[...]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'>==>='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'>?


="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> (='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'>==>='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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:126%"> “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'>~= 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'>==> ='qstn'>? (="trms">marketing the self)
to be unintelligible for the university ='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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