[...]n 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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> 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'>}

="large lg1" stl="font-size:122%">
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



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 (otherwise the old meanings always come back, you are never ="trms">responsible enough with old meanings)

a word, becomes a thorn in our collective thigh
(what i am learning ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor='strcls'>* from ="ppl">Avital > ="ppl">Derrida) something looks wrong, (instead of jumping on it and tagging it out,) first say why it is ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right, what necessitated and motivated it, why it had to be there='lgc'> = ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor='lgc'>: locate the problem zone ='lgc'>+ say why it had to be there (why it rhymes with what)

(mistake or glitch ='lgc'>=/=) error='lgc'>: an exemplary error that teaches you, that had to be made to get where you are going, you had to get into this zone (and as traumatic as it might be) it was neccesory and necessitated by the ="trms">system that was pushing you forward, it pushed you toward a place of error and blindness and forgetting

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practice of ='strcls'>*="trms">worldly thinking='strcls'>* with ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart
vivid ="trms">pragmatics
weird robust realism of deobjectified de="trms">literalized things ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">ajayeb
to cor="trms">respond with ='at'>#telegram media
constitutive differings

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> teenage='lgc'>: self-division between the move to surge out in a risky ="trms">worlding and the labor of return alone and weighted

festering ='lgc'>+ sheltering

“When everything else has gone from my brain—the President’s name, the state capitals, the neighborhoods where I lived, and then my own name and what it was on earth I sought, and then at length the faces of my friends, and finally the faces of my family—when all of this has dissolved, what will be left, I believe, is topology='lgc'>: the dreaming ="trms">memory of land as it lay this way and that.” Dillard > ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart

rock-solid otherness

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> sitting on the granite curb... ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Stewart='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sitting on a threshold of expressivity
(="ppl">="ppl">Stewart's) ="trms">intercorporeal ="trms">intermundane ="trms">world ='lgc'>=/= dull ="trms">naturalism

(dead ="trms">matter ='lgc'>=/=) the capacity to cor="trms">respond with a multiplicity of continuous ="trms">worldings that are both plastic and ="trms">dense ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> grounds us

indeterminate lines of force ripple across the ="trms">phenomena of a field ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">materiality ='lgc'>==> ‘our thought='lgc'>: multidimensional ="trms">contingent overdetermined’

='strcls'>**we re="trms">member in ="trms">stories of accidents, sledding, and labors='strcls'>**


="large lg5" stl="font-size:136%"> emerging in circulations (or)
resting in stone (or)
the facades of strip malls

com="trms">positional ="trms">writing='lgc'>: an as="trms">sociational register (of connections and ="trms">differences) that ="trms">worlds object-reals ='lgc'>[real='lgc'>: a tangle of elements thrown together in a radical com="trms">position='lgc'>]

="trms">social-="trms">material ="trms">world='lgc'> = com="trms">position='lgc'> = prismatic ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for people who are='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•attuned to them (or)
="lsts lst1">•identified with them (or)
="lsts lst1">•hostile to their existence (or)
="lsts lst1">•tired o[...]