[...] 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
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='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'>--
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.
(="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'>]
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(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
(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'>*
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(="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 organisms towards the optimum by some predefined plans
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> both are grounded in the ='strcls'>*ideology of making and mechanism='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=>
="lsts lst1">•organisms are erased as individual actors
="lsts lst1">•organisms are transformed into the carriers if indisputable necessities
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> both tried to save individual organims from their apparent meaninglessness by adding to them an overarching ="trms">narrative re="trms">cited by an other="trms">worldly divinity
(‘necessities’ are often imported)
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(Assmans's) ='strcls'>*mosaic division='strcls'>*
(='lgc'>=/= a ="trms">sort of relaxed attitude towards truth)
divisions ahad never beed asked before whether or not they were the “true” ones. they could be added to one another, ="trms">translated into one another, piled on top of one another for additional safety ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*contesting the claims to existence of all divinities but one='strcls'>*
='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> a connection between the ="trms">question (irrelevant until then) of worship and a ="trms">question of an absolute (='lgc'>=/= relative) ="trms">difference between true and false
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]iconoclast='lgc'>: “if they are made, then they cannot be real”
monotheism ='lgc'>==allowed='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> humans to escape from a too close adhesion چسبنده to the ="trms">natural ="trms">world
Moses's project ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> we have exctracted ourselves from the ="trms">world
(Assmans='lgc'>:) without the transcendence of monotheism we would be left with the mere immanence of the ="trms">natural ="trms">world ='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the problem of transcendence/immanence as only options of relatedness='lgc'>]
(a bad ="trms">story='lgc'>:) secular ="trms">narratives that='lgc'>: the stark immanence of the ="trms">natural ="trms">world will save us from an escapist adherence to the transcendent ="trms">world of beyond ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my Zolmat text is was about the problematization of that view (transcendent ="trms">world of beyond) in Islamicated ="trms">ecological consciousness in ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]
='strcls'>****to move from ideology to recognition='strcls'>**** (of the many ="trms">different contrasts we have lived by without granting them enough room)
the drab and entirly mythical drama of light overcoming darkness
="trms">religious traditio operates by its abilities of two transformation='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. a radical transformation of the far away into the close and the proximate ='lgc'>[='at'>#Zolmat='lgc'>] (dead is alive)
="lstsrd">2. a ="trms">positive view of all artificial transformations (='lgc'>=/= tendencyo conserve what it is)
='strcls'>**what happens if ="trms">religion is allowed to weave its highly ="trms">specific form of transcendence (salvation='qstn'>?) into the fabric of the other two modes of existence='lgc'>: reproduction and reference='qstn'>?
="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo's dream (and also deep sin)='lgc'>: the urge radically to transform ='strcls'>*that which is given='strcls'>* into ='strcls'>*that which has to be fully renewed='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> alternative, dream of a ="trms">different ="trms">world
='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= to grasp this ="trms">world (and only this ="trms">world) otherwise='lgc'>]
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look at spec over the ="trms">spectacular
(in ="nms">ajayeb)
i can't give you a dialectical con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion
maybe a mouth-full
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='lgc'>[Paul ="ppl">Shepard='lgc'>]
our perception of ="trms">animals as the ="trms">language of ="trms">nature in Thinking ="trms">Animals and The Others; the “="trms">natural” way of ="trms">childrearing in ="trms">Nature and Madness; and the bear as a dominant sacred ="trms">animal connecting people ceremonially to the earth in The Sacred Pa[...]