[...]oducing 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.

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 clss='lgc'>=>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)

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(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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<lrg clss="large lg1" stl="font-size:141%"> 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>lrg>

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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 clss='lgc'>=>lgc>lgc> cultural <lgc clss='lgc'>=<lgc clss='lgc'>=>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 tensional coming together of the unlikes <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> through which human beings and gods could meet and lss="trms">greet. The festiveness that the celebration encourages constitutes the olss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal lss="trms">Greeting. <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>l clss="ppl">Avitall><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>)
lsts>
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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 lss="trms">storytelling<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> the ls clss='strcls'>***ls>lss="trms">community. i need and depend on lss="trms">community in my tellings. (this has noting to do with the imperative of “lss="trms">communication” or having a “message”)
(is it what l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stengersl>l> calls to promote an “oikos”lss='qstn'>?)


<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stengersl>l><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
“the ls clss='strcls'>*ls>predominancels clss='strcls'>*ls> of the ls clss='strcls'>*ls>concern for relevancels clss='strcls'>*ls> (-rabt-) builds up lss="trms">memory and experience”
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political lss="trms">ecology <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> there is NO knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that is (both) relevant and detached
political lss="trms">ecology <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> relevance <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> attachment<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge

art of lss="trms">staging<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>designing a slss="trms">cene

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>the House TV series, the issue of the protagonist is<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> the distinguish between the figure of the expert and the figure of the diplomat.
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>expert<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> ones whose practice is not threatend by the issue under discussion <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>relevance
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>diplomat<lgc clss='lgc'>: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 clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge <lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>=lgc> decision
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>this is core in lss="trms">storytelling<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>then, i am political. i used to use the word embassador, but it means also ‘diplomat.’ lss="trms">stories that can hold another lss="trms">story hanging. lss="frds">Sina's shy embassador <lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>=lgc>lss='qstn'>? <lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> (but what about the weak ones, the idiot, the one's who ‘rather not’ contribute to the political projectlss='qstn'>?)
lss="prgrph">-diplomats are lss="trms">situatedls clss='strcls'>*ls>
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>for ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="frds scrmbld">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Lili this is also a delima, she is torn apart between her expert self and diplomat who lss="trms">crafts relevance
diplomat<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>the relevance of feelings <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> what is the knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in the kisslss='qstn'>? (the kiss that she rendered as ‘irrelevant’)<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>for me kiss is essentialy important. “it (everything) started with a kiss."<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

universal knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> relevant knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge


‘trust’ is one of many names for lss="trms">love
“you can never be inlss="trms">different to the trust you inspire” (l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stengersl>l>)

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

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

<lstsrd clss="lstsrd">1. gathering, basckets of concepts, objects, things, words, etc.
lstsrd> <lstsrd clss="lstsrd">2. excersises, physical to-dos (cleaning, cooking, sport, sawing, etc.) while telling (this is about removing the lss="trms">codes of acting and relss="trms">presentation process that lss="trms">interupt the telling)
lstsrd> <lstsrd clss="lstsrd">3. everyday mundane talks, no lss="trms">stage. ‘you’ in it. (is it a one-to-one mentoringlss='qstn'>?)
lstsrd> <lstsrd clss="lstsrd">4. convert into lss="trms">language the objects from the basket, lss="trms">write them down. since we are going to work with sign-lss="trms">language
lstsrd> <lstsrd clss="lstsrd">5. make the connections (probably together)
lstsrd> <lstsrd clss="lstsrd">6. special activities during the workshoplss='qstn'>? (cooking, drinking, etc.)
lstsrd> <lstsrd clss="lstsrd">7. ending of the workshop. what would be the closurelss='qstn'>? what do we buildlss='qstn'>? how do we evaluatelss='qstn'>?
lstsrd>

<lrg clss="large lg10" stl="font-size:129%"> <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>what are you summoned bylss='qstn'>? lss="trms">write about the person you see in the light of reverielss='qstn'>? how to survive humanismlss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

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lss='at'>#workshop, lss="trms">fables
lss="trms">fable seen as a site where one lss="trms">formulates concepts and lss="trms">narratives that reorient one within one's own research practices
lss="prgrph">-(how can we) participate in shaping our objects of knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">relational lss="trms">lss="trms">empiricism)
lss="prgrph">-learn through participating in lss="trms">different (though not fixed nor lss="trms">mutually exlss="trms">lss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive) ls clss='strcls'>*ls>microlss="trms">worldsls clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>microlss="trms">world<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> a space where protocols and lss="trms">lss="trms">equipments are standardized to facilitate the emergence and stabilization of new objects. (l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Kenneyl>l>)<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lss="prgrph">-“banal and ordinary sites of getting on in collective life” (l clss="ppl">Verranl>)
lss="prgrph">-bring your ‘found objects’ (objects, lss="trms">categories, lss="trms">stories, concepts, insights, lss="trms">writing under influence, etc.) and put them in ‘telling’ (telling lss="trms">stories about the lives of your found objects <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> insisting on the solidity of our found objects<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>solidity<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>stability <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> lss="trms">authority<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> and in telling practices <lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc> (re)lss="trms">materializing your lss="trms">lss="trms">empirical objects <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> generating relss="trms">liably-managed microlss="trms">world)
lss="prgrph">-found objects are objects with which we inhabit lss="trms">worlds (or microlss="trms">worlds of our practices)
lss="prgrph">-(not claiming to occupy an) lss="trms">ontological no-man's-land outside of the microlss="trms">worlds <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> my frame is no more free of lss="trms">lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics than any other
lss="prgrph">-towards an ongoing untidy recursive theory <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> keeping our objects, concepts, and insights in a state of generative transformation
lss="prgrph">-which “lss="trms">affective economies” animate our own bodies as artist and as peoplelss='qstn'>?
lss="prgrph">-what feelings inform our workslss='qstn'>?

<lrg clss="large lg6" stl="font-size:125%"> staying with lss="trms">linguistic lss="trms">differences (in each of our lss="trms">stories or praxiography) is a way of investigating the lss="trms">ontological commitments embedded in lss="trms">language.
lss="trms">ontological <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">worlding <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> how lss="trms">language participates in shaping our lived lss="trms">worlds in some ways and not others.ls clss='strcls'>***ls> “it is not common for speakers of a lss="trms">language to examine what type of lss="trms">material objects their lss="trms">language commits them to.” (l clss="ppl">Verranl>)

solidity of found objects, in my case, the graphs and images i am making about lss="nms">ajayeb <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> the graphs now reiterate for me as rituals in lss='mywrk'>my research microlss="trms">world.
with these graphs i am trying lss="trms">different ways of arranging space, time and lss="trms">matter when speaking a ls clss='strcls'>*ls>sentencels clss='strcls'>*ls>. ...each lss="trms">language figures space, time, and lss="trms">matter into lss="trms">different kinds of objects. in my lss="trms">writing tools with lss="nms">ajayeb, what type of lss="trms">material objects my lss="trms">language, or Hemedani or Qazwini's lss="trms">language, commits us tolss='qstn'>? my graphs are “spatiotemporal particulars” and “lss="trms">sortal particulars”. trying to talk about lss="trms">ontological assumptions embedded in the English (and any other) lss="trms">language. the diagrams are ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigsls clss='strcls'>*ls>. i am using lss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigging instead of framework. <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> clever lss="trms">technological lss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs, are provisional constructions, setup for a lss="trms">specific myth and dismantled after. sometimes old lss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs are reused or repurposed for new lss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs.
lss="prgrph">-resist peaceful lss="trms">naturalization
lss="prgrph">-uncomfortable software
lss="prgrph">-building/creating lss="trms">technologies as one way to do lss="trms">ontological politics (in postcolonial context)
lss="prgrph">-my experiments with lss="nms">ajayeb<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
 lss="prgrph prgrph2">-(the dlss="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger in using) computer software to archive lss="nms">ajayeb's or lss="nms">ajib knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> lively collective lss="trms">memory tool
 lss="prgrph prgrph2">-the software that is slick and seamless runs the risk of the digital media appear as ls clss='strcls'>*ls>self-sufficient relss="trms">presentationsls clss='strcls'>*ls> (<lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc>lss='not'>✕<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> living context)
 lss="prgrph prgrph2">-archived and frozen in time
lss="prgrph">-lss="trms">sorting operations

(if i continue with digital tech in lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading lss="nms">ajayeb i have to ask) how the digitized lss="nms">ajib knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge can resist appropriation and lss="trms">translation into an idiom that will not sustain its lss="trms">lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysicsls clss='strcls'>****ls>
<lsts clss="lsts lst2">◦powerful lss="trms">relational work that numbers (alsolss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc> etc.) perform <lgc clss='lgc'>->lgc> “numbers are a particularly smooth and manipulable meaning-making tools. they hide their seams well. they are slick and trustworthy” (Porter) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> they are “lss="trms">materialized lss="trms">relations” (how can we tell a lss="trms">story of lss="trms">relations that for example numbers/math lss="trms">materializelss='qstn'>?)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst2">◦highlighting parts of lss="nms">ajayeb<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> as part of a lss="trms">material lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading practice <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> “highlighting” could easily be understood as lss="trms">lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor of dislss="trms">embodied vision; highlighting is not about making things clear but about scribbling (bad-khat بدخط) as a mode of attention <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> (l clss="ppl">Descartesl>’) “lss="trms">natural light of reason”
lsts>

lss='prcnt'>%report on lss="trms">fables of objects lss='at'>#workshop (22.02.2017 HWD lss="nms">apass)<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> attention to the sense and feeling of disparity, dispersity, stability, lss="trms">sublimity, lss="trms">authority, epicness, weakness, severity, solidity, scale, (a)lss="trms">social connections, and tangibility in the character of the object of each participants in the lss="trms">stories we wrote. where were active and passive qualities locatedlss='qstn'>? how were lss="trms">agencies distributedlss='qstn'>?
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•olss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin lss="trms">story <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> evolution lss="trms">story, lss="trms">love lss="trms">story <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>the object falls in lss="trms">love with...<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•daily lss="trms">story
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">beast feeding lss="trms">story <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> training lss="trms">story
lsts> evoking temporality of evolutionary time, face-to-face time, lss="trms">historical time, tiny scale time,
 lss="prgrph prgrph2">-each lss="trms">story has a music, texture of colors, pattern of meaning and lss="trms">affect
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•bodyguard <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> fantastic creature invented to protect an organism (your “object”). this bodyguard can be organic, nonorganic, cyborg, any form, but always an lss="trms">agent. tell us why/how this or that feature helps the bodyguard with its task
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•generation lss="trms">stories, describe and follow your object in three generations, its lss="trms">child and grandlss="trms">child
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>for the second day or warm-up first daylss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> constraint based lss="trms">writing<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> (l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Kenneyl>l> > lss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian Bök's “lss="trms">literary genetics” lss="trms">poetics of encryption of lss="trms">data; lss="trms">poetic vectors, to “infect” the lss="trms">language;) describe/lss="trms">story your object (or an operative “lss="trms">verb” within your discourse) with univocalics<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> without using “e” or only using a single vowel. or, first lss="trms">write with 3, then 2, then 1 vowel.
lsts>
lss="prgrph">-the workshop is about<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> what other lss="trms">stories (of your object) are possiblelss='qstn'>?
lss="prgrph">-in the workshop (I take a temporary lss="trms">position to) challenge others to re-tell the lss="trms">story of their ((lss="trms">epistemological) found) objects
lss="prgrph">-a ‘generative constraint’ might help opening up paths before you, away from our habits of lss="trms">storytelling
lss="prgrph">-it is about getting a feeling for the resistances and potentials of lss="trms">language in our (sometimes mundane) descriptive practices, “strange richness of missing the letters we need” (l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Kenneyl>l>)

<lrg clss="large lg10" stl="font-size:107%"> the lss="trms">lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors are dormant in our lss="trms">routines of talking and noticing each other. how then, by lss="trms">traversing the lss="trms">routine, our “knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge” and “lss="trms">community” took on new meaning, as they get a chance of being relss="trms">articulated in lss="trms">different lss="trms">languages (or lss="trms">differenlty infected lss="trms">literature)
<lgc clss='lgc'>~-lgc>lss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'>=<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc>lgc> changing the lss="trms">system of classification (of thought)

lss="prgrph">-in a way the workshop is about an ls clss='strcls'>*ls>approachls clss='strcls'>*ls> to knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge generation (and not necessarily a lss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorous critique nor directly evaluating the production of our knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges)

<lrg clss="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> lrg>
ls clss='strcls'>***ls>nothing is never merely a lss="trms">lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorls clss='strcls'>***ls>

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>some lss="trms">fables from lss="trms">science studies:<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•l clss="ppl">Emilyl> l clss="ppl">Martinl>'s egg/sperm lss="trms">story <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">stories of atomism, distribution of lss="trms">agency, <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>The Egg and the Sperm<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> How lss="trms">Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Haywardl>l>'s microscope <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">tropes of lss="trms">natural lss="trms">history docu, <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>Enlss="trms">folded Vision<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> Refracting The lss="trms">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Love lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Life of the Octopus<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Kenneyl>l>/l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Harawayl>l>'s olss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin/lss="trms">nature lss="trms">fable <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> the omnipotence of the “olss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin” lss="trms">story in our descriptions and lss="trms">interactions with the lss="trms">natural lss="trms">world
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•l clss="ppl">Scott l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Gilbertl>l>l>'s immunological “bouncer” lss="trms">story <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> immune lss="trms">systems as inlss="trms">lss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive lss="trms">agents of lss="trms">symbiosis
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Lynn l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Margulisl>l><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> life (made possible) by “combat” <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>the survival lss="trms">fable that TV series “The 100” and “Kelile Demne” for instance is based on<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lss='not'>✕<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> life by lss="trms">networking
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Harawayl>l><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> the tale of “organism<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>a lss="trms">system of division of labor with executive functions” (<lgc clss='lgc'>=<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc>lgc> extraction of wealth among us)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Mortonl>l>'s lss="trms">causality-lss="trms">story
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•brain/body lss="trms">story <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> where the “move” came fromlss='qstn'>?
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="frds">Sina's “standing on the shoulders of giants” <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge/continuity, role of lss="trms">authority and humility in lss="trms">science <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>http://www.sinaseifee.com/giants.html<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="frds">Sina's 3 little pigs <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> architecture/tech/ echics of encounter <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">story of the center and periphery <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>http://www.sinaseifee.com/pigs.html<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•“weapon fathered man” <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> Kubrick's african genesis, lss="trms">technology <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> prelss="trms">history (in postwar period) “tool <lgc clss='lgc'>=<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc>lgc> man”
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•
lsts> lss="trms">fables popular in lss="nms">apass<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•“a work <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>of art<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> should speak for itself”
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•“the very last lss="trms">stage of the creative process is purely intuitive” <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> when people say they stop “lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading” olsts>[...]