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="lstsrd">1. Pleasantville (1998)
="lstsrd">2. The Devil Wears Prada (2006)



(my flourishing in the scholl was always highly) teacher-dependent ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> being ="trms">social ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= genius='lgc'>]

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="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> government (counting heads) ='lgc'>=/= complexity (how to make mixity work)



morality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘good ='lgc'>=/= bad’ (incarnated in ="trms">different things) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> philosophical ='lgc'>=/= value ="trms">system ترجیحات ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">sociological='lgc'>]
ethics ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> assemblages

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='at'>#cat's cradle

="trms">nature='lgc'> = figures ='lgc'>+ ="trms">stories ='lgc'>+ images (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= topos, commonplace)

paying attention to ="trms">nature like a ="trms">child ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">trope='lgc'>: a verse ="trms">interpolated into a liturgical text عبادات to embellish or amplify its meaning

="trms">language ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">material-="trms">semiotic flesh

liturgical possibilities of ="trms">nature
="lsts lst1">•="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian liturgical year
="lsts lst1">•Zaratusztrian nowruz
="lsts lst1">•star wars ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> practice of turning ="trms">tropes into ="trms">worlds ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> war of imagess='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•war of words
="lsts lst1">•

="large lg1" stl="font-size:142%"> (agonistic fields='lgc'>:)
military combat
sexual domination
security maintenance
="trms">market strategy


="trms">technical environmental design )='lgc'><='lgc'>-- does all ="trms">sorts of boundary crossing)

culturally ="trms">specific ="trms">apparatuses of bodily production (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> clean and dirt ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> forms of ="trms">embodiment)

="trms">writing='lgc'>: to create ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors ='lgc'>[= reconstitue what counts as knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">materially implode (='lgc'>~ art, this is what we were practicing in my ="trms">fable workshop)

="trms">technology='lgc'>: a form of life
="trms">language='lgc'>: a form of life

create a critique
create a ="trms">difference (however small, partial, modest, without ="trms">narrative, without guarantee)

oneiros
oneiric


="trms">technical axis  |__
                        /   mythical axis
    textual axis


a ="trms">cosmos furnished in _ian style
="lsts lst1">•Aristotelian style='lgc'>: actors are self-moving modular single-substance subjects with adhering accidents ='lgc'>==="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>='lgc'>==> all else is ground, resource, matrix, screen, secret to be revealed, fair game to be hunted by the hero (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- our video games are designed in this style)
="lsts lst1">•

others with reduced powers of self-direction='lgc'>: women, people of color, the sick, nonhuman ="trms">nature ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> need to be ='strcls'>*patient='strcls'>*

(="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical fatigue)

='strcls'>***patience ='lgc'>=/= passivity='strcls'>***

self-invisible transcendent subjects out on a noble journey to report on ="trms">embodied ="trms">nature

the problem of (pre-discursive='lgc'>:) believing that ="trms">nature and ="trms">society are really fundamentally there
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> conjuring tricks of establishing ="trms">categorical purity (of ="trms">nature, of culture, of nonhuman, of human)


(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's three webs of discourse='lgc'>:)
="lstsrd">1. cultural studies='lgc'>: a set of discourses about the (irreducible ="trms">specificity of) ="trms">apparatus of bodily/cultural production (='lgc'>=/= comparative culture studies)
="lstsrd">2. feminist theory/project='lgc'>: view from the marked bodies (in ="trms">stories, discourses, practices), where ='strcls'>*the description of the ="trms">situation is never self-evident='strcls'>* ='lgc'>+ need for an elsewhere
="lstsrd">3. ="trms">science studies='lgc'>: ="trms">technologies for establishing ="trms">matters of facts, ‘="trms">techno="trms">science ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">science and ="trms">technology’, artifacts with politics, ="trms">science as practice ='lgc'>+ culture


can't cradle
one person can build up a large repertoire of string figures on a single pair of hands ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the figures can be passed back and forth on the hands of several players
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">embodied analytical ="trms">skils='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- my goal im ="nms">apass='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> making ='lgc'>+ passing on cultural ="trms">interesting patterns
='lgc'>=/= making a tangled mess
='lgc'>=/= theory of everything (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>for example string theory, stc.)
='lgc'>=/= war game ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'>{models of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge building, ="trms">tropes for one's own practice='lgc'>}
='lgc'>=/= trials of strength passing as critical theory (='lgc'>~ heroic, agonistic encounters)

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Delamont ='and'>& Williams ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's) th="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">method='strcls'>*

(from) ='lgc'>[analytical='lgc'>] tangled yarn ball ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[activist='lgc'>] can't cradle

="ppl">="ppl">Galison's ="trms">intercalation ='lgc'>[molecular ="trms">interweaving='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exposing an overt ="trms">technology (the radar wants to be seen as both winner of war ='lgc'>+ advancing pure physics)
='lgc'>='lgc'>~/=
="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's weaving ='lgc'>[textile dissection='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exposing a covert ="trms">technology (patriarchy, eugenics, colonialism, racism embedded behind the public face of conservation, education, biopolitical establishment)

biology='lgc'> = politics (by other means)

cyborg
="lsts lst1">•has no o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal eden it was banished from
="lsts lst1">•has no dust it can return to
='lgc'>==="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">situated partial knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges


gendering the laboratory ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•modest witness
="lsts lst1">•new forms of gender (male virility,)

="brkr">
touching the elephant and knowing
touching ="trms">different part of the ="trms">world
touching a human body and guessing at the riddle

by touching the ="trms">different parts ='lgc'>=> some are running, rotting, flickering, etc.

for doing anatomy you need a corpse (that means you al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready rule out things such as eating)

="trms"nttrm="search">archeological ="trms">anthropology
human-="trms">animal ="trms">stories
hunting each other / together
domestication

="ppl">Tsing

the greedy ="trms">beast within us

collaborative garden (feed together)

descriptive practices of ="trms">poetics and ="trms">natural ="trms">history


="trms">mission of all atlases to characterize (not simply inventory) ="trms">phenomena
(to characterize, not invent; mixed in ="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh عجایب‌المخلوقات / عجایب نامه='qstn'>?!)

atlases habituate the eye, they are perforce visual
(what ="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh habituates='qstn'>? not the eye='qstn'>?)

to explicate rival ="trms">cosmologies

one problem of atlases is that they have to decide what ="trms">nature is
they all have to solve the problem of choice

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atlases of characteristic images ="trms">presented individual cases as exemplary and illustrative of broader classes and casual processes (but not ="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh عجایب نامه, aj bring precise individual instances in its unique ="trms">stories)


atlas(es) of(/for) the eye

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='lgc'>[the identity of objects:='lgc'>]

Manuel ="ppl">Delanda='lgc'>: Any ="trms">materia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a ="trms">material ="trms">world that is independent of our minds. But then it confronts the problem of the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of the enduring identity of the inhabitants of that ="trms">world='lgc'>: if the mind is not what gives identity to mountains and rivers, plants and ="trms">animals, then what does='qstn'>? An old answer is “essences,” the answer given by ="ppl">Aristotle. But if one rejects essentialism then there is no choice but to answer the ="trms">question like this='lgc'>: all objective entities are products of a ="trms">historical process, that is, their identity is synthesized or produced as part of ="trms">cosmological, geological, biological, or ="trms">social ="trms">history. This need for a concept of “synthesis” or of “production” is what attracted ="ppl">Marx to ="ppl">Hegelian dialectics since it provided him with a model of synthesis='lgc'>: a conflict of op="trms">posites or the negation of the negation. ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari, on the other hand, replace that model of synthesis with what they call a “double ="trms">articulation”='lgc'>: first, the raw ="trms">materials that will make up a new entity must be selected and pre-processed; second, they must be consolidated into a whole with properties of its own. A rock like limestone or sandstone, for example, is first ="trms">articulated though a process of sedimentation (the slow gathering and ="trms">sorting of the pebbles that are the component parts of the rock). Then it is ="trms">articulated a second time as the accumulated sediment is glued together by a process of cementation. They use Hjemslev's terms “content” and “expression” as the names for the two ="trms">articulations, but this is not meant to sug="trms">gest that the ="trms">articulations are in any way ="trms">linguistic in o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin. On the contrary='lgc'>: the sounds, words, and grammatical patterns of a ="trms">language are ="trms">materials that accumulate or sediment ="trms">historically, then they are consolidated by another process, like the standardization of a dialect by a Royal Academy and its official ="trms">dictionaries, grammars, and rules of pronunciation.

(synthetic ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? analytic; ='lgc'>[a problematic distinction!='lgc'>] the logical particle “un-” in “no unmarried man is married”) (analytic ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="trms">contingent)
(="ppl">Kantian='qstn'>?!) ‘a ="trms">priori and synthetic’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ‘a posteriori analytic’

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The ="trms">question of the “individuation of ="trms">trajectories” is about mathematical models (which to me are the secret of the success of ="trms">science) but you ar[...]