[...]or <lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>=lgc>lss='qstn'>? <lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> (but what about the weak ones, the idiot, the one's who ‘rather not’ contribute to the political projectlss='qstn'>?)
lss="prgrph">-diplomats are lss="trms">situatedls clss='strcls'>*ls>
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>for ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="frds scrmbld">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Lili this is also a delima, she is torn apart between her expert self and diplomat who lss="trms">crafts relevance
diplomat<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>the relevance of feelings <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> what is the knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in the kisslss='qstn'>? (the kiss that she rendered as ‘irrelevant’)<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>for me kiss is essentialy important. “it (everything) started with a kiss."<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

universal knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> relevant knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge


‘trust’ is one of many names for lss="trms">love
“you can never be inlss="trms">different to the trust you inspire” (l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stengersl>l>)

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lss='at'>#workshop<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “the magic of the lss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right word”
(against Sherlock Holmes)
(12-step recovery program for people suffering from) adlss="trms">diction to the truth
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(to energize the connections to the things that animate us.)

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

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>what are you summoned bylss='qstn'>? lss="trms">write about the person you see in the light of reverielss='qstn'>? how to survive humanismlss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

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

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

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

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

<lrg clss="large lg1" stl="font-size:128%"> lss='prcnt'>%report on lss="trms">fables of objects lss='at'>#workshop (22.02.2017 HWD lss="nms">apass)<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> attention to the sense and feeling of disparity, dispersity, stability, lss="trms">sublimity, lss="trms">authority, epicness, weakness, severity, solidity, scale, (a)lss="trms">social connections, and tangibility in the character of the object of each participants in the lss="trms">stories we wrote. where were active and passive qualities locatedlss='qstn'>? how were lss="trms">agencies distributedlss='qstn'>?
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•olss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin lss="trms">story <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> evolution lss="trms">story, lss="trms">love lss="trms">story <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>the object falls in lss="trms">love with...<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•daily lss="trms">story
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">beast feeding lss="trms">story <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> training lss="trms">story
lsts> evoking temporality of evolutionary time, face-to-face time, lss="trms">historical time, tiny scale time,
 lss="prgrph prgrph2">-each lss="trms">story has a music, texture of colors, pattern of meaning and lss="trms">affect
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•bodyguard <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> fantastic creature invented to protect an organism (your “object”). this bodyguard can be organic, nonorganic, cyborg, any form, but always an lss="trms">agent. tell us why/how this or that feature helps the bodyguard with its task
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•generation lss="trms">stories, describe and follow your object in three generations, its lss="trms">child and grandlss="trms">child
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>for the second day or warm-up first daylss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> constraint based lss="trms">writing<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> (l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Kenneyl>l> > lss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian Bök's “lss="trms">literary genetics” lss="trms">poetics of encryption of lss="trms">data; lss="trms">poetic vectors, to “infect” the lss="trms">language;) describe/lss="trms">story your object (or an operative “lss="trms">verb” within your discourse) with univocalics<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> without using “e” or only using a single vowel. or, first lss="trms">write with 3, then 2, then 1 vowel.
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lss="prgrph">-the workshop is about<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> what other lss="trms">stories (of your object) are possiblelss='qstn'>?
lss="prgrph">-in the workshop (I take a temporary lss="trms">position to) challenge others to re-tell the lss="trms">story of their ((lss="trms">epistemological) found) objects
lss="prgrph">-a ‘generative constraint’ might help opening up paths before you, away from our habits of lss="trms">storytelling
lss="prgrph">-it is about getting a feeling for the resistances and potentials of lss="trms">language in our (sometimes mundane) descriptive practices, “strange richness of missing the letters we need” (l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Kenneyl>l>)

the lss="trms">lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors are dormant in our lss="trms">routines of talking and noticing each other. how then, by lss="trms">traversing the lss="trms">routine, our “knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge” and “lss="trms">community” took on new meaning, as they get a chance of being relss="trms">articulated in lss="trms">different lss="trms">languages (or lss="trms">differenlty infected lss="trms">literature)
<lgc clss='lgc'>~-lgc>lss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'>=<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc>lgc> changing the lss="trms">system of classification (of thought)

lss="prgrph">-in a way the workshop is about an ls clss='strcls'>*ls>approachls clss='strcls'>*ls> to knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge generation (and not necessarily a lss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorous critique nor directly evaluating the production of our knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges)


ls clss='strcls'>***ls>nothing is never merely a lss="trms">lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorls clss='strcls'>***ls>

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>some lss="trms">fables from lss="trms">science studies:<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•l clss="ppl">Emilyl> l clss="ppl">Martinl>'s egg/sperm lss="trms">story <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">stories of atomism, distribution of lss="trms">agency, <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>The Egg and the Sperm<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> How lss="trms">Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Haywardl>l>'s microscope <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">tropes of lss="trms">natural lss="trms">history docu, <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>Enlss="trms">folded Vision<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> Refracting The lss="trms">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Love lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Life of the Octopus<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Kenneyl>l>/l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Harawayl>l>'s olss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin/lss="trms">nature lss="trms">fable <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> the omnipotence of the “olss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin” lss="trms">story in our descriptions and lss="trms">interactions with the lss="trms">natural lss="trms">world
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•l clss="ppl">Scott l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Gilbertl>l>l>'s immunological “bouncer” lss="trms">story <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> immune lss="trms">systems as inlss="trms">lss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive lss="trms">agents of lss="trms">symbiosis
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Lynn l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Margulisl>l><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> life (made possible) by “combat” <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>the survival lss="trms">fable that TV series “The 100” and “Kelile Demne” for instance is based on<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lss='not'>✕<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> life by lss="trms">networking
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Harawayl>l><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> the tale of “organism<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>a lss="trms">system of division of labor with executive functions” (<lgc clss='lgc'>=<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc>lgc> extraction of wealth among us)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Mortonl>l>'s lss="trms">causality-lss="trms">story
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•brain/body lss="trms">story <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> where the “move” came fromlss='qstn'>?
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="frds">Sina's “standing on the shoulders of giants” <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge/continuity, role of lss="trms">authority and humility in lss="trms">science <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>http://www.sinaseifee.com/giants.html<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="frds">Sina's 3 little pigs <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> architecture/tech/ echics of encounter <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">story of the center and periphery <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>http://www.sinaseifee.com/pigs.html<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•“weapon fathered man” <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> Kubrick's african genesis, lss="trms">technology <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> prelss="trms">history (in postwar period) “tool <lgc clss='lgc'>=<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc>lgc> man”
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•
lsts> lss="trms">fables popular in lss="nms">apass<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•“a work <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>of art<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> should speak for itself”
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•“the very last lss="trms">stage of the creative process is purely intuitive” <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> when people say they stop “lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading” or “knowing” when they want to create artwork
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•“look really hard inside yourself for what you really want”
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•“you are an lss="trms">agent of change” that means art or thinking or being ought to be operative, active, transformative, (even destructive) and that is “political” <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> this lss="trms">fable in found in lss="trms">language; <lgc clss='lgc'>-<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>lgc> lss='gtrw'>go to l clss="ppl">Barthesl>’ lss="trms">fable of the woodcutter<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•
lsts>
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no need for “conflict” nor “hero”
(in the way we give feedback, relate, lss="trms">narrate, lss="trms">story, and tell eachother our lss="trms">matters of care and concern, and where we create zones of attachment; both in your “art work” and the mundane everyday of ‘getting on together’ <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">interrupting one's own framework)

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<lrg clss="large lg14" stl="font-size:110%"> lss='at'>#workshop, on lss="trms">question, feedback lss="trms">method, to improve the lss="trms">questions we ask each other
lss="prgrph">-what are the lss="trms">questions (i could ask) that make you the most lss="trms">articulatelss='qstn'>?
lss="prgrph">-the lss="trms">question that asks what are the good lss="trms">questions that offer an lss="trms">interesting becoming for those to whom the lss="trms">question is addressed
lss="prgrph">-to ask<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> does this lss="trms">apparatus has stakes in docility or availabilitylss='qstn'>?
lss="prgrph">-more lss="trms">interesting lss="trms">questions <lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>enable<lgc clss='lgc'>=<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc>lgc> more lss="trms">articulated answers <lgc clss='lgc'>=<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc>lgc> more lss="trms">articulated identities
lss="prgrph">-asking (lss="trms">questions) (is not about ‘you want to know,’) is about constructing lss="trms">interest <lgc clss='lgc'>=<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc>lgc> chance of lss="trms">interesting answers
lss="prgrph">-asking about the lss="trms">differential productions,  “<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc>” or “=” or “<lgc clss='lgc'>=<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc>lgc>” in each other practices. these assessments are prolss="trms">positional and lss="trms">poetic remarks, guessing the artificialities that we live with, not finding of lss="trms">matters of fact
<lsts clss="lsts lst2">◦asking about particularizations (تخصیص) and lss="trms">generalizations (تعمیم)
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ls clss='strcls'>**ls>lss="trms">literature begins, l clss="ppl">Blanchotl> lss="trms">writes, “at the moment when lss="trms">literature becomes a lss="trms">question”ls clss='strcls'>**ls> (this is completely lss="trms">different than asking or lss="trms">question-marking in lss="trms">literature) <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>...<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> this lss="trms">question “is posed to lss="trms">language by lss="trms">language that has become lss="trms">literature” (the lss="trms">question that the meaning of the text asks is the lss="trms">question asked by lss="trms">literature; <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>of course at the moment of lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>) <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>then what is a text before becoming a lss="trms">questionlss='qstn'>? lss="trms">complaininglss='qstn'>? revolutionlss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lss='prcnt'>%(negation wishes to realize itself.)

<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> Rorty's critique of l clss="ppl">Descartesl>'s way of asking lss="trms">questions

we have to be careful with our practice of lss="trms">questioning, because we often end up privileging a group of people by attributing it to “higher” levels cognition and of being “critically” in the lss="trms">world (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> lss="trms">animal, nonpeople, other people with other ways of being in/with the apperceptive lss="trms">world that don't use the lss="trms">technology of lss="trms">questioning, as it is lss="trms">crafted lss="trms">historically and lss="trms">naturalized in the west for the univerasal lss="trms">method of ‘knowing more’)

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lss='at'>#workshop, lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading group
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading as passionate betrayal. (hunting for precious lss="trms">lss="trms">empirical details, relss="trms">figurative, reparative, poaching, lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading can be a betrayal of textual lss="trms">authority and an act of survival)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•addressing /lss="trms">presentls clss='strcls'>*ls> lss="trms">differences, not allss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready pre-figured lss="trms">differences
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•(condition of friendship, staying close to the text) staying close as a lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader, as someone who could hold the text of the Other, receiving it in the withdrawal / Entzug  (lss="trms">drug rehabilitation)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•i am in no lss="trms">position of ‘understanding’ or being clear about the text
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•(i understand now that) it is not up to me to tell you how to lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•what makes you lss="trms">write or scratch a textlss='qstn'>?
lsts> (aaaakh... our alphabetico-logical cultures...!)
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•if everything is not fundamentally unlss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readable (snafu) we wouldn't be lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•it is about to lss="trms">situate the place of a (un)learning
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•throwing access to each other (not only in terms of lss="trms">transferential intensity lss='at'>#sss)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•which appetites and tastes are required to fulfill the ls clss='strcls'>*ls>ethics and lss="trms">erotics of curiosityls clss='strcls'>*ls> (that I am cultivating and depending on)lss='qstn'>? flourishing (of my lss="nms">ajayeb) depends on a lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading that is more like “lss="trms">mutual partial dilss="trms">gestion” (l clss="ppl">Katiel> l clss="ppl">Kingl>, l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Harawayl>l>) <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> “eating well"<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> the text
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•“every time i lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read X, something new shows up”
lsts>
my practice of ‘lss="trms">rhetorical lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading’ (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> ‘close lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading’; or more like close lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading and letting go. “close” is itself a lss="trms">lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor, a lss="trms">rhetoric of lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading;) doesn't work with lss='thdf'>the idea that there is something ‘in’ the text per se (lss="trms">coded or enlss="trms">coded meaning or some lss="trms">sort of knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge made and installed by an lss="trms">author), or that the lss="trms">writer wants to say something to the lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader, or that the text is lss="trms">symptomatic with meaning and that its intentions needs to be lss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listened to. rather, in a post-l clss="ppl">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Lacanl>ian critique, i work the text like a pattern of lss="trms">language, an organization of space, text as word-sequencer. it is like looking at an image, still starting from top-left to bottom-lss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right of the page, a process of highlighting or lss="trms">embodied attention that produces non-zero lss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusters of salient words that come to glow lss="trms">different than others. but the way they become highlighted is not due to some idea of significance of the text but because of my<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>the lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader's<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lss="trms">interests, lss="trms">past lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readings and educated meaning-aslss="trms">sociations. this mode of lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading is not at all suglss="trms">gested to newbies in lss="trms">literature, sorry but this requres some degree of advancement in one's abilities and lss="trms">skills of lss="trms">writinglss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading, that means the lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader allss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready enjoys an ongoing well-lss="trms">articulated lss="trms">interest before coming to a particular sitting with a piece of lss="trms">writing, and this means the lss="trms">rhetorical lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader's encounter with the text is highly lss="trms">situated and is not a blind date. in this case lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading is a radical meaning-making practice full of adventures and preparations, drawings and graphs, diffractions and detours, connections and risks of (mis)understanding in certain ways. this ‘lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading’ looks very much ‘lss="trms">writing’ alike.
lss="prgrph">-the lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading becomes ls clss='strcls'>*ls>relss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading lss="trms">past lss="trms">writingls clss='strcls'>*ls>, re(lss="trms">past)ed(lss="trms">writ)ing, a lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading that has lss="trms">writen itself in lss="trms">palimpsestic lines. in a l clss="ppl">Derridl>ean sense<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> (one is lss="trms">lss="trms">equiped with the lss="trms">question) “what is lss="trms">writing itself (in this text)”lss='qstn'>?
lss="prgrph">-two speculative spheres meet in lss="trms">rhetorical lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> one of the text and one of the lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader, but they have to ‘stick’ to one another, the stickiness of your lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading lss="trms">matters in consequential ways. this is against lss='thdf'>the idea that we lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read and each understand personally whatever.
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•my second issue with ‘close lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading’<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> there is no corlss="trms">relation between the speed of lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading and comprehension/apprehension
lsts>
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading practicesls clss='strcls'>*ls>
lss="trms">ontology usually decides what lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading is <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">book-binding is lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading. editorial comlss="trms">positional reformating and remodeling of the space of the text is lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading.

(l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l>ian) lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading that happens in the lss="trms">writing<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> you can't do any kind of exegesis of the lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading تفسير, rather<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>you have to become related to the lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading in what you are lss="trms">writingls clss='strcls'>*ls>

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in research<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">skills of lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading and lss="trms">writing
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•(more abstract) lss="trms">skills of conceptualizing and analysing
lsts>
<lrg clss="large lg14" stl="font-size:125%"> lss='at'>@lss="nms">apass<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> begin with the generation of research lss="trms">question <lgc clss='lgc'>=<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc>lgc> importance of lss="trms">language
(you flag the importance of lss="trms">language whenever research is marked by lss="trms">question. “lss='qstn'>?” is a lss="trms">linguistic construct)

<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the lss="trms">skill/lss="trms">craft is to select a research lss="trms">question that works better for certain descriptive purposes (than does previous tools)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•(realism<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) research lss="trms">question <lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>lgc>outcome<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc> lss="trms">different concerns and emphases
lsts>
lss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor of conceptualization <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> quality of an access to part of a lss="trms">world “out there”

<lrg clss="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> research lss="trms">method<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•“mapping into knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge” <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> co-fabrication between the reselss="trms"nttrm="search">archer and the diverse others engaged in tlsts>[...]