[...]ich “mechanisms are largely lss="trms">causal, but they do not necessarily involve linear lss="trms">causality”



Neo-lss="trms">Materialism <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> Creationism<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="trms">matter is an inert receptacle for forms that come from the outside imposed by an exterior psychic lss="trms">agency<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Let there be light!”

<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">matter has lss="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 postlss="trms">modernism<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> that we know allss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready how all lss="trms">past discourses have been generated, that we have the secret of all lss="trms">past conceptual lss="trms">systems, and that we can therefore engage in lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta-theorizing based on that knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge

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l clss="ppl">Delandal><lgc clss='lgc'>: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 clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="trms">modernism-postlss="trms">modernism, rhizome-tree, power-resistance).

reified generalities that do not really exist<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> The lss="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 clss='lgc'>[lgc>in lss="nms">lss="nms">ajayebnameh عجایب نامه...<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> to map the lss="trms">morphogenetic changes of the real



<lrg clss="large lg1" stl="font-size:113%"> ... belss="trms">wildering heterogeneity of registers in lss="nms">lss="nms">ajayebnameh عجایب نامه
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... treating entities trafficking in the futures

active capacities of description

this is not a project of repopulating the lss="trms">social lss="trms">sciences with nonhuman beings

the lss="trms">symbolic function of lss="trms">language is about detecting salient features of the lss="trms">world that can be organized in contrastive sets
(can we think not in contrastslss='qstn'>?)

this is not about trying to think like X, that would be translss="trms">position of a lss="trms">relational experience at another scale

(non-lss="trms">religious lss="trms">semiotic model)
bodily dislss="trms">position <lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>(produces)<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> perspective <lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>(produces)<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> self

the beings in lss="nms">ajayeb (عجایب‌) are ‘alive’ because of their ability to ‘do things’ in the ways they come to relss="trms">present and lss="trms">interpret through me

lss="trms">recruiting scores of new actants so as to render the theater of lss="trms">worldly lss="trms">interactions more complex and lss="trms">interesting


what is the lss="trms">sociocultural lss="trms">world we constructlss='qstn'>?


dream images, vivid mythical slss="trms">cenes,


form lss="trms">travels/passes through us

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<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Latourl>l> modes of existence<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

(to distinguish types of)
incompatible truths

“truth"<lgc clss='lgc'>--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 realss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listiclss='qstn'>?)

to direct attention towards the beings about which humans are lss="trms">interrogating themselves



عجایب‌ lss="nms">ajayeb is a ‘lss="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 lss="nms">ajayeb without giving them substance and without jumping immediately into transcendence. (using l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Latourl>l> words) <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>transcendence is never gradual, in the places i come from, it is always a shock, happening, a truth-event<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lss="prgrph">-each word (God, Angle, Jinn جن, fog, etc.) brought into its own lss="trms">network,
lss="prgrph">-what are contrasts and of lss="trms">category mistakes particular to each
lss="prgrph">-and their crossings<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc>and what is the lss="trms">vocabulary lss="trms">specific to each crossing

the lss="trms">network of aslss="trms">sociations necessary for the exercise of lss="trms">religion without bracketing off its lss="trms">ontological requirements.

explanatory rage (tavahoshe roshangari توحش روشنگری) <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lss='not'>✕<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">networks necessary for lss="trms">religious meaning

(the aim is) deploying the lss="trms">network (of lss="nms">ajayeb)
it is about grasping lss="nms">ajayeb's beings not as substances but as ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">trajectoriesls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>and give them a more precise ls clss='strcls'>*ls>direction.ls clss='strcls'>*ls>

what is important in working these modes what kinds of possibilities are “afforded” to the investigator, myself. what kind of actor am ilss='qstn'>?

(lss="trms">specifications of the type of beings that the mode leaves in its wake)

ls clss='strcls'>**ls>other beings necessary for its existencels clss='strcls'>**ls>
(my personal/public lss="trms">question, what other beings are necessary for my existencelss='qstn'>? and therefore for your existence as well.) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc>>lgc> the heterogeneity of the actors needed for the pursuit of any course of action


ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metalss="trms">morphosis (a mode of existence first detected in psychogenesislss='qstn'>?) what we encounter whenever we address the manner in which existents are transformed or transform in order to subsist (zist زیست)
lss="prgrph">-defined by a certain kind of continuity and obtained by a certain type of discontinuity
lss="prgrph">-lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metalss="trms">morphosis is about crisis, possession, alienation,
lss="prgrph">-lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metalss="trms">morphosis sharply contrasts ls clss='strcls'>*ls>curels clss='strcls'>*ls> (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>lgc>=lgc> ritual)
lss="prgrph">-allowing for installing unconscious (states,) crush, posses, bewitch, kill,
lss="prgrph">-beings with lss="trms">specific properties that are invisible, changeable, powerful, favorable, unfavorable
lss="prgrph">-exploration of transformations
lss="prgrph">-lss="trms">cosmological specialties
lss="prgrph">-seniority and extension of lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metalss="trms">morphosical beings (of elaborations carried out by all groups in met)

<lrg clss="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>that which addresses the “me,” the “ego” <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc>lss='qstn'>? that which allows one to resist the forces of lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metalss="trms">morphosis<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc>
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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 lss="trms">ontological plss="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">luralism

it is the lss="trms">moderns quasi-subjects (‘person’) who feel themselves to be ls clss='strcls'>**ls>directly addressed,ls clss='strcls'>**ls> (redressed and saved) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> to exist
(what art suffers now, that i should directly address the lss="trms">modern subject, and other mode of subjectivity or other kinds of addressee and addressing is brutally criticized and irrelativized)
lss="prgrph">-(lss="trms">love's type of address<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) addressed to us <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> make us exist <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> a person
(existing as person is the only waylss='qstn'>? no no no!) <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc> the emergence of persons is a local and lss="trms">historical lss="trms">phenomenon that we simply cannot extend to all collectives

<lrg clss="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> (how to extricate ourselves properly from the) notions of lss="trms">Nature, lss="trms">Matter, Object, and Subject
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to get around two major ls clss='strcls'>*ls>obstacles<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> (the prevailing notions of) lss="trms">Society and (especially of) Economy (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc>lss='qstn'>? modes of existence's lss="trms">system of coordinates)

the same beings that made the lss="trms">author of lss="nms">ajayeb speak, got my/our lss="trms">ancestors exlss="trms">cited,


ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">technology<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> that which we emphasize whenever we pay attention to the unexpected detours <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>the hiatus of the detour, the zigzag of invention, ruse, lss="trms">trajectory obtained by a certain type of discontinuity<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc> by which existents have to pass in order to subsist. (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> lss="trms">technological domain lss="trms">technical objects, lss="trms">material lss="trms">world, lss="trms">socio-lss="trms">technical lss="trms">networks,) (<lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc> lss="trms">technically)
lss="prgrph">-lss="trms">fictional beings adds additional variety to lss="trms">technical beings <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">aestheticization of lss="trms">techniques<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> obsolescence, ruin, adjustment, efficiency
lss="prgrph">-we must extend ‘lss="trms">fictional beings’ far beyond the narrow domain of art and culture, is to give a whole new meaning to the expression “lss="trms">material culture.”
<lstsrd clss="lstsrd">-1- lss="trms">Technique's zigzagging motion assumes a know-how, a judgment, a constantly reprised evaluation of formidably lss="trms">demanding lss="trms">specifications;
lstsrd> <lstsrd clss="lstsrd">-2- lss="trms">Technical beings leave behind them complex frameworks and combinations of aslss="trms">sociations which appear difficult to understand once left to themselves, without the lss="trms">folding motion and the detours which enabled them;
lstsrd> <lstsrd clss="lstsrd">-3- relative fragility of lss="trms">technical beings<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> it establishes combinations and bridges between completely heterogeneous types of beings
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<lrg clss="large lg5" stl="font-size:128%"> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">fiction<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> ...beings be grasped lss="trms">according to a particular lss="trms">relationship between lss="trms">materials and figures which cannot be detached without those two layers losing their lss="trms">specific form of objectivity. <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>lss="trms">fictionally <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="trms">materials <lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>lgc> figures<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc>
lss="trms">fiction objects<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> everything that lss="trms">folds lss="trms">technical beings <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> to derive from them a new type of ls clss='strcls'>*ls>alterationls clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>(generates)<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> another lss="trms">world (a lss="trms">world which has the particularity of not being able to be detached in any way from the lss="trms">materials <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>from which it appears to detach itself.<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>)
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">fictional beings<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
 lss="prgrph prgrph2">-they extract lss="trms">materials from forms, figures or small lss="trms">worlds that can neither be detached from these lss="trms">materials nor reduced to them.
 lss="prgrph prgrph2">-khosh-yomn خوش یمن and shoom شوم (felicity and infelicity) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> pretense (vanemud وانمود); they depend on the always fragile maintenance of the lss="trms">relation between lss="trms">material and form
 lss="prgrph prgrph2">-ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">specificationsls clss='strcls'>*ls> of “lss="trms">fictional beings” (that leaves in its wake) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">worlds (unlike fic all other modes lss="trms">fold for their own use by managing to extract from lss="trms">materials)
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