[...]aterials 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’
='lgc'>[singular entities:='lgc'>]
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 are correct that it goes beyond that. All entities synthesized ="trms">historically are individual entities='lgc'>: individual plants and ="trms">animals; individual ="trms">species and eco="trms">systems; individual mountains, planets, solar ="trms">systems, et cetera. Here “individual” means simply “singular or unique,” that is, not a particular ="trms">member of a general ="trms">category, but a unique entity that may ="trms">compose larger individual entities through a ="trms">relation of part-to-whole, like individual pebbles ="trms">composing a larger individual rock. A ="trms">materia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">ontology of individual entities is implicit in ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari and Braudel, so we must give them credit for that, then move on and invent the rest.
..rethinking of the disciplinary boundaries (without using labels such as ="trms">interdisciplinarity, etc.)
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we must take in mind that ="trms">materialism is good to be enriched, but, ="trms">materialism is not an ‘a ="trms">priori’!
in ='mywrk'>my research in ="nms">apass on ="nms">ajayeb عجایب, can be theoretical yet anti-="trms">methodological='qstn'>?
...="ppl">Marx is his ="trms">interest in the oppressed, that is, his anti-="ppl">Aristotlianism that allows us to conceptualize the self-organizing power of “="trms">matter” without the “meaning” that should over="trms">code it.
="ppl">Delanda='lgc'>: The political economy of ="ppl">Marx is entirely a ="trms">priori.
='lgc'>[='lgc'>--="ppl">Laclau='lgc'>='lgc'>--> essentia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list conception of both ="trms">society and ="trms">social ="trms">agency in ="ppl">Marxism ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ho="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic approache ='lgc'>: a “founding totality” (expressed at the surface of ="trms">social life) which ="trms">presents itself as an intelligible object of ‘knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge’ (in ="ppl">Marxism notion of ‘ideology’) ='lgc'>=/= ='lgc'>{="trms">relational character of any (="trms">social) identity ='lgc'>+ in="trms">finite play of ="trms">differences='lgc'>}= discourse ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘the ="trms">social’ always exceeds the limits of the attempts to constitute ‘="trms">society’;
& (in advanced capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">societies='lgc'>:) identity='lgc'> = the unstable ="trms">articulation of constantly changing ="trms">positionalities, ‘="trms">social ="trms">agent='lgc'> = decentered subject’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how can we, then, say the subjects misrecognize themselves in this kaleidoscopic movement of ="trms">differences='qstn'>? ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Marxism's notion of) ‘false consciousness’; can we do without (the concept of) ‘misrecognition’='qstn'>?
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">Laclau sug="trms">gests) the ideological='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? will to totality)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•misrecognition of a ="trms">positive essence='lgc'> = ultimate suture (بخيه bakhie)
="lsts lst1">•nonrecognition of any ="trms">positivity ='lgc'>=/= ultimate suture
(="trms">society institutes itself ='lgc'><='lgc'>==) closure='lgc'>: nonrecognition of the in="trms">finite play of ="trms">differences ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘ideological ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ="trms">social’ ='lgc'>~(the ="trms">social is impossible without some fixation of meaning) ='lgc'>: “utopia is the essence of any ="trms">communication and ="trms">social practice” ='lgc'>--!,='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[='lgc'>--="ppl">Delanda='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (the mode of ‘downward thinking’ when we think in terms of) ideology (='lgc'>~ the established ="trms">relations of a particular ="trms">society constitutes people's identities) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= intrinsic='lgc'>: the identity is created by ="trms">relations ='lgc'>{the fantasy of ‘seamless totality'='lgc'>} ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Deleuzian) extrinsic='lgc'>: the ="trms">relations are real but don't determine identities='lgc'>]
what are artists (particular ='lgc'><-='lgc'>=> general) pro="trms">positions (Angebot)='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•pro="trms">position='lgc'>: a declarative that can be ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right or wrong ='lgc'>=/= a sentence, grammatical entities
="lsts lst1">•ex="trms">position='lgc'>: a ="trms">systematic ="trms">interpretation/explanation of a ="trms">specific topic
="lsts lst1">•dis="trms">position='lgc'>: an ="trms">affective orientation, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge attitude
='lgc'>[="ppl">Marx's ruthlessness='lgc'>: criticism must not be afraid of its own con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusions='lgc'>]
what are the sources of “value” in ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>?
(sun, photosynthetic, micro-organisms, etc.)
fermentation, photosynthesis, respiration
="nms">ajayeb is the (shared, individual, or experienced) “="trms">memory” of which organizational layer or process of which ="trms">communities of practice='qstn'>?
rethinking “invisible hand”
(dynamic between supply and ="trms">demand. “planning ="trms">system”='qstn'>?)
... against ... the dualisms that have been transmitted to us in the ="trms">history of philosophy (="trms">matter vs. meaning, micro vs. macro, inorganic vs. organic vs. ="trms">social, realism vs. ="trms">social constructivism, etcetera.) and argue in favor of a new ="trms">ontology ="trms">according to which “mechanisms are largely ="trms">causal, but they do not necessarily involve linear ="trms">causality”
Neo-="trms">Materialism ='lgc'>=/= Creationism='lgc'>: ="trms">matter is an inert receptacle for forms that come from the outside imposed by an exterior psychic ="trms">agency='lgc'>: “Let there be light!”
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">matter has ="trms">morphogenetic capacities of its own and does not need to be commanded into generating form.
one of the idealisms that have been generated by post="trms">modernism='lgc'>: that we know al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready how all ="trms">past discourses have been generated, that we have the secret of all ="trms">past conceptual ="trms">systems, and that we can therefore engage in ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta-theorizing based on that knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="ppl">Delanda='lgc'>: I am not convinced that avoiding dualities is the key to a new way of thinking (particularly if one simply adds new ones='lgc'>: ="trms">modernism-post="trms">modernism, rhizome-tree, power-resistance).
reified generalities that do not really exist='lgc'>: The ="trms">Market, The State, and The People.
The duality emerges when one ignores the zone of overlap and reifies the averages.
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='lgc'>[in ="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh عجایب نامه...='lgc'>] to map the ="trms">morphogenetic changes of the real
... be="trms">wildering heterogeneity of registers in ="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh عجایب نامه
... treating entities trafficking in the futures
active capacities of description
this is not a project of repopulating the ="trms">social ="trms">sciences with nonhuman beings
the ="trms">symbolic function of ="trms">language is about detecting salient features of the ="trms">world that can be organized in contrastive sets
(can we think not in contrasts='qstn'>?)
this is not about trying to think like X, that would be trans="trms">position of a ="trms">relational experience at another scale
(non-="trms">religious ="trms">semiotic model)
bodily dis="trms">position ='lgc'>==(produces)='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> perspective ='lgc'>==(produces)='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> self
the beings in ="nms">ajayeb (عجایب) are ‘alive’ because of their ability to ‘do things’ in the ways they come to re="trms">present and ="trms">interpret through me
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="trms">recruiting scores of new actants so as to render the theater of ="trms">worldly ="trms">interactions more complex and ="trms">interesting
what is the ="trms">sociocultural ="trms">world we construct='qstn'>?
dream images, vivid mythical s="trms">cenes,
form ="trms">travels/passes through us
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='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Latour modes of existence='lgc'>]
(to distinguish types of)
incompatible truths
“truth"='lgc'>--is the expression of an encounter with forms of existence
to understand the others in the absence of a description of ourselves
(what is rea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic='qstn'>?)
to direct attention towards the beings about which humans are ="trms">interrogating themselves
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عجایب ="nms">ajayeb is a ‘="trms">network’ more than anything else, in it “God” has no special privilege, is not located in addition to or beyond other beings
we are seeking to redefine the paths of beings that are unique to ="nms">ajayeb without giving them substance and without jumping immediately into transcendence. (using ="ppl">="ppl">Latour words) ='lgc'>[transcendence is never gradual, in the places i come from, it is always a shock, happening, a truth-event='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-each word (God, Angle, Jinn جن, fog, etc.) brought into its own ="trms">network,
="prgrph">-what are contrasts and of ="trms">category mistakes particular to each
="prgrph">-and their crossings='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>--and what is the ="trms">vocabulary ="trms">specific to each crossing
the ="trms">network of as="trms">sociations necessary for the exercise of ="trms">religion without bracketing off its ="trms">ontological requirements.
explanatory rage (tavahoshe roshangari توحش روشنگری) ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">networks necessary for ="trms">religious meaning
(the aim is) deploying the ="trms">network (of ="nms">ajayeb)
it is about grasping ="nms">ajayeb's beings not as substances but as ='strcls'>*="trms">trajectories='strcls'>*='lgc'>--and give them a more precise ='strcls'>*direction.='strcls'>*
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what is important in working these modes what kinds of possibilities are “afforded” to the investigator, myself. what kind of actor am i='qstn'>?
(="trms">specifications of the type of beings that the mode leaves in its wake)
='strcls'>**other beings necessary for its existence='strcls'>**
(my personal/public ="trms">question, what other beings are necessary for my existence='qstn'>? and therefore for your existence as well.) ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>--> the heterogeneity of the actors needed for the pursuit of any course of action
='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis (a mode of existence first detected in psychogenesis='qstn'>?) what we encounter whenever we address the manner in which existents are transformed or transform in order to subsist (zist زیست)
="prgrph">-defined by a certain kind of continuity and obtained by a certain type of discontinuity
="prgrph">-="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis is about crisis, possession, alienation,
="prgrph">-="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis sharply contrasts ='strcls'>*cure='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ritual)
="prgrph">-allowing for installing unconscious (states,) crush, posses, bewitch, kill,
="prgrph">-beings with ="trms">specific properties that are invisible, changeable, powerful, favorable, unfavorable
="prgrph">-exploration of transformations
="prgrph">-="trms">cosmological specialties
="prgrph">-seniority and extension of ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosical beings (of elaborations carried out by all groups in met)
='lgc'>{that which addresses the “me,” the “ego” ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? that which allows one to resist the forces of ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis='lgc'>}
the iconoclastic episode we are in now, which we must work to make it as short as possible
(to specify) dualisms that make it extraordinarily difficult to maintain ="trms">ontological p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">luralism
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it is the ="trms">moderns quasi-subjects (‘person’) who feel themselves to be ='strcls'>**directly addressed,='strcls'>** (redressed and saved) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to exist
(what art suffers now, that i should directly address the ="trms">modern subject, and other mode of subjectivity or other kinds of addressee and addressing is brutally criticized and irrelativized)
="prgrph">-(="trms">love's type of address='lgc'>:) addressed to us ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> make us exist ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a person
(existing as person is the only way='qstn'>? no no no!) ='lgc'>-- the emergence of persons is a local and ="trms">historical ="trms">phenomenon that we simply cannot extend to all collectives
(how to extricate ourselves properly from the) notions of ="trms">Nature, ="trms">Matter, Object, and Subject
to get around two major ='strcls'>*obstacles='lgc'>: (the prevailing notions of) ="trms">Society and (especially of) Economy (='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? modes of existence's ="trms">system of coordinates)
the same beings that made the ="trms">author of ="nms">ajayeb speak, got my/our ="trms">ancestors ex="trms">cited,
='strcls'>*="trms">technology='lgc'>: that which we emphasize whenever we pay attention to the unexpected detours ='lgc'>{the hiatus of the detour, the zigzag of invention, ruse, ="trms">trajectory obtained by a certain type of discontinuity='lgc'>} by which existents have to pass in order to subsist. (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">technological domain ="trms">technical objects, ="trms">material ="trms">world, ="trms">socio-="trms">technical ="trms">networks,) (='lgc'>~ ="trms">technically)
="prgrph">-="trms">fictional beings adds additional variety to ="trms">technical beings ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">aestheticization of ="trms">techniques='lgc'>: obsolescence, ruin, adjustment, efficiency
="prgrph">-we must extend ‘="trms">fictional beings’ far beyond the narrow domain of art and culture, is to give a whole new meaning to the expression “="trms">material culture.”
="lstsrd">-1- ="trms">Technique's zigzagging motion assumes a know-how, a judgment, a constantly reprised evaluation of formidably ="trms">demanding ="trms">specifications;
="lstsrd">-2- ="trms">Technical beings leave behind them complex frameworks and combinations of as="trms">sociations which appear difficult to understand once left to themselves, without the ="trms">folding motion and the detours which enabled them;
="lstsrd">-3- relative fragility of ="trms">technical beings='lgc'>: it establishes combinations and bridges between completely heterogeneous types of beings
='strcls'>*="trms">fiction='lgc'>: ...beings be grasped ="trms">according to a particular ="trms">relationship between ="trms">materials and figures which cannot be detached without those two layers losing their ="trms">specific form of objectivity. ='lgc'>{="trms">fictionally ='lgc'>: ="trms">materials ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> figures='lgc'>}
="trms">fiction objects='lgc'>: everything that ="trms">folds ="trms">technical beings ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to derive from them a new type of ='strcls'>*alteration='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--(generates)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> another ="trms">world (a ="trms">world which has the particularity of not being able to be detached in any way from the ="trms">materials ='lgc'>[from which it appears to detach itself.='lgc'>])
='strcls'>*="trms">fictional beings='lgc'>:
="prgrph prgrph2">-they extract ="trms">materials from forms, figures or small ="trms">worlds that can neither be detached from these ="trms">materials nor reduced to them.
="prgrph prgrph2">-khosh-yomn خوش یمن and shoom شوم (felicity and infelicity) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pretense (vanemud وانمود); they depend on the always fragile maintenance of the ="trms">relation between ="trms">material and form
="prgrph prgrph2">-='strcls'>*="trms">specifications='strcls'>* of “="trms">fictional beings” (that leaves in its wake) ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ="trms">worlds (unlike fic all other modes ="trms">fold for their own use by managing to extract from ="trms">materials)
All continuations of a “course of action” ="trms">suppose a discontinuity that must be overcome in order to define a ="trms">trajectory. ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> gap, break
the mini-transcendence required for any de="trms">finition of the being-as-other
(haven't we managed='qstn'>?) to allow several modes of existence to run, flow, pass, each one appearing indeed to possess its own conditions of truth and falsity and its own mode of subsistence
‘libido ="trms">sciendi’='lgc'>: to recognize the branching that allows us to stop confusing the chains of reference it has to establish in order to ensure knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge with the leaps that things have to make to maintain themselves in existence
='strcls'>*“beings of law,” ='lgc'>: those beings that wake a judge up at night and force him to ask himself “Did I make the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right decision='qstn'>?”
(feeling smashed by) ‘the task of mimicking the ="trms">world’
='strcls'>*="trms">articulation='strcls'>* is an ="trms">ontological property of the universe; a being is ="trms">articulated (rather than being a silent ="trms">presence, made immediate, persistent, given duration without existence).
="prgrph">-It is the ="trms">articulation of beings that enables us to talk about them and to judge, that is to say, to monitor the risks they take in being “permitted by” and “promised to”. (modes of existence)
="trms">translation, discrepancy, displacement, ="trms">interpolation,
(problem with “statement” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="trms">articulation='lgc'>] is that it must cor="trms">respond to a ‘state of affairs’ ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? politics='lgc'>])
='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> to free ="trms">science from='lgc'>: completeness, comprehensiveness, formality, expressibility, inscriptibility. (Vollständigkeit, Verständlichkeit, Formalität, Ausdrücklichkeit, Unbeschreiblichkeit.) ='lgc'>[what is a ="trms">science that is not describable='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> ="ppl">Sohrevardi ='lgc'>{forms of ="trms">enunciation='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how to specify the ="ppl">Sohrevardi's felicity (sa'adat سعادت) conditions (of ="trms">enunciation)='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>-- (his) “="trms">="trms">equipped knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge” (='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge), awkward distributions, etc.='lgc'>] ='at'>#(this is all about me trying to learn how to make room...)
knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge moves around everywhere without our knowing how
“waiting to be known”
='strcls'>*="trms">translation ='lgc'>=/= ='lgc'>{transportation without deformation ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= description='lgc'>}
every transfer is ="trms">translation
(political='lgc'>:) transfers of necessity
following the th="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read of modes
="trms">translation ='lgc'>=/= displacement='lgc'>: merely a change of place
="trms">translation refuses the choice between being and non-being and rejects the principle of non-contra="trms">diction by which a thing cannot be, in the same respect, both itself and another.
="trms">translation='lgc'>: to be at the same time and in the same respect one thing and another ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this is the condition of being ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> give place to mediators / “ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded middle”
(="trms">translation enjoys that) a being can be itself through the ="trms">intervention of a being other than itself
(monitoring ="trms">translations in ="nms">ajayeb) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> and my treason/="trms">translation which brings about completely ="trms">different ="trms">trajectories, which allows itself to be grasped by surprise or action etc. / to trace a/its ="trms">network
="trms">translation ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? occasion ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the essence of ="trms">situation
="prgrph">-no one can simply (ever) “remain the same,” “without doing anything” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one needs to pass ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">translation
='strcls'>*="trms">interest='lgc'>: a mediator that arises between two entities that do not know, before it arises, that they could be attached to each other. ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{
="prgrph">-‘object’='lgc'>: set of quasi subjects that are attached to it
="prgrph">-‘subject’='lgc'>: set of quasi objects that are attached to it='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what new ="trms">translation ="trms">interest makes the (quasi) subject of a (quasi) object grow. ='lgc'>--and vice versa='lgc'>--
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radical ="trms">position of ='strcls'>*="trms">semiotics='strcls'>* on the issues of context, referent, and ="trms">enunciation (that ="trms">anthropology is able to escape)
(i am talking about a ="trms">semiotics that is not obsessed with the search for “structure”)
='lgc'>{ (="trms">fictional beings ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=>) ="trms">semiotic ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? ="trms">ontology ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">science of “sense” (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">science of “signs”)
="prgrph">-the ="trms">world itself is ="trms">articulated
='lgc'>{ the study of sense ='lgc'>=='qstn'>?='lgc'>=> extrication from ="trms">language ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this bifurcation (enshe'ab), as old as philosophy itself, used the discovery of “reference” as an opportunity to expel the referent to a ="trms">position outside ="trms">language.
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(="ppl">Aristotle's ="trms">narrative ='lgc'>: “the imitation of an action” ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ="ppl">Ricoeur's three types of ='strcls'>*="trms">mimesis='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. pre="trms">figuration ()
="lstsrd">2. con="trms">figuration (kingdom of the “as if”)
="lstsrd">3. re="trms">figuration (="trms">integration of the ="trms">imaginative or “="trms">fictive” or “as if” into actual) of the field of action;
‘="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading’ is con="trms">figuration (="ppl">Ricoeurian)
="lsts lst1">•use of ="trms">symbols ='lgc'>: being able to grasp one thing as standing for something else;
="lsts lst1">•="trms">narrative='lgc'>: competency in the temporal structures governing the syntagmatic order of “followability”
...="trms">="trms">empirical means to locate the boundaries of capitalism
(to enclose something ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ="trms">ontology of the Accounts ="trms">Book ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Attar's Tazkirat al-Awliya's ="trms">story of the boy, ="trms">bird, butcher, accounts ="trms">book, and the theme of repayment, quittance.
to place everything it does not take into account outside the enclosure and everything it does take into account and that properly belongs to him inside
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins of property
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growing ="trms">interest in ='strcls'>*="trms">ecology='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> growing ="trms">interest in ='strcls'>*theology='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> granted a new relevant)
(="ppl">="ppl">Latour's notion of) ecotheology ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]
(how not to consider your self secretly='lgc'>--even under the self-reflectivity='lgc'>--as) the chosen people
renegotiation of values and features='lgc'>:
(if) recently european stopped having been ="trms">modern ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> the ‘others’ have also stopped having been ‘other’
='strcls'>*the planet will no longer be ="trms">modernized='strcls'>* (="ppl">="ppl">Latour shouting)
geopolitics of ="trms">difference
“europe"='lgc'> = the ="trms">modernist great ="trms">narrative ='lgc'>--or='lgc'>='lgc'>--> produce an alternative great ="trms">narrative of what european cultures (and ="trms">natures) have been
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*contrasting ='strcls'>*traits='strcls'>* (that have been elaborated in the course of european ="trms">history)
“here is my ='strcls'>*treasure='strcls'>*, here is my ='strcls'>*heart='strcls'>*, if you deprive us of one of these contrasts, we are no longer humans”
to be sensitive to ="trms">different o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins (='lgc'>=/= eurocentrism)
='lgc'>[="trms">different o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins that speak also truthfully='lgc'>]
(="ppl">Olearius drama='lgc'>:) dramatic encounter between the (early) ="trms">anthropologist's gaze and the various cultures (and ="trms">natures) he have discovered
...painful ="trms">history of the ="trms">anthropologist's gaze
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]value='lgc'>: what one is ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready to die for / what makes life not worth living if one is deprived of it
european ="trms">history tied to the elaboration of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">science as value (='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> apo="trms">dictic truth, ="trms">social construction, etc.)
="lsts lst1">•law as value (='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> power, ="trms">rhetoric, etc.)
="lsts lst1">•politics as value (='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">social='lgc'>: the name of what is assembled='lgc'>--as="trms">sociated)
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•
="trms">scientific ties
legal ties
political ties
='lgc'>=/= ="trms">social as="trms">sociates
so difficult to ="trms">enunciate something ="trms">religiously because of ='strcls'>*the ease with which it is accounted for by other types of explanation='strcls'>* (especially ="trms">social explanation)
in ="nms">apass we need to practice saying='lgc'>: “I don't want to take that or this contrast into account any more” (because you want to do something else for a moment)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> you return to a project ='lgc'>--and='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i have been fighting so that (myself and) you ='strcls'>**don't become ="trms">modernist again='strcls'>** (='lgc'>~ that means you engage in the conflict of values that has characterized ="trms">modernist ="trms">history)
(with work on ="nms">ajayeb) i am engaged in the project of ='strcls'>***disentangling the entire set of values that constitutes my ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rightful in="trms">heritance='strcls'>***
(the ="trms">question of) “what treasure have we in="trms">herited='qstn'>? how can we claim it='qstn'>?” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it is so d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous to answer those ="trms">questions alone, without each other ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> selfish identities and o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins
(eurocentrism, or the former ‘others’ answering it for everyone, without you)
="trms">ecologizing
="trms">ecological consciousness ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? your entire way of life must be modified or else you will disappear as a civilization
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(not being the heir of) emancipatory tradition
(if) ="trms">modernism is Promethean, then green bio economy and clean ="trms">technology is Promethean even more
(the ='thdf'>bad idea of and hype of) ="trms">technological solution to ="trms">ecological crises
='strcls'>*renewing everything here and now='strcls'>* is first of all a ="trms">religious passion
='qstn'>?='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo
="prgrph">-what ="trms">modernism did to ="trms">science is worse than what it did to ="trms">religion
it deprived it of its energy, restricting it, to ='strcls'>*mere furniture of the soul='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Iron Man's idea of ="trms">technology-human ="trms">relation='lgc'>]
="trms">modernism's politicization of ="trms">science
speaking of ="trms">science ="trms">scientifically ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> a ="trms">scientific ‘="trms">worldview’ is deployed
speaking of ="trms">religion ="trms">religiously ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> a vague assemblage of pious moral vacuities is taken as an ‘alternative ="trms">worldview’
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they both accept an='strcls'>* un="trms">scientific ="trms">science='strcls'>* and an ='strcls'>*ir="trms">religious ="trms">religion='strcls'>*
="ppl">="ppl">Latour (quickly dissolving nonsense that accrues as one opposes ‘knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge’ and ‘belief’)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">science='lgc'> = reference chain (what allow access to the far away) ='lgc'>[nothing is out of the reach of reference chain='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•="trms">religion='lgc'> = ="trms">presence (what allow access to the near)
="trms">science ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= concrete, ="trms">worldly, ="trms">matter-of-fact, ="trms">present-at-hand, domain of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- political activism has to work with that kind of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge)
what use is it to save your soul, if you forfeit the ="trms">world='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sci-fi's real frontier ='and'>& Noah's project
the transcendence and transubstantiation of ="trms">science
when ="trms">nature enters, ="trms">religion has to leave. in two equally fatal exit strategies='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•to limit itself to the inner sanctum of the soul
="lsts lst1">•to flee into the super="trms">natural ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that ="trms">religion will try in vain to imitate ="trms">scientific ="trms">instruments (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- The Magicians TV series) ='lgc'>+ mis="trms">interpreted ="trms">science ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> taking Bible as if it were geology ="trms">book (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- look at the rising Hollywood films that ="trms">scientifize the events of Bible) ='lgc'>-- projects of connecting ="trms">religion to the ="trms">world='lgc'>]
‘exit ="trms">religion’='lgc'>: it will have lost any pretence of influencing the course of events, its impact will only be decorative
(="ppl">Descola='lgc'>:) ‘="trms">naturalism’ is only one of four ways in which connections between humans and nonhumans can be established
contrasts='lgc'>:
='strcls'>*reference chain='strcls'>*
='strcls'>*reproduction='strcls'>*
(="ppl">="ppl">Latour use of the term) ='strcls'>*contrast='strcls'>*='lgc'> = mode of existence
immutable mobiles='lgc'>: to reach something far away through long arrays of ="trms">instruments, you need to make sure that ='strcls'>*necessities and constants are transported='strcls'>* with as little transformation as possible ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> to “reach” those entities
="trms">geometry, mathematical entities, inscriptions of all ="trms">sorts ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> carry heavy-duty immutable mobiles
(="frds scrmbld">Hoda's immutable mobiles are='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>])
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">matter='lgc'> = highly elaborated, ="trms">historically dated, and ="trms">anthropologically ="trms">situated hybrids='strcls'>***
(='lgc'>=/= ‘transportation of indisputable necessities through chains of cause and effect’ ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a ="trms">category mistake)
(for physicist='lgc'>:) “the ways we know the ="trms">world='lgc'> = the ways in which the ="trms">world behaves”
(less for chemist)
(not at all for engineer)
(='lgc'>[in a way ='mywrk'>my work has been about investigating vectors and='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*directions='strcls'>*) from knower to what is to be known
the beings of ="nms">ajayeb face lots of causes and lots of effects
="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical consequences of evolutionary theory
='strcls'>***(="ppl">="ppl">Latour's ="trms">positive veiw on) to be a ="ppl">Darwinian='lgc'>: you have to abandon ='thdf'>the notion that all of those ‘organisms’ rest in ‘="trms">nature’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]organim='lgc'>: a hybrid production of re="trms">presentation ='and'>& reference
='strcls'>*the widesp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read ideology of the ='strcls'>*blind watch maker='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: a blind cause acting from behind and reaching the optimum haphazardly
(has substituted the ‘mere transportation of indisputable necessities’ for ='strcls'>*the risks taken by individual organisms to perpetuate, sustain, and reproduce themselves='strcls'>*)
&
='strcls'>*the widesp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read ideology of the ='strcls'>*intelligent designer='strcls'>* :an intelligence dragging [...]