[...]tanding
='strcls'>*what does X mean ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what does X mean for you
='strcls'>*body ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lived body
='strcls'>*body ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lived image
='strcls'>*="trms">language ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> specialized ="trms">languages
='strcls'>*="trms">world ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> built ="trms">world / thought ="trms">world / described ="trms">world / descripted ="trms">world
='strcls'>*producing knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> participating in knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge projects
='strcls'>*to explain ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to explain in terms of...
='strcls'>*place/location ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> neighborhood (ask ‘why this neighborhood='qstn'>?’ instead of place)


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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> i have been building my own islamology or islam-studies department, through a low-voice critical mildly blasphemic rant about ="trms">imagination
(="trms">anthropology of non-experimental ="trms">imagination in the islamicated ="trms">worlds)
='lgc'>[there is a ="trms">difference between ='strcls'>**experimental ="trms">imagination='strcls'>** and ="trms">imagination='lgc'>]

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

my issue with the ‘timing of understanding’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i don't want to be understood by you, i want to be ="trms">loved by you ='lgc'>==> messenger ='lgc'>+ message ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> so how do i produce ="trms">lovers='qstn'>? (='lgc'>=/= Don ="frds scrmbld">Juan's type of ="trms">love) ='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)


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

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

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from paf='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-lunching a counter-exotic movement toward the ="trms">Book of ="trms">Wonders='lgc'>: (1) postponing immediate information. (2) ...
="lsts lst1">•if everything is not exotic then nothing is.
="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 with='qstn'>? ="trms">poetics for me='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[to ="trms">write-about ='lgc'>=/= to ="trms">write-with the ="trms">Book of ="trms">Wonders. to use a ="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'>--for someone, for some purpose. these makings are all tool-="trms">specific='lgc'>: making dichotomies, making similarities, making diferences, stc.='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•how far your research can host an encounter with alterity='qstn'>? and how this encounter can help you undo your prommises of ="trms">communication, ="trms">positionality, and conceptual buildings='qstn'>? weave new ="trms">worldling entanglements with the problem='lgc'>--not to solve it, but stay with it. dissolve essential ="trms">differences between dichitomies such as='lgc'>: knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and expression (or ‘knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge’ and the ‘="trms">communication of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge’), experimental and ethical, ="trms">joke and ="trms">seriousness, ="trms">interiority and exteriority, mysterious and clear, uncovering and ="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, ="trms">aesthetics, etc.) encounter can be both in="trms">finitly singular and general. that is a form of sug="trms">gestive work that can deal with the ="trms">specific as well. (think about ‘chicken’ as an anstract idea in our ="trms">semiotic ="trms">world and as an individual being in our ="trms">material ="trms">world)
="lsts lst1">•using ='thdf'>the notion of delinking (reminded by ="frds scrmbld">Juan) with ='mywrk'>my research on the ="trms">Book of ="trms">Wonders. going from parable-thinking ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">religious-thinking ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> poststructura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list-thinking ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">poetic-thinking ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> riddle-thinking ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> biological-thinking ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> deconstructionist-thinking ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ...
="lsts lst1">•this other universe is always at the beyond='lgc'>--the other ="trms">cosmos is a ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure (='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst1">•all cages have wheels
="lsts lst1">•boat, as an image for both construction and destruction
="lsts lst1">•i don't need to be alone in destroying the boat
="lsts lst1">•how to move the boat ='lgc'>=/= destination




possible workshops for ="frds scrmbld">Einat's project='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•moonwalk dance
="lsts lst1">•="trms">database programing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how to live well with ="trms">databases, not waging a quixotic war on ="trms">database designers. we must learn how to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read and understand ="trms">database early in elementary school. ="trms">databases are fundamental parts of our political ="trms">social ethical cultural processes...
="lsts lst1">•regular expression ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how computer programming ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads and patterns text
="lsts lst1">•text-based ="trms">internet ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cyberfeminism
="lsts lst1">•="trms">intervention in the digital hegemonies (digital ='lgc'>==> cultural ='lgc'>==> ="trms">material) (changes to the built digital environments, possiblities of recon="trms">figuration ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> production of space, ="trms">articulations about ‘us’)
="lsts lst1">•what does it mean to look at a ="trms">code='qstn'>? (a critical introduction to computer programming for artists)
="lsts lst1">•How to implement a programming ="trms">language in (JavaScript='qstn'>?)='lgc'>--parsing, regexps, (http://lisperator.net/)
="lsts lst1">•teaching German with ="ppl">Holderlin's “Andenken” ="trms">poem
="lsts lst1">•to create a ='strcls'>*feast='strcls'>* (to celebrate is to become free of the habitual, becoming inhabitual. celebration is the tensional coming together of the unlikes ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> through which human beings and gods could meet and ="trms">greet. The festiveness that the celebration encourages constitutes the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal ="trms">Greeting. ='lgc'>[="ppl">Avital='lgc'>])


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="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> what i have beeing trying to mean by saying that i have been dependent on others to create spaces that a telling can happen, is actually a fundamnetal ellement of ="trms">storytelling='lgc'>: the ='strcls'>***="trms">community. i need and depend on ="trms">community in my tellings. (this has noting to do with the imperative of “="trms">communication” or having a “message”)
(is it what ="ppl">="ppl">Stengers calls to promote an “oikos”='qstn'>?)


='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Stengers='lgc'>]
“the ='strcls'>*predominance='strcls'>* of the ='strcls'>*concern for relevance='strcls'>* (-rabt-) builds up ="trms">memory and experience”

political ="trms">ecology ='lgc'>: there is NO knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that is (both) relevant and detached
political ="trms">ecology ='lgc'>: relevance ='lgc'>+ attachment='lgc'> = knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> art of ="trms">staging='lgc'> = designing a s="trms">cene

='lgc'>[the House TV series, the issue of the protagonist is='lgc'>] the distinguish between the figure of the expert and the figure of the diplomat.
='strcls'>*expert='lgc'>: ones whose practice is not threatend by the issue under discussion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'> = relevance
='strcls'>*diplomat='lgc'>: ones who provide a voice for those whose practice, mode of existence, (and what is offen called) identity are threatened by a decision. to cause the experts second thoughts. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>~= decision
='lgc'>[this is core in ="trms">storytelling='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[then, i am political. i used to use the word embassador, but it means also ‘diplomat.’ ="trms">stories that can hold another ="trms">story hanging. ="frds">Sina's shy embassador ='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? ='lgc'>] (but what about the weak ones, the idiot, the one's who ‘rather not’ contribute to the political project='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-diplomats are ="trms">situated='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[for ='strcls'>*="frds scrmbld">Lili this is also a delima, she is torn apart between her expert self and diplomat who ="trms">crafts relevance
diplomat='lgc'>--the relevance of feelings ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what is the knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in the kiss='qstn'>? (the kiss that she rendered as ‘irrelevant’)='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[for me kiss is essentialy important. “it (everything) started with a kiss."='lgc'>]

universal knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>=/= relevant knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge


‘trust’ is one of many names for ="trms">love
“you can never be in="trms">different to the trust you inspire” (="ppl">="ppl">Stengers)

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='at'>#workshop='lgc'>: “the magic of the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right word”
(against Sherlock Holmes)
(12-step recovery program for people suffering from) ad="trms">diction to the truth

(to energize the connections to the things that animate us.)

="lstsrd">1. gathering, basckets of concepts, objects, things, words, etc.
="lstsrd">2. excersises, physical to-dos (cleaning, cooking, spo[...]