[...]reserves of the mother-="trms">childhood and family (dominanting psychology) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we come to her='lgc'>: ='strcls'>***="trms">materialism='lgc'> = maternalism (in acceptable disguise)='strcls'>***

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="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> (with the critical ="trms">bestiaries magazine idea) is ='mywrk'>my work about defining a new mode of cultural discourse='qstn'>?

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="prgrph">-philosophy (like mathematics) is a ="trms">priori disciplines (or has an a ="trms">priori ="trms">methodology) at its core
="prgrph">-the posibility of ='strcls'>*true answers='strcls'>* for “artistic ="trms">questions”(='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>--='qstn'>? can anybody outside your field be made to care whether you're ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right='qstn'>?
a ="trms">priori ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">contingent
higher-order truths of...
self-supporting ="trms">community of experts (= ="trms">trap)
“philosophy is garbage, but the ="trms">history of garbage is scholarship” -Burton Dreben

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act of cultural and economic exchange
act of reciprocal exchange, of creative ="trms">mutuality (to benefit in a myriad of ways related to our professional status, our institutional ‘worth,’ the ="trms">social and cultural capital perceived to be attached to the ‘="trms">networks’ in which we operate)
='lgc'>[to ="trms">interrogate='lgc'>] concepts of artistic labor and value
time, labor, and the creative investment that was ="trms">embodied within ='lgc'>[the object that you make='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[you might start with='lgc'>] requiring a catalogue containing critical essays to institutionally ‘legitimate’ your exhibition ='lgc'>--yet='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sophisticated, playful and ="trms">interesting ways to comment on and engage
='strcls'>*numerous ways in which cultural forms (in this case contemporary art) are ="trms">simultaneously entangled in a number of spheres of meaning, value and mediation='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==> activate ongoing dialogue
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">marketplace='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•people in both established and emerging ‘global’ economies forced to fulfill their everyday needs
="lsts lst1">•‘the ="trms">market’ is ="trms">naturalised and reified within ="trms">social ="trms">relations in ways we don't necessarily always recognise or acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> suffused and ="trms">sublimated within creative production, our lexicon and ="trms">gestures
(19th century ="trms">anthropology's) ='thdf'>the idea of ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]alterity='lgc'>: understanding how ‘other,’ ‘primitive’ ="trms">societies operated ‘outside’ of ="trms">modernity ='lgc'>--assumption='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘small scale’ ="trms">societies exchange (barter, gift exchange, and so on) would always, with evolution, give way to more ‘sophisticated’ means of trade
="lsts lst1">•Malinowski (study of the Kula ring) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> form of producing and reifying power ="trms">relations
="lsts lst1">•Mauss (gift economies) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> gifts as stand alone ="trms">systems ='lgc'>+ other kinds of economic structures
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Strathern (Melanesian gift exchange) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how personhood is a malleable concept that is both implicated in, and created by, conceptions of individuality (tripartite views of people as constituted of a mind, body and spirit), or dividuality (persons as constituted from multiple essences and ="trms">social ="trms">relations, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding the giving and receiving of gifts) ='lgc'>+ how gender is both studied and understood in the acts leading up to the performance of gift exchange
="lsts lst1">•Appadurai () ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘things’ have ‘="trms">social lives'that can be studied in ="trms">relation to the ="trms">different spheres of use
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (our understanding of) the human capacity for unlimited modes of developing creative forms of exchange and economic ="trms">systems

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https://mapmagazine.co.uk/notes-contemporary-art-and-="trms">anthropology

operations of state="trms">craft='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•queuing in ="trms">social security offices
="lsts lst1">•filling in tax forms
="lsts lst1">•circulation and arrival of letters ="trms">demanding council tax payments
="lsts lst1">•census taking
="prgrph">-
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">social organization that seems so habitual (mundane and ordinary) ='lgc'>==> unreflexively experienced

state's ordinariness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> irresistible enchantment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> overwhelming power ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> super="trms">natural trance-like experiences state seem to engender in populations ='lgc'>=/= state as a rational entity

='strcls'>*capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">market is a faith-based ="trms">system='strcls'>* ='lgc'><== concealed practices of divination and the ‘conjuring’ of value and capital from what in many cases are im="trms">material voids

unmasking of its practices (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= faith ='lgc'>+ skepticism) ='lgc'>==> state power

mutant forms of ="trms">technological self-subjugation

(Weber's) magic='lgc'>: coercive proceduralism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> managerial practices that characterise biopolitics

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]census taking='lgc'>: pre-determined ="trms">categories (like race, nationality, gender and political persuasion) are set out as objectively existing taxonomies (='lgc'>+ ‘="trms">data’ manually gathered from individuals to ‘fit’ those ="trms">categories) and thus summon ='lgc'>[a term with magical implications purposefully employed here='lgc'>] a population into being
="prgrph">-McClanahan

census ='lgc'>==> statistics='lgc'>: factish object='lgc'>: hybrid and unstable (possibly inaccurate) yet fetishised and faith-based ="trms">technologies that possess the ability to transform (the individual parts of ="trms">social and cultural groups into a sacred somatic whole ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ people/nation='lgc'>])='lgc'>='lgc'>--> biopolitics
="prgrph">-can art succeed in transforming such a ‘whole’ into free and autonomous individual beings='qstn'>?

references to panopticon ="trms">society
(='qstn'>?which camera angles sug="trms">gest) ="trms">naturalization of sur="trms">veillance culture



='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*observational ="trms">aesthetic='strcls'>* ='lgc'><== convergences of contemporary art and ="trms">anthropology

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='lgc'>[="nms">ajayeb ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] concept or theory ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a training in) absorption ='lgc'>+ attention ='lgc'>+ framing ='lgc'>=/= truth effect

='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
Whatever Professor

='lgc'>[why ="nms">apass asked me to do their website's='lgc'>] indexing='lgc'>: (a shrewd and thoughtful creativity in) the first ="trms">interpretation of a content's body ='lgc'>=/= presuming a standard taxonomic form
='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•surprises
="lsts lst1">•styles of critical thought generates power in twists of voice and ="trms">craft
="lsts lst1">•
allows one please to de="trms">monstrate the ="trms">wonder
“We ask our ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers to perform the jamb when ="trms">language overruns the mental breathing that ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading entails.” (Lepselter)
="lsts lst1">•or, nothing disappears ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> You breathe the air you're given. (“I felt ripples from a rape in the seventeenth century, behind a barn somewhere in Romania, where generations later my bitter grandmother disparaged her ="trms">children without knowing why.”)
="lsts lst1">•or, words sediment next to something laid low
="lsts lst1">•or, (index as in) to point sideways ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shifter's only meaning is the object it happens to point to
="lsts lst1">•drawing figures, hooks, asterisks
="lsts lst1">•or, placing what's structural, ="trms">technical, ="trms">transferential, pulped, leaking, intense
='lgc'>{things='lgc'>: an ="trms">integrated thin layer to epitomize and abstract in new ways how people are hooked up with their ="trms">technologies; parsing and criss-crossing some of the built-in ="trms">categories and new needs of the people who are using it;='lgc'>}


things that do the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading, editing, assembling

='strcls'>*every edit ='lgc'>==> (set off a cascade of='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•word falls
="lsts lst1">•Rubik's Cubes
="lsts lst1">•="trms">tropes
="lsts lst1">•infrastructures
="lsts lst1">•genres
="lsts lst1">•rhymes
="lsts lst1">•off-rhymes
="lsts lst1">•tonal flips
="lsts lst1">•half-steps

='lgc'>[com="trms">positional ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening='lgc'>]
one ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads aloud ='lgc'>+ the others ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening com="trms">positionally='strcls'>*

='at'>#="trms">writing exercise='lgc'>:
following out the impact of things (words, thoughts, people, objects, ideas, ="trms">worlds) in hundred-word units

theoretical reflections get ="trms">folded into the analytic, observational, and ="trms">transferential ways we move
(="ppl">="ppl">Stewart ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Berlant)

aftershocks of a shock you can't point out

(we shouldn't always ask) “where does the misery come from='qstn'>?”

designers ="trms">imagined a still life, not a life="trms">world where we show up to build things out

evaluative critique ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? (mental habit of) demagnetizing things (for the sake of clarity)

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> proliferation of little ="trms">worlds...

="trms">story='lgc'> = relay, weiterleiten, رله

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="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> in fact i have never been working on ='thdf'>the notion of ="trms">nature, my topic of research, rather have been all along ="trms">zoology



score='lgc'>: creating disorder out of order
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">="frds scrmbld">Lilia


="large lg5" stl="font-size:121%">
wry ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> wryly کج معوج شده

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paleonymy (use of a preexisting word in a new context) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we are stuck with old skeletons ="trms">neurotic words ='lgc'>[that are not mutating='lgc'>] (='thdf'>for example man, woman, ="trms">animal, black, etc.) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= hope for mutation, random emergence, sudden ="trms">epistemic newness='lgc'>]
(="ppl">Avital='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*="trms">language='lgc'> = the house of being='strcls'>*
(not to think emancipatory ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) we live in ="trms">language, we are structured and destructed by ="trms">language
we can struggle, move, shift meanings, but never can erase or repress meanings
(="ppl">Freud showed) that if you think you can be oblivious with things and do away with things and have erasure without remanence, it wil[...]