[...]ment “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'>?
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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 behaviour 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...)
in ="nms">apass (i can't pose problems until) we must address these ="trms">question='lgc'>:
="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)
refusal to ="trms">integration is problematic as ="trms">integration (into host's pleasure principle)
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'>*
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='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
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="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 h[...]