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(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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:125%"> 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)

proliferation of little ="trms">worlds...

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

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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


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



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 will go in the state of latency (underground) just to blow up in your face later (the ‘return’ of the repressed has bal="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic velocities) ='lgc'>--="ppl">Derrida='lgc'>='lgc'>--> you have to work through with meaning and ="trms">language (oth[...]