[...]ial 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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> 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'>~=='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'>~-> ="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'>~= 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'>~=='qstn'>? occasion ='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'>~= ="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'>~=>) ="trms">semiotic ='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'>~= ="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’

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> ='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)


="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> “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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:161%"> 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 ta[...]