[...]ntroduction to computer programming for artists)
="lsts lst1">•How to implement a programming ="trms">language in (JavaScript='qstn'>?)='lgc'>--parsing, regexps, (http://lisperator.net/)
="lsts lst1">•teaching German with ="ppl">Holderlin's “Andenken” ="trms">poem
="lsts lst1">•to create a ='strcls'>*feast='strcls'>* (to celebrate is to become free of the habitual, becoming inhabitual. celebration is the tensional coming together of the unlikes ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> through which human beings and gods could meet and ="trms">greet. The festiveness that the celebration encourages constitutes the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal ="trms">Greeting. ='lgc'>[="ppl">Avital='lgc'>])


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what i have beeing trying to mean by saying that i have been dependent on others to create spaces that a telling can happen, is actually a fundamnetal ellement of ="trms">storytelling='lgc'>: the ='strcls'>***="trms">community. i need and depend on ="trms">community in my tellings. (this has noting to do with the imperative of “="trms">communication” or having a “message”)
(is it what ="ppl">="ppl">Stengers calls to promote an “oikos”='qstn'>?)

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='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Stengers='lgc'>]
“the ='strcls'>*predominance='strcls'>* of the ='strcls'>*concern for relevance='strcls'>* (-rabt-) builds up ="trms">memory and experience”

political ="trms">ecology ='lgc'>: there is NO knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that is (both) relevant and detached
political ="trms">ecology ='lgc'>: relevance ='lgc'>+ attachment='lgc'> = knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge

art of ="trms">staging='lgc'> = designing a s="trms">cene

='lgc'>[the House TV series, the issue of the protagonist is='lgc'>] the distinguish between the figure of the expert and the figure of the diplomat.
='strcls'>*expert='lgc'>: ones whose practice is not threatend by the issue under discussion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'> = relevance
='strcls'>*diplomat='lgc'>: ones who provide a voice for those whose practice, mode of existence, (and what is offen called) identity are threatened by a decision. to cause the experts second thoughts. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>~= decision
='lgc'>[this is core in ="trms">storytelling='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[then, i am political. i used to use the word embassador, but it means also ‘diplomat.’ ="trms">stories that can hold another ="trms">story hanging. ="frds">Sina's shy embassador ='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? ='lgc'>] (but what about the weak ones, the idiot, the one's who ‘rather not’ contribute to the political project='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-diplomats are ="trms">situated='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[for ='strcls'>*="frds scrmbld">Lili this is also a delima, she is torn apart between her expert self and diplomat who ="trms">crafts relevance
diplomat='lgc'>--the relevance of feelings ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what is the knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in the kiss='qstn'>? (the kiss that she rendered as ‘irrelevant’)='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[for me kiss is essentialy important. “it (everything) started with a kiss."='lgc'>]

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‘trust’ is one of many names for ="trms">love
“you can never be in="trms">different to the trust you inspire” (="ppl">="ppl">Stengers)

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='at'>#workshop='lgc'>: “the magic of the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right word”
(against Sherlock Holmes)
(12-step recovery program for people suffering from) ad="trms">diction to the truth

(to energize the connections to the things that animate us.)

="lstsrd">1. gathering, basckets of concepts, objects, things, words, etc.
="lstsrd">2. excersises, physical to-dos (cleaning, cooking, sport, sawing, etc.) while telling (this is about removing the ="trms">codes of acting and re="trms">presentation process that ="trms">interupt the telling)
="lstsrd">3. everyday mundane talks, no ="trms">stage. ‘you’ in it. (is it a one-to-one mentoring='qstn'>?)
="lstsrd">4. convert into ="trms">language the objects from the basket, ="trms">write them down. since we are going to work with sign-="trms">language
="lstsrd">5. make the connections (probably together)
="lstsrd">6. special activities during the workshop='qstn'>? (cooking, drinking, etc.)
="lstsrd">7. ending of the workshop. what would be the closure='qstn'>? what do we build='qstn'>? how do we evaluate='qstn'>?


='lgc'>[what are you summoned by='qstn'>? ="trms">write about the person you see in the light of reverie='qstn'>? how to survive humanism='qstn'>?='lgc'>]

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='at'>#workshop, ="trms">fables
="trms">fable seen as a site where one ="trms">formulates concepts and ="trms">narratives that reorient one within one's own research practices
="prgrph">-(how can we) participate in shaping our objects of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">relational ="trms">="trms">empiricism)
="prgrph">-learn through participating in ="trms">different (though not fixed nor ="trms">mutually ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive) ='strcls'>*micro="trms">worlds='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[micro="trms">world='lgc'>: a space where protocols and ="trms">="trms">equipments are standardized to facilitate the emergence and stabilization of new objects. (="ppl">="ppl">Kenney)='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-“banal and ordinary sites of getting on in collective life” (="ppl">Verran)
="prgrph">-bring your ‘found objects’ (objects, ="trms">categories, ="trms">stories, concepts, insights, ="trms">writing under influence, etc.) and put them in ‘telling’ (telling ="trms">stories about the lives of your found objects ='lgc'>=/= insisting on the solidity of our found objects='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>--='lgc'>[solidity='lgc'> = stability ='lgc'>+ ="trms">authority='lgc'>] and in telling practices ='lgc'>=> (re)="trms">materializing your ="trms">="trms">empirical objects ='lgc'>=/= generating re="trms">liably-managed micro="trms">world)
="prgrph">-found objects are objects with which we inhabit ="trms">worlds (or micro="trms">worlds of our practices)
="prgrph">-(not claiming to occupy an) ="trms">ontological no-man's-land outside of the micro="trms">worlds ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my frame is no more free of ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics than any other
="prgrph">-towards an ongoing untidy recursive theory ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> keeping our objects, concepts, and insights in a state of generative transformation
="prgrph">-which “="trms">affective economies” animate our own bodies as artist and as people='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-what feelings inform our works='qstn'>?

staying with ="trms">linguistic ="trms">differences (in each of our ="trms">stories or praxiography) is a way of investigating the ="trms">ontological commitments embedded in ="trms">language.
="trms">ontological ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">worlding ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how ="trms">language participates in shaping our lived ="trms">worlds in some ways and not others.='strcls'>*** “it is not common for speakers of a ="trms">language to examine what type of ="trms">material objects their ="trms">language commits them to.” (="ppl">Verran)

solidity of found objects, in my case, the graphs and images i am making about ="nms">ajayeb ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the graphs now reiterate for me as rituals in ='mywrk'>my research micro="trms">world.
with these graphs i am trying ="trms">different ways of arranging space, time and ="trms">matter when speaking a ='strcls'>*sentence='strcls'>*. ...each ="trms">language figures space, time, and ="trms">matter into ="trms">different kinds of objects. in my ="trms">writing tools with ="nms">ajayeb, what type of ="trms">material objects my ="trms">language, or Hemedani or Qazwini's ="trms">language, commits us to='qstn'>? my graphs are “spatiotemporal particulars” and “="trms">sortal particulars”. trying to talk about ="trms">ontological assumptions embedded in the English (and any other) ="trms">language. the diagrams are ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs='strcls'>*. i am using ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigging instead of framework. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> clever ="trms">technological ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs, are provisional constructions, setup for a ="trms">specific myth and dismantled after. sometimes old ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs are reused or repurposed for new ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs.
="prgrph">-resist peaceful ="trms">naturalization
="prgrph">-uncomfortable software
="prgrph">-building/creating ="trms">technologies as one way to do ="trms">ontological politics (in postcolonial context)
="prgrph">-my experiments with ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>:
 ="prgrph prgrph2">-(the d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger in using) computer software to archive ="nms">ajayeb's or ="nms">ajib knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>=/= lively collective ="trms">memory tool
 ="prgrph prgrph2">-the software that is slick and seamless runs the risk of the digital media appear as ='strcls'>*self-sufficient re="trms">presentations='strcls'>* (='lgc'><='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> living context)
 ="prgrph prgrph2">-archived and frozen in time
="prgrph">-="trms">sorting operations

(if i continue with digital tech in ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ="nms">ajayeb i have to ask) how the digitized ="nms">ajib knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge can resist appropriation and ="trms">translation into an idiom that will not sustain its ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics='strcls'>****
="lsts lst2">◦powerful ="trms">relational work that numbers (also='qstn'>?='lgc'> = ='lgc'>=/= ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>=> etc.) perform ='lgc'>-> “numbers are a particularly smooth and manipulable meaning-making tools. they hide their seams well. they are slick and trustworthy” (Porter) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they are “="trms">materialized ="trms">relations” (how can we tell a ="trms">story of ="trms">relations that for example numbers/math ="trms">materialize='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst2">◦highlighting parts of ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: as part of a ="trms">material ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading practice ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “highlighting” could easily be understood as ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor of dis="trms">embodied vision; highlighting is not about making things clear but about scribbling (bad-khat بدخط) as a mode of attention ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Descartes’) “="trms">natural light of reason”


='prcnt'>%report on ="trms">fables of objects ='at'>#workshop (22.02.2017 HWD ="nms">apass)='lgc'>: attention to the sense and feeling of disparity, dispersity, stability, ="trms">sublimity, ="trms">authority, epicness, weakness, severity, solidity, scale, (a)="trms">social connections, and tangibility in the character of the object of each participants in the ="trms">stories we wrote. where were active and passive qualities located='qstn'>? how were ="trms">agencies distributed='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin ="trms">story ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> evolution ="trms">story, ="trms">love ="trms">story ='lgc'>[the object falls in ="trms">love with...='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•daily ="trms">story
="lsts lst1">•="trms">beast feeding ="trms">story ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> training ="trms">story
evoking temporality of evolutionary time, face-to-face time, ="trms">historical time, tiny scale time,
 ="prgrph prgrph2">-each ="trms">story has a music, texture of colors, pattern of meaning and ="trms">affect
="lsts lst1">•bodyguard ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fantastic creature invented to protect an organism (your “object”). this bodyguard can be organic, nonorganic, cyborg, any form, but always an ="trms">agent. tell us why/how this or that feature helps t[...]