[...]g 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'>?

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(='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'>?


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'>?!

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)

(Manning on p.16 5th paragraph is an ='thdf'>example of an) unaccountable un="trms">situated abstract claim of reality='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•unaccountable ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> where do you stand saying this='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•un="trms">situated ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for whom is this good='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•abstract ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how you are saying it='qstn'>?

='thdf'>the notion of “care for the event”
='lgc'>=/= perspectives
='lgc'>=/= subjects
='lgc'>=/= persons

“occasion itself creates its subjects” (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- you are a subject inside the occasion, how can you stand out and say that='qstn'>?)

(Manning) creating a concept of care ='lgc'>=/= care as actually practiced in ="trms">different parts of the ="trms">world by people
(what is the politics of not caring='qstn'>?)

Manning's ="trms">rhetoric of reasoning='lgc'>: ‘virtuous’
telling soft wisdom tale with an emotional twist at the end and how she did the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right thing and came out clean and cool ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> rectitude

her text has become all about the achievements of senseLab with a cover of high philosophical abstract conceptualization (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= fortification)
='lgc'>=/= taking ='strcls'>*risk='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= adventure) of talking about the real problems that you face in doing/thinking
='lgc'>=/= abstraction as the challenge of bringing ="trms">specificity and ="trms">imaginative traction

“adventure” is not the name of the game for me, for two reasons='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. Manning brought her concept of ‘adventure’ to Belgium='lgc'>: the land of Tintin, poster of the moderinst adventure ="trms">agency sold by the image of the individual blond univerasal truth-seeker exporting company who always wins by de="trms">finition, Tintin is the one who doesn't have a culture and always others have culture in his ="trms">stories
="lstsrd">2. i have been researching europeans who came for an “adventure” to ="nms">iran in the last millennium (such as ="ppl">Olearius), and it doesn't look good. when europeans go out of their center to east it is adventure (or ="trms">anthropology), that means othering and feeling the ="trms">differences of the other in order to feel outside. but when, for example ="nms">iranians go to Europe, they never feel they are there for “adventure,” they are there to learn. the mode of adventure plays this role in the colonial dynamic of “going out there”

(my fundamental ="trms">difference with her is that) for Manning (and ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alex)='lgc'>: “philosophy is a ="trms">priori to ="trms">storytelling” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Serres='lgc'>]


="prgrph">-why did i behave the way i did in the workshop='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-was it my politeness, ="trms">routine, habit of respect='qstn'>? what are the consequences of my ="trms">specific way of (non)relating to her figure as a master, knower, seer, in ="trms">relation to that which she offers and re="trms">presents='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-why the scandalous was ="trms">responded to, assimilated, burried, swallowed in the way it did in the workshop='qstn'>?

rethinking emergence='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-with ='thdf'>the idea of “let it emerge,” was it herself that emerged because of us='qstn'>? (apply emergence-thinking to her figure in the workshop)
="prgrph">-how a collective resentment “emerged” in the participants='qstn'>? (apply emergence-thinking to the participants)
="prgrph">-how hierarchies “emerged” in the workshop='qstn'>? and what are they='qstn'>?

to be ungraspable for the ="trms">market ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='qstn'>? (="trms">marketing the self)
to be unintelligible for the university ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='qstn'>? (devitalizing the university)


="trms">questions='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•decontextualization, as an artistic ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready-at-hand tool of concept-making, does it do good or bad to knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and ="trms">imagination (as it is practiced by the people who use it) and how='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•facing the challenge of bringing ="trms">specificity and ="trms">imaginative traction to our objects of attention, how do we build nontranscendental abstractions='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•and, why self-promoting is such a turn-off='qstn'>? (projecting a self-image of being cool and correct)
how do you (not, and why not) tell the tale of your adventures and achievements='qstn'>? or, how can we ="trms">respond to the ‘="trms">demand for the mobilization of desire’ in the economy of attention that Manning brought with herself='qstn'>? and how that economy is ="trms">different from that of ="nms">apass='qstn'>?



in the spectrum of ‘auto-ism’ (not the pathological term for developmental disorder) ='lgc'>['auto-’='lgc'>: from ="trms">Greek αὐτo-, “self"='lgc'>] ‘being ="trms">socially inept, being with oneself,’ we can also locate ‘allism’ ='lgc'>['allo’='lgc'>: from ="trms">Greek ἄλλος, állos, “other”, “else"='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> al="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic='lgc'>: ‘to be ="trms">skilled at being with the ="trms">different other (assumed human)’

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eurocentric ='lgc'>=/= european
="lsts lst1">•i actually ="trms">love “european.” i learn from it all the time. how does the ="trms">world looks like from here.
="lsts lst1">•but eurocentrism is horrible. they assume an o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin and displace it to any place/time ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it happens when a philosopher tries to be anti-western but assuming the same o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins of thinking for everybody else and not taking the time to become ="trms">interested in the (non)thinking forms of no="trms">neuropeans


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='at'>#workshop on 3D animation all on Nude Descending a Staircase
inspired by minute 16 of “Pink Slime Caesar Shift” (2018)


“there is much more to you that meet the eye.” the motto of transformation in secular capitalism, sang by Jane Fonda and Transformer Optimus Prime

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rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer's ="trms">questions
in your obscure (elaborate and awkward) meditations, (='qstn'>?can we ask='lgc'>:) what is sacrificed, what is recooked, canibalized, chewed over, and eventually buried='qstn'>? in which economy of pleasure and pain is this mobilized='qstn'>? which harmful (or hedonistic) ="trms">sensualism is deployed='qstn'>? which ="trms">hallucinating enfant is ="trms">writing='qstn'>? which raw ="trms">material is being transformed into the gold of humanity='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-the ="trms">question of will='lgc'>: which ="trms">world is murdered and repopulated by the act of (your) will alone='qstn'>?

a research ="trms">method of starting a conversation, for ="nms">apass
='strcls'>*take me to you ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bring me to the subject who you think is ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading you, receiving your work in some ="trms">sort,

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few things (that i hate hysterically) that i think i urgently need (and any artist) to have a very good grasp of (within ="trms">modern capital economy)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">marketing (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">integrated ="trms">storytelling)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">fashion (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> manipulative regimes of time and place)
="lsts lst1">•journalism (explanatory ="trms">technologies of news and opinion, vox, kurzgesagt, corporate media, immersive journalism, forensic ="trms">aesthetics)
="lsts lst1">•politics (='lgc'>=/= political ="trms">science)='lgc'>: achieving and exercising ="trms">positions of governance that have control over ="trms">communities
="lsts lst1">•hollywood/comics (='strcls'>*corporate-produced ="trms">fiction='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> business-decisions connecting cross-overs; ideas of='lgc'>: customer and merchandise)


i can't shake off ='thdf'>the idea that behind every ="trms">marketing strategy there i a predatory behavior concealed


='strcls'>***there is nothing quite so humiliating and disempowering as trying to prove the truth='strcls'>***

‘trying to prove the truth’ is the worst ="trms">position you can find yourself in and it means you are fucked. because you are doing it to empower yourself in the face of a biger power that lies and claims you. the conditions that had let that happen are the ="trms">question, not the truth of the ="trms">matter ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>that is why i find journalism most of the time useless

impossibility of having an ="trms">interview with ="nms">iranians (myself in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded)='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>==='qstn'>? chaotic subjectivity='lgc'>]
deflection ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dodging='lgc'>: not giving meaningful answers ='lgc'>: gradations of non-answers you are receiving
taking a keyword, repeating it, sounds like answering the ="trms">question, introducing a nonsequitur to trip up the host
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> more confused ='and'>& less informed

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='at'>#project Puchberg landscape Austria
shifting baseline syndrome='lgc'>: reshaping the landscape and forgetting what was before ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'>{ (new) reality='lgc'> = shaped and ruined landscapes
(Emirates was for me such reality of shaped ruin)
admiring one landscape and its biological entanglements (Puchberg Austrian meadows, with it cows and horses, place of beauty and leisure) ='lgc'>==entails='lgc'>='lgc'>==> forgetting many others ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘forgetting’ (='lgc'>~ privileging one assemblage over others) ='lgc'>==remakes='lgc'>='lgc'>==> landscapes
(yet) ghosts point to forgetting, show how living landscapes are imbued with earlier tracks and traces
( specters in grasslands...)


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="lsts lst1">•European ="trms">heritage of creating conviviality شادمانی قابل آمیزش (and very good at it)
="lsts lst1">•='thdf'>the idea of democracy as a political project اکثريت نجيب (soft ways of being together)
="lsts lst2">◦secularism of artistic research دين ناوابستگى (registers of logos)

='lgc'>[most of the times our collaborative research artistic practices explicate ‘soft ways of being together’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a condition in which no one knows better than the other='lgc'>]

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the accelerationist ="trms">fable of “running before walking”
ask any ="trms">scientist and it comes to this. any problem caused by progress is because it has been going too fast. but the direction of its movement remains intrinsic to ='thdf'>the idea of human
...

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='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda='lgc'>: to be very careful with the fetish of “refugee's suffering” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> turning a ="trms">serious political problem (geopolitics of western ="trms">intervention, europe's economic neocolonialism) into a (sentimental liberal) humanitarian concern ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> avoiding critical political analysis

='qstn'>?a ="trms">different program='lgc'>: not to be yourself
to bring our struggles together (not our so-called cultural ="trms">differences)

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authentic imperialism has always been multicultural

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on ="trms">affect
="trms">affective character practice of retrospection='lgc'>: a bit pensive and passive, a bit slow and solemn='qstn'>?

1970s and 1980s ="trms">anthropology of emotion='lgc'>: how feelings variously fix and stick through ="trms">different com="trms">positions of ="trms">language and discourse ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">anthropology of ="trms">affect='lgc'>: how some feelings slip, evade, and overflow capture ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*creative ="trms">methods to collect evidence of environments making and shaping bodies in ways more complex than and ="trms">ontologically distinct from the ="trms">poetics on hand to describe it='strcls'>*

='strcls'>**="trms">poetics may quite possibly be all that we have, it certainly isn't all that we are='strcls'>**

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]politics='lgc'>: permutations of evolving power ="trms">relations and our reflexive attempts to negotiate and manage them

='strcls'>*="trms">affect theory='lgc'>: an effect of the ="trms">world as much as a frame for viewing it

industry working also on ="trms">affect, push confidently ahead, operationalizing their own idio="trms">syncratic theories of ="trms">affect toward the manufacturing of new regimes of ="trms">technological knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge on how bodies feel (Apple buying Emotient, SoftBank's emotional robot, collective AI cloud)

sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read of popu="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list anti-establishment sentiments
feelings increasingly become the primary field for strategizing, ="trms">measuring, and experiencing politics with global precarity
="lsts lst1">•="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger on the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right
="lsts lst1">•fear on the left
="lsts lst1">•="trms">anxiety at large

="trms">affect='lgc'>: nonconscious intensities variously activating and deactivating bodies
emotion='lgc'>: those feelings that fix into place through a variety of discursive practices

="trms">methods of mining feeling
projects of knowing become projects of power ='lgc'>: ="trms">narratives seeking to close the ="trms">affect-emotion gap

The Flash TV series character's motivation are more experienced as a ="trms">story, for example, a goal, a personal pep talk, a collective call to arms='lgc'>--and not as momentum and force ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">affect's sheer momentum

...effect as ="trms">affect's long ="trms">history breaking on a shore

countervailing forces of sense and ="trms">story

to inspire a sense of critical urgency

="trms">affect ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> theory is of the ="trms">world it so describes

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contemporary tendencies in participatory art='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>**ongoing struggle to find artistic equivalents for political ="trms">positions='strcls'>**
="lsts lst1">•tensions between quality and equality, singular and collective ="trms">authorship
="lsts lst1">•sub-themes of education and therapy

='strcls'>***invention of a popular mass audience (in Italian Futurist serate 1910 onwards)

the gaps between='lgc'>: theory, practice, cultural policy, audience reception

anarchic and ="trms">eroticised happening-art

“participation='lgc'> = collectivism ='lgc'>=/= capitalism”

='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Eszter='lgc'>: (='qstn'>?the “ideological” in) participation in a welfare state ="trms">social democracy

the ‘project’ as a privileged vehicle of utopian experimentation at a time when a leftist project seemed to have vanished from the political ="trms">imaginary (in Europe)

='strcls'>*changing identity of the audience across the 20th century='strcls'>* (Bishop ='and'>& ="ppl">="ppl">Crary on this topic)

='strcls'>*artistic models of democracy='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--tenuous='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> actual forms of democracy

to refute the commodity-object in favour of an elusive experience

(Bishop='lgc'>:) today's participatory art is often at pains to emphasise process over a de="trms">finitive image, concept or object. It tends to value what is invisible='lgc'>: a group dynamic, a ="trms">social ="trms">situation, a change of energy, a raised consciousness.

hit-and-miss field trips

the more one becomes involved, the harder it is to be objective – especially when a central component of a project concerns the formation of personal ="trms">relationships

comfortable outsider status='lgc'>: impotent but secure in one's own critical superiority

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only working with (that seems to be) your idea

(the problem of) being always so deliberate and cautious

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="ppl">Hillman

like the conver of his ="trms">book (myth of analysis), an ="trms">internal drama externalized ="trms">materialized in the media, sci-fi ="trms">fabulations of violence and war (such as Game of Thrones) are[...]