'>=/= i am actually very much attracted to persons. i am ="trms">interested in their personality. the “you” is what i fall in ="trms">love with, not the ‘abstract link'='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (Manning's) peripheral perceptivity ='lgc'>=/= (i am trying to learn) to describe what is in front of me (which is never easy)='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-Manning's notion of “the problem gives the ="trms">question to be asked of it” ='lgc'>=/= the ="trms">question problematizes
="prgrph">-focus on “sedimentation” (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> where is the coexistence of contrasts for them='qstn'>?)
“decontextualization”='lgc'>: their ="trms">technique of concept-making (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> claims of reality, of nunhuman, etc.)
='lgc'>[decontextualization is a very d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous way of ="trms">crafting concepts. there are other ways, committed to the ="trms">contingencies of the ="trms">historical ="trms">material ="trms">world of multi="trms">species. ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor of conceptualization that i am learning from ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart is about the ='strcls'>*quality of an access to part of a ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= decontextualization='lgc'>]='lgc'>--so='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i say we need ‘concepts’ and not ‘philosophy’='lgc'>:
='strcls'>*philosophy (as practiced by M&M and ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alex)='lgc'>: claiming the ="trms">nature of reality
='strcls'>*concept='lgc'>: a figure you make in order to do a limited ="trms">situated work
“conceptualization='lgc'> = fortification” استحکامات
(to fortify one's own work with concepts ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> settlement)
Manning's af="trms">finity with in="trms">finitly, more, and multi ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what is their ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor is doing for them='qstn'>? commits them to the nonhabitual. (resisting to name their habits, depriving them of thier habitual labors) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ='mywrk'>my work on descriptive practices='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-i want to know about their ="trms">="trms">empirical tools that make ="trms">translation-work visible (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> decom="trms">position), not their conceptual descriptions ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= textured description with ="trms">thick details ='lgc'><='lgc'>== i really think the devil is in the details!! ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> art of noticing things='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-i want to know how Manning is compromised into desiring what she is doing. ='lgc'>[compromise='lgc'>: being exposed or made ="trms">liable to d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger, suspicion, or disrepute. ='lgc'>--the way she told the ="trms">story of her practice had a difficult sense of success in it, of being cool and correct at every turn, uncompromised. (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- why is this a turn-off for me='qstn'>?)='lgc'>]
for ="trms">aesthetic, political, ethical reasons i want Manning to address in their work='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">question of ="trms">apparatus ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> working within an ="trms">apparatus of thinking in order to get somewhere in a sustained way. i want them to name their ="trms">apparatus of ="trms">literary production. how they engage with the ="trms">interface, ="trms">data-set, grammar, and ="trms">literacy of their reservoir.
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">question of infrastructure ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how they balance the possible and the acceptable, the balance of action, tools, and the built environment
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">question of ="trms">technology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how they take apart the tool from its context of involvements and referentialities
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">question of political orientation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how they have accepted the democratization of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and multiculturalism (='thdf'>the idea of “knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge for everyone” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> there is a very thin line between the impulse to democratize and commodify knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'>]; ='lgc'>--could multiculturalism be radical capitalism in action='qstn'>?! ...faking diversity to build more diverse companies ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- “lip service”='lgc'>: to just say something but not actually do it)
='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the hegemony and ="trms">horror of “="trms">different experience” of the so-called ="trms">different cultures (a form of racism='qstn'>?)='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[multiculturalism ='lgc'>=/= trans-="trms">species='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[multiculturalism ='lgc'>=/= eurasia='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the hegemony and ="trms">horror of “the completely ="trms">different” (='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='qstn'>? de="trms">skilled ="trms">society)='lgc'>]
Manning='lgc'>: “in senseLab we work with the people who don't use ="trms">language, don't ="trms">write, etc.” (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- what does that legitimates, conceals, or smuggles='qstn'>? what ="trms">sorts of hierarchies and ideologies of status emerge out of that='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-as the philosopher of nonintentionality how did she ="trms">responded (="trms">paranoically='qstn'>?) to our intents when ="trms">questions where asked='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-as the philosopher of discord how did she ="trms">responded to disagreement='qstn'>?
(='qstn'>?how do you tell the tale of) ='strcls'>*your adventures سلوک and achievements کرامت='strcls'>* (karamat va soluk)
(why self-promoting is such a turn-off='qstn'>? it makes the ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listener into someone to convince or win over into the Förderung of the speaker. ='lgc'>[with ="ppl">Campbell:='lgc'>] self-="trms">marketing creates a ‘="trms">perverse knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge’ about the work of the speaker, that means you give information about ‘healthy’ parts of your practice, your achievements and moral/="trms">material awards, with ='thdf'>the ='thdf'>assumption that the ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listener is going to make a good decision about the ‘halo effects’ of the speaker, but in fact you are made ‘brand ="trms">literate’)
or ='lgc'>[it is seems elementary but neccesory to ask Manning:='lgc'>] what is the ="trms">difference between advertisement and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='qstn'>?
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there are innumerable ways to adapt to the ="trms">world without creating a philosophical understanding of the ="trms">world
(Manning) “we feel the force of form. this kind of beauty has nothing to do with an external ="trms">aesthetic judgment.” (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how the personal judgment is not worthy of philo when a tsunami is coming or one is on the way of being gang raped='qstn'>?)
during the workshop Manning remains the center of command. she constantly “knows” (better). and she insists that through letting go of our critical thinking the participants can understand her notions ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='qstn'>? how can she not build disciples='qstn'>?!
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on production
replacing the name of ‘production’ with ‘but we must leave a trace’ (which exactly do let ='thdf'>the notion of production sneak back in under an other name)[...]